An Eastern associate professor will be interviewing on Monday and Tuesday for dean of the College of Educational and Professional Studies, a position Elizabeth Hitch is leaving to become provost and vice chancellor of academic affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Lacrosse on July 1.

Charles Rohn, chair and associate professor for the department of educational administration at Eastern, will have open-session interview for anyone interested at 4:30 p.m. Monday in Room 2821 of Lantz.

Rohn will also meet with interim President Lou Hencken, Blair Lord, vice president for academic affairs, the deans and chairs and the College of Educational and Professional Studies dean’s staff.

Rohn has been an associate professor for educational leadership at the University of Montevallo in Montevallo, Ala. and a guest lecturer in teacher education at McKendree College in Lebanon.

He was superintendent of schools for Lebanon Community Unit School District No. 9 and Waverly Community Unit School District No. 6, both in Illinois. Rohn has also been director of vocational program development at Sangomon Area Vocational Education Region in Springfield.

Rohn received his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Illinois in Springfield. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. He has also been in the advanced study program at Indiana University and the Motorola Leadership Institute.

The last candidate yet to be interviewed is Jo-Anne Evans Coleman, vice president for academic and student affairs at Northwestern Health Services University in Bloomington, Minn.

Two other candidates, Barbara Livingston Nourie, associate dean for teacher education at Illinois State University, and David England, dean of the College of Education at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, interviewed earlier in April.