UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS DOCTORAL STUDENT WINS NATIONAL DISSERTATION-OF-THE-YEAR AWARD

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - A graduate of the University of Arkansas’ doctoral program in higher education administration has won the 1999 Dissertation-of-the-Year Award from the national Council for the Study of Community Colleges.

He is Dr. Brian King, dean of institutional development and executive director of the Foundation at Ozarks Technical Community College in Springfield, Mo.

Dr. King's dissertation identified successful election strategies employed by community colleges in bond issue or tax levy increase elections and distilled those strategies into a list of rules that could be used by community colleges preparing for such an event.

Dr. King earned his bachelor's in history at the University of Missouri-Columbia and his law degree at Duke University.

His doctoral committee was chaired by Dr. James O. Hammons, professor of higher education, and included Dr. Dub Aston, associate dean of the Sam M. Walton College of Business Administration; Dr. John Murray, Jr., associate professor of higher education; and Dr. George Denny, associate professor of educational foundations.

This is the third time that dissertations from Dr. Hammons's students have received national recognition by the Council for the Study of Community Colleges, which is an affiliate of the American Association of Community Colleges. Previously, two of his students were selected as first runner-ups, and one as a second runner-up. In addition, one of his students received for the prestigious Donald A. Gatzke Award for dissertation work from the American Association of University Administrators.

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