By NICK BUDD
Hays Post

President Mirta Martin will make her second administrative appointment to the university soon by selecting Fort Hays State University’s next provost. The position was vacated after Larry Gould’s resignation in 2013 and Assistant Provost Chris Crawford has served in the capacity since.

A search committee met late Friday to evaluate each of the five finalists’ strengths and weaknesses, according to chairman Mark Bannister. That report has been forwarded to Martin, and she is expected to have further discussions with some of the finalists, which will lead to her decision of FHSU’s next provost — the chief academic officer at the university.

The five finalists are:

–Dr. Graham Glynn, Vice Provost and Executive Dean of college-wide programs at Mercy College in New York City

–Dr. Sheryl Santos-Hatchett, Founding Dean of the Division of Education and Human Services at the University of North Texas at Dallas

–Dr. John Ronnau, Dean of the College of Health Sciences and Human Services at the University of Texas-Pan American

–Dr. Gersham Nelson, Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at the University of Central Missouri

–Dr. John Ryder, Provost at the American University of Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates