3 of remaining 4 finalists for KU director of admissions to visit campus next week

LAWRENCE -- Three of the four remaining candidates for director of admissions and scholarships at the University of Kansas will visit campus next week.

The fourth candidate -- Pamela Troup Horne, assistant director of undergraduate admissions at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor -- visited campus last month. A fifth candidate -- Larry F. Kruse, director of high school and college relations at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater -- has withdrawn his application.

The university is conducting a nationwide search for a new director to oversee student recruitment activities and publications, undergraduate admissions and new student scholarships. The director also oversees the admissions-decision and scholarship-awarding processes.

In the past two years, KU has recruited its largest freshman classes since 1989. KU freshmen have the highest composite ACT score of any university in Kansas. The KU freshman composite ACT score was 24.5 in fall 2001, and the national average is 21.7. The university also has enrolled classes of at least 100 National Merit Scholars each of the past three years and has ranked among the top 10 public universities for National Merit Scholars four of the past five years.

The final candidates' applications can be viewed online at www.registrar.ku.edu/admission.shtml.

Each candidate will give a short introduction and participate in a question-and-answer session in the KU Visitors Center auditorium,1502 Iowa St.

Here is the candidates' public presentation schedule:

 • Stacey Kostell, associate director of undergraduate admissions at Arizona State University; 9-10 a.m. Tuesday, June 11.

 • Susan Flanagin, assistant director of admissions and director of the campus visitors center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; 3:30-4:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 12.

 • Robert Laney, director of admissions at Lincoln University in southern Chester County, Pa.; 9-10 a.m. Friday, June 14.