Joycelin Randle
Joycelin Randle has joined the Division of Advancement at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway as executive director of development.
She will coordinate all development programs, such as major gift, annual giving and planned giving programs. Randle will serve as a principal gifts officer for the university’s top prospects while working with college development and advancement officers.
“We are excited to have Joycelin join the Division of Advancement,” said Kale Gober, UCA’s vice president for institutional advancement. “We can’t wait to see how her professionalism and experience will impact our team’s efforts going forward.”
Randle, a native of North Little Rock, previously was the director of development at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. While there, she was co-chair of the Staff of Color Association and a member of the university’s leadership academy for faculty and staff. Randle also held positions at Colorado College and Vanderbilt University Law School. Before entering higher education, she was a litigation associate at Fredrikson & Byron in Minneapolis, and she also clerked for Judge Tanya Bransford with the Hennepin County District Court in Minnesota.
Randle earned a Bachelor of Arts from Arkansas State University and a Juris Doctor from Vanderbilt University Law School.
Jennifer Holtz has been promoted to director of school counseling, human performance and rehabilitation at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and Margaret “Beth” McMillian has been promoted chair of the Department of Earth Sciences.
Other promotions include Ibrahim “Abe” Nisanc to chair of the Department of Systems Engineering; Srikanth Pidugu to chair of the Department of Engineering Technology; and Edma Delgado to assistant professor of Spanish.
Ge Chen has been hired as director of student support services and Zac Hagins has been hired as assistant professor of French at UALR.
Chen most recently served as the senior administrator and executive director of TRIO programs at the University of Texas at Austin. Hagins, a 2014 Pennsylvania State University graduate, spent two years teaching at French universities in Lyon and Le Mans, most recently working at Rhodes College in Memphis.
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