Down to 3: WSU’s next president will be named soon

Wright State University has nearly completed the search for its eighth president.

The board of trustees will meet in executive session at 4 p.m. Monday to discuss the three presidential finalists who visited campus in the last two weeks, said Doug Fecher, trustee and presidential search committee chairman. Fecher said officials would like to name the next president as soon as possible but could not give an exact date.

Over the last two weeks, the university welcomed three finalists to campus. While in town, the finalists participated in forums with students, staff and faculty, visited WSU’s lake campus in Celina and met with outgoing President David Hopkins.

Each finalist is from a university half the size or smaller than Wright State, meaning whoever is named president could not only get a promotion but a significant pay raise.

Between 2014 and 2015, Hopkins' base pay topped $424,000, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education, an amount that's more than double the salaries of two finalists.

With Hopkins set to retire when his contract expires at the end of June, the next president will take the reigns of Wright State this summer.

The Dayton Daily News examined the three candidates. Background on the candidates can be found HERE.

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