Three teams to develop campus priorities
FAYETTEVILLE -- Three committees meeting over the summer will help develop campus priorities for the university.
Groups on teaching and learning, research and discovery, and outreach and engagement will meet as part of the push for a comprehensive campus plan under Chancellor Joe Steinmetz, the university's leader since Jan. 1.
Each committee consists of 12 members, all UA employees. Many were chosen from the faculty, but several staff members are also taking part.
By early fall, some university goals will be discussed more widely to solicit campus feedback.
Office gets interim leader on July 11
FAYETTEVILLE -- The university will have an interim associate vice chancellor for human resources beginning July 11.
Debbie McLoud will step in for the departing Barbara Abercrombie, who is leaving for a top human-resources role at Texas A&M University.
McLoud joined the human-resources office in 1991 and will earn $127,500 in her new role, up from her current salary of $89,289. A search committee will help find a permanent replacement for Abercrombie.
UA has 4,500 employees, including faculty and staff members.
Research repository under new leader
FAYETTEVILLE -- Melody Herr began April 11 as leader of a new office that oversees an open-access initiative for scholarly works, said Carolyn Henderson Allen, the dean of libraries.
The online repository ScholarWorks@UARK publishes research from faculty members and students. Last year, faculty members approved a policy encouraging the voluntary submission of articles for the repository, which gives UA nonexclusive distribution rights.
Herr leads the newly created Office of Scholarly Communications. She earns an annual salary of $95,000. She worked previously as an acquiring editor at the University of Michigan Press.
She will work to increase the size of the online repository and its use, the university said Monday in its announcement of her hire.
The new office is sponsored jointly by the libraries and economic research and development office.
NW News on 06/13/2016