The University of Central Arkansas, clarifying existing policy, announced on Tuesday a campuswide ban on indoor hoverboard use — a move more far-reaching than another in-state university's policy that was implemented earlier this month.
Effective immediately, the university in Conway said "hoverboards, including electronic skateboards, self-balancing boards and other similar equipment" can not be stored or used inside any campus building.
The university said the restriction already falls into a policy implemented by the UCA Board of Trustees that prohibits "roller skates, rollerblades, skateboards and other coasting devices" from campus buildings.
Additionally, officials have prohibited users of the wheeled devices that accelerate and turn based on shifts in body movement from charging their devices anywhere on campus.
The policy does allow hoverboards on sidewalks or surfaces intended for pedestrians on campus, the university said.
UCA's addition of hoverboards to its existing policy came less than month after University of Arkansas at Fayetteville officials, citing similar fire hazard concerns, prohibited hoverboards from campus housing, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette previously reported.