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Chancellor Position Profile Detailed; Landing Page Goes Live as Search is Underway
LITTLE ROCK (Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025) - A website has launched and the position has been comprehensively profiled as the search for a new chancellor at the University of Arkansas - East Arkansas Community College (UA-EACC) is now officially taking candidates to lead the University of Arkansas System's newest two-year college.
Current UA-EACC Chancellor Cathie Cline, Ed.D., announced last August her plans to retire July 1 after more than 25 years of service to the institution. Chris Thomason, vice president for strategic and community college partnerships for the UA System, is leading the search for Cline's replacement for the UA System President's Office and will coordinate the recommendation of a short list of final candidates cultivated by the committee for Silveria to consider before ultimately making his recommendation to the Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas for final approval.
A 14-member search committee, which includes key members of the campus community, alumni, and regional education, business and municipal leaders from the campus's service areas, at its second meeting this week finalized the open chancellor position profile and plans to promote it to a wide national audience. To keep interested candidates, the campus and community up to date, the committee also finalized the launch of a UA-EACC chancellor search landing page that will be updated with news regarding the search and the process, along with being home to the position profile, area information, and links for interested candidates to formally apply. It can be found here.
"The committee met twice in December and the first order of business was to accomplish these initial milestones in getting a successful chancellor search off the ground and running," Thomason said. "We know the holiday season is an opportune time for some people to evaluate their goals and seek new opportunities, and we knew we wanted to have this done so we can hit the ground running in 2026."
The position profile highlights that UA-EACC is seeking, "Senior experience in the administration of a college or university including a record of academic accomplishment and of increasingly complex administrative responsibility in higher education." The preferred candidates should also demonstrate understanding of and commitment to a community college mission with priorities on transfer academic programs; career, professional and technical education; and workforce and community education as key components of economic and workforce development. Candidates should also have the ability to think strategically, build consensus, and engage faculty, staff, and administration in collegial and constructive decision-making to enhance student life and learning for both traditional and non-traditional students, as well as "the ability to be an effective institutional advocate to a broad range of constituents and to work effectively with local, state and national leaders and policy makers," among many other attributes highlighted by being an "innovative, creative, and resourceful leader that is eager to advance the campus through its newly completed merger into the University of Arkansas System."
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About the University of Arkansas System (www.uasys.edu) Since its inception, the University of Arkansas System has developed a tradition of excellence that includes the state's 1871 flagship, land-grant research university; Arkansas's premier institution for medical education, treatment and research; a major metropolitan university; an 1890 land-grant university; two regional universities serving southern and western Arkansas; eight community colleges; two schools of law; a presidential school; a residential math and science high school; and a 100 percent-online university and divisions of agriculture, archeology and criminal justice. As the premier higher education system in the state, it enrolls more than 70,000 students, employs more than 27,000 employees, and has a total budget of more than $4 billion. An intrinsic part of the texture and fabric of Arkansas, the UA System is a driving force in the state's economic, educational and cultural advancement.
