KU names 5 finalists for director of admissions and scholarships

LAWRENCE -- The University of Kansas has named five finalists for director of admissions and scholarships.

The first candidate, Pamela Troup Horne, will visit campus and give a public presentation at 3 p.m. May 29 at the KU Visitor Center auditorium. The other candidates are tentatively scheduled to visit campus the week of June 10.

The university is conducting a nationwide search to replace Alan Cerveny, who became dean of admissions at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln last month. University Registrar Richard Morrell is chair of the search committee. Lisa Pinamonti is serving as interim admissions director.

The director of admissions and scholarships provides direction and leadership for the office's programs and operations, including 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.

They are:

 • Pamela Troup Horne, assistant director of undergraduate admissions at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, since 1999. She also has served as assistant associate provost, director of orientation and campus information, assistant director of student information services, and assistant director of student organizations and programs from 1984 to 1999. She has been an academic adviser at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti and director of student activities at Mercy College of Detroit. She also was a residence hall director and assistant to the dean of women at KU in the mid-1970s. She earned a bachelor's degree in speech communication and a master's degree in education counseling at KU.

 • Susan H. Flanagin, assistant director of admissions and director of the campus visitors center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 1998. She previously was assistant director of admissions at Ball State University in Muncie, Ind., and assistant director of admissions at Baker University in Baldwin City. She also worked at KU as a scholarship hall director and admissions secretary. She earned a bachelor's degree in business at KU and a master's degree in higher education administration at Ball State.

 • Stacey Kostell, associate director of undergraduate admissions at Arizona State University since 1999. She previously served as senior assistant director of admissions at Purdue University. She earned a bachelor's degree in communications, public relations and marketing at Indiana State University and a master's degree in higher education administration at Ball State University.

 • Larry F. Kruse, director of high school and college relations at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater since 1991. He previously served as dean of student services and director of public relations and recruitment at Seward County Community College in Liberal and as a composition/literature instructor at Barton County Community College in Great Bend. He earned a bachelor's degree in English and a master's degree in English education at Fort Hays State University and a doctorate in higher education administration at Oklahoma State.

 • Robert L. Laney Jr., director of admissions at Lincoln University in southern Chester County, Pa., since 1996. He previously was director of graduate admissions at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, and admissions officer/coordinator for minority recruitment and assistant director of admissions at the Georgia Institute of Technology at Atlanta. He also was director of cooperative education, career planning and placement at Morris College in Sumter, S.C. He earned a bachelor's degree in history at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg, a master's degree in public administration at Atlanta University in Atlanta and a doctorate in education administration and supervision at Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta.