Tressel on YSU's Short List of Candidates for President
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- The Youngstown State University Presidential Search Advisory Committee has narrowed the applicant pool for the YSU presidency to the following six candidates, YSU announced shortly after noon today.
Among the six candidates is Jim Tressel, YSU's former football coach and the executive vice president for student success at the University of Akron, who also is one of three finalists to become UA's next president.
According to YSU's announcement, the other five candidates are Mary Cullinan, president of Southern Oregon University since 2006 and a professor of English; Gary L. Miller, chancellor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington; Gayle L. Ormiston, senior vice president for academic affairs and provost at Marshall University; D. Marshall Porterfield, director of the Space Life and Physical Sciences Division, Human Exploration Mission Directorate, at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C., and a professor of biological engineering at Purddue University; and Steven M. Rothstein, president of the Perkins School for the Blind, Boston.
Excluded from the short list are Martin A. Abraham, founding dean of YSU's College of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, and Ronald K. Chordas, YSU's associate provost for university outreach and executive director of the Center for Urban and Regional Studies.
Abraham was interviewed earlier this month for the position of executive vice president and provost at Northern Illinois University (READ STORY).
The six candidates will be interviewed by members of the YSU Board of Trustees, which is serving as the search committee, via Skype at meetings scheduled for 1 p.m. tomorrow and 8:30 a.m. Saturday in Williamson Hall on the YSU campus. The interviews will be conducted in closed, executive session. The committee anticipates developing a short list of final candidates who will then come to campus for interviews and meetings.
SOURCE: YSU News Service
Published by The Business Journal, Youngstown, Ohio.
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