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The Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas will meet Thursday afternoon, September 12, Friday, September 13, and Saturday morning, September 14 in the H.L. Hembree Room (#203) of Willard J. Walker Hall at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. The committee meetings will begin at 1:00 p.m. on Thursday afternoon with the regular session Board meeting beginning Friday at 9:30 a.m. or at the conclusion or adjournment of the committee meetings. Because the Legislative Joint Auditing … [Read more...] about UA Board of Trustees to Meet This Week

The Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas, via telephone conference, on Wednesday, July 24, 2013. The Buildings and Grounds Committee will meet at 9:00 a.m. and a regular session of the Board will follow. Click here to view the agenda of the meetings. The media and other interested persons may observe the proceedings in the Cammack Conference Room of the University of Arkansas System Office, 2404 North University Avenue in Little Rock, or in the Heritage Conference Room of the … [Read more...] about Board of Trustees to Meet By Phone July 24

LITTLE ROCK - Dr. George Sabo III, a professor of anthropology and environmental dynamics at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, will be the next director of the Arkansas Archeological Survey (AAS), a division of the University of Arkansas System. Sabo, who has served as an archeologist with the survey for more than 30 years, will replace Dr. Thomas J. Green, who will retire June 30 after more than 20 years as director of AAS, a statewide research, public service and educational … [Read more...] about Sabo Named Director of Arkansas Archeological Survey

LITTLE ROCK - The Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas will meet Wednesday, May 22, at the UA Division of Agriculture Rice Research Center and Thursday, May 23, at the Phillips Community College of the University of Arkansas Grand Prairie Center in Stuttgart. The Fiscal Affairs Committee will meet via telephone conference at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, May 21, to discuss tuition and fee proposals. Other board committee meetings will begin at 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday and the regular session … [Read more...] about UA Board to meet May 22-23; Fiscal Committee call set for May 21

LITTLE ROCK - The Fiscal Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas will meet on Tuesday, May 14 to review and consider proposed tuition and fee rates at UA System campuses for the 2013-14 school year. Institutions that have proposed tuition and fee increases exceeding 3.5 percent will appear before the committee at the request of Jane Rogers, chairman of the board of trustees. The committee will meet at 1:00 p.m. at the B. Alan Sugg Administration Building at … [Read more...] about UA Board Fiscal Affairs Committee to Meet Tuesday

The Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas will meet on Thursday, April 4 and Friday, April 5 in the Green Room of the John F. Gibson University Center at the University of Arkansas at Monticello. Board committee meetings will begin at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday and the regular session begin at 8:30 a.m. on Friday. Click here to view the meeting agenda. The tentative schedule is as follows: April 4, 2013 (Green Room, Gibson University Center, UAM) 2:00 p.m. Joint Hospital Committee … [Read more...] about UA Board to Meet April 4-5

LITTLE ROCK - Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe today named Charles "Cliff" Gibson III of Monticello to the Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas. Gibson founded his own law firm in Monticello in 1981 and has served as county attorney for Drew County for the past 12 years. He attended the University of Arkansas at Monticello and earned his Juris Doctorate degree at the UALR Bowen School of Law while serving on the editorial board of the UALR Law Journal. A former recipient of the … [Read more...] about Gibson Named to UA Board of Trustees

LITTLE ROCK - Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe on Friday named Reynie Rutledge to the Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas. A Searcy native, Rutledge is chairman and CEO of First Security Bank. He earned his undergraduate and master's degrees from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, and currently serves on both the Sam M. Walton College of Business Executive Advisory Board and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Foundation Board. He will fill the remainder of a 10-year … [Read more...] about Rutledge Named to UA Board of Trustees

LITTLE ROCK - University of Arkansas System President Dr. Donald R. Bobbitt will nominate Dr. Laurence B. Alexander, associate dean of the Graduate School and director of the Office of Minority Programs at the University of Florida, to serve as the next chancellor of the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. Alexander was among the finalists in a nationwide search for a new chancellor conducted by Bobbitt and an advisory search committee of UAPB faculty, staff, alumni and supporters. Bobbitt … [Read more...] about Bobbitt to Nominate Alexander as New UAPB chancellor

Phillips Community College of the University of Arkansas (PCCUA) is among a select group of 25 finalists in the national spotlight for innovation and promising practices among two-year colleges nationwide. PCCUA has campuses in Helena-West Helena, DeWitt and Stuttgart. Sponsored by the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC), the newly established Awards of Excellence will be awarded annually. Winners in each of five categories will be named April 23 in San Francisco during the AACC … [Read more...] about PCCUA Among 25 National Finalists in Awards of Excellence Program