Lynda Coon Named Dean of UA Honors College

University of Arkansas faculty member Lynda Coon has been named the new dean of the UA Honors College, effective June 1.

The appointment follows a national search to replace the first dean of the Honors College, Bob McMath, who retired in August 2014, according to a UA press release.

Coon is currently associate dean of fine arts and humanities in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences and director of the Religious Studies Program in the college, according to the press release. She also helped launch the Honors Humanities Project at Fulbright in 1995. The project is an interdisciplinary four-semester sequence of courses taught by teams of top professors.

As a history professor, Coon has taught many honors courses and mentored nearly two dozen honors students on their thesis projects, according to the press release.