by - June 17, 2024 9:48 am
Lyon College has been awarded a $175,000 “Cornerstones” grant from the Teagle Foundation to expand the role of humanities in general education. The funding will support the implementation of a…
by - May 7, 2024 4:37 pm
Lyon College officials announced Tuesday (May 7) the locations of their planned dental and veterinary schools with one locating in Little Rock and the other in Cabot. In November 2023,…
by - April 16, 2024 6:33 pm
Lyon College announced Tuesday (April 16) the launch of its Graduate Certificate in Teaching Deaf or Hard of Hearing Students, providing educators with a specialized pathway to obtain the Arkansas…
by - April 7, 2024 10:51 am
Dr. Melissa Taverner, president of Lyon College in Batesville, said the timeline is still intact for a Little Rock campus for a dental and veterinarian school to receive its first…
by - April 2, 2024 10:36 am
Lyon College will receive $15 million in funding from the federal government that will be used to form the school’s new dental and veterinarian schools. The U.S. Senate approved a…
by - February 15, 2024 10:33 am
Lyon College in Batesville has 558 students this spring semester, a 27% increase from the spring 2023 enrollment of 440 students, according to the school. At 92%, first-time, full-time student…
by - February 5, 2024 1:33 pm
Dr. Ashley Mounts of Sherwood has been named associate dean for clinical programs and outreach for the Lyon College School of Veterinary Medicine. The Lyon College School of Veterinary Medicine…
by - November 14, 2023 11:20 am
The sale of the proposed Little Rock-based campus for the about-to-be-formed dental and veterinary schools at Lyon College in Batesville has fallen apart. OneHealth Companies, the school’s partner in the…
by - October 24, 2023 2:14 pm
Batesville-based Lyon College recently launched a new online bachelor’s degree in nursing (BSN) program. The program has two paths for students and the inaugural class is slated for 2024. “Lyon…
by - September 11, 2023 12:34 pm
Lyon College has set an all-time fall enrollment mark with 587 students, according to the school. That’s a 19% uptick from the fall of 2022, and it’s a 65% increase…
by - June 6, 2023 5:48 pm
Just six months after being approved by the Higher Learning Commission to offer graduate and online programs, Lyon College has officially launched its first graduate program in its 150-year history….
by - January 31, 2023 9:21 am
Former Lyon College President Dr. Walter Roettger passed away Sunday (Jan. 29) in Syracuse, New York. Roettger served as president of Lyon College from 1998 to 2009. Under Roettger’s leadership,…
by - January 11, 2023 12:18 pm
Lyon College appointed Wednesday (Jan. 11) Dr. Burke Soffe of Roseman University of Health Sciences College of Dental Medicine (CODM) in South Jordan, Utah, as founding dean of the Lyon…
by - November 22, 2022 3:50 pm
Arkansas is one step closer to having its first dental and veterinarian schools. Lyon received official notification Friday (Nov. 18) from the Higher Learning Commission Institutional Actions Council (IAC) approved…
by - November 10, 2022 10:31 am
The Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference will reinstate the sport of football as an officially sponsored conference sport effective the 2024 playing season. In conjunction with that announcement, the SCAC has…
by - November 7, 2022 9:37 am
Lyon College, in collaboration with OneHealth Education Group, announced its plans in April to develop Arkansas’s first dental and veterinary medicine schools. Recently, Lyon College and the University of Arkansas…
by - October 19, 2022 12:28 pm
Inflation has hit many families hard and at least one private college in Northeast Arkansas has decided to freeze its tuition, housing, and meal plan rates for the 2023-24 school…
by - October 13, 2022 4:35 pm
Lyon College will kick off the celebration of its 150th anniversary with ScotsFest, the 42nd Arkansas Scottish Festival and Lyon College Homecoming, starting Friday (Oct. 14) through Sunday (Oct. 16)…
by - October 11, 2022 5:37 pm
When Dr. Melissa Taverner was young, she wanted to be an astronaut. Science and especially the natural world fascinated her. When she was in junior high, she discovered something that…
by - September 6, 2022 3:36 pm
Batesville-based Lyon College and Entegrity Energy Partners signed two agreements to enter into a partnership that is expected to generate approximately $2.5 million in energy cost savings for the Batesville…
