by - January 1, 2013 3:45 pm
Editor’s note: This article is part of a continuing series focused on upcoming education issues that will be addressed by the 89th General Assembly. When the General Assembly meets in…
by - December 31, 2012 9:19 am
Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of articles focused on upcoming education issues that will be addressed by the 89th General Assembly. Republican legislators are considering bills…
by - December 28, 2012 10:25 am
The arts encourage students to be creative, divergent thinkers, but they require educators to see each child as unique, according to Arkansas’ Teacher of the Year for 2012. Speaking to…
by - December 20, 2012 4:17 am
A biomedical research company at UAMS, InterveXion Therapeutics, has taken a crucial step in advancing a medication that may help methamphetamine users fight their addictions.
by - December 19, 2012 9:32 am
The incoming chairman of the Senate Education Committee is still considering options for increasing lottery scholarship awards as students advance toward their degrees, even as a legislative panel is recommending…
by - December 17, 2012 6:34 pm
Attorney General Dustin McDaniel today filed an appellant’s petition for a rehearing in the recent case that called into question the state’s funding mechanism for schools. Gov. Mike Beebe took…
by - December 15, 2012 3:26 pm
Arkansas State University Chancellor Tim Hudson will travel to Querétaro, Mexico to continue due diligence on a project to expand the Jonesboro campus south of the border.
by - December 12, 2012 5:39 pm
Bryan Harsin, a 13-year coaching veteran, has been named as the head football coach at Arkansas State University. Harsin, a finalist for the 2009 Broyles Award recognizing the top assistant…
by - December 10, 2012 9:02 pm
Scholarships funded during the more than three years from the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery total more than $300 million, according to program figures released Monday (Dec. 10). Lottery sales began Sept….
by - December 10, 2012 9:00 pm
From our content partner, the Arkansas News Bureau: get ex back A federal judge Monday denied the Pulaski County Special School District’s request to be declared substantially desegregated and released…
by - December 7, 2012 11:30 am
Dr. Michael Moore, senior vice provost and dean of undergraduate studies at the University of Texas at Arlington, has been named vice president for academic affairs at the University of…
by - December 5, 2012 9:27 am
The Springdale School District and the Southwest Arkansas Education Cooperative are among 61 finalists nationwide in the competition for nearly $400 million in federal Race to the Top funds. The…
by - December 4, 2012 7:46 pm
ESPN is reporting that Arkansas State University head football coach Gus Malzahn will return to Auburn to take over for fired Gene Chizik. Malzahn, an Arkansas native and former University…
by - December 4, 2012 7:24 pm
Bret Bielema, head football coach for the University of Wisconsin Badgers, has been hired to be the next head coach for the Arkansas Razorbacks.
by - December 3, 2012 2:16 pm
Leslie Welch Taylor has been named vice chancellor for the Office of Communications & Marketing at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) beginning Jan. 1. Taylor has served…
by - December 2, 2012 11:59 pm
A Tuesday meeting of the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s Academic Committee could lead to the creation of the state’s third aviation degree program. Mid-South Community College in West Memphis…
by - November 30, 2012 6:55 pm
A bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives Friday would replace 55,000 randomly awarded visas each year with ones targeting graduates of American universities with advanced degrees in science,…
by - November 29, 2012 8:26 pm
Non-traditional students tend to have higher retention rates and hang on to academic scholarships. Yet they receive the smallest slices of the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery pie, a trend that is likely to continue.
by - November 29, 2012 1:08 pm
A divided Arkansas Supreme Court has ruled in a school district funding case that could throw the landmark Lake View decision out the window and roil public education funding in Arkansas.
by - November 27, 2012 8:40 pm
The Walmart Foundation awarded a $50,000 grant to Junior Achievement of Arkansas (JA) to provide programming in economically challenged sections of Central, North Central and Southwest Arkansas. The “Grade School…
