The Idaho State Board of Education will hold a special board meeting at 1:30 p.m. April 23 to consider a contract and hire the next president of Boise State University.

The new president will then be introduced to the Boise State campus community and to media.

The finalists are Susan Borrego, chancellor of the University of Michigan-Flint; Andrew Marcus, professor of geography at the University of Oregon; Edward Seidel, vice president for economic development and innovation for the University of Illinois System; and Marlene Tromp, provost and executive vice chancellor at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

The Idaho Press reports, over 60 people applied to become the seventh president of Boise State University, replacing retired President Bob Kustra.