Regents set to announce next University of Iowa president at 4 p.m. Who are the finalists?

Hari Osofsky was one of the first people that greeted Davis Blount when he stepped onto the Penn State Law campus as a prospective law student. Blount, now a third-year law student and the vice president of Penn State Law’s Student Bar Association, had hesitations about moving from North Carolina to central Pennsylvania for law school. When he visited campus for the first time, he said the d...

Barbara Wilson’s colleagues and students know her as a servant leader and a good listener. The University of Illinois System, a three-university, roughly 90,000-student, 6,000-faculty system, has known her as the executive vice president and vice president of student affairs since 2016 and a two-decade faculty member and administrator on the Illinois campuses. Wilson is one of four finalists in th...

Sally Wallace, a dean at Georgia State, describes her boss Provost Wendy Hensel as authentic. “She’s the real deal,” said Wallace, who leads the university’s School of Policy Studies. In interviews with The Daily Iowan, faculty and administrators who work with Wendy Hensel described her as transparent and as a leader who acts. Hensel, Georgia State University’s provost and se...

Higher education changed the trajectory of Daniel Clay’s life. Now one of four finalists for the University of Iowa presidency, Clay recently attributed his success in higher education to the mentors and donors who supported him as a first-generation college student with potential but without means. Clay, currently the dean of the UI College of Education, said in a forum on April 22 that ...