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The four candidates for the UA presidency will each get to make a final sales pitch to the university community after the presidential search committee Thursday forwarded all their names to the Board of Regents for consideration.

The regents will make their selection during a special meeting as early as Wednesday night.

The final candidates are:

Tom Campbell, dean of the Haas School of Business at the University of California-Berkeley.

Deborah A. Freund, vice chancellor for academic affairs and provost at Syracuse University.

Yash P. Gupta, dean of the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California.

Robert N. Shelton, executive vice chancellor and provost at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

"Now it's the candidates' job to sell themselves to the university staff, faculty, alumni and students," said Regent Fred Boice, a Tucson businessman who chaired the search committee. "Then it's up to the regents to sort out which of these candidates can do the best job leading the University of Arizona."

Candidates start all-day campus visits today, meeting with university groups including administrators, alumni, faculty, students and the general public.

Shelton will be on campus today and Campbell visits Monday, followed by Freund on Tuesday and Gupta on Wednesday. Open public sessions with the candidates are scheduled for each day at 5:15 p.m. in the North Ballroom of the Memorial Student Union.

UA President Peter Likins is retiring this summer at 70 after nine years leading the university.

The Arizona Daily Star on Thursday asked for the names and resumes of 13 semifinalists under the state public records law, arguing the public has a right to analyze the search committee's commitment to diversity, evaluation of internal candidates and examination of sitting university presidents.

The Board of Regents declined to release the names, but Paulina Vazquez-Morris, legal counsel for the board, said three of the semifinalists were minority, four were women and one was a sitting college president.

One candidate from within the university made it to the round of 13 candidates, Boice said.

None of the finalists came to the search as a cold applicant. All were actively recruited, said Ann Hasselmo, lead consultant on the search. The UA presidency attracted top applicants because it's a university on the move in a state on the move, she said.

"They're becoming very excited about all of the opportunities at the University of Arizona and the state of Arizona," she said. "It's a wonderful point in time for a great leader to build on everything that has come before and which Peter Likins has put in place and help create the iteration in the life of the University of Arizona."