David A. Young will be on campus Friday for interviews for the position of provost and vice president for academic affairs.

Young, currently dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Missouri in St. Louis, is the fourth of five candidates for the position.

“Generally, I recommend campus constituents to come to the university senate’s meeting or the open session,” said Bonnie Irwin, chair of the search committee for the vice president for academic affairs.

The open session meeting will be held from 4:30 to 5:20 p.m. in the 1895 room of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. The university senate’s meeting, consisting of staff, student and faculty senates, will be held between 1 and 1:50 p.m. in the 1895 room of the union.

“For 22 years, I have been involved in teaching, research, graduate student advising and administration at four major research universities,” Young said in a summary of his professional experience and accomplishments.

“I have gained considerable experience in the management of non-profit, academic institutions, especially in the areas of personnel and budget management, long-range strategic planning and development (fundraising),” Young said.

From 1995 to 1997, Young served as the provost-academic vice president at Colorado State University.

As provost-academic vice president, Young stated in his resume that his major accomplishments were developing a “new policy on faculty workloads and effort distribution, emphasizing differential assignments,” and working “with the vice president for university advancement to implement a coordinated approach to fund-raising in academic affairs.”

Before working at Colorado State, Young served at the University of Oklahoma as the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and prior to that, he served as the associate dean.

From 1982 to 1988, Young served as director of the L.H. Bailey Hortorium at Cornell University. Also, Young served as intern associate dean of the graduate school at Cornell for four months in 1987.

“At Cornell, I was actively involved with several university/college committees and served for four years as a member of the admissions committee for the graduate field of botany,” Young said in the summary.

Young received his doctorate in botany in 1975 from Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, Calif.

The previous interviewers were Lida G. Wall, interim provost and vice president for academic affairs at Eastern; Margaret E. Winters, interim provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs and research at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale; and W. Hubert Keen, special assistant to the university system provost at State University of New York.