College Council
The Faculty Award winners for 2022-23 are (top row from left) Karmen Bell, Alissa Blair, Albert Cheng and Kenda Grover, then (bottom from left) Christine Holyfield, Rhett Hutchins and Jonathan Wai.
The elected College Council shall constitute the representative body for the College faculty, acting as a consultative and advisory body to the Dean on matters of faculty concern including general welfare, working conditions and services performed by and for the faculty, policies related to academic and professional research, other scholarly and creative activities, and development. The council manages the annual Faculty & Staff Awards.
The College Council also serves as a forum for the exchange of ideas among members of the faculty. Rights and responsibilities of the faculty reside in the body as a whole, which may overrule Council action by a two-thirds vote of the faculty.
CLASS — COEHP Luncheon Academic Seminar Series
The College Council of the University of Arkansas College of Education and Health Professions invites faculty and staff to attend the COEHP Luncheon Academic Seminar Series, or CLASS.
As an expansion of the good work of last year's College Council on the Boyer model of scholarship, both fall 2023 CLASS sessions will focus on how faculty can transfer existing or current work in teaching and service to scholarship.
The sessons will be from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and held in CORD 349. Space is limited to 40 participants for each session. The online registration form has a space for dietary requests for the lunch.
Download the flyer (PDF).
Fall 2023 Sessions
- Teaching for Scholarship — Friday, Oct. 6 — Panelists: Paul Calleja, Jason Endacott, Hope Ballentine and Jim Maddox
- Service for Scholarship — Friday, Nov. 3
Spring 2024
The schedule of two CLASS luncheons during spring semester will be announced soon. Please check back.
Council Members, Representation
| Leadership | Name | Term Ends | |
| Chair | Rachel Glade | rglade@uark.edu | 2024 |
| Chair-elect | To Be Determined | ||
| Ex-officio | Kate Mamiseishvili | kmamisei@uark.edu | |
| Ex-officio | Matt Ganio | msganio@uark.edu | |
| Affiliation | At-large Representatives | ||
| CDOT | Glenda Hux | ghux@uark.edu | 2025 |
| CIED | Sean Connors | sconnors@uark.edu | 2025 |
| CLRM | Wen-Juo Lo | wlo@uark.edu | 2024 |
| NURS | Hope Ballentine | hopeb@uark.edu | 2024 |
| Departmental/School Representatives | |||
| CDOT | Amanda Troillett | atroille@uark.edu | 2024 |
| CIED | Alissa Blair | ab139@uark.edu | 2025 |
| CLRM | Yuanlu Niu | yn005@uark.edu | 2024 |
| EDRE | Gema Zamarro Rodriguez | gzamarro@uark.edu | 2025 |
| HHPR | Liz Parke | eaparke@uark.edu | 2025 |
| NURS | Michele Kilmer | michelek@uark.edu | 2024 |
Membership
The College Council shall consist of one representative elected from each department of the college and four at-large members elected by the college faculty. Two at-large representatives shall be elected each fall and serve staggered two-year terms. Departmental representatives also serve two-year terms, The council members shall elect the chair-elect from within the council. If the chair-elect is a departmental representative, the alternate representative from that department will become the departmental representative. If the chair-elect is an at-large representative, a representative will be elected during annual elections (see below) to fill the at-large seat for the year the at-large representative serves as chair. All members of the council shall be voting members. The associate dean for academic affairs and representative(s) from the Boyer Center for Student Services shall serve as ex-officio, non-voting members of the council. Nominations and elections for departmental representatives shall take place at the first departmental faculty meeting each fall and shall be reported to the council chair no later than Sept. 15. Each department shall designate alternates to represent the department when the departmental representative is unable to attend council meetings.
The sitting chair of the College Council shall manage the annual elections to the council. The chair shall solicit nominations for all open at-large college council positions during a nomination period lasting at least one week prior to the fall college faculty meeting. Potential candidates shall be permitted to nominate themselves and also to decline nominations. All nominees to serve in at-large positions on the council shall run in a single election. Eligible faculty will be permitted to cast votes equal to the number of open at-large positions (normally 2).
Council Policies and Resolutions
From time to time, the College Council passes guidelines and resolutions that address issues of faculty concern within the College of Education and Health Professions. The body considers general welfare, working conditions and services performed by and for the faculty, policies related to academic and professional research, other scholarly and creative activities, and faculty awards and development. These are PDFs.