Knives Out for Lawyers As Bielema Feud Festers
by Mark Friedman – 2 days ago
The feud between former University of Arkansas Head Football Coach Bret Bielema and the Razorback Foundation is getting worse.
The feud between former University of Arkansas Head Football Coach Bret Bielema and the Razorback Foundation is getting worse.
A “COVID Generation” — portending reduced achievement and growing inequities — will define the period between now and the mid-2030s. Policy leaders must confront this generational reality in guiding strategic education policy.
Scott Varady, executive director of the Razorback Foundation, says foundation members and fans exude optimism these days.
The Windgate Foundation has gifted $10 million to Eureka Springs School of the Arts, for a new endowment held by the Arkansas Community Foundation that will provide ongoing operating support to the school. read more >
Westrock Group CEO and co-founder Scott Ford and Southern Bancorp CEO Darrin Williams are among the featured executives scheduled to speak during the spring 2021 Arkansas Business Executive Leadership Academy. read more >
The Arkansas State University Foundation has received a $10,000 donation from the Arvest Foundation. read more >
Tom and Jill King of Fayetteville have given $1.95 million to the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design and the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas. read more >
Theresa Cullen has been hired as head of the Department of Curriculum & Instruction at Arkansas Tech University in Russellville. read more >
University of Arkansas researchers have received a three-year, $417,000 NASA grant to study the interaction between the atmosphere and surface of Venus. read more >
Arkansas Business on Monday announced 32 businesses, nonprofits and executives from around the state as finalists for its 33rd Annual Business of the Year Awards. read more >
Arkansas' richest family has had a good year financially. The heirs of Sam Walton own publicly traded stock valued collectively at more than $205 billion. read more >
It's an extraordinarily rare day that a deer hunt is mounted on a college campus in the middle of the state's biggest city. But Little Rock's Cammack Campus of the University of Arkansas isn't a normal collegiate setting, and the men downing the deer weren't permit-toting hunters. read more >
Let another pesky woman editor encourage you to embrace the spirit of Thanksgiving this year as never before, even as we must limit the traditional togetherness — a small sacrifice by historic standards. read more >
Robert McKinney has joined Nabholz Corp. in Conway as a project manager. read more >
Andrew Levenson has been promoted to director of growth at MHP/Team SI in Little Rock. read more >
Twenty three Arkansas nonprofits recently won $500,000 in grants from the Delta Dental of Arkansas Foundation, through its annual Community Grants Program. read more >
The Delta Population Health Institute has named Tiffny Calloway its director of operations. read more >
Hendrix College of Conway announces a $15 million gift from the Windgate Foundation. read more >
Arkansas' seasonally adjusted unemployment rate declines to 6.2% in October from 7.2% in September, the state Department of Workforce Services reports. read more >
Warren Stephens, CEO of Stephens Inc. in Little Rock, announced Wednesday the 2021 debut of an annual collegiate golf tournament named for his late father, a former chairman of Augusta National. read more >
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences receives $2.83 million from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to improve health care access in rural Arkansas by expanding efforts to train and retain primary care physicians. read more >
Arkansas Business and the Best Companies Group last week honored 47 Arkansas companies with "Best Places to Work" awards, which honor firms that have exceptional workplace environments. read more >
Carolyn and Doyle “Rog” Rogers Jr. give $100,000 to launch the new CommUNITY Fund, which aims to enhance Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives at the University of Arkansas-Pulaski Technical College. read more >
Leslye Shellam, daughter of L. Dickson Flake, has made a $100,000 donation to the University of Arkansas at Little Rock to honor her father's legacy in real estate. read more >
A double dose of dollar store deals in Pulaski and Saline counties and acreage acquisitions in north Pulaski County form this week's quartet of million-dollar transactions. read more >
J.B. Hunt CEO John Roberts and Shelley Simpson, chief commercial officer, participated in FreightWaves' virtual fall conference earlier this month and gave some color to how the company's technological pursuit led to its newfound success. read more >
Bridgette Kasinger has joined Black River Technical College in Pocahontas as an allied health nursing instructor. read more >
When completed in December, The J.B. and Johnelle Hunt Family Ozark Highlands Nature Center in Springdale will stand as the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission's flagship to the northwest. read more >
University of the Ozarks has received a $500,000 grant from the Sunderland Foundation of Overland Park, Kansas, for the planned $18.6 million renovation and addition to its science center. read more >
Journalism students are enduring at a time when reporters are vilified by politicians, spat upon and assaulted by partisans, and victimized by violent police officers and demonstrators at protests. read more >
Dr. Monica Rojas has been hired as medical director-international medicine and cultural education for the Arkansas College of Osteopathic Medicine in Fort Smith. read more >
James Murphy has been promoted to vice president of sales at Cisco-Eagle Inc. in Little Rock. read more >
Arkansas State University says it will shift to mostly online instruction as new coronavirus cases are hitting record levels in the state. read more >
