A WSU committee has selected two finalists for the positions of university provost and executive vice president, both of whom will speak at public forums this week in the CUB Auditorium.

A. Dale Whittaker, the vice provost for Undergraduate Academic Affairs and acting vice president for Student Affairs at Purdue University, will hold an informational public forum from 12:10 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday.

Whittaker joined the Purdue faculty in 2002 as a professor of agricultural and biological engineering. Prior to that he served eight years as a visiting scientist at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute in Aberdeen, UK, then as a visiting professor at the Institut Supérieur d’Agriculture de Lille in France.

From 1987 to 1999 he served as both an assistant and associate professor of agricultural engineering at Texas A&M University.

The forum for Daniel J. Bernardo, the current interim provost and executive vice president of WSU, will take place from 12:10 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Thursday.

Bernardo is the former dean of the WSU College of Agricultural, Human and Natural Resource Sciences and has filled his current position since June of last year. He received a doctorate in agricultural economics from WSU before joining the faculty of Oklahoma State University.

He later served as professor and department head in the department of agricultural economics at Kansas State University before returning to WSU in 2005.

Both candidates will be available to meet with students, faculty and staff at the forums.