Faculty Senate and Campus Faculty Start Semester with New Leaders

Timothy Kral, professor of biological sciences in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences is the new chair of the Faculty Senate for the 2012-2013 academic year. Ches Jones, professor of health, human performance and recreation in the College of Education and Health Professions, will serve as vice chair.

Janine Parry, professor of political science in Fulbright College was elected to serve as chair of the Campus Faculty and Charles Rosenkrans, professor of animal science in the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences was elected vice chair. Parry and Rosenkrans will become chair and vice chair, respectively, of the Faculty Senate for the 2013-2014 academic year.

The Faculty Senate has 35 voting members chosen from each of the colleges and schools, with an additional 10 at-large members. There are also 15 deans and administrators who serve as non-voting members. The Faculty Senate meets nine times during the regular academic year.

Kral joined the university in 1981 and has held the Liebolt Chair of Premedical Sciences and has served as President of the Teaching Academy. Kral was recognized as a Fulbright College Master Teacher, and received two university-wide teaching awards: the John Imhoff Award for Teaching and Mentoring and the Charles and Nadine Baum Faculty Teaching Award.

Jones joined the university in 1994. He has worked in shared campus governance having been elected at-large by the faculty to serve on the appointments, promotion, and tenure committee of the Faculty Senate, and has also served as chair of the nominations and elections coordinating committee.

The Campus Faculty meets twice a year and is made up of all half time or greater tenured or tenure track faculty, or any others who have been declared eligible by the Faculty Senate. These include instructors or lecturers in at least their third year of consecutive appointment.

Parry is director of the Arkansas Poll. She was awarded Fulbright College's Master Teacher Award in 2002 and the university-wide Alumni Association Award for teaching and, separately, service in 2005. She completed a three-year term as co-director of the Wally Cordes Teaching and Faculty Support Center at the University of Arkansas in 2011.

Rosenkrans received the 2008 Faculty Gold Medal Award from the Office of Post-Graduate Fellowships, was a co-director of the Teaching and Faculty Support Center and earned the Division of Agriculture's John W. White Outstanding Teaching Award in 2010.