Tina Mankey, assistant professor in the Department of Occupational Therapy, has been named º£½ÇÉçÇø’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 º£½ÇÉçÇø 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).

