SEARCH COMMITTEE NAMED FOR ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT FOR AGRICULTURE AND DEAN POSITIONS

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - A University of Arkansas committee has begun a national search to identify candidates for the position of associate vice president for agriculture-research and dean of the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences.

Duties include administration of the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, which is the research agency of the U of A System’s Division of Agriculture, and Bumpers College at Fayetteville. Former dean and associate vice president Charles Scifres recently accepted an administrative position at Texas A&M University.

Search committee members announced by Vice President for Agriculture Milo Shult and Provost Bob Smith include faculty members, students, alumni and other clientele.

Search committee chair Bill Yearian, head of the UA entomology department, said the committee has a target date of May 1 to begin screening candidates.

Other committee members are John R. Clark, horticulture; Ed Colburn, Southeast Research and Extension Center director, Monticello; Don Dombek, Arkansas Crop Variety Improvement Program; Gisela Erf, poultry science; Mike French, Cooperative Extension Service associate director; Carl Griffis, biological and agricultural engineering; Preston LaFerney, International Agriculture Program; Charles Maxwell, animal science; Cal McCastlain, a Little Rock attorney and member of the National Council on Research, Extension and Teaching; Sue Martin, human environmental sciences; James N. Moore, horticulture (emeritus); Justin Morris, food science; Richard Norman, crop, soil, and environmental sciences; Don Roufa, biological sciences; Dennis Robertson, Arkansas Farm Bureau; David TeBeest, plant pathology; Tenethrea M. Thompson, undergraduate student; George Wardlow, agricultural and extension education; Ewell Welch, CAFLS Alumni Society; and Svetlana Zivanovic, graduate student.