Ephraim Smith, vice president of academic affairs at California State University, Fullerton, is one of five finalists for the president’s job at Nevada State College.
Smith and the other finalists are set to be interviewed in Nevada on Dec. 8.
Nevada State College was started five years ago and faces funding questions. The college already has been through four presidents, two interim and two permanent.
Before coming to Cal State Fullerton, Smith helped build the business college at Cleveland State University in Ohio.
In other university news, a controversial candidate to lead the business school at the University of California, Los Angeles, withdrew his name over concerns about his business credentials.
Geoffrey Garrett, vice provost and dean of the UCLA International Institute, said he withdrew because doing so was “in the best interests of the school.”
UCLA Chancellor Albert Carnesale had backed Garrett.
