UA graduation falls to 60.1%; still said positive
The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville’s latest six year graduation rate is 60.1 percent, slightly down from last fall’s record 60.4 percent rate but still…
Stories by Tracie Dungan
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Colonel: Drones upgrade air unit
FORT SMITH — The new mission for the Arkansas Air National Guard’s 188th Fighter Wing will position it for a role in the U.S. military’s post-Middle East-era p…
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UA offers 2 policies to aid families after births, life crises
Jack Lyons recalls how fortunate he and his wife felt throughout a complicated pregnancy when their bosses at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville proved…
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UA chooses a new dean of students
The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville named a new dean of students, in a move that separates the position from its vice provost for student affairs post, …
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UA group bestows $1 million in ’ 13-14
The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville’s alumni organization has for the first time awarded $1 million in scholarships in a single academic year, officials…
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UA offers fast track to degree
As a registered nurse who works 12-hour shifts for three straight days, Ashley Creek didn’t always feel like hitting the books to earn a bachelor’s degree in n…
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Walton’s bad leg affected sobriety test, doctors say
The closed case file of billionaire Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton’s DWI arrest two years ago in her home state of Texas includes letters from two doctors conte…
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UA says women, foreign pupils up
Fall enrollment at the University of Arkansas includes a smaller freshman class than last fall and fewer Arkansans overall, but the Fayetteville campus made ga…
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UA OKs changing insurance
The University of Arkansas System is changing the health plan it offers its retired, Medicare-eligible faculty and staff Jan. 1, saying it is trying to avert w…
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UA gets U.S. grant to create river-transport-research unit
The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville will get $1.4 million from the federal government to establish a research center focused on improving river transpor…
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1,100 lace up shoes to fight Alzheimer’s
SPRINGDALE — Titia Grimsley was among the daughters and granddaughters who honored the memory of Jerry Stark during Saturday’s Walk to End Alzheimer’s at Arves…
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UA: New job to aid response to audit
The duties of the new in-house financial planner hired at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville will go hand in hand with what the campus plans to do in r…
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Six UA projects gain approval of trustees
FAYETTEVILLE — The University of Arkansas System’s board of trustees gave its Fayetteville campus the go-ahead Friday on construction-related decisions involvi…
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Fraud line a privacy threat, suspend it, UA auditor says
The chief auditor for the University of Arkansas System asked the system’s trustees Thursday to consider temporarily suspending the system’s 24-hour Fraud Hotl…
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UA-unit auditors: Review 3 items
Legislative auditors have referred three items they found while investigating University of Arkansas at Fayetteville finances to the Washington County prosecut…
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UA trustees say they need time to digest audit
A legislative audit concerning deficit spending at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville raises serious concerns, UA trustees and other leaders said Tuesd…
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Divisions help fund UA unit’s budget
The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville’s chief fundraising arm was able to get a half-million dollars’ worth of help with its $13.3 million budget for the …
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UA sees need for financial planner
The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville has created a new position for an in-house financial planner to help it proactively prevent the kind of budget crisi…
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UA chief denies no-talk directive
The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville’s fired chief spokesman, John Diamond, recalls a day last winter when Chancellor G. David Gearhart summoned him to a…
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Rues remarks, learned lesson, Wyrick says
University of Arkansas chief fundraiser Chris Wyrick expressed regrets this week about remarks he made that a fired university spokesman found offensive, and b…
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UA chancellor disputes fired official’s assertions
The chancellor of the University of Arkansas disputes the assertion by his former chief spokesman that the Fayetteville campus fired him because of disagreemen…
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UA-Fayetteville raises $111 million in fiscal ’13
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville records regarding its fundraising receipts show it raised an average $97.9 million in assets annually during the past fi…
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UA spokesman fired; boss cites irreparable rift
The chief spokesman for the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville will lose his job next month, apparently over differences with other administrators regardin…
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15 dorms move-in ready at UA
With the move-in for students well underway and the opening of two new dormitories for the fall semester, officials at the University of Arkansas at Fayettevil…
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State football teams help researchers beat the heat
BENTONVILLE — Robert Huggins has spent this week suiting up high school football players in Northwest Arkansas with a body-cooling device and GPS monitors as p…
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UA officials: Lottery cash has boosted freshmen
The first three years of lottery-funded scholarships have helped the growth-driven University of Arkansas expand its undergraduate enrollment, particularly fre…
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Franklin County shuts down bridge
Officials in Franklin County shut down their side of the Silver Bridge on Saturday evening because of floodwaters, dispatchers said.
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UA picks 2 finalists for hotel at school
The University of Arkansas has chosen two development groups to submit proposals for building an on-campus executive hotel and conference center, an administra…
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Springdale hospital gets trauma-center ranking
On its second try, Northwest Medical Center in Springdale passed a site evaluation by state health officials and will join Arkansas’ trauma system as a Level I…
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UA sets ’14 spending for troubled unit at $13.3 million budgeted in ’13
Administrators at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville said Thursday they’ve balanced the fiscal 2013 budget for the deficit-troubled Advancement Divisio…
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UA fundraising pulls in $108.4 million
The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville topped $100 million in fundraising support for the third straight fiscal year, it announced Wednesday, producing $10…
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UA division budget still not finalized
More than three weeks into the new fiscal year, administrators at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville contend they are unable to produce official budget…
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Missouri doctor charged in perjury case
A Missouri doctor accused of lying about his qualifications as a surgeon while giving expert testimony in an Arkansas court case is facing a felony perjury cha…
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Ex-fundraiser, UA both waive any right to sue
Two days after the university announced his successor in February, the former chief fundraiser for the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville agreed not to sue…
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New chief upends troubled UA unit
The new chief of the University of Arkansas’ Advancement Division described a staff restructuring for the new fiscal year as something he would have done even …
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UA-Fort Smith seeks to offer master’s
The University of Arkansas at Fort Smith plans to seek permission from the state to begin offering its first-ever master’s degree.
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Officials: Loan rates a temporary setback
Officials who work with college students in Arkansas who depend on subsidized Stafford loans said they hope the doubling of the loans’ interest rate last Monda…
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Gift to aid UAFS nursing staff
A $1 million gift pledge will help the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith tackle a nursing shortage by increasing its nursing professors, officials have anno…
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UA seen as unaffected by affirmative-action ruling
Last week’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling regarding affirmative action in university admissions won’t have an immediate effect at the University of Arkansas at Fay…
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Official: UA deficit audit set for late-summer release
Legislative auditors have completed much of the field work on a review of deficit finances at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville’s Division of Advancem…
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UA: $5.2 million saved in 2 years being ‘green’
At the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, it’s taken time for some to get used to the automatic light switches and thermostats that began popping up there…
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UA puts parking in hands of group
The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville will outsource the management of game-day parking in the coming year, but those who attend sporting events on campus…
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UA sends delegation to Panama
A delegation from the University of Arkansas is in Panama this week to strengthen existing academic and cultural exchanges and recruit students.
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College’s dean exit said tied to raises
The disagreement between some faculty members and the Fulbright College dean at the University of Arkansas that prompted the dean’s resignation this week cente…
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Fulbright dean at UA to resign
The dean of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville’s arts and sciences college tendered her resignation notice Monday, citing a stalemate with leaders of t…
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Board names new director for children’s nature center
A children’s nature center that canceled its summer camps this year because of financial problems will welcome a new leader before its regular program year beg…
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UAMS adds 1,111 patients to clinical trial database over 4 years
Arkansas’ medical school has been able to play matchmaker to more than 1,100 patients for potential clinical trials in the four years since it received a multi…
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New leader aims to dig into history, grow classes
The next director of the Arkansas Archeological Survey envisions expanding its offerings for amateur archaeologists and public schools, as well as its online c…
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Houston school chief: Outsiders’ voices key
At their first meeting, members of Arkansas Learns heard about expanding advanced placement courses, learning from charter schools and incorporating local busi…
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5 new freshmen at UA to receive boosted Bodenhamer Fellowship
The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville has announced its selection of five incoming freshmen for its Bodenhamer Fellowship, a program that has received a b…
