Ideally, a permanent chancellor would be in place by the time school starts in September.

The board's first priority ought to be the selection of the best permanent chancellor a rigorous national search can provide.

Any permanent chancellor with a nontraditional background would also need a waiver.

Not only has the board failed to find a permanent chancellor.

Among the drawbacks: no guarantee that he would become permanent chancellor.

The board is expected to select a permanent chancellor by the spring.

He was later named the permanent chancellor for two years.

But the majority of the board members have focused on finding a permanent chancellor.

They hope to make structural and policy changes even before they have a permanent chancellor in place.

The board decided yesterday to conduct the search for a permanent chancellor on its own rather than using an outside panel.