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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Four people will interview next month for the vacant presidency at Northwestern State University.
The university's presidential search committee met Thursday to cull a list of 12 recommended candidates to the four who will interview the week of Sept. 8 on the Natchitoches campus.
The four semifinalists are:
— Lisa Abney, provost and vice president of academic and student affairs at Northwestern State
— James Henderson, chancellor of Bossier Parish Community College, Bossier City
— Linda K. Rinker, provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at Davenport University, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
— Renva H. Watterson, interim president at Georgia Highlands College, Dallas, Georgia.
Northwestern State's longest-serving president, Randall Webb, announced his retirement in April.
A new president is expected to be named at the end of September. The semi-finalist interview schedules are still being finalized, but plans are for each candidate to spend an entire day on campus. After the interviews, the search committee will deliberate and recommend finalists to the Board of Supervisors for the University of Louisiana System, which will make the final selection Sept. 23.
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