They are Garry W. Owens, dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Texas Tech University; Sara Lynn Baird, associate dean of the College of Music and Dramatic Arts at Louisiana State University; George T. Riordan, director and professor at the Robert W. McLean School of Music at Middle Tennessee State University; and C. Tayloe Harding Jr., head of the department of music at Valdosta State University.

All four candidates will visit campus to meet with faculty, staff, and students this month. Owens was on campus April 7–8; Baird will visit April 21–22; Riordan will visit April 25–26; and Harding will visit USC April 28–29.

University officials expect to name a successor for Jamal Rossi, who is leaving USC after the spring semester to become dean of academic affairs/deputy dean of the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music.

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