The second search for an assistant vice president for academic affairs for technology brings its third of four candidates to campus for interviews Wednesday and Thursday.

The first search for the new position being established to provide assistance in technology ended in January. Blair Lord, vice president for academic affairs, said the search would start from scratch because neither of the two previous finalists were fit for Eastern.

On Wednesday, Roy Roper, director of academic computing at Montclair State University in Upper Montclair, N.J., will meet with Lord, the deans and chairs and the university councils and senates to interview for the position. He will also interview with the Center for Academic Technology Services’ staff and the Information Technology Services’ staff.

Faculty and instructional support specialists will be able to interview Roper at an open-session meeting at 3 p.m. Wednesday in Conference Room 4440 of Booth Library.

On Thursday, Roper will interview with Bob Augustine, interim assistant vice president for academic affairs for technology and dean of the graduate school.

At Montclair State, Roper is also the associate director of the Office of Information Technologies. He has also been the chief information officer and the dean of information and educational technologies at Christian Brothers University in Memphis, Tenn., as well as the assistant director of the School of Life Sciences at the University of Illinois.

Roper received his Ph.D. in social anthropology at Illinois in 1985 and his master’s degree in social anthropology in 1978.

At Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan, Roper got his bachelor’s degree in social psychology in 1973.

The final candidate for the position, Frank Moore, executive director of information and instructional technology at Longwood College in Farmville, Va., will interview on April 22 and 23.

The first two candidates, Michael Hoadley, director of the Center for Interactive Technologies in Education and Corporations at the University of South Dakota, and David Wang, associate vice president for information technology at Emporia State University, have already interviewed. Hoadley on April 8 and 9, and Wang on April 15 and 16.