Faculty Promotions, Tenure Appointments Announced
JONESBORO – Twenty-five faculty members at Arkansas State University have been promoted and/or been awarded tenure effective with the new academic year, announced Dr. Lynita Cooksey, provost and vice chancellor for Academic Affairs and Research.
The Board of Trustees approved recommendations from the Promotion, Retention and Tenure Committee and university administration. Grouped by academic college, those promoted are noted with their new academic rank, and those awarded tenure are marked with an asterisk (*):
Agriculture and Technology
* Jianfeng Xu, agriculture
Education and Behavioral Science
* Audrey Bowser-Brown, secondary education and technology
* Sharon J. Davis, counseling
* Julie Grady, teacher education
* Zelda McMurtry, early childhood education
Amy R. Pearce, to professor, psychology
Karen L. Yanowitz, to professor, psychology
Engineering
* Brandon Kemp, to associate professor, engineering
* Shubha Kher, to associate professor, engineering
Fine Arts
* Timothy P. Bohn, to associate professor, theatre
Lauren Schack Clark, to professor, music
* Marika Kyriakos, to professor, music
* John Harlan Norris, to associate professor, art
John Edward Owen Jr., to professor, music
* Christopher Wilson, to associate professor, music
Humanities and Social Sciences
* Veena S. Kulkarni, to associate professor, sociology
Media and Communication
* Sandra L. Combs, journalism
* Holly Kathleen Hall, to associate professor, journalism
* Po-Lin Pan, to associate professor, radio-television
* Matthew Thatcher, communication studies
Nursing and Health Professions
* J. Stephen Guffey, to professor, physical therapy
Elizabeth Nix, to associate professor, nursing
Sciences and Mathematics
* Travis D. Marsico, to associate professor, Biological Sciences
* Paul Sikkel, to associate professor, Biological Sciences
* Hong Zhou, to associate professor, statistics
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