The

committee will interview the finalists and make a

recommendation to the Board of Regents, which

will make the final decision.

significant percentage of Clayton State's

students come from Fayette county.

Finalists,

in alphabetical order, are:

Thomas K. Harden,

Ph.D., dean of the College of Technology (1993 to

present) and interim dean of the College of

Business (since January 1999) at Eastern Michigan

University in Ypsilanti, Mich. Between 1985 and

1993, he held a number of positions at Northern

Kentucky University in Highland Heights, Ky.,

including chairperson of and professor in the

Department of Technology, acting dean of

University College, and associate dean of the

College of Professional Studies.

He

has held teaching positions at Southwest Texas

State University in San Marcos, Texas (1982-85),

Western Illinois University in Macomb, Ill.

(1981-82), and Miami University in Oxford, Ohio

(1978-81).

Harden

holds a B.S. degree from Miami University, a M.S.

degree from the University of Dayton in Dayton,

Ohio, and a doctorate in education from the

University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Arthur T. King,

Ph.D., dean of the School of Business and

Economics and professor of economics,

Winston-Salem State University in Winston-Salem,

N.C. (1995 to present). Prior to his current

position, King served from 1993-1994 as an

American Council on Education Fellow at Duke

University in Durham, N.C.; from 1982-1995 as a

professor and associate professor of economics at

Baylor University in Waco, Texas, and from

1979-1982 as an associate professor of economics

and deputy head of the Department of System

Acquisition Management at the Air Force Institute

of Technology at Wright Patterson Air Force Base.

Between

1962 and 1979 he served in a number of positions

with the U.S. Air Force. King holds a B.S. degree

from Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Ala., a

M.S. in economics from South Dakota Sate

University in Brookings, S.D., and a Ph.D. in

economics from the University of Colorado in

Boulder.

William N. Ruud,

Ph.D., vice president for Institutional

Advancement, Boise State University, in Boise,

Idaho (1998 to present). Ruud also served as dean

of the College of Business and Economics at Boise

State from 1993 through 1998.

Prior

to this, he held a number of positions, including

dean of the College of Business Administration at

the University of Toledo in Toledo, Ohio,

(1985-1993).

Ruud

also served in the U.S. Army from 1978 through

1988, rising to the rank of captain in the Army

Reserve. He holds a B.S. degree from the

University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, and a

M.B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska

in Lincoln.

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