WINONA, Minn. – The interim liberal arts dean at Winona State University, Kara Lindaman, has been placed in the deanship permanently. Lindaman had been in the position temporarily since last year when psychology scholar Peter Meine retired. Lindaman had been on the university’s political science faculty since 2006. Her new salary: $158,000. Lindaman was selected after a national search. She holds a doctorate in public administration and politics from the University of Kansas. At Winona State she has coordinated the American Democracy Project and served as NCAA faculty athletics agent and on the executive committee of the faculty union.

Lindaman. Now chief of liberal arts, the largest of Winona State’s five colleges.