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Friday, November 20, 2009
Story Date: Sunday, September 9, 2007
Several appointments announced at A-State

By Susan O’Connor

JONESBORO — After an hour-long executive session during Friday’s ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY Board of Trustees meeting, the following personnel actions were announced:

Academic appointments

ASU-Jonesboro campus — Brenda Anderson, assistant professor of nursing; Deanna Barymon, temporary instructor in radiologic sciences; Earl Benjamin, post doctoral researcher; Linda Brady, temporary instructor in sociology; Lance Bryant, assistant professor of physical education; Zariff Chaudhury, associate professor of metallurgical technology; Seo-Eun Choi, visiting assistant professor of statistics; Linda Crumpton, assistant professor of nursing; Cheryl Dubose, temporary assistant professor of radiologic sciences; Michael Guenther, temporary assistant professor of physics; George Jacinto, associate professor of social work; Mark Jobe, instructor in accounting; Janis Kearney, visiting professor of political science; Kimberly Lee, research assistant, Arkansas Biosciences Institute (ABI); Ghunzhao Liu, research assistant professor, ABI; Jennifer Miller, temporary instructor in early childhood education; Dwayne Powell, temporary instructor in accounting; Matthew Ramsey, temporary assistant professor of communication studies; Nerma Reggans, temporary instructor in communication studies; Forrest Rodgers, temporary instructor in criminology; Jollean Sinclaire, assistant professor of computer and information technology; Ganapathy Sivakumar, research assistant professor, ABI; Melissa Stephens, temporary instructor in Spanish; Keat Teoh, research assistant professor, ABI; Prasanna Vasu, research assistant professor, ABI.

ASU-Beebe — Pam Burke, instructor of physical education; Cheila Chase, instructor of rhetoric-speech; Kae, Chatman, associate professor of English-philosophy; Bruce Cohen, theater director, assistant professor in theater; Marilyn Dangerfield, instructor of medical profession; Thomas A. Green, instructor of welding; Dawn Deneice Reed, instructor of criminal justice-psychology; Leslie S. Thurman, instructor of speech; Amanda Underhill, veterinary technician, instructor of veterinarian technology.

ASU-Mountain Home — Diana Fuller, assistant professor of nursing; Jessica A. Clanton, instructor of mathematics (one-year appointment); Karen N. Heslep, instructor of business administration; Nicky R. Morrow, instructor of economics (one-year appointment); Stephen M. Smith, instructor of criminal justice.

ASU-Newport — Amber Millwee, career pathways instructor.

One faculty member was re-assigned — C. Lee Selvidge of ASU-Beebe was promoted from temporary instructor of Spanish to full-time professor of Spanish.

Non-academic appointments

ASU-Jonesboro — Pamela Bailey, academic adviser; Lindsay Burnett, development officer; Haley Breann Fitzgerald, academic adviser; Darla Fletcher, assistant director of records; Charlotte Foster, director of educational renewal zone partnership; Perry Jackson, academic adviser; Allison Nicole Kirby, academic adviser.

ASU-Beebe — Amanda Abernathy, director of human resources; Jennifer Harper, case manager for career pathways; Ronald Hudson, student recruitment coordinator; Shlynda Hudson, hall director and student support specialist; Sherry Organ, case manager for career pathways; Mark J. Rolland, student development specialist for the learning center; Blayne Stewart, Web site coordinator; Amy Thomas, university registrar; Donna Yingling, program coordinator of workforce development and continuing education.

ASU-Mountain Home — Christine M. Johnson, health science coordinator; Christy Keirn, Director of public relations-marketing.

ASU-Newport — Theda Neldon, career pathways counselor-student adviser; Martha Taussig, adult education coordinator.

Non-academic reassignments

ASU-Jonesboro — Susan Allen, from special adviser to the chancellor to distinguished professor in chemistry; Rhonda Clifton, from program coordinator of internal audit to project-program specialist of internal audit; Rhonda Keith, from program coordinator of financial aid to senior internal auditor; Dana Slatton, from assistant director of computer services to associate director of information and technology services; Sherri Walls, from administrative secretary of research and technology transfer to project-program specialist of research and technology transfer.

ASU-Beebe — Joe Berry, from academic coordinator of Upward Bound Initiative to student development specialist of the Learning Center at ASU-Heber Springs.

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