About all I could add with certainty to the story of the odd and abrupt firing of Mike Mills as the top official of the state Parks, Heritage and Tourism agency is that governors spouses can be a problem.
Sheffield Nelson said he won t serve as chairman of the University of Arkansas System board of trustees next year because he can t work with Donald Bobbitt, president of the UA system.
Divided University of Arkansas system trustees vote down affiliation with the for-profit giant, appearing to nix a possible arrangement. The deeply divided Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas system on Monday rejected a proposal by the system’s chancellor to affiliate the university with a nonprofit entity that has been seeking to buy the for-profit behemoth University of Phoenix.