Evie Blad
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No on-campus guns advised
posted: 05/22/2013 5:21 a.m. Discuss
University of Arkansas System President Donald Bobbitt has recommended that the board of trustees opts out of a new state law that would allow faculty and staff members to carry concealed handguns on its 11 campuses.
UA panel backs denial of schools’ tuition rises
posted: 05/22/2013 12:51 a.m. Discuss
A University of Arkansas board of trustees committee recommended on Tuesday denying the tuition and fee proposals of four of the system’s four-year universities and asking chancellors of those campuses to cap their student-cost increases at lower levels.
Bradley annexation approved
posted: 05/21/2013 4:09 a.m. Discuss
The Bradley School District in Lafayette County will become part of the Emerson-Taylor School District in Columbia County.
UA trustees grill leaders about cost increases
posted: 05/15/2013 12:54 a.m. Discuss
A committee of University of Arkansas trustees asked chancellors of four campuses Tuesday how they could justify student-cost increases that are greater than the annual increase in many Arkansas families’ income.
State retains control of 2 school districts
posted: 05/14/2013 4:35 a.m. Discuss
The Arkansas Board of Education on Monday extended state control over the financially troubled Pulaski County Special and Helena-West Helena school districts for a third year, exercising the terms of a newly amended statute.
Laws spur changes on school transfers
posted: 05/14/2013 3:57 a.m. Discuss
The State Board of Education adopted emergency rules Monday to align two of its school-transfer policies with recent changes in state law.
New doctors diagnose debt in their future
posted: 05/13/2013 2:10 a.m. Discuss
Kyle Fulton graduated from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences on Sunday with a new car, plans to start a pediatric residency program in New Orleans and $155,000 in student-loan debt.
Hospital-pact survey done in early 2012
posted: 05/09/2013 12:03 a.m. Discuss
St. Vincent Health System started assessing public opinion of a possible “merger or partnership” with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences through phone surveys as early as March 2012, documents obtained through the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act show.
State seeks abortion-suit dismissal
posted: 05/08/2013 5:09 a.m. Discuss
The Arkansas attorney general’s office asked a federal judge Tuesday to dismiss a court challenge to the state’s new abortion law, which will ban most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy if a heartbeat is detected.
UALR hires new leader for institute
posted: 05/07/2013 3:48 a.m. Discuss
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock has hired nonprofit administrator Michael R. Twyman as director of its Institute on Race and Ethnicity, Chancellor Joel E. Anderson announced Monday.
