An engineering management expert has been named leader of graduate programs at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, school officials said Monday.
Kim LaScola Needy takes over after serving as interim dean of graduate school and international education. She replaced Todd Shields, who in March became dean of UA’s Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences.
Needy, who previously led UA’s department of industrial engineering, becomes the first woman to lead UA’s graduate school and international education programs. Her office serves both undergraduate and graduate foreign students as well as graduate students, except for those enrolled in the Walton College Graduate School of Business and the School of Law.
Needy will earn $245,000 in salary as dean — an increase from the $176,752 earned by Shields. Needy earned $209,048 as an engineering professor.