VCSU Pres. Shirley, Semifinalist Minot St. Pres.

MINOT, N.D. (AP) – A committee searching for the next president of Minot State University has narrowed the list of candidates to four.
 
     Thirty-seven people applied to succeed President David Fuller, who’s retiring in June. The search committee pared the list last month and on Tuesday interviewed the eight remaining finalists by videoconference.
 
     The chosen semifinalists are Valley City State University President Steven Shirley; Martin Slann, dean of the college of arts and sciences at the University of Texas in Tyler; Nicholas Piccolo, vice president for student life at Alma College in Alma, Miss.; and Lorrie Clemo, provost and vice president for academic affairs at the State University of New York at Oswego.
 
     The state Board of Higher Education is to name a president when it meets at Minot State on Feb. 27.