Charles L. Shearer

President Shearer poses with Rosie, LFUCG’s recycling mascot, at the RecycleMania launch. LEXINGTON, Ky.—Transylvania University launched its participation in RecycleMania, a nationwide competition among college campuses, at a lunchtime rally on Thursday, January 28. President Charles L. Shearer and Rosie, Lexington Fayette Urban County Government’s recycling mascot, were in attendance to encourage students to participate. RecycleMania is a benchmarking tool for college and university recycling programs to promote waste reduction activities to their campus communities. Over a 10-week period, schools report recycling and trash data which are then ranked according to who collects the largest amount of recyclables per capita, the largest amount of total recyclables, the least amount of trash per capita or have the highest recycling rate. In addition to the national competition, Transy will host an intra-campus competition among floors in residence halls. Immediately following the rally, student volunteers sorted trash at a campus waste audit, seeking to answer the question: How much do we recycle? How much do we throw away? How much are we trashing that we could recycle? The information will be used as a baseline that will help the university set goals for its recycling program during RecycleMania and beyond.

LEXINGTON, Ky.—Transylvania University Board of Trustees Chairman William T. Young announced that Susan Resneck Pierce, senior consultant with Academic Search, Inc., of Washington, D.C., has been retained to help conduct a national search for the university’s next president. Charles L. Shearer, Transylvania’s president since 1983, has announced his retirement effective June 30, 2010. Academic Search is a leader in the design and implementation of search processes for college and university senior executives, having served over 1,000 institutions since 1976. Pierce recently assisted presidential searches for Furman University, Ohio Wesleyan University, Heidelberg University, Stephens College and Sweet Briar College. She served as president of the University of Puget Sound from 1992-2003. Like Transylvania, Puget Sound is a nationally ranked liberal arts college. Pierce has already visited campus to meet with students, faculty, staff and the board’s executive committee to develop an institutional profile that will describe Transylvania’s strengths, challenges and opportunities and that will also define the criteria the search committee will use in judging candidates. Beginning in January, Pierce will seek nominations and applications from presidents and senior administrators at colleges and universities across the country, from national education and foundation officials and from Transylvania’s faculty, staff, students, trustees, alumni, parents and friends. “The search committee will assure full consideration of all completed applications received by March 8, 2010, although the search will remain open until an appointment is made,” explained Young, who heads the search committee. “After March 8,

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