DiPippa named UALR law school dean (UALR Public Radio) - John DiPippa has been named dean of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law.

Previously serving as interim dean, DiPippa succeeds Charles Goldner, who resigned last year to return to teaching at the law school. Dipippa becomes the school's eighth dean in a two-year term that runs through the 2010-2011 school year, the school said in a news release.

DiPippa joined the school in 1983 as an assistant professor of law and currently is the distinguished professor of law and public policy.

UALR Provost David Belcher said the decision to select DiPippa came after a year-long search. The job was offered earlier this month to Penelope Bryan, associate dean of academic affairs at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. Bryan accepted a job in California. None of the other 14 candidates for the post was considered a finalist.

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