President Shirley Ann Jackson’s chief of staff, Cynthia McIntyre, has been selected as a finalist for the presidency of Tennessee State University. She is one of six candidates being interviewed on the Tennessee campus this week.
Applications for the Tennessee position began being accepted in July of 2004. Once the application pool was closed in November, there were about fifty candidates, from which 11 semifinalists were selected. Last month, that field was narrowed down to the current six.
The new president of Tennessee State University is expected to begin serving on June 1, 2005. McIntyre is the first person to hold the chief of staff position at RPI, and also currently serves as associate vice president for policy and planning.
