One Woman Among the Three Finalists for Provost at the University of Arkansas

The flagship campus of the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville has selected a field of three finalists for the position of provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs. All three candidates will visit campus and give a public presentation and then participate in a question and answer session with members of the campus community. One of the three finalists is a woman.

Sheryl Tucker is the associate vice provost for academic affairs and dean of the Graduate College at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater. She is also a professor of chemistry at the university. Earlier, she served on the faculty at the University of Missouri from 1996 to 2011.

Professor Tucker is a graduate of Kent State University in Ohio. She holds a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of North Texas and did postdoctoral research at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.