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The four finalists in SIUC’s chancellor search will meet with the University community, who can influence the Board of Trustees decision, during the next four weeks.

Steve Scheiner, a chemistry and biochemistry professor who heads the search committee, said the four candidates will visit campus later this month and early in February for public forums with students, faculty, civil service employees and administrators.

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SIU President Ted Sanders said he will make his recommendation to the SIU Board of Trustees after the last of the visits.

Sanders said Wednesday he had hoped to have an early recommendation for the board’s February meeting, but the finalists’ visit schedules dictate that the board will not get Sanders’ recommendation until after the board meeting.

Scheiner said the search is still on schedule.

Jo Ann E. Argersinger is provost at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.

Argersinger has maintained her position since 1994, during which time she built relations between federal research and defense agencies, private technology businesses and her state government.

She also served as UMBC’s interim dean of arts and sciences in 1993 and 1994 and as associate vice president for Academic Affairs from 1989 to 1992.

Argersinger, a historian, has published two books and has had articles published in American Quarterly, The Journal of Historical Studies and other history journals.

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She was born in Birmingham, Ala., and earned her bachelor’s degree in history from UMBC in 1974. She received her master’s and doctoral degrees in history from George Washington University in 1976 and 1980.

She will visit campus Jan. 21 and 22.

Frederick J. Dobney is executive vice president and provost at Michigan Technological University.

Before he took his position, he was vice provost for Extended University Services at Washington State University from 1987 to 1993. Dobney also was dean of City College and Continuing Education and director of special programs at Loyola University from 1981 to 1986. In addition, he was acting associate dean of the graduate school at St. Louis University from 1973 to 1981.

Like Argersinger, Dobney is a historian and has published two books and written articles for American Historical Review, American Political Science Review and other magazines.

He received his bachelor’s degree from Baylor University in 1966 and his doctorate from Rice University in 1970.

He will visit Feb. 3 and 4.

Scott G. McNall is provost and vice president for Academic Affairs at California State University-Chico.

McNall was dean of arts and sciences at University of Toledo from 1989 to 1994, chair of American Studies at University of Kansas from 1988 to 1989 as well as chair of sociology at Kansas from 1976 to 1986. He also has taught at Arizona State University, University of Minnesota’s Minneapolis campus and University of Waikato in New Zealand.

He has written eight books and published articles in The American Sociologist, Comparative Social Research and other related journals.

He earned his bachelor’s degree from Portland State University in 1962 and his doctorate from the University of Oregon in 1965.

He will be on campus Feb. 10 and 11.

Luis M. Proenza is vice president for research and dean of the Graduate School at Purdue University.

He was acting vice president for Academic Affairs and Research at Purdue from 1992 to 1994 and vice chancellor for Research and Dean of the Graduate School at University of Alaska from 1987 to 1992.

He also was vice chairman of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission from 1992 to 1996, president of the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States from 1988 to 1990 and deputy director of ARKTIKA, a joint Russian-American scientific center from 1990 to 1994.

A neurobiologist by trade, he has co-edited two books and written many articles that have appeared in Brain Research, Journal of General Physiology and other similar magazines.

Proenza is a native of Mexico who received his bachelor’s degree in physiology from Emory University in 1965, his master’s degree in psychology from Ohio State University in 1966 and his doctorate in neurobiology from the University of Minnesota in 1971.

He will visit campus Jan. 27 and 28.

Scheiner said he would like mass attendance at the public forums.

I want to encourage everyone on campus to attend, he said. The idea is to provide an open forum for the candidates to speak, and then have those attending give their impressions of the finalists to the search committee.