Second Chancellor Candidate, Joseph E. Steinmetz, to Hold Public Forum

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Joseph Steinmetz.

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Joseph E. Steinmetz, the second of three candidates for the position of University of Arkansas chancellor, will hold an open public forum at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 13, in the Jim and Joyce Faulkner Performing Arts Center.

The Faulkner Center is located on Garland Avenue, between Silas Hunt Hall and the Arkansas Union. Please note that food and beverages are not permitted in the auditorium.

Steinmetz is executive vice president and provost at Ohio State University. He will make a presentation on the subject Moving the Needle: Thoughts on taking the University of Arkansas into the future. He will take questions from the audience following the presentation.

Steinmetz’s forum will be videotaped and it will be available online Tuesday afternoon. Viewers will need to use their U of A email and password to access the video.

Steinmetz was named executive vice president and provost at Ohio State University in 2013. He came to the university in 2009 when he was appointed vice provost for arts and sciences and the first executive dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

Steinmetz was dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Kansas before coming to Ohio State, and was also a university distinguished professor. He served for 19 years at Indiana University, where he was executive associate dean for the College of Arts and Sciences and chair of the Department of Psychology. At Indiana he was also a distinguished professor of psychological and brain sciences.

He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees at Central Michigan University and his doctorate at Ohio University.