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5 finalists picked to lead UT

By Megan Boehnke

boehnkem@knoxnews.com

Five finalists for the job of University of Tennessee system president will be coming to the Knoxville campus early next week to meet with trustees, campus chancellors, the president’s staff, faculty and students.

In two weeks, one of them will likely be chosen as the system’s next leader.

Joe DiPietro, chancellor of UT’s Institute of Agriculture, and Brian Noland, chancellor of the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission and a former administrator at the Tennessee Higher Education Commission, were selected unanimously during the first vote of the Presidential Search Committee on Thursday.

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