Chaminade University has narrowed its search for a new school president to three finalists, the school announced yesterday.

The finalists, in alphabetical order, are:

• David B. House, who served as president of Saint Joseph's College of Maine from 1995 to 2007. Prior to that, he was vice president for academic affairs at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Ky.

• Brother Bernard Ploeger, Chaminade's acting president as well as its executive vice president and provost. He has served the university twice as acting president since coming to Chaminade in 2001.

• Gerard Voland, dean of the College of Engineering, Technology and Computer Science at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne. He also has served as dean of the undergraduate college at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.

Chaminade is searching for a successor to Sue Wesselkamper, who died Jan. 3 from cancer at age 66.

All three candidates will be on campus Monday through Wednesday to meet with members of the Chaminade community. For more information, go to www.chaminade.edu.