After an extensive interviewing process, Vice Provost James Bloedel and ISU President Gregory Geoffroy are getting ready to choose and announce the dean of the College of Human Sciences.

“We are in the process of taking it to the next step and reviewing the report,” Bloedel said.

“The issue is hard to predict,” he said.

“We hope to know the results as soon as possible.”

He said he hopes to know who the new dean will be within the next week.

“I’m sure the college is anxious to find out who their leader will be,” Bloedel said.

A search committee led by Michael Whiteford, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, met and reviewed the candidates for the position. A report on the four candidates was given to Bloedel, who has been studying the report with Geoffroy.

Pamela White, interim dean of the College of Family and Consumer Sciences, and Marlene Strathe, provost and senior vice president of academic affairs for Oklahoma State University at Stillwater, were interviewed during open forums in April.

The two remaining candidates for the position, Cheryl Achterberg, founding dean of the Schreyer Honors College at Penn State University, and Jeffrey McCubbin, an associate dean in the College of Health and Human Sciences at Oregon State University, had a chance to speak at an earlier date this month.