Second candidate for College of Liberal Arts and Sciences dean to visit campus

LAWRENCE -- The second of four candidates for dean of the University of Kansas' College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will visit campus March 4 and participate in an open forum.

John M. Lipski, professor of Spanish and linguistics and head of the Spanish, Italian and Portuguese department at Pennsylvania State University, will meet with KU faculty, staff and students from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union.

The final two candidates are slated to visit campus March 7 and 11. The first candidate, Kip V. Hodges, a professor and former dean at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, visited campus Feb. 18.

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is the largest of KU's 14 schools. With almost 14,000 students, the college enrolls more than half of all students on the Lawrence campus.

Before joining the Penn State faculty in 2000, Lipski held faculty positions at Newark State College (now Kean College), Michigan State University, the University of Houston, the University of Florida and the University of New Mexico, where he chaired the Spanish and Portuguese department. He received his master's and doctoral degrees in romance linguistics from the University of Alberta.

For more information about Lipski and other candidates, visit www.ku.edu/~provost/.