Arkansas State University says Tim Hudson will take over as chancellor, ending a five-month search.
Hudson has been vice chancellor of the Texas Tech University System since August. Before that, he was a special assistant to the chancellor for international programs and initiatives at the University of Houston System.
Hudson previously was president of the University of Houston-Victoria from 2004-2010.
Hudson was among three finalists for the ASU job. The others were John M. Beehler, founding provost and vice president for academic excellence at the University of North Texas at Dallas, and Soraya M. Coley, provost and vice president for academic affairs at California State University-Bakersfield.
ASU is scheduled to announce Hudson at Friday’s board of trustees meeting in Jonesboro. The meeting begins at 9 a.m. at the Carl R. Reng Student Union.
Board members must vote on the appointment, made by ASU System President Charles Welch.
Hudson received his bachelor’s degree in history and Latin American studies at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg in 1975. He received an ITT International Fellowship to Colombia, and in 1977 earned his master’s degree in geography from USM. He received a doctorate in geography from Clark University in Worcester, Mass., in 1980.
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