Dean hopefuls visit SIUE

Alestle Staff Report

The second of six candidates for dean of the College of Arts and Sciences will be on campus Tuesday for an interview with faculty, staff and students.

Philip Suckling, chair of the geography department at the University of North Iowa since 1991, will be in the Mississippi and Illinois rooms of the Morris University Center from 1:15 to 2:45 p.m. Suckling taught at the University of Georgia from 1979 to 1991 and before that at Brandon University in Manitoba, Canada, from 1977 to 1979. His degrees are in geography and climatology.

Another dean candidate, Robert Beckstrom, of the division of arts and humanities at Loraine Community College in Elyria, Ohio, will be on campus Wednesday and Thursday. Open sessions will be from 10:15 to 11:45 a.m. in Founders Hall, Room 0107, and from 1:15 to 2:45 p.m. in the Hackberry Room of the MUC.

Thomas Zaharopoulos visited campus March 7 and 8 for interviews.