The following is a message from Jim Murphy, UT Presidential Search
Advisory Council Chair

April 15, 2004


The Presidential Search Advisory Council today chose five higher
education administrators and the director of a federal research
institute to advance in the University of Tennessee's search for a
new president.

The Council, made up of faculty, students, staff, alumni and
trustees, selected the six finalists from a pool of nine candidates.
The six will interview with the UT Board of Trustees' Search
Committee April 20.

The finalists are:

-- Dr. Jack Burns, vice president for academic affairs and research
of the University of Colorado system.
-- Dr. Brady Deaton, provost and executive vice chancellor for
academic affairs at the University of Missouri, Columbia.
-- Dr. Kermit Hall, president of Utah State University.
-- Dr. Kenneth Olden, director of the National Institute of
Environmental Health Sciences and director of the National Toxicology
Program.
-- Dr. John Petersen, provost and executive vice president for
academic affairs at the University of Connecticut.
-- Dr. Bill Stacy, chancellor of the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga.

The eight-member Search Committee, chaired by Murfreesboro Trustee
Andrea Loughry, will recommend no fewer than three candidates to the
full board. The trustees will elect the university's 23rd president
on Wednesday, April 21, and he is expected to take office July 1.

More information about the search is available at
http://pr.tennessee.edu/presidentialsearch