by - August 15, 2019 2:41 pm
Henderson State University officials announced Thursday (Aug. 15) the school’s foundation received $2.27 million in private gifts in the 2018-2019 fiscal year that ended June 30. The last time fundraising…
by - August 15, 2019 11:28 am
The University of Central Arkansas set multiple fundraising records during the last academic year, raising $30,051,844 and it issued $1,478,259 in private scholarships, the school said. These numbers represent a…
by - August 15, 2019 11:19 am
Marshall Shafkowitz has been hired as the new executive director of Brightwater: A Center for the Study of Food. The culinary school in Bentonville is a division of NorthWest Arkansas Community College…
by - August 15, 2019 9:13 am
Batesville economic and political leadership has made a huge push in the past several years to invest more in education from pre-K to post-college. Jamie Rayford, chief operating officer of…
by - August 14, 2019 10:21 pm
Arkansas State University Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Dr. Alan Utter is an avid runner. The newly appointed administrator has only lived in Jonesboro for less than…
by - August 14, 2019 5:45 am
The Arkansas Bar Association and the Clinton School of Public Service are jointly presenting a Public Service Academy for member lawyers, law students, and individuals who are interested in public…
by - August 14, 2019 5:17 am
When Jonesboro Superintendent Kim Wilbanks took over the school district about a decade ago, she wanted to find ways to innovate the way the district educated its students. The district…
by - August 12, 2019 5:08 pm
Arkansas State University’s Enrollment Management division will take the lead in providing services to transfer students as well as management of the Registrar’s Office, Vice Chancellor for Enrollment Management Dr….
by - August 7, 2019 5:07 pm
The University of Central Arkansas and University of Arkansas-Pulaski Technical College signed a memorandum of understanding on Wednesday (Aug. 7) to allow for easier transfers of students between the two…
by - August 6, 2019 1:16 pm
Giving to the University of Arkansas totaled $163.4 million in the 12-month fiscal year that ended June 30, university officials said Tuesday (Aug. 6). That’s a drop of about 44%…
by - August 6, 2019 11:09 am
The Head Start/Early Head Start Program in Pulaski County has received a grant of $41 million from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The grant has been administered…
by - August 6, 2019 11:03 am
Dr. Nitin Agarwal, director of the Collaboratorium for Social Media and Online Behavioral Studies (COSMOS) at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, has been awarded a $2.4 million grant…
by - August 1, 2019 3:28 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson and Arkansas Department of Education Secretary Johnny Key announced Thursday (Aug. 1) the four teachers named 2020 Arkansas Teacher of the Year State semi-finalists. The semi-finalists were…
by - August 1, 2019 12:14 pm
The location for Arkansas State University’s proposed Windgate Center for Three-Dimensional Arts will shift to the east, due to restrictive parking concerns and it better fits within the university’s overall…
by - August 1, 2019 4:31 am
National Park College’s Innovative Technologies Center has hired Christina Streeter as the new Makerspace program coordinator. Streeter joins NPC from the University of Mississippi where she worked as operations manager…
by - July 29, 2019 9:03 pm
The state’s high school graduation rate has risen three straight years and now stands as the nation’s 14th best, while more students have access to workforce training centers, Gov. Asa…
by - July 29, 2019 4:33 pm
Teens living in the 1950s learned to dip, dive and jive to the raucous, rockabilly sound. Now, one can come and learn all about the music from the region’s back…
by - July 28, 2019 5:05 pm
Dr. Joe Thompson, president and CEO of the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement, said a variety of new state laws that went into effect last week are geared towards school…
by - July 28, 2019 4:34 pm
She describes her first few weeks on the job as a “time of discovery.” Part of that discovery, said University of Arkansas at Fort Smith Chancellor Dr. Terisa Riley, includes…
by - July 25, 2019 4:43 pm
The Leadership Fort Smith Program, managed by the Fort Smith Regional Chamber of Commerce, on July 24 named the next 25 people to participate in the program launched in 1988….
