Finalists for NMSU president named

Posted at: 10/27/2009 7:31 PM
By: The Associated Press

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) - New Mexico State University has announced the names of five finalists who hope to become the school's next president.

Presidential search committee chairman Del Archuleta submitted the search committee's recommendations to the Board of Regents at a special meeting Tuesday on the Las Cruces campus.

The finalists include Barbara Couture, D.A., senior vice chancellor for academic affairs and professor of English, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Richard Herman, Ph.D., special assistant to the president, professor, recently chancellor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; James Oblinger, Ph.D., professor, recently chancellor, North Carolina State University; Michael Ortiz, Ph.D., president, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Lisa Rossbacher, Ph.D., president, Southern Polytechnic State University in Marietta, Ga.

Search committee members, aided by a search firm, made more than 420 contacts, reviewed detailed information on about 60 individuals and interviewed 18 candidates.

 --- Information from: Las Cruces Sun-News, http://www.lcsun-news.com (Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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