Fourth candidate announced for dean of liberal arts at KU

Kansas University has announced the last of four candidates for its liberal arts dean.

Matthew C. Moen, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of South Dakota, will meet with faculty, staff and students at a public forum at 3 p.m. Thursday at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.

Moen’s academic background is in political science, and his early research focused on the impact of the Christian right in American politics, and, more recently, his work has focused on national and state legislatures, according to a university biography.

He is the fourth and final candidate for the position, joining Susan Carlson, associate provost for faculty advancement and diversity at Iowa State University; Joseph C. Shields, chairman of the department of physics and astronomy at Ohio University; and Greg Simpson, the interim dean of KU’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.