Details finalized for UT presidential candidate open forums

February 6, 2015 | Events, News, PresidentialSearch
By Jon Strunk



The University of Toledo will host two open forums for each presidential candidate during their campus visits the last two weeks of February.

Forums for Dr. Michele Wheatly, professor and senior adviser to the president at West Virginia University, will be held:

• Thursday, Feb. 19, from 1:30 to 3:15 p.m. in University Hall’s Doermann Theater on Main Campus; and

• Friday, Feb. 20, from 8:30 to 10:15 a.m. in Collier Building Room 1000B on Health Science Campus.

Forums for Dr. Christopher Howard, president of Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, will be held:

• Monday, Feb. 23, from 1:30 to 3:15 p.m. in University Hall’s Doermann Theater on Main Campus; and


• Tuesday, Feb. 24, from 8:30 to 10:15 a.m. in Collier Building Room 1000A on Health Science Campus.

Forums for Dr. Sharon Gaber, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Arkansas, will be held:

• Thursday, Feb. 26, from 1:30 to 3:15 p.m. in University Hall’s Doermann Theater on Main Campus; and

• Friday, Feb. 27, from 8:30 to 10:15 a.m. in Collier Building Room 1000B on Health Science Campus.

All forums will provide members of the University community the opportunity to ask questions of the candidates, and the finalists will open each event with a short presentation. Each conversation will be streamed live at video.utoledo.edu.

In addition to the open forums, candidates will meet in smaller groups with faculty and student leadership, as well as college deans, senior administrators, community members and University supporters.