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The University of Arkansas System board of trustees declined to give their blessing to a potential affiliation between the system and the University of Phoenix during a special Zoom meeting Monday -- albeit with a narrow majority, as five members voted against, four voted in favor, and Trustee Kelly Eichler abstained.
FAYETTEVILLE -- Though he was born in Texas, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Chancellor Charles Robinson proudly insists he's "an Arkansan, now, and there's no place I'd rather be."
Trustees finally concluded an extended search for the next University of Arkansas, Fayetteville chancellor Wednesday, and he's a candidate with whom they're very familiar: interim Chancellor Charles Robinson, who has worked at the university for more than two decades and is the first Black person to serve as chancellor.