by - November 18, 2025 6:29 pm
Insight Leadership Group, a Fayetteville-based leadership development, executive coaching and management training company, is accepting applications for the 2026 Insight Executive Leadership Academy. Cohorts will be hosted in Northwest Arkansas…
by - November 18, 2025 6:21 pm
A $204,313 contract with Fort Smith-based Mickle Griffin was approved Monday (Nov. 17) by the Fort Smith Public School (FSPS) Board to provide engineering analysis, bid preparation, and other work…
by - November 18, 2025 3:52 pm
Lawn care, meal delivery subscriptions, cell phone plans—every day, we enter into dozens of contracts. While some are more formal than others, the most successful agreements share two key ingredients:…
by - November 18, 2025 3:43 pm
Regional professionals will offer their insights at an event presented in partnership by the College of Engineering and Computer Science and the Delta Center for Economic Development at Arkansas State…
by - November 15, 2025 10:25 am
Following are news brief items from the Fort Smith metro. Toy Toss The return of the UAFS Toy Toss will be 6 p.m., Nov. 18 at the University of Arkansas…
by - November 15, 2025 10:13 am
Philander Smith University has received a $19 million unrestricted gift from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott, the largest single contribution in the Little Rock university’s 147-year history. “This gift is a resounding…
by - November 14, 2025 9:10 pm
More than 200 people, including University of Arkansas, state and federal leaders, celebrated on a mild Friday (Nov. 14) the opening of a $95 million semiconductor fabrication facility that’s the…
by - November 13, 2025 12:46 pm
Ann Chou, professor for the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health, is leading a $2.2 million community-based study that addresses access to…
by - November 12, 2025 5:22 pm
Bentonville Schools announced Wednesday (Nov. 12) that Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kan., will give 10 Ignite Professional Studies students a full academic scholarship as part of a partnership with…
by - November 12, 2025 12:18 pm
The Alice L. Walton Foundation announced Wednesday (Nov. 12) that New York-based CannonDesign and Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based EDSA will design the Bentonville Health Care Campus that’s planned to be built…
by - November 11, 2025 1:12 pm
You can’t organically grow pillars of support for farm-to-school programs, but Leslee Tell believes such pillars are as important as seeds for meaningful and sustained success in efforts to educate…
by - November 11, 2025 12:33 pm
The Fort Smith Public School District (FSPS) has filled the vacancy in the communications department hiring Kimberly Mundell as executive director of communications and engagement. Mundell, who started with the…
by - November 11, 2025 10:51 am
John Brown University in Siloam Springs recently announced that President Chip Pollard and his wife, Carey Pollard, received the Mark Simmons Service Above Self Award. Also, Joe Walenciak, distinguished professor…
by - November 10, 2025 7:27 pm
About 600 business, education, and government leaders recently gathered for the Catalyst: NEA Economic Development & Leadership Forum at the Embassy Suites Red Wolf Convention Center in Jonesboro. The daylong…
by - November 10, 2025 7:21 pm
Organizers of the 31st annual Delta Symposium at Arkansas State University have issued a call for papers and presentations. The Department of English, Philosophy and World Languages, the primary sponsor,…
by - November 10, 2025 4:36 pm
Thaden School, a private, independent school in Bentonville, recently announced that it received one of the highest honors in global architecture: the Andrea Palladio International Prize, presented in Vicenza, Italy….
by - November 10, 2025 12:07 pm
A new 75,000-square-foot charter school opened Aug. 12 with 545 students. Little Rock-based charter school organization LISA Academy recently hosted an opening ceremony for the new middle and high school…
by - November 8, 2025 9:59 am
Following are news brief items from the Fort Smith metro. Hall of Fame The Fort Smith Boys & Girls Clubs recently inducted eight people into its Hall of Fame. The…
by - November 5, 2025 3:29 pm
A three-story, 81-unit student housing community near the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville has a new owner after a recent transaction worth $21.85 million. The purchase price equals $269,814 per…
by - November 5, 2025 12:16 pm
Conway-based health care provider Pediatrics Plus recently opened a temporary location in Cave Springs while construction of its Elm Springs Farm campus is completed. The Cave Springs location is inside…
