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Surge of Candidates Slows Eng. Dean Search
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The marathon race for the deanship at the College of Engineering will be prolonged, the Dean Search Committee announced in an e-mail on Tuesday.
As of last evening, the Dean’s position is contested among about 240 potential candidates, according to John Siliciano, vice provost and chair of the dean search committee. While the committee had hoped to announce and bring the finalists to the Cornell campus by the end of this term, the sheer volume of applications and nominations they received made this impossible, he said.
Therefore, the Provost and the committee decided to extend the preliminary search process in order to ensure a careful evaluation on each candidate.