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…
by - November 26, 2012 11:06 am
Alexia Weimer, a kindergarten teacher at Avondale Elementary School in the Marion School District, has been named Arkansas’s 2013 Teacher of the Year. Weimer has been a teacher for six…
by - November 26, 2012 9:39 am
The University of Arkansas and University of Arkansas System’s Division of Agriculture have reorganized the Fayetteville campus’ technology office, which will now be known as Technology Ventures. Under the restructuring,…
by - November 20, 2012 11:10 pm
The legislative oversight committee for the state lottery learned today that funds could be depleted by 2014 if changes are made to the eligibility or payout of scholarship funds.
by - November 20, 2012 8:43 am
The Arkansas State University System named Jeff Hankins as its vice president for strategic communications and economic development, System President Dr. Charles L. Welch announced. Hankins, a 1987 graduate of…
by - November 19, 2012 8:46 pm
Five Arkansas schools have been classified as “exemplary” for 2012 under the state Department of Education’s new accountability system, while 155 are receiving special attention because of low performance overall…
by - November 19, 2012 8:42 pm
U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor is asking the federal Department of Agriculture to consider allowing school districts more flexibility in complying with new rules for the National School Lunch Program and…
by - November 18, 2012 1:02 pm
Twelve Arkansas schools are emphasizing visual and performing arts in an effort to engage students as part of the growing A+ network. Begun in North Carolina in 1995, the movement…
by - November 14, 2012 11:06 pm
Fewer Arkansans in the state’s eastern half have college degrees than the rest of the country, and they face other challenges related to income and health, according to a report…
by - November 12, 2012 8:19 pm
Evelyn Jorgenson was selected as the next president of NorthWest Arkansas Community College by unanimous vote Monday, (Nov. 12) in executive session. Jorgenson, is President of Moberly Area Community College…
