(Ames, Iowa via the Iowa Capital Dispatch) – Finalists for Iowa State University’s presidency will come to campus next week to meet with stakeholders and introduce themselves to the public in the hope of being selected for the role.

The Iowa Board of Regents announced Tuesday that three of the four finalists recommended by the ISU Presidential Search Committee have accepted invitations to visit Ames for meetings and open forums. The forums will take place from 4-5 p.m. Nov. 4-6 in the Memorial Union’s Durham Great Hall. The forums will also be livestreamed on the Iowa Board of Regents’ website.

Finalists were selected from a group of eight semifinalists, narrowed down by the search committee from a pool of nearly 80 candidates. While names have been kept confidential so far in the search, each finalist’s identity will be publicly announced and their curriculum vitae published online 24 hours before their campus visit.

Once campus visits are complete, the board of regents will speak with committee co-chairs Regent JC Risewick and ISU Faculty Senate President Meghan Gillette and interview the finalists in closed session during the group’s Nov. 11 meeting. According to the release, the board will announce ISU’s new president the same day, “tentatively scheduled for 6 p.m.” in the Memorial Union.

Each of the co-chairs said in previous statements they were impressed with the candidate pool for the position and are excited to bring the finalists to campus.