The final candidate for the position of dean of the Lumpkin College of Business and Applied Sciences will visit Eastern and hold an open session interview Tuesday.

Geralyn McClure Franklin is currently dean of the School of Business and a professor of management at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin in Odessa.

She has also held the position of division director of management and marketing at UT-San Antonio and chair of the management, marketing and international business department at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas.

Franklin earned her Ph.D. in personnel and industrial relations (management) with a minor in applied economics from the University of North Texas. She received her MBA in general business and BBA in broadfield business from Stephen F. Austin State University.

Her scholarly works include The Regulatory Environment of Human Resource Management, which she authored with Robert K. Robinson and Robert Wayland in 2002. She has also written for the Journal of Business and Public Affairs. Franklin’s article, “Workplace Diversity: Is it a Justification for Proportional Representation in the Workplace?,” for the Journal of Business and Entrepreneurship won the Homer L. Saunders Best Paper Award in 2001.

Franklin will meet with various campus groups on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. The open session will take place at 4 p.m. Tuesday in the Martinsville Room of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.

The dean position was vacated by Ted Ivarie, who retired after the spring 2000 semester. Last year’s search for a new dean was unsuccessful.

The other three candidates are Daniel Innis, associate dean of the Ohio University College of Business; Diane Hoadley, acting dean of the University of South Dakota School of Business; and James Strong, associate dean of the University of Akron College of Business Administration.