by February 20, 2014 3:59 am
-Lottery Projections Drop On Declining Sales
The Arkansas Lottery is seeing a trajectory of lower revenue, and commission members charged with its oversight are searching for turnaround solutions.
by February 20, 2014 3:59 am
-The Arkansas Lottery is seeing a trajectory of lower revenue, and commission members charged with its oversight are searching for turnaround solutions.
by February 12, 2014 2:53 pm
-nGage Labs and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR) have formed a partnership to utilize the Little Rock school’s Emerging Analytics Center. In January, nGage Labs was named…
by February 9, 2014 8:44 pm
-Arkansas colleges and universities have been offering online classes for years, but as many as 73 out-of-state post secondary schools with aggressive advertising campaigns have been eating into local market…
by January 31, 2014 12:54 am
-After high-profile legislative hearings and numerous media reports uncovering details of a nearly $4 million deficit in the University of Arkansas’ advancement division, school officials say they will resolve the…
by January 25, 2014 11:50 am
-Governors across America are laying out education reform ideas in their State of the State addresses. Coverage of this plus other business and political stories can be read here.
by January 25, 2014 10:55 am
-Mid-South Community College in West Memphis is partnering with a Tennessee school to create the Mid-South Manufacturing/Distribution Training and Education Institute. MSCC will join with Southwest Tennessee Community College of…
by January 21, 2014 10:05 am
-Editor’s note: Caitlin Lafarlette is the author of this story, which appears in the latest magazine issue of Talk Business Arkansas. The Natural State is known for its agricultural abundance,…
by January 20, 2014 8:05 am
-Editor’s note: Benji Hardy is the author of this story, which appears in the latest magazine issue of Talk Business Arkansas. In the past two decades, downtown Little Rock and…
by January 16, 2014 8:35 pm
-Nationally known chief economist Rich Yamerone, of Bloomberg L.P. , said tracking ladies dress and make-up sales will offer insight into consumer spending and sentiment — responsible for 72% of…
by January 16, 2014 7:28 am
-From Rob Moritz with our content partner, the Arkansas News Bureau: The Beebe administration Wednesday proposed a $10 million pilot program to help school districts across the state gain access…
by January 14, 2014 3:01 am
-After all major parties in the long-running desegregation case involving three central Arkansas school districts agreed to a settlement in November, a federal judge has signed off on the deal….
by January 13, 2014 4:04 pm
-It is a notion he has talked about repeatedly in the past, but today Republican gubernatorial candidate Asa Hutchinson released a white paper calling for more computer science education in…
by January 8, 2014 1:32 am
-From Michael Hibblen with our content partner, KUAR-FM 89 News: As Arkansas lawmakers probe a $4.19 million deficit at the Fayetteville campus of the University of Arkansas, current and former…
by January 7, 2014 10:39 pm
-Steve Brawner offers an insightful column through our content partner, the Arkansas News Bureau. Brawner analyzes Congress and concludes that we’re not getting the results we want from our government…
by January 6, 2014 8:57 pm
-State legislators are scheduled to hear testimony from a number of current and former University of Arkansas employees regarding a multi-million dollar deficit in the school’s fundraising division. In December,…
by December 14, 2013 6:16 pm
-OBU RENOVATING FOOTBALL STADIUM Ouachita Baptist University is undertaking a fundraising campaign to overhaul its football stadium and rename it after one of its most famous football alumni, Cliff Harris. The…
by December 12, 2013 10:52 am
-Bentonville-based Arvest Bank says it will commission a large-scale consumer survey to measure and report economic expectations and consumer sentiment in Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. The survey will measure respondents’…
by December 11, 2013 12:07 pm
-On Wednesday (Dec. 11), the Walton Family Foundation announced a $2.1 million grant to the University of Arkansas to fund several programs within the College Access Initiative and the Center…
by December 6, 2013 7:46 pm
-Arkansas State University said it is considering a public-private partnership that would develop a hotel and conference center on it Jonesboro campus. The university is evaluating proposals received through the…
by December 3, 2013 4:03 pm
-The ambitious effort to expand broadband capability in Arkansas public schools moved forward on Tuesday (Dec. 3) as two working groups accepted an engineering report and recommended the state proceed…