Five candidates have been selected to interview for North Dakota State University president. The prospects will visit the Fargo campus later this month. Finalists will be selected to return to campus for final interviews on Feb. 23. The candidates are David Cook, vice chancellor for public affairs on economic development at the University of Kansas; Hesham El-Rewini, provost and vice president of academic affairs at Marymount University; Mary Holz-Clause, acting executive chancellor at the University of Minnesota in Morris and Crookston; Debra Larson, provost and vice president of academic affairs at California State University in Chico; and Michael Tidwell, immediate past president of the University of Texas in Tyler.
