(Radio Iowa) – The search committee for the new Iowa State University president is meeting in closed session today (Monday) to narrow down the list of candidates. Regents lawyer Aimee Claeys gave the committee instructions before they went into closed session.”We are hear to enter into closed session to conduct a confidential evaluation of the professional qualifications of the applicants for the I–S-U president. Each of these individuals has explicitly requested that their applications be considered in closed session,” she says.

Clayes told the committee they must focus on this task. She says under the law the only thing they can discuss in closed session is the qualifications of the candidates. The committee is expected to work on evaluations into the early afternoon. They will notify the candidates who have been chosen to move on in the search, but will not identify them at this time.

The search committee is looking to replace president Wendy Wintersteen who is retiring.