Three candidates vie for COE dean position

The College of Education will soon have a new dean, with a successor to Interim Dean Alane Starko possibly being named as early as this week.

DEAN'S DIGS: The John W. Porter Building houses Eastern Michigan University's College of Education. Since April 14, three candidates for the dean's job interviewed with administrators and hosted open forums for faculty and interested parties to get to know them and ask questions.

Starko, formerly the head of the department of teacher education, was named interim dean of the COE July 1, 2004. She filled the position after Jerry Robbins announced his retirement. Robbins was dean of the COE from 1991-2004.

Since April 14, three COE dean candidates have visited campus. Each met with key administrators and hosted a campus forum in which COE faculty and interested campus parties could listen to a presentation and ask questions.

The candidates are Rosalyn Templeton, associate dean, College of Education and Human Services at Ferris State University; Vernon Polite, founding dean and professor of the School of Education at Bowie State University in Bowie, Md.; and Tom Smith, department head and professor in the department of curriculum and instruction at the University of Arkansas.

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