OSU/A&M Regents approve personnel actions

OSU/A&M Regents approve personnel actions

Friday, December 5, 2025

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Numerous Oklahoma State University personnel actions were approved during the OSU/A&M Board of Regents meeting Friday on the OSU campus.

New Appointments

• Brent Clark, appointment to professor (action confers tenure), department head, and to the N. Malone Mitchell Jr. Chair in Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship
• Arun Datta, assistant professor, Management and Legal Studies
• Andrew Meyer, assistant professor, Marketing and International Business
• Eric Morris, head football coach, Athletics
• Cheryl Nelson, clinical assistant professor, Community Health Sciences, Counseling and Counseling Psychology
• Alyssa Turner, clinical assistant professor, Community Health Sciences, Counseling and Counseling Psychology
• Steven Fowler, associate professor of practice, Materials, Mechatronics and Manufacturing Engineering

OSU-Oklahoma City

• Amanda Kenney, instructor, Health Sciences
• Hope Knight, instructor, Health Sciences

Center for Health Sciences

• Micah Relic, clinical assistant professor, OB/GYN
• Saura Douglas, clinical assistant professor, Physician's Assistant Program

Change in Appointment

• James Knapp, reappointmentto the T. Boone Pickens Distinguished Chair of Geoscience, Geology
• John Veenstra, appointment to the Van Weathers Chair, Academic Affairs

OSUIT

• Heather Ortiz, change in position title to assistant vice president of Academic Affairs, executive dean, Academic Affairs

Retirements

• Robert Matts, March 31, 2026, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• Eugene Senat, Feb. 1, 2026, Media and Strategic Communications
• Howard Potter, July 1, 2026, Music
• Ellis Nuckolls, Jan. 5, 2026, Materials, Mechatronics and Manufacturing Engineering
• Kimie Leigh, Dec. 12, 2025, Early Care and Child Development (OSU-OKC)