By Derek Hawkins

Carol Glod, chair of the Faculty Senate Agenda Committee, has been selected as one of four finalists to become dean of the University at Buffalo School of Nursing, according to an article in the University at Buffalo Reporter. The decision came in late November, when a search committee chose Glod, a professor at Bouv’eacute; College of Health Sciences, and three others from a list of more than 25 candidates, according to the article. In an interview with The News, Glod would not comment on whether she would accept the position if offered, but said she would maintain her role in the Faculty Senate through spring semester regardless of the outcome. “I’m here this semester and I’m committed to my work at Northeastern,” she said. Last semester, Glod and the three other finalists made official visits to the University at Buffalo, where they met with school officials and students. Glod compared her own selection to the search at Northeastern for a new provost to replace Ahmed Abdelal, who resigned in September. “When someone considers a leadership position I do believe the finalist should come to campus and it should be an open process,” she said. “That’s the case in the position that I’m a finalist for. There should be confidentiality at the beginning and it should be made a public matter later on.” Glod has chaired the Faculty Senate Agenda Committee for nearly four years, and this spring will mark her last semester in that role, when her four-year term expires at the end of semester. In September, in the wake of Abdelal’s resignation, Glod led an effort to improve relations between Northeastern faculty and President Joseph Aoun’s senior administration. “There’s a concern with the faculty that interaction [between the faculty and administration] has diminished, and has not been invited, and that’s not in spirit of how the university has been governed traditionally,” Glod said at the time. Glod said she plans to use her final term as chair to “bring closure” to the concerns she and her colleagues raised in the fall. “We’ve been looking at some of the issues relating to faculty governance and [updating] the Faculty Handbook, which is getting more and more outdated,” she said. “There were a number of issues that started last semester. We will continue to take an assertive approach and move things forward.”