CCPS Associate Director Rachel Windham left her post Friday, nearly three months after Nick Didow resigned as the CCPS's director. The center currently is searching for a replacement for Didow to lead its third year of operation.
In July, Ned Brooks -- who previously was associate provost for health affairs before his retirement this summer -- began serving as interim director, a position he will hold until a new director is found.
The CCPS is in the process of looking for a director, but group officials say these search efforts and Windham's departure have not affected the center's quick response to the terrorist attacks earlier this month. "As far as responding to the relief effort, I'm very proud of what we've done," Brooks said.
Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Cindy Wolf Johnson, who is heading the search, said the process for finding a new director is not hindering any of the group's current efforts. "It has not affected (the relief effort) at all," she said.
Wolf Johnson said the search committee has been screening director candidates at a national level. Of the many applications received, three candidates now have been chosen to come to campus for interviews in October.
Brooks declined to comment Tuesday on the identity of these candidates, but Wolf Johnson said she hopes the new director will start in early January.
Brooks and Wolf Johnson said they are anxious to have a new director. "The center has been strengthening its focus all along and a new director will continue to bring that forward," Wolf Johnson said.
But in the meantime, Sandy Alexander, a program officer for the CCPS, agrees that the director search has not hindered the CCPS's immediate response to the terrorist attacks.
Alexander is one of several CCPS members who is on the newly formed UNC Disaster Relief Task Force, which is working to unify relief efforts on campus in the wake of the attacks.
