Arkansas Division of Higher Education

The new Arkansas ACCESS law overhauls higher education to simplify admissions, boost workforce readiness, expand scholarships, and tie funding to job outcomes. read more >

Last year, the Division of Higher Education and the Education Department’s Research & Technology team relocated to the Main Street Mall from leased quarters at 423 Main St. read more >

Warden is the associate vice chancellor for compliance and legislative affairs at the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith. read more >

The contract will be funded through a regional workforce grant from the Arkansas Division of Higher Education. read more >

While Arkansas' colleges saw a slight increase in enrollment this fall, they are preparing for a period of decline as a result of a fall in birth rates after the 2008 financial crisis. read more >

The university's advanced manufacturing program received $700,000, while its transportation programs received the rest. read more >

The Arkansas Division of Higher Education is moving, but not very far. read more >

The task, Chancellor Charles Ambrose said, is to redesign Henderson so that it “actually works for our most average students.” read more >

A recent college attendance dip in Arkansas doesn’t reflect the “enrollment cliff” that higher education leaders have harped about for years. It’s been more of a slow roll down to the edge. read more >

Arkansas colleges are planning for a return to the in-person classes that students want this fall, but they’re hedging their bets by preparing for another quick switch to online-only learning if the pandemic rages again. read more >

With Arkansas’ public colleges in historic financial distress, University of Arkansas at Little Rock Chancellor Christina Drale prescribed a bitter remedy this month — cuts deep enough to cost tenured professors their jobs — and state education leaders fear other state universities may have to take a dose. read more >

Maria Markham is Arkansas’ director of higher education. And higher ed has doggedly remained her focus through weeks of sheltering at home with “two 12-year-olds, two 8-year-olds and a 5-year-old.” read more >

With record enrollment, Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia aims for $22 million in its "Love & Loyalty" capital campaign. read more >

The financial impact of the new outcomes-based state funding formula on individual Arkansas universities and colleges has been a mixed bag, but the program is having the desired effect, and overall funding has increased. read more >