Staff Profiles

Art Dunning

Vice President for Public Service & Outreach
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Appointed in May 2000, Dr. Art Dunning serves as the vice president for public service and outreach and associate provost at the University of Georgia (UGA). He is responsible for developing and communicating a vision for public service and outreach that is consistent with the needs of a changing society, while ensuring the vision is integrated into the University’s research and instruction missions. Dunning provides leadership to the broad array of public service and outreach programs and activities at the University and to the seven units on campus that report directly to him.

Prior to coming to the University of Georgia, Dunning spent a total of nine years with the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia in three capacities: vice chancellor for services, acting executive vice chancellor and finally as the senior vice chancellor for Human and External Resources. He was responsible for assisting the chancellor in strategic planning and policy development and for the execution of all policies, rules and regulations of the Board of Regents. Dunning was also responsible for External Affairs, which included media and public relations outreach, public service and economic development, and legislative affairs; Legal Affairs, and Human Resources for the University System. He provided counsel and assistance to campus president in System policy and operational matters.

Dunning served as the chief executive officer of the Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education, Inc., a cooperative effort among the Georgia Chamber of Commerce, the Georgia Economic Developers Association, and the Georgia Alliance for Public Education. He was responsible for the leadership necessary to create a strategic plan to ensure quality public education in Georgia at all levels: K-12, technical and adult education, and the University System of Georgia.

In addition to Dunning’s experience at the University of Alabama, he lived and worked overseas for two years. Working for the United States Department of Defense’s Office of Civilian Personnel in Bangkok, Thailand, Dunning was responsible for anticipating and providing for the post secondary educational needs of 2,400 Department of Defense dependents through relationships and agreements with 14 tuition fee and two correspondence schools servicing all of Thailand.

Dunning’s associations with the Carter Presidential Center and the United Nations have led him to Africa and Austria. He has participated in various other international activities in such countries as China, Ghana, Czechoslovakia, England, France and Brazil.

Dunning holds three degrees from the University of Alabama, including a doctorate in higher education. He also studied at Vanderbilt University.

L. Steven Dempsey

Associate Vice President for Public Service & Outreach
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Steve Dempsey is an associate vice president for public service and outreach at the University of Georgia (UGA). Dempsey helps guide the Office’s Community and Economic Development Initiative, which includes the Archway Partnership Project, Poverty and the Economy Initiative, the UGARF Poverty Grants Program, and the ICAPP Coordinator. He also coordinates strategic planning, performance measure development, director and institution reviews, the Public Service and Outreach annual meeting and awards program, and directors’ meetings and retreats.

Previously, Dempsey served as assistant director of the Institute of Community and Area Development, executive director of the Executive Development Program for Recreation and Park Professionals, adjunct professor in the UGA’s Department of Leisure Services, and assistant professor at Emory University.

Dempsey’s work in community economic development focused on the development and implementation of the creative group problem-solving laboratory and participatory policy design at UGA. He also provided management consultation to state and local government, recreation service delivery agencies, on growth-management related issues, and facilitator training.

Dempsey earned a B.S. degree in Recreation (therapeutic concentration) from Montclair State College, a M.S. degree in Recreation (management concentration) from Western Kentucky University, and an Ed.D. in Recreation and Leisure Studies (with a minor in Counseling) from The University of Georgia.

The former New Jersey native resides in Watkinsville with his wife, Becky (the former Rebecca Lynn Rice) and two sons — Steven Ryan and William Alexander.

Trish Kalivoda

Associate Vice President for Public Service & Outreach
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Trish Kalivoda is an associate vice president for public service and outreach at the University of Georgia (UGA). Previously she held positions in the Provost Office and in the Office of Instructional Development.

As part of her work in the Office of the Vice President for Public Service, Kalivoda helps to guide a number of initiatives that include: providing campus-wide support for service-learning and global service-learning; encouraging the scholarship of engagement among the faculty, domestically as well as internationally; addressing issues related to the changing demographics of the state of Georgia; and supporting academic pre-collegiate programming to encourage young adults in Georgia to complete high school and attend college.

Kalivoda holds an adjunct faculty position in the University’s Institute of Higher Education, and is a member of UGA’s Teaching Academy. She earned her bachelors degree in language education, MBA, and doctorate in higher education from The University of Georgia.