Arkansas State University is closing all academic and business offices at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 9, and remaining closed on Friday, Jan 10, in response to the incoming inclement weather.
However, while regular business offices are not open, the campus continues to operate. Essential personnel who maintain on-campus activities, including University Housing, Dining Services and Facilities Management, will report to work. Employees who are uncertain about their status as “essential personnel” are encouraged to check with their supervisor.
Full-time employees who track working hours can submit their time as “Authorized Leave.”
All campus residents are reminded to monitor official university media, including official social media accounts for updates.
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Dr. Wimpy is Associate Professor and Department Chair of Political Science. He teaches courses in international relations, comparative politics, political methodology, and public policy. In addition to Directing the Institute for Rural Initiatives, Dr. Wimpy is also an affiliate faculty member with the Center for No Boundary Thinking at A-State and the Arkansas Biosciences Institute. Additionally, Dr. Wimpy serves as the Faculty sponsor of the Model United Nations program at A-State. He is formerly an affiliate faculty with the Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) and the former research director of the MIT Election Data and Science Lab.
A native of the Arkansas Delta, Dr. Wimpy is a two-time graduate of A-State and now a proud 1924 Sustaining Life Member of the A-State Alumni Association.. His research has appeared in Georgetown University Press, The Journal of Politics, Electoral Studies, Nature: Scientific Data, Political Science Research and Methods, Social Science Quarterly, Springer Nature, and other edited volumes in various university and software press outlets. He has also presented at academic and thematic conferences around the world. Dr. Wimpy has conducted fieldwork in Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Sudan, Yemen, and across the United States. As an undergraduate and graduate student at A-State, Dr. Wimpy studied Arabic in Morocco, Oman, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.
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