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Utah Tech to host public forum Feb. 24 to meet top three presidential finalists
Summary
Utah Tech University will present its three final presidential candidates for a public forum Feb. 24, with in-person and online attendance options and public input accepted by email and web form; the Utah Higher Board of Education will hold private interviews Feb. 26 and could announce a decision as early as Wednesday evening.
Utah Tech University will host a public forum on Monday, Feb. 24, where community members can meet the three finalists for president. The forum runs from 2 p.m. to 4:45 p.m., will be available online, and will take place in person at the Main Stage Theater in the Eccles. The university said members of the public may also submit questions by email or via the presidential search form on the Utah Tech website.
The forum presents finalists Philip Cavalier of the University of Tennessee at Martin, Steven Hafen of Brigham Young University and Shane Smead, the current president of Park University in Missouri. A university representative said the search drew “over a 40 applicants” and that the pool was narrowed to three finalists for the campus visits on Feb. 24.
The university representative said, “We value everyone's feedback in this very important process,” and asked the campus and broader community to submit questions and attend if possible. The university is accepting questions by email through the Utah Tech presidential search process and has posted forms and links on utahtech.edu under the presidential search page.
The transcript said the Utah Higher Board of Education will hold private interviews with the three candidates on Feb. 26. The board could announce a selection “as early as Wednesday evening at 05:30 p.m.”; if it does not decide then, the university said an announcement will be released as soon as possible and that it expected to know the outcome by the end of the following week.
The public forum and the follow-up private interviews are part of the university's presidential search process; officials said public, faculty, staff and student feedback will be weighed by the board as it selects a new president. No formal vote or appointment was recorded in the transcript provided.
Additional details, including the online link and the question-submission form, are posted on Utah Tech's presidential search web page.
