Entegrity Contracts Offer Lyon College $2.5M in Savings
The projects as a step toward the college’s sustainability goals, and part of an ongoing process. read more >
Lyon College Plans to Put Dental, Veterinary Schools on Heifer Campus
The college is partnering with OneHealth Education Group of Little Rock on the project. read more >
Lyon College Plans Dental, Veterinary Schools
Lyon College is developing plans for veterinary and dental medicine schools — which, if successful, would make them the first in-state schools of their kind. read more >
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Melissa Taverner Named President of Lyon College
She joined the college in 2017 as provost and dean of faculty. read more >
Lyon College Plans Nursing Partnership With White River Health
The new program could begin in 2023. read more >
King Resigns From Lyon College
W. Joseph King resigns as president of Lyon College in Batesville after his comments in a July 26 article in the Chronicle of Higher Education. read more >
$1M Wilson Gift Kick-Starts Entrepreneurship Focus at Lyon College
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 >
Lyon Implements Intake, Surveillance Testing to Slow Virus Spread
Testing once. Testing twice. Testing every other week? That’s what Lyon College in Batesville is doing this semester as it makes a return to in-person classes and students living on campus. read more >
Stone Ward, Lyon Partner to Parse Data
In the partnership, announced this month, Stone Ward will give students in the Batesville liberal arts college’s new data science program access to real-life raw data anonymized by the firm’s data analytics team. read more >
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Colleges Ready to Stagger In-Person Participation with Web Time
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 >
Surgeon Logan Lynch Starts at St. Bernards (NEA Movers & Shakers)
Lynch completed an internship and residency at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, where he spent the last year as administrative chief resident of general surgery. read more >