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LAWRENCE -- The third of four candidates for a new dean of the University of Kansas' College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will visit campus next week and participate in an open forum.
Kim A. Wilcox, president and chief executive officer of the Kansas Board of Regents and former chair of the speech-language-hearing department at KU, will meet with faculty, staff and students during an open forum from 2:30 to 4 p.m. Thursday, March 7, in Alderson Auditorium at the Kansas Union.
The search committee plans to interview four candidates before spring break, March 18 through 22. The final open forum will be 3:30 to 5 p.m. March 11 in Alderson Auditorium.
Wilcox joined the regents as interim director of academic affairs in 1998 before being promoted to his current position in 1999. He taught at the University of Missouri for four years before joining KU in 1984. He earned a bachelor's degree in audiology and speech sciences at Michigan State University and his master's and doctoral degrees in speech and hearing science at Purdue University.
The first two candidates to visit campus were Kip V. Hodges, a professor and former dean at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and John M. Lipski, professor of Spanish and linguistics and head of the Spanish, Italian and Portuguese department at Pennsylvania State University.
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.
For more information about Wilcox and other candidates, visit www.ku.edu/~provost/.
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