BURLINGTON, Vt. – The University of Vermont’s board chairman Friday announced the names of five finalists for UVM president.

Each candidate will be interviewed by selected faculty and administrative leaders and appear at 90-minute public forums this month.

“We have an outstanding group of final candidates, each of whom is a highly accomplished and successful leader and scholar in higher education,” said Robert Cioffi, board chairman.

“All have impressive records of achievement in their current and past roles, and all have had to manage very difficult and complex problems and issues at their current institutions,” Cioffi said.

The finalists are:

• Sabah Randhawa, a professor of industrial engineering who is the provost and executive vice president of Oregon State University;

• Meredith Hay, the special adviser to the chair of the Arizona Board of Regents, who is a professor of physiology and the former executive vice president and provost of the University of Arizona;

• E. Thomas Sullivan, a professor of law and former senior vice president for academic affairs and provost at the University of Minnesota;

• Robert Palazzo, a biology professor who was the former provost at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;

• Thomas Apple, provost at the University of Delaware and a professor of chemistry and biochemistry.

The next president will succeed Dan Fogel, who took office in 2002 and resigned on Aug. 1.

John Bramley, former UVM provost and professor, has been serving as interim president since Fogel’s resignation.