Syracuse University officials have identified the deputy secretary of state for the United States as the fourth and final candidate in the search for the new dean of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.

Jim Steinberg will visit the campus on Wednesday and Thursday for the on-campus phase of the interview process, said William Banks, chair of the search committee, in an e-mail. Steinberg is the fourth and final dean candidate announced.

Steinberg began serving as the deputy secretary of state in January 2009. From January 2006 to 2009, he was the dean of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. From 2001 to 2005, he served as the vice president and director of the Foreign Policy Program at the Brookings Institute.

Steinberg could not be reached for comment.

During his two-day visit to the SU campus, Steinberg will meet with faculty, staff and students for a series of meetings, luncheons and interviews. In February, the three other dean candidates visited the campus for two-day stints.

The other three candidates are Anil Deolalikar, professor of economics and associate dean of social sciences at the University of California Riverside; Gail Dubrow, professor of architecture, landscape architecture, public affairs and planning, and history at the University of Minnesota; and Stephen Hanson, vice provost for global affairs at the University of Washington.

The search committee is made up of 22 members, including Maxwell faculty and staff, a graduate student, a representative from the College of Arts and Sciences, the dean’s representative and members of the Maxwell School Advisory Board. As Steinberg is the final candidate to visit, the next step in the process is administering surveys to those who met the candidate.

The search committee will then discuss all candidates and feedback from the university community and present the final decisions to Vice Chancellor and Provost Eric Spina. Spina will make the final decision, and the search committee hopes to have the new dean in place by July 1, said Banks, chair of the search committee.

Mitchel Wallerstein, former Maxwell dean, left SU in July 2010 to become the president of Baruch College, a City University of New York school. Michael Wasylenko is serving as the interim dean.

kronayne@syr.edu

Published on March 1, 2011 at 12:00 pm