Bud Coleman, a finalist for dean of the Graduate School and vice provost for Graduate Affairs, will host an open forum with the campus community.

Coleman is the Roe Green Endowed Chair in Theatre and the former chair (2003–17) of the Department of Theatre & Dance. He is also the director of the CU in DC program. He has served as graduate advisor for the department’s theater division (2001–03) and on the department’s graduate faculty committee (1993–2006), and has been a CU faculty member since 1993.

The finalists were named by the search committee chaired by Katherine Eggert, senior vice provost for Academic Planning and Assessment. The candidate forum for finalist E. Scott Adler is scheduled for 11 a.m. to noon Monday, April 22.