Meet the finalists: Dr. Michael Licari to meet with students, employees, public today
(Posted Dec. 9, 2020)
The three finalists to be Austin Peay State University’s next president – Dr. Michael Licari, provost and vice president of Academic Affairs at Indiana State University; Dr. Jaime Taylor, provost and senior vice president for Academic Affairs at Marshall University; and Dannelle Whiteside, interim president of Austin Peay who previously served as the University’s vice president for legal affairs – will meet with students, employees and community members this week.
Licari’s open forums are today:
- Open forum with staff and retired staff, 9-9:45 a.m., Morgan University Center Ballroom, https://apsu.zoom.us/j/83609290629.
- Open forum with students,
12:30-1 p.m., Morgan University Center Room 303-305, https://apsu.zoom.us/j/81498306231. - Open forum with faculty and retired faculty, 1:15-2 p.m., Morgan University Center Ballroom
https://apsu.zoom.us/j/82080634533. - Open forum with the public,
2:15-3 p.m., Morgan University Center Ballroom, https://apsu.zoom.us/j/89902937752.
As provost at Indiana State University, he oversees all academic functions of that university, as well as enrollment management and university marketing. This includes 34 academic departments housed in five colleges – Arts & Sciences, Health & Human Services, the Scott College of Business, Bayh College of Education and the College of Technology.
Licari earned a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with a focus on public administration in 1997, a Master of Arts in Political Science, also from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, in 1994, and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Minnesota in 1993.
For Licari’s CV, click here. For Licari’s cover letter, click here.
Taylor will meet with students, employees and the public on Thursday, and Whiteside will meet with students, employees and the public on Friday.
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