With at least 25 strongly interested candidates so far, the search remains on track to have Georgia Southern University’s next president in place by July 1, said Dr. Stephen Vives, who chairs the campus search committee. “Mid-February is when we have targeted to have looked at credentials and be conducting airport interviews in Atlanta,” Vives said Wednesday.A tentative timeline posted early last fall predicted a first round of interviews in early February, followed by campus interviews in mid-February. But with Jan. 28 as the soft deadline for candidates to submit their resumes and other documents, the committee now expects to hold each phase of interviews about two weeks later.Dr. Brooks Keel’s resignation last summer, after five and a half years as Georgia Southern’s president, set the process in motion.