University of Arkansas System

LITTLE ROCK (Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2021) — University of Arkansas System President Dr. Donald R. Bobbitt will recommend Victoria M. DeFrancesco Soto, Ph.D., assistant dean for civic engagement at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin (UT), as the next dean of the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service. The choice, which follows a national search that brought three finalists to Little Rock earlier this summer after the retirement of longtime Dean … [Read more...] about DeFrancesco Soto to be Recommended as Next Clinton School Dean

LITTLE ROCK (Friday, Sept. 3, 2021) — An advisory search committee chaired by University of Arkansas System President Dr. Donald R. Bobbitt has announced three finalists who will visit the Arkansas Archeological Survey (AAS) and interview for the position of director. Longtime AAS Director George Sabo, III, who joined the UA System entity in 1979 and became director in 2013, retired June 30. A search committee was formed and charged with conducting a national search to identify an exceptional … [Read more...] about Three Finalists Named for Top Archeological Survey Post

LITTLE ROCK — After guiding the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture through a decade of growth, vice president for agriculture, Dr. Mark J. Cochran, will retire effective Sept. 30. Under his leadership as a UA System vice president, Cochran encouraged the growth of the entrepreneurship and commercialization of research products and fought hard to obtain funding to continue the Division of Agriculture’s research and extension work, enabling the traditional land grant mission … [Read more...] about Division of Agriculture Chief Cochran Announces Retirement

LITTLE ROCK (Monday, Aug. 9, 2021) — The Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas will hold a special meeting Aug. 11 to consider acquiring Grantham University (Lenexa, KS) to expand the UA System’s online educational offerings and its operational scale. The 9 a.m. public meeting will be part of the Board’s annual two-day retreat held at the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute atop Petit Jean Mountain in Morrilton. Click here for an agenda of other items for consideration, supporting … [Read more...] about UA Trustees Call Aug. 11 Special Meeting to Consider Acquiring Kansas-Based Online University

LITTLE ROCK (Monday, Aug. 9, 2021) — University of Arkansas System President Dr. Donald R. Bobbitt today announced that Charles F. Robinson, Ph.D., currently provost and executive vice chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, has been named interim chancellor at the flagship campus beginning Aug. 16. Robinson will take over for Acting Chancellor Bill Kincaid, who was named to that role after former Chancellor Joe Steinmetz officially resigned … [Read more...] about Bobbitt Names Robinson to Interim Chancellor Post at UA, Fayetteville