/news-archive/tag/university-assembly/ 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Tue, 12 Apr 2022 12:53:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /news-archive/2022/04/12/university-assembly-spring-2022/ Tue, 12 Apr 2022 12:53:44 +0000 /news/?p=81312 ... 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock to Host University Assembly April 15]]> University Assembly will be a hybrid event with an in-person meeting taking place in the Donaghey Student Center Ledbetter Hall and the synchronous virtual meeting via Zoom. The assembly will include reports from University Assembly and Faculty Senate President Amanda Nolen, Chancellor Christina Drale, Provost Ann Bain, Staff Senate President Rosalie Shahan, Student Government Association President Ashley Chamberlain, Graduate Student Association President Rebekah White, and Joni Lee, vice chancellor for university affairs. A link to the virtual meeting, the agenda for University Assembly, and the minutes from the Sept. 10, 2021, and Feb. 22, 2022, meetings can be found on the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Faculty Senate website. The link to join the meeting will go live around 12:40 p.m.]]> /news-archive/2021/09/07/university-assembly-oct-9/ Tue, 07 Sep 2021 13:26:06 +0000 /news/?p=79795 ... 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock to Host University Assembly Sept. 10]]> The University of Arkansas at Little Rock will hold its fall University Assembly meeting virtually at 1 p.m. Friday, Sept. 10.听 The assembly will include reports from Faculty Senate President Amanda Nolen, Chancellor Christina Drale, Provost Ann Bain, Staff Senate President Rosalie Shahan, Student Government Association President Ashley Chamberlain, and Dr. Cody Decker, vice chancellor of student affairs and chair of the COVID Emergency Response Team (CERT). The Open Forum portion of the meeting is dedicated to a COVID-related question-and-answer format with the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Covid Emergency Response Team (CERT). Questions may be submitted to President Nolen at alnolen@ualr.edu by Sept. 8 or during the open forum session. CERT is a 14-member committee that has representation from Student Affairs, Academic Affairs, Human Resources, Public Safety, Counseling Services, Health Services, Communications, Facilities Management, eLearning, and Environmental Health and Safety.听听 In previous business, the University Assembly will vote on an amendment to change the student representation on the Traffic Committee, Committee on Committees, and the Policy Advisory Councils. A link to the virtual meeting, the agenda for University Assembly, and the minutes from the April 2, 2021, meeting can be found on the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Faculty Senate website. The link to join the meeting will go live around 12:40 p.m.]]> /news-archive/2021/03/24/university-assembly-april-2/ Wed, 24 Mar 2021 18:26:09 +0000 /news/?p=78630 ... 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock to host University Assembly April 2]]> The University of Arkansas at Little Rock will hold the University Assembly meeting virtually at 1 p.m. Friday, April 2. The University Assembly will take a second vote on a motion to make the Institutional Effectiveness Committee (IEC) a standing University Assembly committee. The original IEC was formed in 2018 to assist with the university鈥檚 reaccreditation process. The reconfigured committee will promote continuous improvement at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock through the review of cost units for effectiveness, efficiency, and mission centrality, as well as serve in an advisory capacity to the chancellor and cabinet of the university. The IEC will also determine a schedule for university-wide review, with all units being reviewed at least once every five years.听 The assembly will include reports from Faculty Senate President Amanda Nolen, Chancellor Christina Drale, Provost Ann Bain, Staff Senate President Cody Henslee, Student Government Association President Landon DeKay, Dr. Cody Decker, vice chancellor of student affairs and chair of the COVID Emergency Response Team, IEC Chair Jane Wayland, and Brian Keltch, director of enterprise application and development for IT Service, on Workday. A link to the virtual meeting, the agenda for University Assembly, and the minutes from the Oct. 9, 2020, meeting can be found on the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Faculty Senate website. The link to join the meeting will go live around 12:40 p.m.]]> /news-archive/2020/10/09/drale-university-assembly/ Fri, 09 Oct 2020 20:07:03 +0000 /news/?p=77678 ... Chancellor Drale delivers priorities for 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock in State of the University Address]]> Chancellor Christina Drale provided her vision and priorities for the University of Arkansas at Little Rock during the University Assembly on Oct. 9.听 鈥淭he state of 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock in 2020 is good and getting better. We have a clear course ahead of us, and I look forward to making that journey with you. I would submit to you that the singular lasting value that we must hold dear is the transformational value of education,鈥� Drale said. 鈥淎s an institution, we are called upon to find a path to sustainability so that value is not lost to our community and the students we serve.鈥� After looking back on a year of 鈥済reat struggle and upheaval,鈥� Drale outlined four key priorities that will help 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock move forward to the future. The first priority is enhancing access to higher education and enhancing student success. 鈥淲e enhance access through financial assistance, better outreach across different populations, and by creating a more welcoming and inclusive learning environment where our employment profile reflects the diversity of our community,鈥� Drale said. 鈥淲e enhance student success by ensuring the high quality of our instruction, and by building a sustainable student support infrastructure that is timely, responsive, and effective.”听 The second priority is to develop, maintain, and strengthen the right mix of liberal arts and pre-professional undergraduate and graduate programs that will prepare 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock students for viable career paths or career enhancements. 鈥淲e do this by maintaining a solid liberal arts core as the basis of our general education and by making sure that our academic programs have demand, both from prospective students and prospective employers,鈥� Drale said. 鈥淲hether it is a liberal arts program or a pre-professional program, we must be able to demonstrate the value of the credentials we offer.鈥� Based on the university鈥檚 role as an urban research institution, Drale鈥檚 third priority is to develop, maintain, and strengthen a research and creative work portfolio appropriate to 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock鈥檚 Carnegie research classification. 鈥淲e do this by supporting grants and contracts through our sponsored research office, but also by providing opportunities for professional development, incentives for pilot projects, and alternative funding sources for unsponsored research,鈥� Drale said. The fourth and final priority is to promote community engagement through educational programs, research and public service projects and programs, and Trojan Athletics. 鈥淏y maintaining focus on this aspect of our role and scope, 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock ensures that we maintain a strong connection to our community and that the value of having an institution like 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock in Central Arkansas is readily apparent to all,鈥� Drale said. Budget, Resources, and Enrollment Increasing enrollment is a vital institutional objective. It represents increased educational opportunity, attainment, and resources that allow 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock to fulfill its mission and purpose as an institution of higher education. The challenges facing the university include a global pandemic, a national demographic decline in college-age students, and lower funding for higher education due to COVID-19. 鈥淭his puts greater emphasis on increasing revenue from other sources and a continuing emphasis on lowering costs,鈥� Drale said. 鈥淲e are still seeing the effects of a cultural shift on the value of higher education. This year, 51% of our applicants chose to go nowhere for college. While some of that is undoubtedly COVID-related, we were seeing that trend already emerging last year. The emergence, this year, of a global pandemic, has made life harder for all of us, but in a real sense, it mainly exacerbates conditions we were already dealing with, and will continue to face.鈥�听 In order to lower costs and balance the budget, 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock has applied structural reorganization in both academic and non-academic units to reduce administrative costs and used academic planning retrenchment. In the last year, 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock has developed a comprehensive enrollment management plan and transformed the recruitment, admissions, and financial aid operations. 鈥淰ice Chancellor Cody Decker and his team have increased their effectiveness and reduced time to admission and scholarship from several months to just about 24 hours,鈥� Drale said. 鈥淲e had record increases in new student applications, admissions, and scholarship applications.鈥�听 At the start of fiscal year 2020, 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock had a net position loss of around $11 million. With COVID-19 related losses and costs and planning for a decline in enrollment for fiscal year 2021, 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock could have faced a net position loss of $23 million for this year. Through budget cuts, restructuring, retrenchment, the university鈥檚 best year in fundraising, and beating SSCH projections by around 5 percent, 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock is looking at a potential net position loss of $6.5 million. 鈥淎s you all know, the internal condition that was most pressing when I became chancellor last September was the rapidly growing loss in net position,鈥� Drale said. 鈥淚 am pleased to report that we are making good progress on rectifying this problem.鈥�听 Next Steps Drale outlined several next steps to improve 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock. These include using funds from the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Foundation to build infrastructure for student success through an endowed student retention office with an intervention team, coaches, and mentors. Additional funds from the Donaghey Foundation have been reinvested in Student Affairs success initiatives, the Multicultural Center, and the Chancellor鈥檚 Leadership Corps. Donaghey Foundation Funds will also initiate a new Career Center that will open in January 2021. 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock is launching several new diversity initiatives with the intention of improving the campus鈥檚 learning and working environment. This includes the formation of two new committees: the Racial Barriers Committee and the Chancellor鈥檚 Race and Ethnicity Advisory Committee. 鈥淭hese committees are designed to uncover unintended barriers to access and inclusion and to help us find ways to improve our environment for all people of color,鈥� Drale said. 鈥淲e have also launched a campus read project for faculty, staff, and students to participate in book discussion groups and to keep the conversation about racial equity front and center.鈥� Drale will also hold more race and ethnicity forums with students, faculty, and staff this year to keep the conversation alive and relevant on campus. 鈥淚鈥檓 pleased to report that Chief (Regina) Carter and our Public Safety office have enthusiastically embraced my recommendation to start meeting with students informally in a positive setting to talk through any issues they may have and to collaborate on campus-wide initiatives. They have already met with the SGA Executive Council and will next meet with students in an open forum this fall. I will hold my next open forums on race and ethnicity on November 11 and 12.鈥� In community outreach projects, 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock is partnering with Fifty for the Future, the Chamber of Commerce, and area school districts to support the Ford Next Generation Learning model to help students better prepare for post-secondary success. Additionally, the university is partnering with Little Rock Mayor Frank Scott to reimagine the Asher Avenue corridor and revitalize University Plaza. The university had its most successful fundraising year to date, bringing in nearly $48 million. University officials are emphasizing endowed scholarships, endowed professorships, program support, research support, and sustainable capital improvements. 鈥淔or the first time this year, you are going to see a Holiday Wish List Campaign that allows academic departments to identify specific items for donor support,鈥� Drale said. 鈥淭his will bring in a lot of new donors and help departments connect with them in a more intimate way. In marketing, you will see more emphasis on supporting specific programs rather than generic institutional branding. We want the community to connect with individuals and their experiences at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock, so our strategy there now reflects that.鈥� 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock will continue the process of rigorous program assessment and accountability to ensure that the university is not resting on outdated assumptions. As university officials begin the budget process for fiscal year 2022 in November, Drale will move 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock toward a zero-based budget model. 鈥淲e cannot expect students and community members to invest in us if we cannot verify our effectiveness and relevance,鈥� Drale said. 鈥淢oving forward it will be important for us to continue turning the ship towards a more intentional planning and budgeting process that is transparent and participatory. I look forward to working with the IEC and the campus community to re-evaluate our historical allocations and move towards a zero-based budget model where alignment to institutional priorities are clear.鈥� Additionally, university personnel will rewrite the institutional strategic plan next year to more clearly delineate means and ends and identify measurable gains. 鈥淭he ultimate measure of our success will be that we have programs that students want to enroll in, and that we have graduates who contribute to their communities and that employers want to hire,鈥� Drale said. 鈥淭he measure of our success will be a reputation for excellence and vital relevance to the community.鈥� You can read Chancellor Drale’s full University Assembly speech here.]]> /news-archive/2020/10/07/ua-little-rock-university-assembly/ Wed, 07 Oct 2020 21:27:29 +0000 /news/?p=77623 ... 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock to hold University Assembly Oct. 9]]> The assembly will include a state of the university address by Chancellor Christina Drale as well as addresses by University Assembly and Faculty Senate President Amanda Nolen, Provost Ann Bain, Staff Senate President Cody Henslee, Student Government Association President Landon DeKay, and Dr. Cody Decker, vice chancellor of student affairs and chair of the COVID Emergency Response Team. In new business, the University Assembly will vote on a motion to make the Institutional Effectiveness Committee (IEC) a standing University Assembly committee. The original IEC was formed in 2018 to assist with the university鈥檚 reaccreditation process. The reconfigured committee will promote continuous improvement at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock through the review of cost units for effectiveness, efficiency, and mission centrality, as well as serve in an advisory capacity to the chancellor and cabinet of the university. The IEC will also determine a schedule for university-wide review, with all units being reviewed at least once every five years. In old business, the University Assembly will take a second vote on an amendment to the constitution that allows the Faculty Senate to be reapportioned every two years by the Faculty Senate Executive Committee. The modification up for vote is to give the Faculty Senate Executive Committee the authority to conduct such an extraordinary census in the event of a reorganization of existing colleges. A link to the virtual meeting, the agenda for University Assembly, and the minutes from the April 10 meeting can be found on the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Faculty Senate website. The link to join the meeting will go live at around 12:40 p.m.]]> /news-archive/2020/04/07/university-assembly-3-2/ Tue, 07 Apr 2020 17:04:59 +0000 /news/?p=76581 ... University Assembly to meet virtually April 10]]> Anyone who would like to view the meeting may click on the link listed on the University Assembly website. The forum will open for comments at 1:40 p.m. The assembly will include reports from Dr. Donald Bobbitt, president of the University of Arkansas System, Faculty Senate President Amanda Nolen, Chancellor Christina Drale, Provost Ann Bain, Staff Senate President Melody Weigel, Student Government Association President Katie Zakrzewski, Cody Decker, vice chancellor of student affairs, and Jeff Harmon, associate vice chancellor for communications and marketing. In new business, the University Assembly will vote on an amendment to the Constitution of the Assembly that allows the Faculty Senate to be reapportioned every two years, prior to Faculty Senate elections, by the Executive Committee of the Faculty Senate, based on current information as to the number of full-time faculty members in each college or school. The modification up for vote is to give the Faculty Senate Executive Committee the authority to conduct such an extra-ordinary census in the event of a reorganization of existing colleges. The University Assembly will also hold a second vote on the addition of a dining committee to ensure the quality and availability of dining services at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock and serve in an advisory capacity to campus dining and the Division of Student Affairs to review dining options, policies and facilities. Visit the University Assembly website to view the meeting鈥檚 agenda and minutes from the fall 2019 meeting. For more information, contact Nolen at alnolen@ualr.edu.]]> /news-archive/2020/03/16/women-to-watch-at-ua-little-rock-amanda-nolen/ Mon, 16 Mar 2020 18:24:42 +0000 /news/?p=76412 ... Women to Watch at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock: Amanda Nolen]]> Q. Tell me about yourself? My discipline is educational psychology. I have my doctorate and master鈥檚 degrees from Baylor University and a B.S. in psychology from the University of North Texas. I started my undergraduate college career as a vocal performance major and was accepted into North Texas State. I was in that program for about 15 minutes and realized this was not for me. I found myself in an intro psychology course with 315 students in a large auditorium. The professor, Dr. Elliot, came out on stage with wild hair, suspenders and a bowtie, and started speaking about the human condition. I just remember feeling in that moment that this was it, this was my home, and the rest was history. My mother is a singularly important role model in my life. She was a stay-at-home parent throughout my childhood. But in her youth, when she graduated high school, she and her older sister left home, drove to Kansas City, and enrolled in flight attendant school for Pan Am. She was a flight attendant in the 50s and 60s when it was quite glamorous and had amazing stories of traveling and seeing the world. She had this dream of what she wanted to do. She came from a working-class family with not a lot of resources. She decided she wanted to see the world, and she did it. She has been an inspiration for me for striking out, believing in yourself, and not being afraid to take your leap into the next adventure. I think she was a remarkable woman. Professionally, I got my doctorate in 2002. I didn鈥檛 go immediately into academia. I was hired as COO for Holmes Partnership. It was a large national educational reform network. I worked with deans from across the country to reimagine school reform. Our philosophy was that effective and lasting educational reform must start in the way we prepare teachers. Working with these amazing deans from across the country who were leaders in their own right, they modeled for me what it meant to be a leader in academia. I learned from them the kind of temperament you need, the ability to connect with people. I learned from them that it is important to identify your own principles and be willing to defend them as they guide you in your decision making. I count myself as incredibly fortunate to have that opportunity before I even started my academic career. Q. How did you arrive at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock? I came to 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock in 2005. I鈥檇 had my doctorate degree for a few years and had been working with Holmes Partnership for three years at this point. I鈥檓 an introvert and I鈥檝e always seen myself as an academic and not this public person. I felt like my time at Holmes Partnership was coming to an end, and I needed to do what I was trained to do, to be an educational psychologist. At the time, David Imig, the then president of the American Association of Teachers of College Education, pulled me aside at our national conference and suggested that I needed to take a look at 糖心Vlog传媒LR. In his view, Dean Angela Sewell was doing some innovative things in the preparation of educational professionals. Fortunately, they had a position that was right up my alley teaching ed psych courses. It was serendipitous that it all seemed to fit. Since coming here, I鈥檝e never questioned or even had a second guess about that decision. I love Little Rock. I love the diversity that it represents and the rich history. Q. What does 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock mean to you? For me, 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock exemplifies the important role of a metropolitan university in an urban setting. As a metropolitan university, we offer opportunities in social mobility to folks in central Arkansas who might not have access to other opportunities. I think there is something very important about that. It represents opportunities for a whole region of people who might not otherwise have an opportunity to pursue college education and economic advancement opportunities. The knowledge we create through our scholarship helps us solve problems in central Arkansas that better the lives of people living in this area. It represents all the ways universities are supposed to improve the communities in which they reside. 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock certainly represents that. Q. What is your current position at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock? What are your duties? First and foremost, I am a professor in the School of Education. In that role, I am an instructor, mentor, and a scholar. My other position is president of the University Assembly and Faculty Senate. My duties are organizing the senate, organizing the standing committees and the issues that come before the senate, and making sure that we are getting the business done and prioritizing the business that needs to get done first. As part of my role, I have to make sure that all the voices are represented through shared governance, which includes members of the assembly that might feel like they don鈥檛 have a seat at the table. Sometimes, they need to be heard from the most. It鈥檚 important for me to seek those voices out. The responsibilities of the president include being the care-taker and the face of shared governance, engaging the administration on issues that affect the faculty, and attempting to hold people accountable for decisions that affect the academic enterprise of the institution. Q. Why is the Faculty Senate important? Shared governance doesn鈥檛 take care of itself. It鈥檚 only protected when we engage it and when we participate in it. That鈥檚 the only way to protect shared governance. Faculty must engage through the Faculty Senate or other committees where we are engaging the campus. When faculty step away from these and say 鈥渟omeone else can do it,鈥� that weakens the infrastructure for shared governance. We are fortunate at this institution that there is a healthy respect for the role of the faculty in the decision making and in protecting our legislative authority over the curriculum, annual review, promotion and tenure, etc. The challenge for faculty is the workload and the strain of participating. The faculty body is shrinking, so the responsibility of shared governance is falling on fewer shoulders. We are going to have to be more creative about protecting it and participating in it. Q. How would you describe your leadership style? I am really good at reading a room. What I have learned is that in order to do this I have to listen and put my own biases and suppositions to the side and just listen to what people are saying. I鈥檓 a pragmatist. For me, that means being very solution focused, identifying what is the problem, who is affected by the problem, and how do we solve it in a way that is in the benefit and interest of the university, students, and faculty. If I had to characterize my leadership style, it would be pragmatism. Q. As a female leader, what has been the most significant barrier in your career? The barriers I鈥檝e experienced haven鈥檛 been related to me being a leader. They鈥檝e been related to me being a female academic in a system that is privileged toward men. That has been the source of any obstacle for me. When I entered academia, I was a single mom, so I had to spend time focusing on my child who needed me in a certain capacity in her life. She was 11 when we moved here. I also needed to devote myself as an assistant professor to achieve tenure. This can be difficult for women, especially mothers, on the tenure track. This has to do with the social norms that are pressed upon women in the workplace. I wouldn鈥檛 call it a barrier, because I鈥檝e navigated it, but it was an obstacle that I had to overcome. I was fortunate to figure it out, but I know there are many not as fortunate as I. In my role, I want to dismantle some of the systemic barriers that make it difficult for women, especially women of color to advance through the ranks. Q. What woman has inspired you the most and why? My mother influenced me in that she was clear minded in her approach to life. She wasn鈥檛 afraid to take that next adventure. The women deans I鈥檝e worked with, who on the surface had very different lives from my mother, also had this clear headedness and this willingness to push the envelope a little bit. Dr. Mary Brabek at NYU, Dr. Mary Futrell at GWU, and Dr. Karen Sullivan at USC are three that really stand out to me. They had clear, guiding principles that gave them the confidence to push things. As a collective, those women have really shaped who I am now, and I am constantly drawing upon the lessons they taught me in my quiet moments. Q. What advice would you give to the next generation of female leaders? I can only qualify this in academic leaders. My advice for women academic leaders is acknowledging that academia is not a meritocracy, but is currently a hegemonic system. You should figure out early what your principles are, to define your own success rather than let others define it for you, and to measure your success by those principles and criteria you identified. Also, you should try to exhibit some kindness, compassion, and empathy along the way. That鈥檚 important in an academic setting. Recognize early on that perfection is not attainable, so achieving what is good is okay. Finally, don鈥檛 be afraid to say 鈥測es鈥� to challenging opportunities. Looking back on my career, the most important turning points occurred when I accepted a task that I feared would push me beyond my limit, only to find out that 鈥渓imit鈥� was not real at all. Q. Name something about yourself that most people would be surprised to learn. It鈥檚 the introvert thing. It seems contradictory to my role as president of the University Assembly. I have to build in time in my day where I can be still and quiet and be myself. It鈥檚 very draining to me. I think any introvert will understand that being publicly engaged with people is draining. It doesn鈥檛 come naturally to me. It鈥檚 exhausting. People who know me well know the introverted side of me, but I think the typical person wouldn鈥檛 know that about me. Perhaps it鈥檚 not uncommon for people in academia, perhaps I am fitting the stereotype. I鈥檓 more comfortable in the pages of a book than I am in front of a crowd talking about the book. In my role, having clear principles serving as a compass, has allowed me to step out, to speak out on issues, to push back where I need to push back, and be vocal on important issues. Q. What鈥檚 one leadership lesson you鈥檝e learned in your career? It鈥檚 important to listen, to reach out, question everything, and to not be afraid of having uncomfortable conversations. I think, for me, I want to hear as many perspectives and counter arguments as I can. I don鈥檛 just want to hear from people who agree with me. That鈥檚 too easy and that鈥檚 usually how you get it wrong. It鈥檚 when you seek out other voices, other parties, and other perspectives that you can competently reaffirm your position or be willing to change your mind. Also, I think a leader should demonstrate humility. I鈥檓 up for reelection, and I haven鈥檛 quite made the decision if I am going to run again. Because of what I have endured the last two years, I know I am competent enough to do the job, but I鈥檓 not arrogant enough to think I鈥檓 the only person who can do this job. That gives me a lot of peace about it. I know there are really great faculty who can step into this role if and when I make that decision.]]> /news-archive/2019/09/17/university-assembly-3/ Tue, 17 Sep 2019 19:52:05 +0000 /news/?p=75178 ... Fall University Assembly meets Sept. 20]]> The University of Arkansas at Little Rock University Assembly will hold its fall 2019 meeting at 2 p.m. Friday, Sept. 20, in Donaghey Student Center Ledbetter Hall. The University Assembly will vote on the addition of a dining committee to ensure the quality and availability of dining services at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock and serve in an advisory capacity to campus dining and the Division of Student Affairs to review dining options, policies and facilities.听 The assembly will also hold a second vote on an amendment to replace 鈥淐ollection and Archives鈥� with 鈥淥ttenheimer Library鈥� throughout the Constitution of the Assembly of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. This vote stems from a reorganization that transferred Ottenheimer Library from Collections and Archives to Academic Affairs.听 The assembly will include reports from University of Arkansas System President Donald R. Bobbitt, Faculty Senate President Amanda Nolen, Chancellor Christina Drale, Interim Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Cody Decker, as well as the Staff Senate, Student Government Association, and the Higher Learning Commission Accreditation Steering Committee.]]> /news-archive/2018/11/29/staff-senate-fall-open-house-dec-5/ Thu, 29 Nov 2018 14:33:25 +0000 /news/?p=72831 ... 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Staff Senate to host Fall Open House Dec. 5]]> The University of Arkansas at Little Rock Staff Senate will host its annual Fall Open House on Wednesday, Dec. 5, to raise money for the holiday season for 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock families in need. The open house will offer a reception for 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock employees to visit and network, win door prizes, use the Employee Wellness Center鈥檚 new massage chair, play board games, and bid on fun prizes in the teacup and silent auctions. Light refreshments will be served during the event. Guests are invited to bring a brown bag lunch to enjoy in fellowship with their coworkers. The event will take place from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Donaghey Student Center Ledbetter Hall. The open house kicks off Staff Senate鈥檚 annual. Money raised and donations of nonperishable food items collected from the open house will be used to put together holiday meal baskets for 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock applicants who would otherwise not be able to provide a traditional holiday dinner for their families. Tickets for the teacup auction are $5 for six tickets. Participants also can receive one free auction ticket, up to a maximum of five, for every two items donated from the list of items needed to create the holiday meal baskets. Check out the items for auction.听 Items needed include stuffing mix, cornbread mix, cream of chicken soup, cream of mushroom soup, chicken broth, macaroni and cheese, green beans, green peas, black eyed peas, corn, rice, canned potatoes, canned yams, cranberry sauce, cake mix and frosting, Kool-Aid, and nonperishable juices. To purchase auction tickets or to donate items for the teacup auction or a door prize, contact Paula Rogers at 501-663-5541 or parogers@ualr.edu or Angie Faller at 501-916-5905 or amfaller@ualr.edu. Donations to the Staff Senate Helping Hands Campaign can be made online by visiting the Campus Campaign website at /giving/product/campus/. Under the Fund category, click “Other” and then type in “Staff Senate” or “Helping Hands.” In the upper right photo,听糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock employees browse the teacup auction during the 2017 Staff Senate Fall Open House.]]> /news-archive/2017/09/12/university-assembly-sept-15/ Tue, 12 Sep 2017 15:42:52 +0000 /news/?p=67872 ... University Assembly to meet Sept. 15]]> University Assembly, the primary legislative body of the University of Arkansas for Little Rock, will hold its annual meeting at 11 a.m. Friday, Sept. 15, in the George W. Donaghey College of Engineering and Information Technology Auditorium.听 Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Provost Velmer Burton and Chancellor Andrew Rogerson will address a number of efforts to improve the student experience, energize faculty and staff, and focus on the university鈥檚 vision and priorities. With a myriad of opportunities before the university, administrators are committed to building lucrative partnerships and strengthening long-standing internal and external relationships, Burton said. 鈥淎s we focus on the road ahead, we will solidify our plans for a student-centered, teacher-scholar, and community-driven institution, and it starts with reaffirming our commitment to 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock and each other,鈥� Burton said. The University Assembly will be followed by the Faculty Senate meeting beginning at 1 p.m. in the Donaghey College of Engineering and Information Technology Auditorium.]]>