The College of Education and Health Professions‘ dean prolonged five-year appointments to 3 interim affiliate deans and two division heads, efficient March 1.

Dean Kate Mamiseishvili introduced the brand new management roles in a month-to-month e-mail to college and employees earlier this week. “All five of these administrators have demonstrated amazing leadership and commitment to the success of our college, and I am beyond grateful and excited that they have accepted these critical leadership positions,” she stated. “Each has been instrumental in advancing the faculty’s new WE CARE initiative, and we’re all dedicated to bettering well being and training throughout Arkansas and past.” 

Paul Calleja was named affiliate dean for administration and manages the faculty’s human sources, monetary affairs, services and know-how providers. Calleja assumed the interim affiliate dean position after it was vacated by Lewatis McNeal. Calleja joined the faculty in 2003 because the training outreach director for the Microelectronics Photonics Department. He beforehand served because the assistant head of the Department of Health, Human Performance and Recreation. Calleja is a educating professor of bodily training and serves because the president of the Teaching Academy.

Matthew Ganio, who joined the faculty’s college in 2011, was named affiliate dean of educational and pupil affairs. His position consists of facilitating modifications and additions to diploma plans, accreditation and assessments. He additionally supervises the Boyer Center for Student Services and the Office for Teacher Education. Ganio assists departments and college in analysis, promotion and tenure insurance policies. Ganio, a professor of train science, beforehand served as head of the Department of Health, Human Performance and Recreation.

Michelle Gray was promoted to go of the Department of Health, Human Performance and Recreation. She’s a professor of train science whose analysis facilities round age-related illnesses to extend the standard of life amongst older adults. Gray beforehand served as director of the Exercise Science Research Center. The division gives diploma packages in train science, public well being, recreation and sport administration, athletic coaching and educating Okay-12 bodily training and well being.

Mamiseishvili named Michael Hevel to affiliate dean for analysis, technique and outreach. He leads the faculty’s strategic initiatives and gives help and path for these areas. An affiliate professor of upper training and a school member within the school since 2012, Hevel beforehand served as head of the Department of Rehabilitation, Human Resources and Communication Disorders starting in 2017.

Kristin Higgins was named head of the faculty’s Department of Rehabilitation, Human Resources and Communication Disorders. Higgins, an affiliate professor of counselor training and supervision, joined the school in 2006. She has served as a program coordinator since 2016. The RHRC division homes six undergraduate and graduate packages, together with grownup and lifelong studying, communication sciences and issues, counselor training and supervision, academic statistics and analysis strategies, greater training, and human useful resource and workforce growth.

Mamiseishvili and her management workforce launched the WE CARE initiative in the summertime of 2022. WE CARE stands for Wellness and Education Commitment to Arkansas Excellence and its priorities revolve round tangible methods college and employees can collaborate inside the school and throughout the state to deal with complicated challenges in training and well being.

The College of Education and Health Professions enrolls greater than 6,200 college students and has about 400 full-time college and employees. The school gives greater than 50 diploma packages, together with 17 bachelor’s packages and 34 grasp’s and doctoral packages.