The candidates for Eastern’s next president:

William Perry

-Vice Provost at Texas A & M University; total student enrollment: 42,374

-on-campus interview: today

Blair Lord

-Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Eastern Illinois University; total student enrollment: 11,336

-on-campus interview: Wednesday

Sue Kiefer Hammersmith

-Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay; total student enrollment: 5,312.

-on-campus interview: Friday

*Editor’s note: This is an updated version of a story that ran March 9.

Eastern’s next president will come from the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay, Texas A & M University or from right here at Eastern.

The names of the three final candidates in the presidential search were released through a university-wide e-mail Thursday that introduced the candidates and explained their on-campus visits for this week.

William Perry, the current vice provost at Texas A & M University; Blair Lord, Eastern’s provost and vice president for academic affairs; and Sue Kiefer Hammersmith, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay will be visiting.

Hammersmith is also one of three finalists in an ongoing presidential search at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. Brian Pitzer, Edinboro’s director of public relations, said the university expects to name its next president by April 11.

Eastern’s on-campus visits will allow students, faculty, staff, administrators and the community to meet and interview the three candidates during open sessions throughout the week.

The campus community will be able to fill out evaluation forms with their opinions of the candidates for consideration by the Presidential Search Advisory Committee and the Board of Trustees.

“The committee will be getting the feedback, summarizing that and then making a presentation to the Board about how they went about selecting these finalists and the results of their visits on campus,” said Robert Webb, chair of the search committee and vice chair of the Board of Trustees. “Everyone will see them somewhat differently, I suppose, but we are confident that they will all make a good impression on the university campus and in the public.”

Eastern’s President Lou Hencken will have breakfast with each candidate and guide them on a tour through the Doudna Fine Arts Center.

“It looks to me like there’s three excellent candidates,” Hencken said.

One of the three finalists will take over for him when his contract expires June 30.

The Board of Trustees plans to name Eastern’s next president in late March or early April.