Four public forums will be held in Ames this week as part of the search for a new president of Iowa State University. Luis Rico-Gutierrez, dean of the ISU College of Design, is co-chair of the search committee. He provided an update on the committee’s work at Thursday’s meeting of the Iowa Board of Regents in Cedar Falls.
The 21-member committee is charged with recommending between three to five finalists to the Board of Regents. Those finalists will be invited to the Ames campus for public interviews in the fall.
The regents have scheduled a meeting for October 23 to select the next president. Steven Leath spent five year as ISU president before leaving last month to take the same position at Auburn University.
