Houston Davis

Arkansas colleges like Arkansas Tech, UA Little Rock, UCA, and A-State are helping students graduate debt-free through scholarship stacking and affordability programs. read more >

UCA also received accreditation for its engineering physics program.  read more >

The majority of the gift will be used to endow faculty positions allowing at least four named professorships. read more >

The University of Central Arkansas partners with the city of Conway and the Conway Regional Airport to start a new aviation academy beginning in March. read more >

Some of Arkansas’ biggest universities are offering scholarships to make tuition essentially free for some students. read more >

The campaign, which began silently in 2017 and went public in 2021, was bookended by major gifts from the Windgate Foundation. read more >

The University of Central Arkansas has launched the public phase of the largest fundraising effort in its history. read more >

The Windgate Foundation is transforming arts education in Arkansas one building at a time. read more >

The University of Central Arkansas in Conway announces a new $3 million donation from the Alice L. Walton Foundation as it breaks ground on its Windgate Center for Fine and Performing Arts. read more >

The University of Central Arkansas added $1.01 billion in income to the Arkansas economy and supported 19,506 jobs in Fiscal Year 2018-19, according to a recent study. 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 >

Arkansas universities scramble to move their academic courses online so students can finish the current semester. read more >

Kale Gober, the University of Central Arkansas' vice president for university advancement, has accepted the top advancement job at Grand Canyon University in Phoenix. 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 >

A majority of Arkansas college administrators saw a bump in their total compensation package between fiscal 2017 and fiscal 2019. But for most of them it wasn’t much. read more >

The University of Central Arkansas breaks ground on its $37.7 million Integrated Health Sciences Building at Western Avenue and Bruce Street on its campus in Conway. read more >

Arkansas needs nurses, but as a severe shortage persists nationwide, there’s no simple call button to push. read more >

Houston Davis, the president of UCA, says the school takes an interdisciplinary approach to prepare students for a competitive world. read more >

The new cyber range at the University of Central Arkansas will complement the school’s new bachelor’s degree program and deliver to a fast-growing job field the talent it desperately needs to combat cybercrime. read more >

The University of Central Arkansas announced Tuesday a $20 million gift from the Windgate Foundation — the largest such gift in the school’s 111 years — to support the planned Windgate Center for Fine and Performing Arts. read more >