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KSU Selects Three Provost Finalists
They will have day-long interviews with KSU officials, staff, and students next week on campus.
and Provost Search Committee Chair Thomas H. Keene announced the names of the three final candidates for the position of provost and vice president for academic affairs.
The three finalists are: David P. Cordle, dean, College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington; Michael A. Gealt, dean, College of Science and Mathematics at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock; and W. Ken Harmon, interim provost and vice president for academic affairs and former dean of the Coles College of Business at Kennesaw State.
A pool of 81 applicants submitted the required materials to be considered for the university’s chief academic officer position, with nine selected for round-one interviews, held on Nov. 17 and 18.
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In the next phase of the process, the three finalists are slated to participate in a series of daylong meetings and interviews to be held Tuesday, Nov. 29 through Thursday, Dec. 1, on the KSU campus. The candidates will take part in interview sessions and interact with students, faculty, staff, administrators, and alumni.
The process of choosing a new Provost for the third-largest university in Georgia has not been . In March, KSU's pick for the job withdrew his name. , the candidate endorsed by KSU’s search committee and offered the job by university President Daniel Papp, announced that he wouldn't be taking the job as provost and vice president for academic affairs. Chandler had come under fire
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“We are pleased to move forward these three outstanding candidates for provost,” Papp said. “The search committee and the external search firm conducted a thorough national search and vetted a robust pool of applicants. We now have three high-caliber finalists, one of whom we will soon select to fill the provost’s position here at Kennesaw State.”
Keene, a KSU professor of history, chaired a 15-person search committee focused on identifying a leader that can help shape Kennesaw State’s stature and positioning.
President Papp expects to name the new provost in December. The selected candidate is expected to begin as early as possible in 2012.