The number of students and staff at a Marion school district who have quarantined because of COVID-19 grew to more than 700 as lawmakers debated whether to allow schools to mandate masks.
Summer DeProw has been named provost of the University of Arkansas-Pulaski Technical College in North Little Rock, effective Sept. 7.
The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff will offer two new master's programs this fall, after receiving approval for them from the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
Arkansas' ban on mask mandates faced new legal challenges and defiance from the mayor of the state capital as Republican lawmakers rejected efforts to roll back the prohibition. read more >
Legislators meeting in a special session file two bills dealing with Act 1002, which prohibits state and local governments from imposing mask mandates. read more >
Author and organizational health guru Patrick Lencioni will lead the eighth webcast in a series presented by Arkansas Business throughout 2021. read more >
Gov. Asa Hutchinson calls members of the 93rd General Assembly into a special session to begin at 10 a.m. Wednesday, aiming to give public school boards the power to decide whether to require masks read more >
Hospitals in Arkansas and around the country are desperately seeking nurses to care for a surging number of COVID-19 patients, and providers fear the demand will rise during the upcoming flu season. read more >
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Frank Braun has been appointed the new dean of the College of Business, Health & Human Services at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. read more >
Gov. Asa Hutchinson calls a special legislative session to consider amending a law prohibiting mask mandates by state and local governments. read more >
The University of Arkansas Board of Trustees approves a plan to keep a statue of the late Sen. J. William Fulbright on its flagship campus, despite calls to remove it. read more >
University of Arkansas System President Donald Bobbitt proposes keeping a statue of the late Sen. J. William Fulbright on its flagship campus but add "contextualization" about his legacy read more >
Walmart Inc. says it will pay full tuition and buy books for employees taking part in its Live Better U education program, removing the dollar-a-day fee for participants effective Aug. 16. read more >
Gov. Asa Hutchinson says he plans to meet with House and Senate leaders about growing calls to allow schools to require face masks as the state reported 23 more deaths from COVID-19. read more >
UAMS hires John Erck as vice chancellor of institutional advancement. read more >
More than a year after Murphy Oil Corp. severed most of its old and deep roots in El Dorado, the region still leans hard on one of its branches. read more >
The best thing about being a journalist is being paid to learn stuff, and the best thing about working on Arkansas Business has been learning about so many different industries, each with its own nuances. read more >
Dr. Timothy Langford has been appointed chair of the Department of Urology at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, effective Oct. 3. read more >
A group of Democratic lawmakers in Arkansas, which has the nation's highest COVID-19 rate, urged the governor and Republicans who control the Legislature to lift the state's ban on schools and government entities requiring people to wear masks. read more >
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has given a $1 million grant for a rice cultivation research program headed by a biological engineering professor at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. read more >
A million-dollar donation on behalf of the deep-rooted Wilson family of Arkansas will create an endowed professorship and lay the foundation of a new institute at Lyon College in Batesville. read more >
The Sunderland Foundation of Overland Park, Kansas, has awarded a $500,000 grant to Hendrix College for its Residence Hall Renewal Project. read more >
Megan Crozier, chief merchant for Sam's Club, and University of Arkansas Vice Chancellor for Athletics Hunter Yurachek are among the featured speakers for the fall Arkansas Business Executive Leadership Academy in Bentonville. read more >
Seven collegians or recent graduates worked for ad agency CJRW this summer, gaining expertise in all specialties at the firm and working on real client projects. read more >
Dr. Clark Trapp has joined Conway Regional Health System as a faculty member with the Family Medicine Residency Program. read more >
Toby Teeter was hired on July 6 as the inaugural director of the Collaborative, a new University of Arkansas education and research entity in Bentonville. read more >
The Blue & You Foundation for a Healthier Arkansas is giving $5.29 million in grants for behavioral health programs in Arkansas. read more >
Arkansas' unemployment rate remained unchanged for the third month in a row, at 4.4% from May to June. read more >
The Walton Family Foundation and the Excellerate Foundation commit $3 million to start a nonprofit to retrain workers for jobs in high-demand industries, starting with health care. read more >
The Arkansas Scholarship Lottery announced Tuesday that it raised a record $106.6 million in proceeds for Fiscal Year 2021, which ended June 30. read more >
The Hampton School District (Calhoun County) has a new solar power project thanks to Today's Power Inc. of North Little Rock and a closer neighbor, Ouachita Electric Cooperative of Camden. read more >
North Arkansas College in Harrison names Rick Massengale as its sixth president, effective Aug. 2 read more >
