Tina Mankey, assistant professor in the Department of Occupational Therapy, has been named Arkansas’s delegate to the Representative Assembly of the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA). The Representative Assembly (RA) is the policy-making body of the Association (the “Congress” of AOTA). In this position, she will represent all Arkansas occupational therapists to the national organization. Mankey has been a faculty member in the Department of Occupational Therapy since 1997.
Rifat Akhter of UCA’s Sociology department and co-author Kathryn B. Ward (Southern Illinois University – Carbondale) recently were notified that their paper “Globalization and Gender Equality: A Critical Analysis of Gender Empowerment in the Global Economy” was accepted for publication in the book series Advances in Gender Research, volume 13 (2009).
