Malfeasance? Michael Peven, a photography instructor at the University of Arkansas for thirty-two years,  taught thirty years after his first use of  pornography!

Michael Peven's artist book series he calls SNATCHES are still online although they were removed from the University of Arkansas uark.edu server. 
So is his: ERECT PENIS.

Michael Peven works at the  University of Arkansas Art Department and publishes pornographic photographs. 

Michael Peven has been employed at the University of Arkansas for thirty-two years. What a  waste of taxpayer money! To study photography at the University of Arkansas a person implies an approval of Michael Peven’s pornography masquerading as art! Michael Peven's pornography will offend the morals of any reasonable juror and even those who are the most accepting of the nude as art. Michael Peven continues to lead the University of Arkansas in non-photography after more than a quarter century as its figurehead.

Universities should be a place for open, messy debates?  Someone should explain why the University of Arkansas has wasted so much money on Michael Peven for thirty years.  I feel the University of Arkansas made a severe error hiring Michael Peven as a photo instructor. Donors might decide instead to support a new NWA Crystal Bridges Museum of visual art?

Michael Peven took a photo of a semi-nude male, along with an erect penis, and printed it on a simulated matchbook. Michael Peven then calls it a snatchbook. Michael Peven first published pornographic photos of his erect penis about thirty years ago. Michael Peven still offers it for public viewing. It was removed from the University of Arkansas website after a complaint that minors were not even warned!  The pornography professor Peven did that was once found on the University of Arkansas server is still linked below on a server of a book seller. It was first pulled from the University of Arkansas server.  It was removed after receiving a public complaint. The green text below accompanied the vulgar images.

Michael Peven initially published pornography two years after the University hired him thirty-two years ago? Michael Peven markets these "snatches" still today!  Artist books are what Michael Peven's MFA is in! 

His art book series, he calls "snatches" is a vulgar publication! Michael Peven has been a pornographer paid as a photo instructor by the University of Arkansas for thirty years after his erect penis photo was published in 1979. An erection shown inside what he calls a "snatch" is not a nude study as art. It is a photo of an erection. How many donors will still be donors after they see his vulgarity that they have paid for? Perhaps they have not noticed?

Malfeasance. Stupidity? Pornography. I call it all three. Michael Peven's vulgar publication was first thirty years ago. In these hard economic times, the erect penis Michael Peven publishes a photo of will be all the evidence anyone needs to introduce. Removing the "snatches" marketing now will not help Michael Peven's morals. It might stop his continuing to repel potential students and donors to the University of Arkansas?

How much does it matter who the penis was owned by? Michael Peven's site on the University of Arkansas server once showed it with no warning to minors. It was removed after a protest. It should be easy to find artistic photography done by the photo instructor at a major university? It isn't.

How many have sought an MFA in photography in Michael Peven's thirty-two years?
How many more might have come if he were gone?

An Artist Book/Photography MFA was as close as Arkansas could get to photographer?

Michael Peven being offered and then accepting an early retirement would solve the University's dilemma. Would Michael Peven's departure from the University be fast enough and quiet enough to avoid a loss of donors?  I doubt that.  How many school teachers were fired for nude photos that were not as vulgar as done by Michael Peven while a college art professor?

Here are examples found quickly on the internet. (1)(2)(3)(4)(...)

If an acceptable instructor replaced him, more artists might pursue a degree at the University of Arkansas?

The pornographer employed by the Art Department at the University of Arkansas will be hard to ignore. Michael Peven's history as a publisher of pornography and Michael Peven's current lack of morality, as is demonstrated by his currently publishing his penis photo taken thirty years ago, will be glaring.

What will the Walton family or other large donors think about donating after reading of this issue? Michael Peven could be dismissed for cause or otherwise replaced in the event he refuses to cease publishing his pornographic 'snatchbooks'? 

Michael Peven is a university photography professor allowing nudity displaying sexuality to be excused in the guise of art. I only recently encountered Michael Peven's blatant pornography being passed off as an artist book.  I found this while promoting my book of fineart nudes. "Figurenude".

I became outraged and compelled to act to avoid appearing to condone Michael Peven's definition of art and Michael Peven's blatant misuse of nude photography.  As a serious NWA area photographer who feels nudes can be art, I feel I must protest very loudly.

Are University of Arkansas staff already letting Michael Peven publish his ERECTION and hiding it behind the mask of art?
Before my complaint, Michael Peven's penis was seen publicly on the University of Arkansas' own publicly funded server? Image was removed from the University server about eleven hours after my complaint.

Michael Peven's artist book series he calls SNATCHES are still online. 
So is his: ERECT PENIS.