The finalist to be the University of Florida’s next President will face a series of forums on the Gainesville campus next week amid criticism of the selection.

Stuart Bell, current President of the University of Alabama, was named the sole finalist to lead Florida’s flagship university by the school’s Presidential Search Advisory Committee. UF has set up three forums for Bell at Emerson Alumni Hall President’s Ballroom on the main campus to take place on Wednesday, June 3.

The first forum will begin next Wednesday at 1 p.m. with university faculty followed by a student forum at 2:15 p.m. and capped off with an administrator and staff forum at 3:30 p.m. The UF Board of Trustees is set to consider the final decision June 11. If he is approved, the Florida Board of Governors would make the final decision.

Bell, who has been President of Alabama for a decade, was named the only finalist by the Advisory Committee, which drew immediate backlash.

U.S. Sen. Rick Scott laid into the selection process.

“While I don’t know Dr. Bell, it is clear to me that once again, UF has engaged in a search process that lacked any transparency or public input and failed to interview three candidates as mandated under Florida law,” Scott said in a terse letter sent to State University System of Florida Chancellor Ray Rodrigues.

Scott also griped about how the university handled its agreement with interim President Donald Landry.

“What remains unclear to me is why Dr. Donald Landry who has been interim president was not considered,” Scott wrote in his letter. “What I do know is that Dr. Landy has a clause in his contract that he would be awarded a multimillion-dollar payout if he failed to become the permanent president at UF. That is crazy.”

Landry is owed $2 million for being passed up for the UF President job, according to media reports.

But criticism hurled at UF for naming Bell as the only finalist isn’t limited to just politicians.

The Chair of the Board of Governors, Alan Levine, sent a letter to Rodrigues raising questions over the process and asked for a review of presidential searches at all public universities in Florida to see if they’re following state regulations.

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Gabrielle Russon of Florida Politics contributed to this report.