The third and final candidate for the University of Wyoming presidency visited the Laramie campus Monday.
Jeremy Haefner is Provost at the Rochester Institute of Technology. The next President may need to cut the U.W budget by as much as $5 million. When Haefner was the Dean of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs he was faced with a 20% budget cut. He says his approach was to brainstorm with faculty and staff about what could be done. Haefner says he’d take a similar approach at Wyoming.
"I’ve had experiences to make those hard decisions. I think you want to be as strategic as possible, keeping in mind what those priorities are. So that would be how I would lean in moving forward with challenges around the budget or opportunities around the budget. And I think there are plenty of opportunities as well as challenges," says Haefner.
The UW Board of Trustees will hear input from faculty, staff, students, and the public before making a decision on who should be the next president. Online comments are due by 5pm Tuesday.
