Kristy Carter has been appointed interim executive director for Outreach and Community Engagement. Carter has been at UCA since 2006. She has served Outreach in several capacities, most recently as director of marketing and a member of the OCE leadership team.
Carter is currently a doctoral student in the interdisciplinary PhD program in Leadership Studies at UCA. She is a member of the Executive Board of the Arkansas Distance Learning Association and co-chairs the Mid-South Distance Learning Conference’s marketing and promotions committee. Carter has held leadership positions including president of the Arkansas Council for Women in Higher Education. She is the state coordinator for the American Council on Education’s Office of Women in Higher Education.
The Division of Outreach and Community Engagement has recently completed an in-depth strategic planning process to realign its mission, vision, core values and action steps consistent with those of the university’s strategic plan. Carter has expressed her enthusiasm for leading the Division in continuing the momentum toward accomplishing the action agenda for outreach and community engagement.