NWACC President Announces Retirement
by July 22, 2002 12:00 am 97 views
Bob Burns on July 5 announced his retirement effective Sept. 30 as president of NorthWest Arkansas Community College in Bentonville.
In a press release issued by the college, there was no mention of a timetable to replace Burns. Burns is the founding president of NWACC.
Burns was selected on Dec. 5, 1989, by the college’s board of trustees. His investiture ceremony was held in 1990 at the Bella Vista Community Church on Feb. 5, his 50th birthday. A special guest at the ceremony was then-Gov. Bill Clinton.
The first classes at NWACC began in August of 1990 with just more than 1,200 students attending at rented and borrowed facilities located in Benton and Washington counties.
NWACC enrolled about 4,300 students in the fall of 2001. Many of those students attend classes at the 130,000-SF central education facility, located on 131 acres that straddle the Rogers and Bentonville city limits near Interstate 540.