MOVING TO THE FRONT FROM APRIL 12 IN LIGHT OF CORRECTION, BELOW.
The new candidates are Jack Boger, a UNC faculty member and alumnus; Maureen O’Rourke, Interim Dean at Boston University; Rex Perschbacher, Dean at UC Davis; and Kenneth Randall, Dean at Alabama. O’Rourke is also a finalist in the Texas Dean Search, as are Jody Kraus (Virginia), Larry Sager (Texas), and David Wippman (Cornell).
UPDATE: A faculty member at Alabama tells me that Dean Randall has withdrawn from the UNC Dean search.
CORRECTION: Dean Randall is still a candidate at North Carolina, contrary to what one of his faculty members at Alabama explicitly told me. I regret the error.
My former colleagues at another university in Middle East have also been moved to online teaching indefinitely, with the students…