
Sharkey Makes Move at UCA (Movers & Shakers)
Fredricka Sharkey has been promoted to director of media relations of the University of Central Arkansas in Conway. read more >
Fredricka Sharkey has been promoted to director of media relations of the University of Central Arkansas in Conway. read more >
A dozen of the biggest higher education construction projects now active in Arkansas total more than $381 million. 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 >
Eliza Borné, the Little Rock native who became editor of Oxford American magazine at 28 and led it to renewed recognition, is leaving the quarterly this month to become director of development for the Central Arkansas Library System. read more >
Some in the hospitality industry question the timing of raising the federal minimum to $15, fearing added burdens could halt recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. read more >
Mitzi Warren has been hired by wholesale distributor Douglas Cos. of Conway to serve as director of food services. read more >
While Arkansas architects and engineers say they expect continued growth in 2021, others across the country don’t share that outlook. read more >
Harold J. Evans, associate vice president of legal and research in the Office of the General Counsel of the University of Arkansas System, has been honored with the Harvard University Miller-Hunn Schools & Scholarship Award. read more >
Erin Simpson has been promoted to executive vice president and chief operations and risk officer at Encore Bank. read more >
Yingkai Fang has been appointed as an assistant professor of fisheries and natural resource economics at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. read more >
The Arkansas Coding Academy, a program of the Division of Outreach and Community Engagement at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway, has named Alison Wish its director. read more >
The first step in addressing these risks that might happen is to consider that these risks can happen and have happened. Consideration should be given to these uncertain, remotely possible, future risks. Nothing should be off the table. read more >
Journalism students are enduring at a time when reporters are vilified by politicians, spat upon and assaulted by partisans, and victimized by violent police officers and demonstrators at protests. read more >
James Murphy has been promoted to vice president of sales at Cisco-Eagle Inc. in Little Rock. read more >
Online gaming, or esports, debuted as an extracurricular activity at some Arkansas high schools three years ago, bringing scholarship opportunities with it. And now industry experts say employers should pay attention to the tech-savvy talent evident in this new sport. read more >
Keith Carlson has been hired as the branch manager and vice president of mortgage lending for Guaranteed Rate’s new Little Rock office in the Markham Executive Center. read more >
Republican Rep. French Hill and Democratic challenger Joyce Elliott clashed over President Donald's Trump's tax cuts and the federal health overhaul Monday as the two met up for their only debate in a tight Arkansas congressional race. 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 >
Arkansas colleges could start turning to public-private partnerships to help pay the costs of upgrading their utility infrastructures. read more >