By Joseph Ryan

Administration editor

Blair M. Lord, the final of five vice president for academic affairs candidates, will be on-campus for interviews Today.

Since 1991, Lord has been the vice provost for academic affairs at the University of Rhode Island, where he has held positions for the past 25 years.

“I generally recommend the campus constituents attend the university senate’s meeting or the open session,” said Bonnie Irwin, chair of the vice president for academic affairs search committee and English professor.

The university senate’s interview, which will consist of faculty, staff and student senates, is scheduled for 1 to 1:50 p.m. in the Effingham Room of the University Union. Also in the Effingham Room, the open session will be held from 4:30 to 5:20 p.m.

During Lord’s position as vice provost for academic affairs, he served as acting vice president for information services for one year and also for one year as acting registrar.

Before taking the his current position, Lord served as senior assistant to the president for resource allocation and chair person of Finance and insurance.

Before and during Lords administrative capacities, he served as a tenure-tracked finance and insurance professor. In 1975, Lord earned his doctorate in economics from the University of California as Davis.

Other accomplishments of Lords include co-editing the Northeast Journal of Business and Economics for six years and participating in the Commission on Institutions for Higher Education for the past nine years.

Lord has published articles in the Journal of risk and Insurance as well as the Health Care Financing Review.

As the final of five candidates, Lord is following the on-campus interviews of Lida Wall, W. Hubert Keen, Margaret E. Winters and David A. Young.

Following the completion of the interviews, the search committee will convene and send forward recommendations to Eastern President Carol Surles, who will make the final decision.