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

LAWRENCE -- The fourth and final candidate for a new dean of the University of Kansas' College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will visit campus later this month and participate in an open forum.

Ruth H. Maki, professor and chair of psychology at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, will meet with faculty, staff and students during an open forum at 3:30 p.m. Monday, March 11, in Alderson Auditorium at the Kansas Union.

Maki, who joined Texas Tech in 1997, taught at North Dakota State University from 1973 to 1996, during which time she also was a visiting professor at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, Calif., and Michigan State University. Maki received her bachelor's degree in psychology from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1969 and a doctoral degree in experimental psychology from the University of California at Berkeley in 1974.

The first three candidates to visit campus were Kip V. Hodges, a professor and former dean at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; John M. Lipski, professor of Spanish and linguistics and head of the Spanish, Italian and Portuguese department at Pennsylvania State University; and 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.

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 Maki and other candidates, visit www.ku.edu/~provost/.