Five join 23 others in seeking chancellor's job at UAM

Five more candidates applied to become the University of Arkansas at Monticello chancellor.

This adds to the 23 candidates -- including a high-level administrator at a community college and the leader of a two-year campus in Camden -- who have already applied for the position. The chancellor's position was vacated by Jack Lassiter, 69, who had led the 3,850-student university for nearly a decade. Lassiter, who made $196,974 annually, officially retired Jan. 5.

In his place, the UA System has named Jay Jones, the vice chancellor for finance and administration at the Monticello campus, as an interim director. The system is using search firm Witt/Kieffer, based in Oak Brook, Ill., to find applicants. The firm has a $110,000 contract.

The latest applicants, according to the UA System, are:

• Vinod Anand, a professor of economics from 2006 to 2008 at the National University of Lesotho in southern Africa.

• R. Edward Bashaw, the dean of the College of Business at Arkansas Tech University in Russellville since 2010.

• Robert E. Clark II, the joint service coordinator for Pennsylvania State University since 2013. In that role, he oversees curricular, operational and fiscal coordination between the university and all Reserve Officer Training Corps programs.

• Ronald Nykiel, the chairman and chief executive officer of a management consulting firm, called Avenues, since December 1993 and the former provost and vice president for academic affairs at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore in Princess Anne, Md. Nykiel is also applying for the director's position at the state Department of Higher Education.

• Martin Tadlock, the provost and vice president for academic affairs at Bemidji State University and the chief academic officer at Northwest Technical College, both in Bemidji, Minn.

Metro on 01/29/2015

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