Arkansas State University System President Chuck Welch on Thursday named Doug Whitlock, president emeritus of Eastern Kentucky University, as interim chancellor of Arkansas State University effective Sept. 12. read more >
The Arkansas State University System board of trustees voted Wednesday to raise its tuition and fees by 1.9 percent at its flagship Jonesboro campus for the 2016-17 school year. read more >
Johnson Controls and Arkansas State University have signed a $15 million energy performance contract that will advance the university’s sustainability initiatives. read more >
Arkansas State University System President Charles L. Welch said Thursday that the system is starting its search for a chancellor to succeed retiring ASU-Beebe Chancellor Eugene McKay. read more >
Mid-South Community College and the Arkansas State University System said Tuesday that it is starting a search for a chancellor to succeed MSCC President Glen Fenter. read more >
Julie Bates has been promoted to executive vice president for the Arkansas State University System. The move is effective Jan. 1. read more >
Arkansas Business reviewed the Administrator’s Compensation Survey reports filed with the state Department of Higher Education for the 2010 and 2014 fiscal years. In the four-year period, the number of six-figure employees included in the report increased from 460 to 703. read more >
Officials with the proposed New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine on the Arkansas State University campus in Jonesboro have set a graduate medical education summit for October. The GME Summit, scheduled Oct. 16, will bring together state and national healthcare leaders, hospital executives and practicing physicians. read more >
Arkansas Children's Hospital is hosting a two-day summit in June to raise awareness of the state of children's health in Arkansas. The summit is set for June 5-6 at the Embassy Suites in Little Rock. read more >
Details of Blake Anderson's football coaching agreement with Arkansas State University. read more >
Arkansas State University is exploring public-private partnerships to establish an osteopathic medical school in Jonesboro. City leaders said such a school would be a new economic engine for the Delta, attracting medical professionals and increasing the availability of primary care. read more >
The Chronicle of Higher Education takes a look at Chuck Welch, president of the Arkansas State University System. read more >
Knowing where Gus Malzahn was a year ago, ASU Athletic Director Dean Lee was still a little stunned that ASU had just landed him as its 28th head coach. Lee’s reaction post-Malzahn press conference was no different than most of the college football following public. Everybody was trying to make sense of how Malzahn wound up at Arkansas State, a school that won the Sun Belt title outright for the first time since joining the league. Could Lee have imagined hiring Malzahn was possible a year ago or, heck, even a week ago? read more >
