https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPKUinj4ImU LITTLE ROCK (March 31, 2021) – The University of Arkansas System was awarded a three-year $900,000 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) to boost the state’s workforce recovery from the economic impact of COVID-19. Nine UA System institutions will collaborate on the project, led by the Arkansas Economic Development Institute (AEDI) at the University of Arkansas at … [Read more...] about UA System Awarded $900,000 Workforce Training Grant

LITTLE ROCK (March 12, 2021) – The Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas will hold its regularly scheduled board meetings in person and via videoconference March 17-18 originating at the UA System – Cammack Campus in Little Rock. The meetings, originally scheduled to be hosted at the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture, will begin at 1 p.m. on March 17 and 8:45 a.m. on March 18. *Please note that Wednesday’s meetings will begin with an executive session at 1 p.m., with … [Read more...] about UA Trustees to Meet March 17-18

LITTLE ROCK (Jan. 25, 2021) – The Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas will hold its regularly scheduled board meetings in person and via videoconference Jan. 27-28 originating at the UA System – Cammack Campus in Little Rock. The meetings, originally scheduled to be hosted at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR), will begin at 12:30 p.m. on Jan. 27 and 8:45 a.m. on Jan. 28. *Please note that Wednesday’s meetings will begin with an executive session at 12:30 p.m., … [Read more...] about UA Trustees to Meet Jan. 27-28

Harold J. Evans, associate vice president legal and research, in the Office of the General Counsel at the University of Arkansas System, has been honored with the Harvard University Miller-Hunn Schools & Scholarship Award for his many years of helping to recruit and interview applicants to his alma mater. Evans, a 1974 graduate of Harvard University, has met and interviewed more than 200 students vying for acceptance at the institution during his time as chair of the Schools and … [Read more...] about UA System Lawyer Honored by Harvard University for Alumni Admissions Work

LITTLE ROCK (December 17, 2020) — The Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas at its specially called meeting Dec. 15 unanimously passed a resolution in praise of more than 17,000 employees of the state's largest university system and the many challenges institutions have overcome during the global Covid-19 pandemic. At a previous meeting in November, Trustee Sheffield Nelson called attention to the many special efforts, challenges and sacrifices the pandemic has placed on the … [Read more...] about UA Trustees Praise Resiliency of System’s 17,000-Plus Employees Amid Pandemic