Maria Markham, the director of the Arkansas Department of Higher Education, said the metrics for the state’s new funding formula for colleges and universities should be finalized later this month. read more >

The Arkansas Department of Higher Education director search committee will recommend Maria Markham as the new director of the ADHE, the department announced Wednesday. read more >

As a nation and a state, we are at a critical point in education. We have known for some time that we are preparing too few individuals for future jobs. Closing the Gap 2020 is a plan to address that skills gap issue. read more >

Henderson State University will welcome current director of the Arkansas Department of Higher Education Brett Powell as its vice president for finance and administration beginning Aug. 1. read more >

An education resource to help navigate the leadership of the largest Arkansas companies or institutions. read more >

Placed on the statewide ballot by petition and adopted on Nov. 3, 1942, Amendment 33 insulated institutes of higher education and “all charitable, penal or correctional institutions” from the whims and provincialism of politicians. read more >

Job creation is a key to future economic development and those new jobs will only occur if there is an educated and qualified workforce waiting for them. read more >

Having recently cleared its last property acquisition hurdle for phase one of the $100 million project, the Little Rock Technology Park Authority board now has full architect renderings in hand. read more >

Arkansas Business surveyed more than a dozen public colleges and universities across the state and found adjunct salaries paid generally between $2,000 and $2,500 at four-year schools. read more >

College enrollment in Arkansas topped out in the 2011-12 academic year, the second year of lottery scholarships when the state’s unemployment rate was near its post-recession peak. read more >

While the state's public institutions of higher learning experienced a 1.5 percent drop in enrollment, Arkansas' 12 independent, or private, institutions saw a little more than a 2 percent increase in enrollment. read more >

The number of students enrolled in higher education is down 1 percent from a year ago, according to enrollment numbers on the 11th day of classes. read more >

The Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board certified the New York Institute of Technology for an osteopathic medical school site on the Arkansas State University campus in Jonesboro. read more >

Shortly after our firstborn arrived in the fall of 1990 — a year before I took a job as a business reporter even though I knew nothing about business — I read an article that sent an electric shock through my newly maternal brain. It said, simply and indisputably, that every dollar I saved for my child’s college education would earn money and every dollar I had to borrow for college would cost money. read more >

Enrollment dropped last fall at almost all of Arkansas’ 22 two-year colleges and half of the four-year universities, a trend attributed mainly to improvements in the overall economy. read more >

Pulaski Technical College in North Little Rock and Northwest Arkansas Community College in Bentonville are expecting another drop in enrollment figures. Official head counts are not reported until Jan. 28, the 11th day of spring semester classes, but the numbers are down at both schools. read more >

Twenty people have applied to be the next director of the Arkansas Department of Higher Education. Here's a list of them. read more >

While the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery seeks to compensate for slumping sales, the state’s colleges and universities are struggling to help incoming freshmen compensate for a decrease of $2,500 in their lottery-funded scholarships. read more >

Revenue generated by the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery has dropped, but lottery director Bishop Woosley says new games and promotions are ready to take up the slack read more >