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Feb. 10, 2006

Office of International Students and Scholars

Director candidates announced

by Anne Krapfl

Three finalists have been named in the search for a director of Iowa State University's Office of International Students and Scholars (ISS). They are James Dorsett, director of the Office of International Students and Scholars at Wayne State University, Detroit; Richard Porter, coordinator of International Students and Scholar Services at the University of Missouri, Columbia; and Dawn Renze Wood, director of campus operations at Kaplan University, Davenport. The finalists will interview on campus in the next two weeks. Their visits will include a one-hour open forum in the Memorial Union as follows:

  • Dorsett: Feb. 14, 2-3 p.m., Pioneer Room
  • Wood: Feb. 17, 2-3 p.m., Great Hall
  • Porter: Feb. 21, 2-3 p.m., South Ballroom

Terry Mason, director of ISU's Student Counseling Service, has served as interim director of ISS since June 2004, when former director Dennis Peterson retired.

Following is more information about the finalists:

Prior to leading the Office of International Students and Scholars at Wayne State University, Dorsett served as assistant director for services in the Office of International Affairs at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (2000-2002). At the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, he was assistant director for service and admissions in the Office of International Studies and Programs (1998-2000), and an international student adviser (1996-1998).

Porter has served as coordinator of International Students and Scholar Services at Missouri since 2002. From 1999 to 2002, he was an international student counselor at the University of Houston's International Student and Scholar Services. He has been an English lecturer at Hokuriku Gakuin Junior College in Kanazawa, Japan, and a language instructor with TDK Corp., Nagano prefecture, Japan.

Prior to joining the staff at Kaplan University, Wood served as assistant director of the International Student Center at San Diego State University (1995-2004) and an English as a Second Language teacher at Edward Benesova Zakladni Skola in the Czech Republic.

Summary

Terry Mason, director of ISU's Student Counseling Service, has served as interim director of the Office of International Students and Scholars since June 2004, when former director Dennis Peterson retired from Iowa State.