Shane Broadway

Shane Broadway is the Vice President for University Relations for the Arkansas State University System, where he organizes government-related affairs and advocates government activities.

He joined the system in January 2015 after serving as director of the Arkansas Department of Higher Education under Gov. Mike Beebe and Gov. Asa Hutchinson for four years. Broadway was a member of the Governor’s Cabinet as well as the Governor’s Workforce Cabinet.

Broadway served three terms as a State Representative representing Saline County, and two terms in the State Senate for Pulaski and Saline counties. He was elected Speaker of the House by his colleagues in 2001, becoming the youngest Speaker of the House in Arkansas history.

He previously served as chairman of the 15-state Southern Legislative Conference and as chairman of the SLC’s Education Committee. Governor Beebe appointed Broadway to the advisory board of the Southern Regional Education Board in 2007.

He is an Arkansas State University alumnus, where he received the Wilson Award – the highest honor given to a graduating senior at A-State – and served as president of the Student Government Association.

Broadway serves as chairman of the Arkansas National Statuary Hall Steering Committee,  president of the Saline County Economic Development Corporation Board of Directors and chairman of the Political Animals Club of Little Rock. He is one of the founders of the Salt Bowl, a former War Memorial Stadium Commissioner, and a member of the Miss Arkansas Scholarship Foundation Board of Directors, charter board member of the Bryant Athletic Hall of Honor, the First Security Bank Saline County Advisory Board, the Arkansas Heart Hospital Encore Board and First Baptist Church of Bryant.

In 2006 the Bethel Middle School Library and Media Center were named in his honor by the Bryant School Board, and in 2012 he was inducted into Arkansas Boys State Hall of Fame. He and his wife, Debbie, were the recipients of the 2011 Hope Award by the MS Society of Arkansas for their involvement and support of finding a cure for MS.