LITTLE ROCK — Pulaski Tech set to add arts center
Pulaski Technical College’s next big building, now under construction along Interstate 30 in southwest Little Rock, is a Culinary Arts and Hospitality Management Center that’s scheduled to open for the fall 2013 semester.
But the college is working on another project - a fine arts center.
The fine arts center will be built on the college’s main campus in North Little Rock. Funding will come from a $45 million sale of bonds in 2011. Of that amount, the college has earmarked $30 million for the project. (About $15 million was set aside for the Culinary Arts and Hospitality Management Center.)
The college’s fine arts and humanities programs - including classrooms, faculty offices, a proscenium theater, a black box theater, art gallery space and art studios - would be housed in the new facility,which college officials hope can be completed in time for the fall 2014 semester.
Jackson Brown Palculict Architects of Little Rock is designing the building and CDI Contractors of Little Rock is building it.
College leader’s
first day Aug. 16
Margaret Ellibee, Pulaski Technical College’s incoming president, will start her new job Aug. 16.
The college’s board of trustees hired Ellibee on June 30, but her start date was not set at that time.
Her first day on the job corresponds with the college’s convocation day. The faculty comes back a week before students. The first day of classes is Aug. 23.
Ellibee comes to Pulaski Tech from Wisconsin, where she has been vice president for strategic effectiveness and advancement at Waukesha County Technical College.
She replaces Dan Bakke, who retired as Pulaski Techpresident after 12 years of leading the 12,000-student college, the state’s largest community college.
ASU makes pick
for interim dean
JONESBORO - Jim Washam - associate dean, director of undergraduate programs and associate professor of finance - has been named interim dean of the College of Business at Arkansas State University.
Washam replaces Len Frey, who was recently appointed as ASU-Jonesboro’s vice chancellor for finance and administration.
A committee of students, faculty, staff and civic leaders will lead a national search to fill the position.
Washam will oversee the departments of accounting, computer and information technology, economics and finance, and management and marketing. The College of Business also works closely with the Delta Center for Economic Development and theSmall Business and Technology Development Center.
Former HSU dean Dawkins to return
ARKADELPHIA - Louis Dawkins, a former dean of the Henderson State University School of Business, is returning.
He will work as the School of Business’ interim dean, replacing Jeffrey Hamm, through the 2012-13 academic year or until the university finds a replacement.
Dawkins has been business school dean two other times.
He recently retired as director of the Adkerson School of Accountancy and interim dean of the College of Business at Mississippi State University.
Arkansas, Pages 15 on 07/27/2012