UA System names members of racial equity task force

Kassandra Salazar (left) speaks Tuesday, April 5, 2016, to a group of 11th-grade students from Heritage High School in Rogers as they walk past Old Main while on a tour of the university campus in Fayetteville.
Kassandra Salazar (left) speaks Tuesday, April 5, 2016, to a group of 11th-grade students from Heritage High School in Rogers as they walk past Old Main while on a tour of the university campus in Fayetteville.

The University of Arkansas System has named members of a task force that will examine racial equity across the system, the system announced Thursday.

UA System Board of Trustees Chairman John Goodson appointed Trustee Stephen Broughton as chair of the task force and appointed Trustee Ted Dickey to the task force.

The 14-member task force includes at least one person associated with each of the university’s five traditional universities and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and two people currently associated with a system community college.

The members are:

Dr. Stephen Broughton, UA System trustee, committee chair

Ted Dickey, UA System trustee

Dr. Robert Carr, provost, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff

Dr. Mark Cochran, vice president, UA System Division of Agriculture

Dr. Deacue Fields, dean, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Marvin Caston, senior director of development, Razorback Foundation, Inc.

Dr. Moses Goldman, vice chancellor, University of Arkansas at Monticello

Dr. Georgia Hale, provost, University of Arkansas at Fort Smith

Dr. Keith Pinchback, chancellor, Phillips Community College of the University of Arkansas

Dr. Terisa Riley, chancellor, University of Arkansas at Fort Smith

Dr. Charles Robinson, provost, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Dr. Chris Smith, dean, University of Arkansas Community College at Hope-Texarkana

Kristi Smith, director, UA Little Rock Alumni Association

Christina Clark, vice chancellor/COO, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

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