The Florida Polytechnic University Board of Trustees is expected to select a successor to outgoing President Randy Avent on Monday.
According to an agenda posted on the university’s website, the board has scheduled a meeting to discuss the finalists and choose a new president.
The five finalists are Devin Stephenson, president of Northwest Florida State College; David Norton, vice president for research at the University of Florida; Daniel O’Sullivan, vice provost and chemistry professor at the U.S. Naval Academy; Keith Moo-Young, vice provost and dean of undergraduate education at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y.; and Bjong Wolf Yeigh, an engineering professor and former chancellor for the University of Washington Bothell.
Read: Florida Polytechnic University President Search Nears Finalists
Avent has been Florida Polytechnic’s president since it opened in 2014 and is the longest-tenured public university president in Florida.
He announced last summer that he plans to step down in July and, after a sabbatical, is expected to return to the Lakeland-based university’s faculty.
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