Dr. David A. Brennen, dean of the University of Kentucky College of Law, is slated to arrive in Statesboro Tuesday as the second of five candidates for the job of Georgia Southern University president to be introduced to the campus and community.
Brennen is scheduled to appear in an open forum from 4 p.m. until 5:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Carol A. Carter Recital Hall, inside the Foy Building at 84 Georgia Ave. on campus. Dr. Timothy C. Caboni, vice chancellor for public affairs at the University of Kansas, spoke in a similar forum Monday.
The identity of the third candidate of the five invited to campus by the Presidential Search and Screen Committee is slated to be revealed Tuesday. His or her visit will overlap with Brennen's and will include a forum Thursday.
"We're bringing a diversity of candidates to campus," Dr. Stephen Vives, chair of the campus-based search committee, said last week. "They all have their particular strengths, and we were impressed by them."
Both Brennen and Caboni are male, but the diversity question has begun to be answered in one regard: Brennen is African-American. His race wasn't mentioned in Georgia Southern's posted information, but his photo was available from the University of Kentucky Law School website.
Past at UGA, Mercer
Georgia Southern posted Brennen's curriculum vitae - in other words, his professional history - along with a brief itinerary of his visit on the search website, www.georgiasouthern.edu/presidential-search. Click on "candidates."
Just as Caboni was scheduled to appear in a faculty forum in the ballroom of the Nessmith-Lane Conference Center beginning at 8 a.m. Tuesday, Brennen is slated to follow Wednesday's 4 p.m. open forum in the Carter Recital Hall with an 8 a.m. Thursday faculty forum, also in the Nessmith-Lane Ballroom
At the University of Kentucky, Brennen has been a law professor, as well as dean of the College of Law, since July 2009. He was a professor at the University of Georgia Law School from August 2006 to July 2009 and also deputy director of the Association of American Law Schools from August 2007 until June 2009. He taught at the Mercer University School of Law in Macon from July 2001 until June 2006.
Brennen graduated from the University of Florida Law School with a juris doctorate in 1991 and completed the university's graduate program in tax law in 1994.
Open forums for the fourth and fifth candidates invited to visit campus are slated for Monday, March 7, and Thursday, March 10, both beginning at 4 p.m. in the Carter Recital Hall, but the identity of those candidates has yet to be released.
Herald reporter Al Hackle may be reached at (912) 489-9458.