Regents to name new University of New Mexico president

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The University of New Mexico Board of Regents is expected to select the school's next president during a special meeting Thursday. The finalists include University of Idaho President Charles "Chuck" Staben and University of Missouri Provost Garnett S. Stokes. Two others are medical school deans David A. Brenner at the University of California San Diego and Kenneth Kaushansky at Stony Brook University. The fifth is Anny Morrobel-Sosa, a former administrator at City University of New York and the University of Texas at El Paso. The previous president, Bob Frank, left the office last year. Faculty members were unsuccessful in their bid to get the regents to keep interim President Chaouki Abdallah at the helm an extra year to lend stability to a budget-crunched institution amid a pending accreditation process.