The Associated Press
FRANKFORT - The Mississippi higher education commissioner and the chancellor of the University of Nebraska-Omaha are the finalists for president of Kentucky's Council on Postsecondary Education.
A longtime higher education leader in Illinois before taking the Mississippi post in 1995, Tom Layzell, 64, said in October that he would step down next summer.
Nancy Belck has been chancellor at Omaha since September 1997. Before that, she held a similar position at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville.
The Kentucky council is seeking a president after refusing in June to renew the contract of Gordon Davies, who was hired in 1998 as its first president.
The new president will have to take the post during difficult times, charged with increasing enrollment as state funding is threatened. The president will also have to smooth relations with the General Assembly and try to maintain order among the eight universities and the community and technical college system.
The council is scheduled to interview the candidates and then select a new president on Thursday.
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