The university announced the search committee that will interview applicants for the next Northeastern president last Wednesday.

The committee is made up of 17 members, including members of the board of trustees, faculty, administration, alumni and one student.

“The search committee is committed to conducting a thorough and professional search process considering a broad spectrum of candidates, and finding the next leader of this institution,” said committee chairman George Chamillard, who is also a member of the board of trustees.

The committee, in addition to interviewing candidates for president, will name three to five candidates to the board of trustees. In the end, it is the trustees who will choose who replaces President Richard Freeland, who will resign in August.

Since it’s been 10 years since the last presidential search, the committee will also have to establish its own criteria for qualifications they want in Northeastern’s next president.

According to a release issued last Wednesday, the committee will hire a search consultant to assist in finding potential candidates.

None of the current administration are on the committee, including Freeland. In selecting the members of the committee, though, the board of trustees stuck primarily to candidates who remain close to Northeastern.

Nine of the 17 members on the committee are members of the board of trustees, all of whom are graduates of Northeastern undergraduate or graduate programs.

The trustees currently hold an array of positions, ranging from chairman and CEO of New York Life Insurance Company to a former president of Maytag to a law partner from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, Boston’s largest law firm.

Ralph C. Martin, a lawyer who served as Suffolk County District Attorney, was chosen as the official alumni representative.

The committee’s four faculty members were elected by the entire faculty from a pool of eight originally determined by the faculty senate. They have all had a hand in the inner workings of the university in the past.

Robert Lowndes, chairman of the physics department who had long served as the faculty senate’s chair until this year, is the vice chairman of the committee. Gilda Barabino, a chemical engineering professor who served as an administrator for undergraduate education; Barry Bluestone, who runs the university’s Center for Urban Policy and Carol Glod, a nursing professor who took over Lowndes’ role as faculty senate chair this year, round out the faculty members on the committee.

Two members of the university administration will also sit on the committee. They represent areas the university has looked to expand in recent years, including the Bouv