Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Provost candidate Angela Brenton on campus November 16 and 17
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With 17 years of experience in university administration, Brenton's career spans serving as the chair of a large department at Southwest Missouri State University, to a university-wide position as vice provost for research and dean of the graduate school at Abilene Christian University, to her current role as dean, which she has held for the last eight years. She currently has responsibility for three departments, two schools, an Institute of Government doing cutting-edge public policy research, two public radio stations reaching 75,000 listeners, and the Mid-South Center, which is responsible for child welfare training in the state of Arkansas. She has taught graduate classes in organizational culture since 1982 at UALR, Pepperdine University, Abilene Christian University, and Southwest Missouri State University. She applies qualitative research methods to study organizational communication, from critical linguistic analysis of organizational texts to analysis of organizational identification. Brenton collaborated with Dr. Gerald Driskill on a textbook, published in 2005, about organizational culture using materials she has developed while teaching and consulting in that area. Community engagement is a prominent theme throughout Brenton's career. At the request of community leaders, she has formed interdisciplinary task forces to address pressing community issues. Such task forces have led to major changes in K-12 education reform, merging of public utility systems, supporting the expansion of mass transit, funding of the county jail system, and more. She shares USI's value of teaching and learning. At UALR, faculty excellence awards are given in teaching, research, and service. The award for teaching carries a $10,000 award, while research and service are $5,000 awards. She is committed to educational quality, a liberal arts education, assessment, diversity and global perspectives, instructional technology, faculty development, and leadership and communication. Her undergraduate work was completed at Oklahoma Christian College in speech communication. She holds an Master of Arts degree in communication from the University of Oklahoma, and she earned a Ph.D. degree in Communication Studies from the University of Kansas. Her dissertation on communication and productivity won a national award from the International Communication Association. With a grant success rate of 84 percent, she led UALR with $7.2 million in annual grants and contracts, and helped raise close to $1 million in endowments and external support for scholarships, research equipment, clinical programs, and faculty development. She served as an inaugural faculty member in the Clinton School of Public Service, developing a class in communication processes and conflict transformation. She also served as chair of the curriculum committee for the Clinton School for two years. Active in community service, she is an advisory board member on women's health for a local health system, is active in the Arkansas Women's Leadership Forum, and provides training and group facilitation for multiple groups. Her complete vitae and cover letter are on the provost search web page at www.usi.edu/ps. |
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