VALLEY CITY, N.D. (AP) — The committee searching for a new president for Valley City State University has named two finalists.

North Dakota’s Board of Higher Education will interview Fort Hays State vice president Tisa Mason and Nebraska-Omaha associate vice chancellor Daniel Shipp on Oct. 30 and then choose one of them to succeed Steven Shirley.

Shirley took over as president of Minot State University in July.

Mason and Shipp were among five semifinalists whom the search committee interviewed in person this week.

Candidates no longer in the running are Wisconsin-Stevens Point provost and vice chancellor Greg Summers, Minnesota West Community and Technical College past president Richard Shrubb, and Debra Thatcher, acting president of State University of New York College of Agriculture and Technology at Cobleskill.