Four Candidates to Be Interviewed for Dean of Graduate School and International Education

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Four candidates for the position of dean of the Graduate School and International Education at the University of Arkansas have been selected by the search committee for a campus interview.

They will visit the University of Arkansas campus in January for interviews with the chancellor, the provost, stakeholder groups and members of the search committee. Each will address the greater campus community in an open forum presentation in Giffels Auditorium from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. on the day of their respective visits and talk about the subject of “Vision of the Graduate School and International Education at the University of Arkansas.”

The format of the open forum will be a 20- to 30-minute talk followed by 20 to 30 minutes of questions and answers. The public is welcome to attend the presentations.

The candidates and the dates of their campus visits:

• Brad Bartel, Jan. 20

• Bill Curington, Jan. 25

• George Justice, Jan. 26

• Pamela Knox, Jan. 28

Brad Bartel is president of Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colo. He has 26 years of all-university senior-level administrative experience at four major public universities. He is responsible for multimillion dollar budgets and has experience with university master plans for land acquisition and capital construction. He is on the executive board of Fort Lewis College Foundation. He designed and guided a successful federal lobbying strategy at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro that brought in millions of dollars. He serves on the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference executive committee. He earned his bachelor’s degree in anthropology from CUNY and his doctorate in anthropology from the University of Missouri.

Bill Curington is the senior associate dean for academic programs and research in the Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas. He has led the design and has overseen the implementation of an integrated undergraduate business core curriculum. He is the principal investigator of a $230,000 grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education for curriculum and faculty development. He was responsible for overseeing two complete restructurings of the full-time M.B.A. program and twice oversaw the restructuring of the Walton College advising system. He led the conversion of the part-time M.B.A. to a distance-learning format and began the Leadership Walton Program designed to promote leadership through academic and professional development opportunities. He received his master’s degree and doctorate in economics from Syracuse University.

George Justice serves as the interim vice provost for advanced studies and interim dean of the graduate school at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He is the author of The Manufacturers of Literature: Writing and the Literary Marketplace in Eighteenth-Century England and co-editor of two books; he has also authored numerous essays and articles. He participated in a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute and won a Noel Collection Fellowship from the Noel Library in Shreveport, La. He serves on the membership committee of the Council of Graduate Schools and has served as an editorial consultant for the University of Toronto Press, Cambridge University Press and Blackwell Publishers. He received his master’s degree and doctorate in English from the University of Pennsylvania.

Pamela Knox is associate vice chancellor for academic affairs over graduate education, academic research and international education for the Tennessee Board of Regents and is a tenured professor in the Tennessee State University department of psychology. She is the author of five book chapters and the principal investigator on grants from the U.S. Department of Education and the National Institutes of Health. She has served as a reviewer for the American Psychological Association and as Division E program reviewer for the American Educational Research Association. She is a member of the American Educational Research Association and the American Psychological Association. She earned her master’s degree and doctorate in counseling psychology from Virginia Commonwealth University.

See the job search page for more information and copies of the candidates’ curricula vitae.