Outstanding Advisor Award Recipients Named

The University of Arkansas Outstanding Advisor Award recipients for the 2012-13 academic year are Susan Bristow from the Sam M. Walton College of Business as the outstanding faculty advisor and Sheri Lynn Tuck from the Fay Jones School of Architecture as the outstanding professional advisor. The award recipients receive $2,500 and are recognized at a reception held during the fall semester. Recipients were selected from a pool of nominees by the Academic Advising Council for their overwhelming evidence of qualities and practices that distinguished them as outstanding advisors.

Bristow is an instructor of Information Systems in the Sam M. Walton College of Business. Additionally, she serves as a faculty advisor for the school's Association of Information Technology Professionals.

Tuck is an academic counselor in the Fay Jones School of Architecture. She also advises all first-year and second-year students in the school.

Provost Sharon Gaber stated how much she appreciates these advisors: “Academic advisors as individuals are key to our student’s success.  They work for their college/ school to assist students and for the university to help students who are undecided or in making smooth transitions between degree programs. I really appreciate all that Ms. Bristow and Ms. Tuck do for the University of Arkansas.”