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UI's White may be headed to UC-Riverside

May 14, 2008, 11:44 am

MOSCOW -- University of Idaho President Tim White could be named chancellor of the University of California Riverside as soon as Thursday morning.
A report in the Press-Enterprise of Riverside County cited unnamed government sources who said the new chancellor could come from Idaho.
White announced last month that he was in discussions to take over another university, but declined to name the school.
UC Riverside spokeswoman Kris Lovekin said the university's board of regents would announce a new chancellor Thursday at 9 a.m. Lovekin declined to name any of the candidates.
White did not immediately return messages left on his cell phone. The UI stuck by its previous statement that said White had been approached by
another university about the potential to take the helm there.
White has led the UI for four years, beginning with some of the university's most difficult fiscal times. He inherited a mountain of debt left by former President Robert Hoover's mismanaged attempt to build a satellite campus in Boise.
The UI's financial situation has improved under White, but it came partly at the expense of jobs, employee benefits and other cutbacks.
White has ties to the University of California system. He got his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 1977.
The 17,000-student UC Riverside campus is located about 50 miles east of Los Angeles. Its chancellor will succeed France A. Córdova, who was appointed president of Purdue University in May 2007, according to UC Riverside. Robert D. Grey has served as acting chancellor since last June.

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