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 - 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