The search for a new treasurer started over the summer when the Search Committee for Treasurer of the College developed an advertisement for the position and placed it in various publications including the Chronicle of Higher Education and the Wall Street Journal.
According to Marshall, the committee reviewed more than 100 applications from a "diverse and talented pool of people."
Marshall said that while the co-chairs of the committee reviewed all the applications, they selected only 20 for consideration by the full committee. The committee then met to develop a profile of the qualities it was looking for in the new treasurer to further help guide the search.
Next the committee selected seven applicants for face-to face interviews, which were conducted in New York during the first weeks of January. The committee selected and interviewed six "external" candidates, as well as Acting Treasurer Peter Shea.
"It's been really a good search," Marshall said. "We had an incredibly strong pool of applicants. We were impressed with all the resumes and the decisions were very hard to make."
Shea, who has worked at the College for the past 15 years, has served as Acting Treasurer since last March. "I feel like I have a lot of experience and can contribute a lot to the continued success of the College," Shea said.
Shea is among the four candidates the committee has selected to bring to the College campus for a series of two-day interviews, the first of which will begin next Thursday.
Marshall added that Shea's application was treated in the same manner as those of the other candidates. "He's going through the same process as everyone else. There are four strong finalists, and he is one of them," said Marshall.
Over the course of two days, the finalists will meet with members of the College community, including staff, students and those they would be working with as Treasurer.
"We think we are bringing in very strong candidates," Marshall said. "We just have to find the one that's right for us."
The first of these candidates will be Daniel J. Rodas, assistant vice president for administration at Duke University. According to a Feb. 29 campus-wide email, Rodas received a B.A. in American Studies from Williams College, an Ed.M. in Administration, Planning and Social Policy from Harvard University and an M.B.A. and Ph.D. in Higher Education from Stanford University.
Open meetings will be held at 2 p.m. in the Front Room of the Campus Center on Feb. 1, 6, 8 and 14, giving staff and students an opportunity to meet with Rodas and the other candidates.
Information about the other candidates will be released in the coming week.
Following the completion of these interviews, the committee will collect responses from faculty, staff and students. It will then formulate a recommendation, which it will forward to the Board of Trustees in time for its March meeting. Although the committee will make a recommendation, the decision of who will be hired as the next Treasurer will be ultimately determined by the Board of Trustees, Marshall said.
"We encourage students to come to the meetings to meet the candidates and let us know what they think," Marshall said. "It's a really important part of what we're doing."