Deborah Baldwin To Serve as Interim Provost, Vice Chancellor at UALR (Movers & Shakers)

Deborah Baldwin has served the university in a number of positions, including six years as the chair of the Department of History and nearly 20 years as the dean of the College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences.

Deborah Baldwin has been named interim provost and vice chancellor of Academic Affairs for the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She is serving as interim provost for the spring 2017 semester following the departure of UALR’s executive vice chancellor for Academic & Student Affairs and provost, Zulma Toro, who began her tenure as president of Central Connecticut State University earlier this month. UALR will search for a permanent provost anticipated to start July 1.

Currently, Baldwin is the associate provost of Archives & Special Collections and director of the Center for Arkansas History & Culture. She has served the university in a number of positions, including six years as the chair of the Department of History and nearly 20 years as the dean of the College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences. Throughout her years of administrative service, Baldwin has continued to teach in the public history program and has overseen graduate student work with community organizers.

Baldwin received a Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago. She received her undergraduate degree from Ball State University in Indiana, near her hometown of Indianapolis.

Joel E. Anderson, chancellor emeritus of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, has been awarded the 2016 William F. Rector Memorial Award for Distinguished Civic Achievement from Fifty for the Future, a civic organization of Pulaski County business leaders. The Rector Award recognizes individuals who have exhibited outstanding community leadership and have made significant contributions to Little Rock’s growth and development.

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