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 >
The National Science Foundation awards a $6.1 million grant to the University of Arkansas to establish a research institute focused on virology and virus ecology. read more >
Brian Walker is named Central Arkansas Professor of the Year by the Central Arkansas American Chemistry Society. Darius Maize and Patrick Walsh of the athletic department also earn high marks. read more >
Lewis Shepherd Jr. has been added to the executive leadership team as special assistant to the president at Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, a position in which he will seek to advance racial diversity. read more >
Arkansas Business tracked 15 years’ worth of official fall enrollment figures for 11 private colleges and universities in Arkansas. All 11 are religiously affiliated, and that part of the mission can be a factor in the enrollment trend. read more >
Dionne B. Jackson has been hired as executive director of AR Kids Read in Little Rock, succeeding Charlie Conklin. read more >
Little Rock attorney Tom Thrash has donated $800,000 to fully fund the installation of artificial turf in the Cliff Harris Stadium at Ouachita Baptist University. read more >
Ouachita Baptist University of Arkadelphia receives an unrestricted $1 million donation from an anonymous donor. read more >
Mangan Holcomb Partners/Team SI and Ghidotti Communications of Little Rock were big winners, along with the Arkansas Community Foundation, at the ARcom public relations awards ceremony Thursday at the Mosaic Templar Cultural Center. read more >
Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia announced Monday that it received a record $17.2 million in private support in 2017-18. read more >
Undergraduate and graduate student teams from the University of Arkansas and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock walked away from the 18th annual Governor's Cup competition with $154,000. read more >
Seven Arkansas universities reported record-breaking enrollment this week, though the University of Arkansas also said its growth had slowed. read more >
Detri Brech, professor of dietetics, has been named to the Charles S. & Elma Grey Goodwin Holt Chair of Dietetics & Pre-Medical Studies at Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia. read more >
Reggie Hill has been hired as assistant vice president for advancement and director of enrollment management at the University of the Ozarks in Clarksville. read more >
Maxey will replace Fred Harrison, who has stepped down from the position that he has held for more than 30 years. read more >
J.D. Gray and Amy Reed have been named director of development and annual fund officer at Central Baptist College in Conway. read more >
Ouachita Baptist University trustees on Thursday unanimously elected Ben R. Sells as the its 16th president. read more >
Ouachita Baptist University of Arkadelphia has named Charles Wright, the university's retired dean of fine arts, to be interim president while it seeks a replacement for Rex Horne, who will leave the university at the end of the month. read more >
Rex Horne has announced his resignation as president of Ouachita Baptist University at Arkadelphia to become president of Arkansas' Independent Colleges & Universities. read more >
The Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board has appointed a University of Arkansas at Little Rock alumnus to be the next director of the Arkansas Department of Higher Education. read more >
