To further those ends, UALR is committed to policies and practices of equal educational opportunity, equal employment, and non-discrimination by ethnicity, sex, national origin, veteran s status, or disability. UALR s employees are categorized by different systems with embedded and overlapping subsystems. There are faculty, administration, and staff employees. Faculty members have academic rank. Administrators hold executive and management positions and may or may not have academic rank.
Staff are either non-classified or classified.
Non-classified staff employees are salaried and are not eligible for overtime compensation under the Fair Labor Standards Act. Both faculty and staff employees can be employed either part time or full time. Classified staff employees are in positions established by the Arkansas State Classification System. Classified employees are hourly employees who are eligible for overtime compensation for all hours worked over 40 per week. A large number were hired during the rapidly expanding decades of the 1970s and 1980s.