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Dr. Deborah MacLatchy’s second five-year term as president and vice-chancellor of Wilfrid Laurier University will end June 30, 2027. Prior to the end of an appointment term, in accordance with the Laurier Board of Governors' approved Procedures for Searches and Reviews of Senior Administrators and with the Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty Association for Full-Time Faculty and Professional Librarians Collective Agreement, search committees are established for senior university leaders to make recommendations to Senate and Board of Governors.
The University Secretariat, on behalf of the Board of Governors, has established a 14-member search committee comprised of faculty, staff, students, alumni and members of Senate and the Board of Governors to recommend a candidate for Laurier’s next president and vice-chancellor. Laurier has partnered with Andrea Patrick, Julia Robarts, and Krutika Hotwani of Odgers for this recruitment.
The search committee has now commenced meeting and will continue to meet regularly through to the end of 2026, with the goal of completing the search and announcing the next president and vice-chancellor in early 2027, allowing for a smooth transition period.
The search committee has finalized the job advertisement and the candidate brief. The posting is now live and can be viewed on the Odgers website here. Please share the posting with your networks. If you have candidate referrals, please share the information with Andrea Patrick, partner at Odgers, at LaurierPresident@odgers.com.
Detailed information on the composition of the committee and how members are selected is included in the Procedures for Searches and Reviews of Senior Administrators.
To form the search committee, the University Secretariat contacts those involved in the election or appointment of representatives to seek nominations for committee membership.
When considering nominating an individual or accepting a nomination to sit on the search committee, keep in mind:
Committee members should also bring a strong commitment to the future of the university and its best interests. As with a Board of Governor members’ responsibility, members of the committee serve as individuals with the sole goal of deriving what is in the best interest of the university and not as delegates or representatives of any group.
