Green being considered for Wesleyan deanship

Allen Green, director of the University's African American Resource Center, is among the three final candidates under consideration for the position of Dean of the College at Wesleyan University, the Wesleyan Argus reported recently. Green is scheduled to visit the Wesleyan campus in Middletown, Conn., today and tomorrow. During that time, he will face a "grueling two-day marathon" of meetings with students, faculty members and administrators, said Artist in Residence Jay Hoggard, a member of the Dean's Search Committee. The Dean of the College is the third-ranking academic official at Wesleyan, Argus Consulting Editor Scott Gottlieb said. Former Dean Janina Montero left the school in August 1993 to become Princeton University's Dean of Student Life. Gottlieb said the Dean's Search Committee will obtain feedback about the three finalists and report to Wesleyan President Bill Chace in mid-February. Chace will then choose a new dean. The other two candidates for the position are Mankato State University Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs Althia deGraft-Johnson and Dean of Student Affairs at Yale's School of Organization and Management Patricia Pierce, according to the Argus, the Wesleyan student newspaper. Green, who refused to comment directly on his candidacy, referred all questions to officials at Wesleyan. Dean Search Committee member and Professor of astronomy at Wesleyan Bill Herbst said he was "hesitant to comment" about the search, adding that he does not know how much information is public knowledge.