Jim Schneider

2018 Alumni Service Award Winner

Jim Schneider is a 1962 graduate of Arkansas State Teachers College, now the University of Central Arkansas.

He was a news and sports reporter for the Log Cabin Democrat in Conway during college and after. In 1969, he began a 31-year career at UCA during which he was sports information director, director of alumni and director of public information. When he served as director of alumni services from 1981-1988, he was the second person of only six to serve in this role in the 107 years of the UCA Alumni Association.

Having assisted in organizing the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame, Schneider was inducted into the Hall in 1984 for meritorious service. He also received the Joe B. McGee Award from the Conway Athletic Awards Commission for meritorious service to Conway athletics.