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June 25, 2013
As the search for Nicholls State University’s retiring president continues, the University of Louisiana System board of supervisors was expected to vote on an interim replacement on Tuesday.
Nicholls Executive Vice President Larry Howell was nominated for the interim job, which he would begin Aug. 1, the retirement date of sitting President Stephen Hulbert.
Results of the UL board meeting were unknown at press time. No matter the outcome, the search for Hulbert’s permanent replacement will continue.
A 15-member search committee has been tasked with headhunting a new university president, and the national consulting firm R.H. Perry and Associations has been retained to assist in the search.
Nominations and applications are tentatively due on Aug. 1. After the applicant pool is whittled down over the next four-to-six weeks, public interviews of finalists by the UL board are tentatively scheduled for early September.
Howell became the university’s first executive vice president when the university consolidated two other VP positions at the end of 2011. He has managed the university’s financial and technological sectors, government relations, institutional-sponsored research and planning. At the time, Hulbert praised Howell’s “broad range of administrative experience.”
A Paris, Ill., native, Howell achieved a bachelor’s degree in computer science, with minors in mathematics and business, in 1972. He later received a master’s degree in applied mathematics from the University of Clemson.
He taught one year at McNeese State University before returning to Nicholls to teach computer science. He has since served as the university’s director of institutional research, assistant vice president for academic affairs, interim vice president for academic affairs and associate provost. He has worked under three of Nicholls’ four university presidents, also serving Donald Ayo and Vernon Galliano.
Howell has been an elected member of the Assumption Parish School Board since 1981 and was a member of the governor’s task force for technology in K-12 schools for nine years under Gov. Mike Foster.
Hulbert, Nicholls’ president since 2003, announced his retirement in April.
