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Jesus and politics

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I’m not claiming Jesus would be a Can it be that our president consorted Democrat if he lived in present-day with convicted felons? America, but would he support the Can it be that each of these (five in all) GOP? Let ’s see. He was a radical represents a link in a chain that connects pea ceni k. Which p art y i s mo re our president to a legitimate charge of supportive of war? Jesus healed the “unindicted co-conspirator?” sick for free. Which party is opposed Can it be that this “chain gang” started to universal health care? His followers with Trump’s presidential campaign and held everything in common. Which will end up in a federal penitentiary? party promotes private property? He I’ve always believed that you can fed people and didn’t ask for payment. judge a person by the company they keep. Which party is less supportive of This appraisal is fair. Convincing. public food assistance? Jesus said, Honest. I’m not perfect, but in my world “Render to Caesar the things that are evil stands alone. Caesar’s; and to God the things that are God’s.” Which party hates taxes? He said, “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” Which party is more supportive of the wealthy? Jesus taught radical f o rg i ve n e s s. W h i c h p a r t y m o s t strongly opposes the death penalty? Jesus told The Parable of the Good Samaritan, a tale that promotes showing love for foreigners. Which party is anti-immigrant? Just some things to consider. R.L. H utson Cabot

Apportionment amendment

This country was built off the revolutionary ideas of the Founding Fa t h e r s. T h e o r i g i n a l C o n g re s s quickly came out and realized the Constitution needed amending. They passed 12 amendments, 10 moving on to be the Bill of Rights, and one ratified in 1992, becoming the 27th Amendment. One was forgotten about, the first proposed amendment, the Congressional Apportionment Amendment, which has been ratified by 11 states. The Congressional Apportionment Amendment, known originally as Article the First, places a cap on the number of constituents a U.S. representative can represent to 50,000 people. This would drastically change politics in this country. Arkansas currently has four representatives; if the CAA were to be ratified, Arkansas would have 60 representatives. This would help better represent Arkansas politically, because we know that not all Arkansans are conservative, and they deserve representation in the U.S. Congress, too. Arkansas could be the first state in over 225 years to ratify this amendment, follow in the Founding Fathers’ footsteps and support democracy. Tucker Iacobacci Hot Springs 4

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Truth Trumps T-Rump! This is our country’s “password” to survival.

Going for the record

Harry Herget Little Rock

This is nothing more than reverse Robin Hood — take from the poor and middle class and give to the rich. You can’t put enough lipstick on this travesty to even call it a pig.

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In response to the Aug. 26 Arkansas Blog post “More data on Asa Hutchinson’s tax cut for the rich”: Just further evidence that the suffering of the uninsured will be extended by giving them membership in the group of overtaxed. The participation of the higher income level will be reduced.

Sound Policy Asa’s Kansas plan for our state! It will 100 percent for sure result in the kind of ruin we’ve witnessed in [Gov. Sam] Brownback’s Kansas. By the time that happens, Asa will be living in luxury behind a gate in some other state. What, Asa worry? You know the poor ought to be the ones fighting tooth and nail for another penny. Instead it’s the mega-rich that are more than willing to ruin a state or a country just to add another million to their gigantic pile of millions? We have a bald, fat, orange-colored president aiming to be America’s first trillionaire even if there’s no country left when he’s done. Like Asa, Trump will be living in luxury behind a gate in Russia when he reaches that goal. I don’t hate rich people, but, by god, they need to rein in their greed! DeathbyInches This illustrates again the basic e c o n o m i c d i f f e re n c e s b e t we e n Democrats and Republicans when it comes to economic policies. 1) The GOP believes the best way for government to assist the capitalist economy is for massive government aid to be put in at the top. Pour the government money into corporations, financial centers and industries and get them on their feet and the benefits, make the rich richer and the benefits will trickle down to the masses with increased hiring, etc. 2) Democrats believe in pouring government funds in at the bottom; programs for the unemployed, government work projects, get money into the hands of the workers, etc., and the benefits will percolate to the top as people get money to purchase manufactured goods, industries will start humming, production increases as demands for products increase. Both have the same pump-priming goal, but it’s trickle-down economics vs. percolating economics. Both sides are capitalists and both sides want to defend, promote and protect capitalism, even if with government funds. Thus we have the Bush administration using billions of government funds to bail out Wall Street in 2008 and the Obama administration doing the same with the American automobile industry in 2009. Both were unabashed in such use of taxpayer’s funds. Cato1

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Quote of the week

“My friends in the legislature are servants. Not one of them, not one of them out there right now is benefiting from being [there].” State Rep. Bob Ballinger (R-Berryville), speaking to the Northwest Arkansas Political Animals club recently. His comments drew laughs from the crowd. The recent count of former leg islators who’ve either been convicted or pled guilty to felonies related to improperly using taxpayer money includes Jon Woods, Micah Neal, Hank Wilkins, Eddie Cooper and Jake Files. That number doesn’t include those, who, like Ballinger, have made money from legislative connections.

LRSD overhaul pitched

Little Rock School Superintendent Michael Poore has presented a draft “blueprint” for the district’s facilities in the coming years. The district plans to hold a series of events to discuss the blueprint throughout September; see dates and locations at lrsd.org. Poore tied the proposed facilities overhaul to a need to improve teacher salaries, especia lly for new hires. LR SD teachers and staff have “not received any kind of salary percent increase for a number of years. They’ve had their health insurance go up, and even had the contributions by the district go down,” he acknowledged. Starting teacher salary in the district is $33,000, he said. “The competitors we have in this region and in this state far exceed that amount.” If the district runs more efficiently, Poore said, it could begin to generate savings by 2020 that could be applied to significant salary increases. (In theory, at least, shuttering schools with slack capacity would free up district resources for other purposes, such as paying personnel.) The new Southwest Little Rock high school, scheduled to open in 2020, will absorb all students from McClella n (about 750) a nd Fa ir (currently 846) and 300 from Hall. Hall houses a specialty program for non-native English speakers, many of whom live in Southwest Little Rock. Under Poore’s outline, the old McClellan building would become a K-8 school replacing Cloverdale, a facility that has had chronic structural problems. Because Cloverdale is a grade 6-8 school, that might lead to closing one or more elementary schools i n t he neig hborhood — Wa kef iled, Watson, Baseline or Meadowcliff — and melding it with the new K-8. The McClellan building 6

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itself is flawed, Poore said, and will eventually need to be demolished, but he noted the district doesn’t have the capital to make that fix any time soon. The J.A. Fair building, too, would become a K-8 under his proposal. It would replace existing Henderson Middle School, perhaps supplemented by add i ng i n Rom i ne or D odd elementary schools. The Fair building is a “much better facility” than the current Henderson campus, Poore said. As for the Henderson building, Poore suggested that the property could be sold, or that it may be eligible to become a disaster recovery center with the help of a federal grant. In addition to losing 300 students, Hall High would become subject to an adjustment to its attendance zone boundaries. “We also, as a recommendation, will be tr ying to promote the idea that Hall can have a greater tie to Forest Heights STEM … and be a career development center,” he said. Forest Heights is the district’s only K-8 campus today. Poore also discussed the topic of underpopulated elementary schools in the eastern part of Little Rock, which has several buildings operating under capacity. One recommendation

is to turn Rockefeller Elementary — which includes a robust early pre-K prog ram, along with K-5 — into a “birth-to-pre-K” center and shift elementary students to Washington Elementary. “But we need additional solutions for that particular area because there [are that many] seats available … and we need to use our resources as effectively as we possibly can,” he said.

Abortion law still blocked

The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has refused the state of Arkansas’s request to activate a law aimed at putting medication abortion clinics out of business. The law requires a contract with a doctor with hospital privileges for a clinic to be able to dispense pills that induce miscarriages in the first 10 weeks of pregnancy. The state’s motion was denied in a single-sentence order without explanation. After the law went into effect in 2015, Planned Parenthood Great Plans challenged it in federal court. U.S. District Judge Kristine Baker found it unconstitutional and issued a preliminary injunction against the law in March 2016. But a three-

judge panel of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals lifted the injunction in July 2017 and sent the case back to Baker. The 8th Circuit said Baker hadn’t provided numbers to show that a “large fraction of women seeking medication abortions” would be unduly burdened by the state law. In July, Baker once again issued a preliminary injunction against the law. The law was intended to put Planned Pa renthood out of the abor tion business. Planned Parenthood only provides medication abortions, which are administered in early pregnancy. The sole remaining abortion provider in the state provides both clinical and medication abortions.

Salt Bowl panic

A fight, falling barricades and the sound of a stun gun caused a panic at the annual Salt Bowl game between Benton and Bryant high schools at War Memorial Stadium on Saturday, according to authorities. Most of the crowd of 38,000 fled the stadium in a hurry during the third quarter after unfounded reports of a shooting. The game was called off after the mass exodus.

Tax cuts for the rich

OPINION

overnor Hutchinson signaled in tax cuts would his preferred approach to state go to the top 13 taxation and services last week percent. A further — keep pinching services to provide a analysis shows it’s MAX BRANTLEY tax cut for the rich. even worse than it maxbrantley@arktimes.com He signaled his endorsement of a already appears. plan to restructure tax rates with the Here’s the overall picture: key element a reduction in the top tax There are 483,000, or 38 percent of rate of incomes over $65,000 from 6.9 taxpayers, making less than $20,000. to 5.9 percent. The new rate tables actu- They’d get virtually nothing in tax cuts ally require tax rate increases at virtu- — about $1.9 million altogether, or about ally every level, particularly the poorest $4 each. workers, but increases in the standard About 614,000, or about half of all deduction would offset the increases, taxpayers, make between $20,000 and supposedly. The bottom line is still a $80,000. They’d reap about a quarter windfall for the wealthy. of the tax cut, altogether about $46 It’s simple: 75 percent of $192 million million, or about $75 each.

Do not rehire

ttorney General Leslie Rutledge looks like she will survive revelations from her personnel file that she was a very poor public employee a decade ago when she was supposed to be representing children caught up in family troubles. For four years, she had kept the lid on her personnel file at the state Department of Human Services, which showed that she was let go for “gross misconduct.” An attached note said, “Do not rehire.” When a trial judge said most of the file should be made public, she read it and discovered that whatever she feared was not in it. Moreover, the superiors who were displeased with her were shown to be little more competent than she was. So she released the files before the department had to. It was sort of a political victory. Now if only she can expunge her record as the state’s lawyer in chief, whose job is to see that the rule of law prevails in all the labors of civil government … . In that little matter, it has to be observed that she is the first attorney general in the state’s 182-year history to be ordered by the Arkansas Supreme Court to stop violating the law. It did so on May 23 when it ordered her to approve the ballot title for an initiated act to raise the state’s minimum wage or else write one for it forthwith. She had rejected 70 straight ballot titles for a

handful of citizengenerated constitutional amendments and initiated acts, nullifying people’s right under the ERNEST DUMAS constitution to try to pass laws. But the two Republican justices on the court — Shawn Womack and Rhonda Wood — sided with her, as they will always do for people of her political persuasion. The other five at least nominally adhere to the nonpartisan standard prescribed by the constitution. After the Supreme Court’s order, she approved all the ballot titles, although it left the backers little time to collect signatures to get them on the ballot. The court never ordered even Jeff Davis or Bruce Bennett, her two predecessors whose styles and manners she imitates, to stop violating the law. A federal grand jury did charge Bennett with using the office to violate federal banking and conspiracy laws to enrich himself and his confederates, but a friendly federal judge postponed his trial for 10 years until he died. Why do I compare Rutledge, the first woman to hold the office, to the flamboyant Bennett and Davis? Not because they were the two most colorful racists to Arkansas constitutional offices, although Rutledge did get a little recognition for some racist office-email taunts. She said her “country” talk was

About 170,000, or 13 percent of tax- one making less than $5,000. payers, would get $144 million, or $850 We’d pay for these cuts like Kansas each. paid for theirs, in cuts to state services, But wait, there’s more. That $850 beginning with public schools, which figure is misleading. A person making receive about half the general budget. $81,000, for example, would save only The cuts also would reduce support for about $85. A person making $810,000 prisons, public safety and health care would save about $7,000. for the elderly and poor. Tax data I’ve obtained shows Republican orthodoxy holds that almost 5,000 taxpayers made more tax cuts trickle down in prosperity. than $500,000 in 2016. At that same Failures from Kansas to the national income, with Asa’s ideal tax cut plan in budget prove otherwise. place, they’d save by my rough calculaDo we really want to lure people tions $50 million or $10,000 or so each. who give the top marginal tax rate In short: Fully 25 percent of the tax a higher priority than good schools, cut would go to 5,000 people, or less fine universities, sound infrastructure, than a quarter of 1 percent of the state’s preservation of the Buffalo River, clean 1.2 million tax filers. air, clean water, equal rights (medical Here’s just one illustrative specific and otherwise) for women and sexual example: Asa’s tax cut would be worth minorities? $200,000 in tax savings alone on the Being poor, cheap and anti-worker dividends on Jim Walton’s directly hasn’t done much for Arkansas so far. owned Walmart shares, never mind Adding greedy doesn’t look like a winhis other income. Versus $0 for some- ner to me.

just misunderstood as racist. When Rutledge ran for attorney general in 2014 it was to get rid of every vestige of the administration of the first black president. Much of the energy of her high-salaried staff since 2015 has been spent joining suits by Republican attorneys general around the country trying to strike down federal controls on big air and water polluters and to end health insurance for 300,000 Arkansans because they got it from Barack Obama. It was vintage Davis and Bennett. Davis ran for attorney general in 1898 by railing against Wall Street and the national Republicans. He spent his four years as attorney general filing 126 lawsuits to stop out-of-state insurance companies from doing business in Arkansas and by suing to stop all kinds of corporations from doing business in Arkansas. He lost every single suit, but the circus catapulted him into the governor’s office and the U.S. Senate. Bennett ran in 1956 against the federal courts and the race mixers and, once in office, wrote a bunch of bills for the legislature that were supposed to prevent integration of schools, public services or private commerce and also to purge schools and colleges of teachers who were members of the NAACP or any group that was known to oppose discrimination. The state or U.S. Supreme Courts declared every one of the acts unconstitutional. The historical analogies to Davis and Bennett are for using flamboyance as a political tool. Their grand legal battles

against alien foes — Wall Street, federal judges, the NAACP, Barack Obama — did nothing for the people of Arkansas, but people love grandstanding, even when it gets a little risque, like Jeff Davis’ boasts about his drinking and about lynching black people to keep them in their traces. Donald Trump turned serial infidelities, bankruptcies and outrageous accusations into a fabulous but perhaps short political career. Rutledge has been a trifle more circumspect. She may have gotten a little mileage out of the circulating story about her flinging her panties at a lobbyist in the Capital Hotel Bar while she was Gov. Mike Huckabee’s in-house counsel. His chief of staff was not supposed to be pleased about it, but she still landed a good job with the Department of Human Services and later on his presidential campaign staff. It may be genetic. Her grandfather and namesake, Les Rutledge, was a famous and widely beloved mountaineer, rifleman, bootlegger and killer in Independence County. A rifle in each hand, he gunned down the neighboring Beel brothers in a mountaintop standoff in 1952, killing one instantly and mortally wounding the other. He got five years in the pen, where he deployed his rifles as a long-line rider, but as soon as Orval Faubus became governor in 1955 he commuted the sentence and sent him home to a hero’s welcome. So it will be for Leslie Rutledge in November. She is a Republican and this year that is what it takes.

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McCain’s legacy

ontemplating the heroic life of of the Beach Boys’ Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), it “Barbara Ann.” But was easy to think of him as the only half. last true Republican — a politician who McCain could thought it his duty to elevate country over also be something party. Elsewhere, hyper-partisanship of a showman. His GENE and cowardice have become the norm dramatic vote to LYONS in today’s GOP, scared to death of Fox save Obamacare News bluster and President Trump’s rescued health insurance coverage for Twitter feed. millions, and he milked the moment for As Hillary Clinton recently explained everything that was in it. to Chuck Todd on NBC’s “Meet the Most of the time, however, he was Press,” McCain sought personal alli- a reliably partisan Republican, voting ances with Democrats because he enthusiastically for the very Supreme wanted the U.S. Senate to func- Court justices whose Citizens United vertion as the Constitution intended. dict dismantled McCain-Feingold cam“He knew that the Senate couldn’t work paign finance reforms and handed the U.S. if we didn’t work together,” Clinton said. government over to the highest bidder. “I think it was heartbreaking to him that McCain was a real piece of work: pas— as he said in the speech he gave right sionate, morally and physically brave. He before he voted against repealing the laughed, and made others laugh, more Affordable Care Act — that we need to than anybody in Washington. Some of cooperate. … He was so typically John his jokes could be pointed. In a 2008 in those remarks because he said, ‘Stop presidential debate with Barack Obama, listening to the bombastic loudmouths he made a sly reference to President on radio and TV and the internet. To George W. Bush’s naive remark about the hell with them, they don’t want any- seeing Vladimir Putin’s soul: “I looked thing done for the public good.’ He really in Mr. Putin’s eyes and I saw three letunderstood in the marrow of his bones ters — a K, a G and B.” what it meant to be an American and how His pointed rebuke of attempts to important it was for us to, yes, disagree race-bait Obama or to participate in the and differ. But at the end of the day to shameful “Birther” smear that Trump come together, to work together, to trust subsequently embraced may have cost each other to get things done.” him his shot at the presidency. McCain Indeed, a farewell message from preferred to keep his honor. McCain to his Arizona constituents For all of that, sometimes the nation emphasized exactly that: “We are citi- needs a warrior, and McCain was defizens of the world’s greatest republic, a nitely that. nation of ideals, not blood and soil. … We Even so, if you keep your eyes open, weaken our greatness when we confuse you can see that American ideals of duty our patriotism with tribal rivalries that and honor haven’t succumbed to partihave sown resentment and hatred and san rancor everywhere. Consider Paula violence in all the corners of the globe. Duncan, an outspoken Trump supporter We weaken it when we hide behind walls, and juror in the Paul Manafort trial who rather than tear them down.” explained to Fox News that despite her Meanwhile, the wall-builder sulked suspicion of special counsel Robert in his tent like a counterfeit Achilles, the Mueller’s motives, the evidence against Wall Street Journal reported, because Trump’s former campaign manager was he thought the national outpouring of “overwhelming.” grief over McCain’s death was “over“Finding Mr. Manafort guilty was hard the-top and more befitting a president.” for me. … I really wanted him to be innoIt took the cajolery of Sarah Huckabee cent, but he wasn’t,” she explained. DunSanders and the protests of the VFW and can wants people to understand that it American Legion to persuade Trump to wasn’t even a close call. But for one flaky put aside his jealousy of a dead man and juror, Manafort would have been conlower the White House flag to half-staff victed on all 18 counts of tax evasion for an American hero. and bank fraud. I certainly never voted for McCain, Duncan did her civic duty proudly, nor ever would. Except in retrospect — driving to the courthouse every day in Vietnam, Iraq — the man seemed never her “Make American Great Again” ball to see a war he didn’t like. Maybe he cap, although she now wishes Trump was half-joking when he went around would change the slogan to “Make Amersinging “Bomb, bomb, Iran” to the tune ica Kind Again.”

Superdelegate demise

t was done so quietly that it would vating to Sanders’ likely have gone unnoticed even supporters, many without the news cacophony of the of whom were Trump White House, but over the week- new to electoral JAY end the Democratic National Committee politics and cyniBARTH took steps that will impact who will win cal of the voting the 2020 nomination. At their quarterly power of superdelegates, who they conmeeting, the Democratic Party’s lead- sidered elites. Thus, the efforts to swing ers fulfilled a promise made at the 2016 the pendulum back toward a purer voice Democratic National Convention and for rank-and-file activists through reducsignificantly overhauled how the party ing the influence of superdelegates. will nominate its next presidential canThe compromise that was achieved didate. It did so in a manner that should means that superdelegates will still exist encourage more candidates who believe but they will not get to vote on a first balthat they have just what it takes to take lot at the national convention unless one out President Trump or his successor on candidate has rolled up an overwhelmthe GOP side to step up to the starting ing number of delegates. Just over two line. The new rules provide a significant months from now, candidates will begin advantage to candidates with grassroots announcing their entrance into the race. support in an increasingly progressive This change in party rules that elevates Democratic Party. chances for a wide-open nomination proIn 2016, to bring some semblance of cess will encourage more candidates to calm to the national convention, repre- get into the field. sentatives of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Some potential candidates who come Sanders agreed to significantly overhaul from the more establishment branch of the nomination rules by creating a “unity the party — with Joe Biden being the most commission.” At the heart of the Clin- obvious example — would be comparaton-Sanders deal was a commitment to tively disadvantaged by the rule alteration. reduce the influence of superdelegates in Which candidates will benefit from the the nomination process. Superdelegates decrease in superdelegate power? Sandwere introduced following the conten- ers is the most obvious answer because tious nomination battle of 1980 between of his role as the anti-Clinton in the 2016 President Jimmy Carter and Sen. Edward cycle. But others who can capture the Kennedy (D-Mass.). Carter locked up progressive energy of the party will also sufficient delegates early in the nomina- benefit from the rules changes. tion cycle to ultimately ensure him the One thing is clear: The victory of the nomination, but he became a weaker and Sanders forces on superdelegates means weaker prospective nominee over time. that, even if he never becomes the nomiAfter that election, North Carolina Gov. nee of a party he continues to refuse to Jim Hunt chaired a commission that cre- embrace, he has reshaped its future. ated superdelegates — elected officials *** and other party leaders who are explicTo date, I’ve stayed neutral in the truly itly unbound to any candidate, allowing fascinating race for mayor of Little Rock. them, when the party is closely divided, One reason I’ve stayed out of the fray has to support the most electable candidate been because I’ve been part of a crew at the time of the convention. “We must from various organizations — the League also give our convention more flexibility of Women Voters of Pulaski County (more to respond to changing circumstances men should become members!), the Cenand, in cases where the voters’ mandate is tral Arkansas Library System, KUAR-FM, less than clear, to make a reasoned choice,” 89.1, and the local AAUW chapter — who the commission’s report stated. In 2016, have put together a series of mayor’s race these unpledged delegates made up about forums at CALS branches around the 15 percent of all delegates. city that will then be replayed on KUAR. While superdelegates have never devi- I urge folks to come out to four topical ated from the will of bound delegates forums (on economic development, crime, since their creation, they often do give an infrastructure and education) starting at establishment candidate — like Clinton 6:30 p.m, Monday, Sept. 10, at Southwest in 2016 — a significant head start in the Little Rock’s Dee Brown Library and each process, making the path to nomination of the three Mondays to follow. An openmore complicated for an outsider candi- topic event will be held Monday, Oct. 15, date. The system was particularly aggra- at the Ron Robinson Theater. arktimes.com AUGUST 30, 2018

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or his last (presumably) pre- Hogs surged to six season trick on the eve of his straight wins after first game as Arkansas Ra- a 1-3 start and made zorback football CEO, Chad Morris the Cotton Bowl. took one minor storyline out of the Clark and Jones mix this week by announcing that were well employed BEAU WILCOX 6-foot-7 Louisiana sophomore Cole the entirety of the Kelley would be the Hogs’ starting year as a two-headed signal-calling quarterback against Eastern Illinois. monster, with Clark being the more However, Morris added, onetime precise traditional passer and Jones coveted prospect Ty Storey, a junior being the scrambling dervish who from Charleston who got a lot of looks could evade trouble. But going into from big programs before signing in 2002 the questions about the viability 2015, was also going to see his first of a two-quarterback system ramped extended action on the field as well, up and Clark elected to transfer to the and that the competition would be University of Central Arkansas, where ongoing. he was a Division II All-American and As evidence of the latter, there’s Harlon Hill Trophy finalist. considerable belief that youngsters For his money, Clark says alternatlike Daulton Hyatt, John Stephen ing QBs can be a bit of a thorny issue. Jones or Connor Noland all could get “It’s hard for the team to rally some action, too, if the top two guys around one and it not divide the don’t excel. locker room,” said Clark, now the If this suggests indecision or insta- head coach at Springdale High, noting bility at the most critical position on that an exception would exist if the the field, don’t forget that the Razor- team ran two fundamentally distinct backs had a farcical experience in offenses. “I think that’s why we saw an opener 17 years ago that even- the wildcat package become popular tually paved the way for one of the (but) now we see more dual threat program’s greatest-ever playmakers QBs, anyway.” to rise to the starting role. Against Clark said he appreciated what UNLV in 2001, with the Razorbacks Morris is trying to do by encouraging fresh off a distressing 6-6 season healthy competition for the starting that started showing the chinks in role, but if at this point no one has Houston Nutt’s coaching armor in emerged as the week-in, week-out full relief, the embattled coach trot- guy, it could become an issue as the ted out four different guys to take season winds onward. Kelley defisnaps against the Rebels. Zak Clark nitely enters the year with the most started and Ryan Sorahan finished a game experience, having played a relcomeback win in War Memorial Sta- atively significant role in three of the dium that warm August evening just Hogs’ four wins last fall, but Storey days before 9/11 transpired, and in arguably came into the program with between, Nutt scrambled around and more polish. Now those two are being also briefly utilized diminutive wide pushed from beneath by the incoming receiver Gerald Howard as an option talent Morris has amassed, and the quarterback and yanked a redshirt first game offers up an opponent in off then-touted freshman Tarvaris Eastern Illinois that, to be honest, is Jackson, who later transferred and a second- or even third-tier FCS foe catapulted his way into a decent NFL that won’t likely give either of the career as a backup and spot starter. top two on the depth chart an ordeal. The guy who didn’t play was a Of course, injuries and discipline rangy “athlete” — that’s how the are part of the equation, too, and Kelscouting services had him pegged ley is coming off a season where he because he had a memorably funky got beat up on the field and off it, delivery of the ball and uncommon getting a late-season DWI and susspeed — from Van Buren by way of pension that allowed Austin Allen to Fort Smith Northside. About a month retake the reins late in the year. So later, Matt Jones was making it onto Storey has to be prepared and focused the field as a gadget player in upset regardless, but as one former Hog wins over Auburn and South Carolina, sees it, one of them is going to have and then he authored the seven-over- to wrestle the job away from the other time spectacular against Ole Miss that for the sake of short- and long-term made him a bit of a state legend as the stability.

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thers having already said anything we could, and much more profoundly, The Observer is reluctant to chime in at this late hour on the passing of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), but we find we can’t help our damn self. The Observer, being the pinko libtard we are, didn’t always agree with McCain’s political beliefs. He was, for one thing, a guy who never seemed to meet a war he didn’t like, which was odd for a man who had suffered and sacrificed so much in the course of his own war. The Observer didn’t vote for McCain for president in 2008, even though we believe he would have made a good one. Had McCain chosen the usual, altogether boring running mate instead of a proudly ignorant Alaskan trailer park refugee with an accent like tearing aluminum foil and a whole half-term as governor under her belt, who knows how that campaign might have ended? But, for whatever reason, he did, and his bid for the White House came to an end with the election of the best president of The Observer’s lifetime, and maybe any of our lifetimes. Yeah, we said it. But we digress. The reason McCain’s death hit Yours Truly so hard is not because we loved his policies or his beliefs, not because we’re a joiner to the unthinking rah-rah this country seems to extend for any politician who ever wore a uniform, not even because he has been a thorn in the side of the cowardly, orange-tinted buffoon who perches right now in the White House, raging on Twitter at his enemies both real and imagined. The reason we mourn McCain, other than that he was a truly great American, is there seems to be nobody to replace him on the side of the aisle where he spent his life working. If you were a cynical person, you might think a lifelong progressive like Yours Truly would be overjoyed at the passing of what looks to be the last honorable Republican. It’s a development that’s sure to speed the once-grand Grand Old Party ever faster along toward its inevitable meeting with the brick wall of reality. Republicans seem, after all, to have tossed out any semblance of values to stake their future on racism, fear-mongering, lies,

zero taxes for Lamborghini owners and the daily brainfarts of an addled, 71-yearold racist who eats KFC three meals a day, only exercises his thumbs, and stands a better-than-average chance of winding up a federal prison inmate after his term in office if the Devil doesn’t get him first. That’s no way to write a next chapter, and we believe that after all this Trump bullshit is over, it’s going to take some serious soul-searching for folks on that side of the fence to right things even to the point of being worthy of salvage. The baby boomers are dying off and millennials like liver and onions more than the platform of today’s GOP, so being a rightwinger will be a tough row to hoe for years, if not decades, if we don’t miss our guess. You’d be wrong about The Observer being glad for that, though. Unlike the modern Republican Party, which acts as if it would be happy to see the scourge of empathy and social progress driven from the public square with Tiki torches and pitchforks, The Observer knows this country needs honorable conservatives. Before the party threw in with the nation’s collection of conspiracy cranks, religious nuts, gay-bashers, racists and he-man womanhaters, conservatives had been the “let’s pump our brakes and think about this” voting block. The truth is we need people who think like that. So when we say, “Rise up, and become the giants of tomorrow,” we’re not only talking to the liberal kids out there, the starry-eyed young JFKs, Elizabeth Warrens, Maxine Waterses and Barack Obamas. As much as it might pain the tribal devil that lurks inside us, we’re also talking to all the young John McCains and Sandra Day O’Connors. We’re talking to all the honorable young folks from across the political spectrum who love this country and who will, we hope, emerge to help our nation recover if we’re ever able to cast off this suicidal tribalism and become Americans again. McCain has left us, as so many of the political giants are bound to in a few short years. There’s no stopping that. But even in their absence, we can fix this. As a truly great president once said: We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.

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Disgraced lobbyist and health care executive Rusty Cranford, the man in the middle of a massive public corruption probe, gave money to dozens of Arkansas lawmakers.

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ilton “Rusty” Cranford, improper political activity, according the former lobbyist at to the criminal information attached the heart of multiple to his plea agreement. The informapublic corruption cases tion implicates at least four other forunfolding at the state Capitol, contrib- mer top executives of AO/PFH as couted at least $153,132 to candidates in conspirators, though none have been state and federal elections in Arkan- charged with a crime. sas between 2010 and 2016, accordCranford was compensated handing to public campaign finance records somely for his services: AO/PFH was indexed by the National Institute on both his client and his direct employer Money in Politics (http://followthe- during this time period. Cranford was money.org). the executive who oversaw the nonBIG SPENDER: In addition to bribing some public officials outright, lobbyist Rusty Eighty-five candidates in Arkan- profit’s operations in Arkansas from Cranford also cultivated influence by making over $150,000 worth of contribusas, 19 of them in the legislature today, 2009 to 2017, during which time it grew tions to at least 85 Arkansas politicians from 2010 to 2016. received funds from Cranford over to be the largest behavioral health prothat period. The tally includes both vider provider in the state. Today, it Republicans and Democrats. Some operates 45 mental health and subcontributions were made by Cran- stance abuse treatment sites statewide. ford individually, others by two of his (The state cut off Medicaid reimburse- many additional lawmakers by more Rock. The event was for an unnamed lobbying firms, The Cranford Coali- ments to AO/PFH earlier this summer conventional means: donating to their “Arkansas Executive Branch Official tion and The Capitol Hill Coalition. and terminated contracts with the pro- campaigns. C” who was a candidate for governor. At least some of these campaign con- vider after separate charges of MedicThe federal information includes a In an interview, former Attorney tributions are connected to a criminal aid fraud were brought against another Jan. 13, 2012, email Cranford sent to General Dustin McDaniel confirmed he conspiracy that Cranford admitted to executive, Robin Raveendran, who was an unnamed AO/PFH executive with was the official described in the federal in June. In his plea agreement with fed- a close associate of Cranford’s.) attached images of nine checks written information. In 2012, McDaniel was eral prosecutors, Cranford said much Cranford has admitted to bribing from The Cranford Coalition to Arkan- the leading Democratic gubernatorial of the money he directed to candidates several state lawmakers in exchange sas senators and representatives. (The contender; he dropped out of the race in Arkansas from 2010 to 2016 origi- for favors, such as steering taxpayer- information makes it clear the execu- in 2013. nated with the state’s largest behav- funded grants to AO/PFH. The kick- tive is former CFO Tom Goss, who was McDaniel said he only recently realioral health provider, a Missouri-based backs came in a variety of forms: Pay- fired earlier this year.) Cranford wrote, ized he made a cameo in Cranford’s plea nonprofit now called Preferred Fam- ments to former Rep. Hank Wilkins “Welcome to campaign season and 2012. agreement. “When I saw the story in ily Healthcare. Before its 2015 merger (D-Pine Bluff) were laundered through ‘The YEAR of The Greed’ is what it is the paper I thought, ‘Holy cow, that’s with another company, it was known the bank account of a Methodist church called! We documented the big checks got to be me — what is that about?’ ” as Alternative Opportunities. As a tax- where the legislator served as pastor, so you would know who these people he said. Upon examining his finance exempt 501(c)(3) nonprofit, AO/PFH for example, while a $20,000 bribe to are … This is contributions well spent.” reports, McDaniel said, he realized the was and is strictly prohibited from Rep. Micah Neal (R-Springdale) was In addition to the contributions, fundraiser in question must have been donating to political campaigns. delivered in cash. Sen. Jeremy Hutchin- Cranford and his associates would for his leadership PAC, which hosted To circumvent the law, Cranford or son (R-Little Rock) and former Sen. Jon bankroll political fundraisers on behalf one event each year. The PAC’s finance one of his firms would make donations Woods (R-Springdale) were provided of AO/PFH. For example, the fed- reports show Eddie Cooper paid the to candidates, after which he would bill with box seats at the 2013 World Series eral information says that on May 30, hotel $5,000 that evening, the maxiAO/PFH for services such as “consult- and hotel rooms. 2012, Cranford and another AO/PFH mum donation for a PAC. ing” or “training.” When former leaders In such cases, money and gifts were employee, former state Rep. Eddie CooMcDaniel said he had no knowledge at AO/PFH paid those invoices, they directly funneled to legislators for their per, used their corporate credit cards to that Cooper split the cost of the dinner were actually reimbursing Cranford personal gain. But prosecutors say split the cost of a $5,000 political fun- with Cranford or that AO/PFH may for campaign contributions and other Cranford also spread smaller sums to draiser at The Capital Hotel in Little have paid the bill. “If he had … been 12

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reimbursed by somebody else or used a company credit card that he wasn’t supposed to use, that would be evidence that he used the money of the nonprofit in a way that would be inappropriate — but there would be no way for us to know it,” he said. “If any donor is improperly reimbursed from some third-party source, there’s no way for a candidate to know that without having investigative powers, which no candidate does. “It’s obviously unnerving,” McDaniel said. “Nobody wants to be anywhere within a thousand miles of any of this.” The information references several other four-figure tabs at restaurants and bars for fundraisers for unnamed elected officials. Along with running afoul of federal tax law, such political contributions may also violate state campaign finance law. Graham Sloan, director of the Arkansas Ethics Commission, said political contributions can’t be made on someone else’s behalf. It’s impermissible “for A to take B’s money and then make the donation in A’s name,” he said. State law also changed in 2015 to prohibit business entities and charitable entities from making donations to campaigns, though most of the contributions made by Cranford occurred before this change. *** The federal information attached to Cranford’s plea doesn’t spell out exactly what proportion of his political giving was comprised of unlawful contributions from AO/PFH secretly routed through Cranford. Nor does it suggest that the politicians who received the contributions knew the money was tainted. In terms of dollars spent, the top two recipients of contributions from Cranford and his entities in Arkansas are former Rep. Johnny Hoyt (D-Morrilton) and former Sen. Robert Thompson (D-Paragould), both of whom received $7,000 over the course of multiple election cycles. Hoyt left the legislature in 2011 after losing a race for an open Senate seat; Thompson lost his seat in 2015 to a Republican challenger. Neither could be reached for comment. By email, the Arkansas Nonprofit News Network asked all 19 current officeholders who received contribu-

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Play at home while wiping your eyes from laughing so hard over that title. 1) Harding University, the Church of Christ-affiliated school in Searcy that has made headlines over its backward stance on LGBT issues in the past, recently made a rules change that Harding’s underground community of LGBT students believes is targeted at them. What is the rules change? A) Hot male students are now required to stop unwittingly enticing the totally 100 percent completely not gay members of the Harding administration every time they walk across campus during cargo shorts season. B) Questions about why Jesus preferred the company of 12 unmarried dudes are henceforth banned from campus. C) An alteration to the school’s sexual harassment policy, which stipulates the administration now considers “the unwelcome or inappropriate emphasizing of sexual identity” to be sexual harassment. D) Trolling the biology profs by repeatedly asking them to explain what’s going on in Ezekiel 23:20 is now grounds for expulsion.

2) Jacob Scott Goodwin, a white nationalist from Ward, was recently found guilty of a crime and sentenced to serve eight years in prison. Why was he tossed in the Ironbar Hotel? A) He unwelcomely emphasized his sexual identity in Searcy. B) Lookin’ so damn dumb. C) He participated in the group beating of a black counter-protester during last year’s “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va. D) “Public fondling of a Tiki torch.”

3) Rep. Jim Dotson (R-Bentonville) recently gave a local newspaper his opinion on why posters donated to Northwest Arkansas schools by the American Atheists society should not be hung in classrooms. What was weird about his reasoning? A) Dotson wrote the law, passed last year, requiring “In God We Trust” be displayed in all public school classrooms and libraries in the state if framed copies of the slogan were donated by private citizens — a law that has been decried by critics as yet another way the Arkansas legislature is shoehorning religion into public spaces. B) Dotson said hanging the atheist posters side-byside with the “In God We Trust” placards required by the law he wrote would be a violation of the First Amendment establishment of the separation of Church and State. No, seriously. C) “If it has anything on there referencing an atheist organization,” Dotson told a reporter with an apparently straight face, “then it would probably violate the First Amendment establishment of religion clause. So it would be unconstitutional to hang them up.” D) All of the above.

4) Pandemonium erupted during the recent Salt Bowl game between Benton High and Bryant High at Little Rock’s War Memorial Stadium, with both teams and over 38,000 fans in attendance rushing for the exits. What caused the sudden stampede? A) Jabbo’s Gizzard Hut in Haskell put a 50 percent off coupon on its Facebook page. B) Everyone in attendance simultaneously realized that they’d left the hotplate under the meth lab on. C) There was a fight in the stands during the third quarter, during which someone fired a Taser, which the crowd apparently mistook for gunfire. D) A “wardrobe malfunction” during the halftime show briefly exposed the Bryant Hornet mascot’s stinger.

5) During a recent speech before the Northwest Arkansas Political Animals Club, Rep. Bob Ballinger (R-Berryville) said something that wasn’t intended as a joke, but which nonetheless elicited peals of laughter from the crowd. What did Ballinger say? A) “You know that whole thing where my law partner happened to wind up on the Medical Marijuana Commission, which later happened to award one of five licenses to grow money to some folks who happen to have an earth-moving business in Berryville where my law office is, who happen to be people both my law partner and I have both done legal work for? That was, like, a big coincidence, man.” B) “Trust me.” C) Ballinger whined about how hard people are on state legislators before saying: “My friends in the legislature are servants. Not one of them, not one of them out there right now, is benefitting from being [there].” D) “Who you gonna believe? President Trump, or the fake news coming from your own ears?”

Answers: C, C, D, C, C

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THE FIRST OF A SERIES OF PROFILES OF LITTLE ROCK MAYORAL CANDIDATES.

Baker Kurrus wants to be mayor of a town with stronger neighborhoods, closer connections. By Leslie Peacock

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aker Kurrus has already been a mayor of sorts, overseeing schools as agencies; administrators, principals and teachers as staff;

and children as his constituency. As the appointed superintendent for the Little Rock School District

from May 2015 to June 2016, he made a lot of friends among public school supporters unhappy with the state Board of Education’s takeover of the LRSD. The board, many influenced by the charter-school supporting Walton Family Foundation, disbanded the LRSD School Board in January 1998 for the slimmest of reasons, that six of its 44 schools were in “academic distress,” producing anger among patrons helpless to change things.

CANDIDATE BAKER KURRUS: Says the city should focus on improving neighborhood blight.

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Kurrus, 64, who’d served on the that earned him the support of Little school board for 12 years (1998-2010) Rock City Director Capi Peck. While and as an appointed adviser on dis- saying Little Rock was lucky to have trict finances in 2015, was an active a stellar lineup of mayoral candidates superintendent, trimming the budget this year, she’s openly backing Kurby millions in the face of an upcoming rus. (Kurrus has four opponents in loss of $37 million in state desegre- the race: Warwick Sabin, 42; Vincent gation settlement payments. He vis- Tolliver, 51; Frank Scott, 34; and Glen ited every school. He started a weekly Schwarz, 64.) online newsletter where he openly “Bottom line, I think he is the most wrote about both problems and great qualified to bring the city together in teaching he saw. He even sang Leon light of what he did with the Little Russell’s “A Song for You” at Central Rock School District,” Peck said. She High School’s graduation. He began said she didn’t know Kurrus before to win over people who originally saw he led the district, but his work there him as a business type unsuited to run put her “firmly on his team.” She the district. described him as “compassionate and He also promoted the acquisition intelligent.” of property in Northwest Little Rock “One thing that impresses me is for a middle school as a way, he said, his ability to take a look at a budget to compete with the drain of more and get in there, and financially he well-to-do kids to private and char- understands so much because of his ter schools. background,” Peck said. “He won’t be Kurrus was, in fact, too candid afraid to shake things up, make cuts.” when it came to charter schools and As superintendent, she said, Kurrus their impact on the LRSD. When he asked for a key to every building in the presented data to the state Board district so he could get a feel for what of Education that showed charters was going on. “He’s that kind of CEO.” were harming education in the LRSD, Kurrus, a corporate lawyer and Department of Education Commis- former executive and West Little sioner Johnny Key gave him the boot. Rock residential developer, neverBut it was his “chutzpah,” she said, theless comes across as a guy who, if

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he weren’t running for mayor, would be happy trying to grow organic soybeans in the drained minnow ponds on his farm (though that venture almost got him killed earlier this year). He’s a talker. He can swing from talking about city budgets and what he sees as money poorly spent in one breath to singing Solomon Burke’s “None of Us Are Free,” a song he and the Asbury Prison Band perform as a prison ministry, in another. You might expect Kurrus to be a one-note candidate, given his name recognition as a superintendent David to the Goliath of wealthy charterschool backers. But that’s not the case. His pitch is restoring Little Rock’s blighted neighborhoods, to recreate a missing sense of place that he says is creating a “hollow center” to Little Rock. That comes first if other problems are to be solved: “I want to impact education. I want to impact infrastructure and public safety.” Fixing neighborhoods, he said, “transcends every one of those single issues.” Kurrus, a cyclist whose been making dawn runs through Central Little Rock neighborhoods, says that by his count there are 8,000 vacant lots in the city and an untold number of boardedup or disintegrating houses, and that has to change. “What can we do to make housing more attractive and

neighborhoods more attractive and inviting to people who have choices?” is what leaders should be asking, he said. “People who have choices,” he explains, are people who might choose to live in a particular area, even help bring back an area with new construction or rehabilitating an area if they could get help from the city. But today, Kurrus said, if you go to the city seeking a building permit that might help a neighborhood, the city, “instead of asking you if they can get you a cup of coffee, because building in that area is essential, they’re going to tell you … you have to dedicate rightof-way, fix the sidewalks, and the curb will need repairs,” issuing what he calls “nastygrams.” That sort of response, he said, gives people “the sense that we’re not here to help you, we’re here to impose on you.” Yes, people have to fix curbs and sidewalks and make improvements, but why not look at the positives, thank them for their interest and get to the details later? Waving lists of city projects funded with sales taxes approved in 2011, Kurrus said the city is not spending its money in a way that addresses weed lots, vacant houses and abandonment of neighborhoods. “We spend hundreds of thousands of dollars where we don’t address the fundamental issue. Right now we’re

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going to pay to improve curbs and gutbeer at 12th and Woodrow. ters at Pine and Cedar [streets]. Curbs If the city would encourage reinand sidewalks. That’s nice. But what vestment in a neighborhood, it could does that really do?” Why not, he wonstop folks moving to Cabot and Condered, spend that money in ways that way and “refill Little Rock,” Dodds said. people want: Making neighborhoods Dodds said he would be glad to meet attractive, adding amenities such as with all the candidates for mayor to parks and bike paths, things that bring talk about neighborhood repair. people together. “We need to somehow Given the fact that Kurrus has been reconnect, come closer.” involved in real estate development Kurrus said he wasn’t blaming — such as Woodlands Edge in West code enforceLittle Rock —is ment officers his interest in for an off-puthelping develting response opers? Would it t o d e v e l o p - “Bottom line, I think he is the be fair to charment. If that’s acterize him their response, most qualified to bring the the real estate Kurrus said, it’s candidate? No, from a “lack of Kurrus said, city together in light of what vision and lead“it’s really unfair. ership” at the he did with the Little Rock “It’s not top. “The purabout makpose of every School District,” Peck said. ing money in city employee real estate, it’s should be to about changfacilitate the ing people’s attractiveness lives. It’s the and livability human interof neighborhoods. … We have to go est that compelled me. It’s not about to these people and say, ‘How can I bricks and mortar, it’s about the people, help you?’ ” whether they feel happy, satisfied, safe, “That 12th Street thing,” he said, that informs every other decision they referring to the police substation at make. That drives outcomes in schools, 12th and Pine streets. “I don’t want to it drives crime rates.” sound overly critical, but it looks like a It’s a stand that has convinced fortress. They built commercial space Dodds, who was not particularly there, but commercial follows rooftops. happy with Kurrus’ acceptance of state … What you should be thinking about Department of Transportation’s plan is how do we get people to live in the to widen Interstate 30 through downarea. You just have to shift your total town Little Rock from six to 10 lanes, to mindset.” throw his support to Kurrus. “Baker’s Part of that shift, he said, is away passion is for the nerdy nuts and bolts from considering city improvements a of the mayor’s job itself — budget line “zero sum game,” so that when Ward X items, morale among school bus drivgets something, it doesn’t mean Ward ers, the how and why of how city govY doesn’t. “Everybody argues about ernment is not working as it should.” their piece of the pie. [The question should be] how do you make the pie *** bigger? And part of that is through growth in our real estate tax base.” Whoever wins the mayoral race will be the head of a city with an unusual *** hybrid leadership: A “strong” mayor elected by voters and a city manager. “Baker gets it.” That’s what Paul Does it work? “I don’t think we know Dodds, a developer who lives near yet,” Kurrus said, given that the city’s Central High School who has often had the same mayor, Mark Stodola, and expressed frustration with city regulathe same city manager, Bruce Moore, tions that allow houses to fall down but since adopting the hybrid form of govpenalize him for using plastic instead ernment. But in his reading of the ordiof metal on the porch of a house he’s nance that created today’s city govrescued, said about Kurrus. He showed ernment, “the mayor can play a more Kurrus around the neighborhood prominent role,” Kurrus said: The recently, at the candidate’s request, city manager is the chief administraand complained to him and city directive officer, but he is to perform other tors about a 24-hour store that sells duties “at the direction of the mayor.”

The boost that got him in the race, Kurrus said, was attending a fundraiser for AR Kids Read, a literacy initiative, where “they were talking about all these kids that couldn’t read.” Schools can’t teach kids if the kids don’t come from healthy neighborhoods, he said: “I would say neighborhoods drive school performance rather than the other way around.” He pointed to Stephens Elementary on West 18th Street, built when he was on the school board. The board had promised the school would be built, and it was. But, he

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said, “it didn’t make a tinker’s damn” in terms of uplifting the surrounding area. A speaker at the fundraiser made a speech about community and valuing children. “I thought, if I could help, why wouldn’t I? That’s what pushed me over.” That and a near-drowning on his farm, when he was nearly sucked underwater by a drainpipe on his minnow pond. His son rescued him by slicing off his waders with a knife. “Dude,” Kurrus said he thought to himself, “you’re not invincible.” Whether he will win the mayor’s race could depend, for one thing, on how strong the flow of public opinion is against interstate widening, which has been Sabin’s issue and appeal to the foes of the concrete swath. Or the strength of Scott’s argument that as a 34-year-old he offers a youthful vision for change. Or the support for Vincent Tolliver’s “People’s Campaign.” Or, maybe, the pull of Libertarian support for perennial candidate Glen Schwarz. Kurrus will argue that fighting I-30 is like “howling at the moon,” given Mayor Stodola’s crucial vote in favor of it, and that instead the mayor should position himself as an “effective advocate” for the city as “critical negotiations” unfold during its construction. As for the youthful vision thing, Kurrus said “to think I have no vision because I’m 64 years old is a complete insult to everybody.” He, too, sees himself as a people’s mayor, saying, “We’ve got to say, ‘My neighbor is my neighbor no matter where my neighbor lives. I may not be their keeper, but I’m their brother and sister.’ ”

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“The mayor is the chief executive officer. I know what that means: I’ve been a CEO. They don’t point their finger at anybody else, deflect questions … . When I was superintendent, I didn’t say, ‘That’s someone else’s responsibility.’ ” One thing the mayor should be doing, Kurrus believes, is working to support the city’s major institutions, like the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and UA Little Rock, neither of which is getting the attention from the legislature that it needs. “The mayor ought to be pounding on the legislature, saying, ‘What in the world are y’all doing? You’re choking health education’ — we’re No. 49 in health. I don’t want a tax cut. I want adequately funded higher ed, medical education.” He said plans to cut more taxes — recently announced by Governor Hutchinson — and thus more services was putting the state in a “race to the bottom.”

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AR REPORTER, CONT. tions from Cranford over this time ological pattern. Cooper, a staunch conperiod whether they were aware some servative, first won office campaigning of the money may have originated with against Medicaid expansion. Elliott is AO/PFH. Most did not respond. one of the most progressive legislaOf those legislators who still hold tors at the Capitol. Hutchinson — the office, six received cumulative contri- governor’s nephew — is generally seen butions of $4,000 or more: Sen. John as a moderate Republican, while SulCooper (R-Jonesboro) at $6,230, Sen. livan appeared at a campaign fundJoyce Elliott (D-Little Rock) at $6,000, raiser this spring with Jan Morgan, Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson (R-Little a far-right gubernatorial candidate Rock) at $6,000, Rep. Jeff Wardlaw who unsuccessfully challenged Gov(R-Hermitage) at $4,177, Sen. Eddie ernor Hutchinson in the Republican Cheatham (D-Crossett) at $4,000 and primary. Wardlaw switched his party Rep. Dan Sullivan (R-Jonesboro) at affiliation to Republican less than two $4,000. weeks after winning re-election as a Elliott, by email, said she was not Democrat in 2016. aware at the time that money donated Cranford also donated to larger by Cranford may have originated with political contests. In 2014, he gave AO/PFH. Asked whether she received $5,000 to then-U.S. Sen. Mark Pryanything else of value from Cranford, or’s re-election campaign; the Demohis firms or his associates between cratic incumbent lost to Republican 2008 and 2016 — including checks, Tom Cotton. In 2010, Cranford and his cash, gifts or favors — Elliott wrote, firms gave $4,000 each to the reelec“I have not.” tion campaigns of Gov. Mike Beebe Cheatham also said he didn’t know and Attorney General McDaniel, both the contributions may have came from Democrats. Both incumbents won. AO/PFH. “All I can tell you, just off Unlike legislative races, statewide the top of my head, is that I had never and federal elections tend to attract heard of Preferred Family Healthcare thousands of donors, meaning the before all this stuff broke loose,” he impact of any single individual is typsaid. Cheatham also said he received ically smaller. no cash, checks or gifts from Cranford, In a phone interview, Beebe said he his firms or his associates aside from didn’t specifically recall getting conthe contributions on record. “No, no — tributions from Cranford, but said he never,” he said. was confident the campaign finance Sullivan said he wasn’t aware that records were correct. Beebe raised over Cranford’s political contributions may $5.1 million in the 2010 cycle. Asked have been made on behalf of AO/PFH. whether he ever received gifts, cash or He said he hadn’t received any other anything else of value from Cranford money or gifts from Cranford. Coo- other than a campaign contribution, per, Hutchinson and Wardlaw did not Beebe said no. respond to requests for comment by “Anything I would have received phone and email. from Cranford would have been Rep. Mark Lowery (R-Maumelle), reported, and it would have been in who is defending his seat against the form of a regular campaign contria Democratic challenger this fall, bution,” the former governor said. “We responded in an email, “I did receive were notorious about following that a [$1,000] contribution from The Cran- law. So, whatever the records show ford Group in my 2012 election cam- that we filed, that’s what it is. We never paign. Since then I have had no inter- took anything we failed to report. action with Rusty Cranford or any of “As a matter of fact, I was never his associates on any legislation, state approached like that,” he continued. contracts or requests for GIF funds.” “I was approached as a freshman in Sen. Bryan King (R-Green Forest) the Senate and declined the money — said in a phone interview that he had cash — but that was way back in ’83.” forgotten he received a $1,000 con- After that, Beebe said, “nobody ever tribution from Cranford in 2014 until approached me with anything under the issue was raised this spring by his the table.” Beebe said he has not been primary opponent, Rep. Bob Ballinger contacted by the FBI about its pub(R-Berryville). (Ballinger won the race, lic corruption investigation involving and King’s term will end in January.) Cranford. King also said he received nothing of McDaniel also said he never value from Cranford aside from the received any other cash, checks or gifts single contribution. from Cranford. “Anything that we got The legislative candidates sup- was reported. … We always followed ported by Cranford follow no clear ide- the rules carefully,” he said. CONTINUED ON PAGE 38

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“Over the past five years, Southern Arkansas University has experienced record enrollment and growth. New academic programs in Cyber Security, Engineering, Public Health, Game Design and Animation, Musical Theatre, Marine Biology, and Wildlife Biology have attracted students and have transformed SAU into a truly global campus. The School of Graduate Studies has also grown dramatically and offers a wide variety of programs, both online and on campus. Our primary mission at SAU is to serve students, and our culture of caring has new and current students and alumni throughout the state and nation saying SAU ‘feels like home.’”

“UA - PulaskiTech ’s mission is to provide access to high quality education that enables our students to develop to their fullest potential. We have more than 80 different degrees and certificates that are designed to ensure that our students can transform their lives in a short time, and to do so affordably. By providing relevant programs of study and a wide variety of student support services and co-curricular activities, UA-PTC prepares our students to go further in life. Whether a student pursues a university-transfer degree or needs cutting edge technical training, UA-PTC facilitates our students’ ability to achieve their goals.”

“As the most affordable university in the state, UAFS offers a life-changing education without the burden of excessive student loan debt. UAFS prepares students for the next step in their lives through applied learning overseen by dedicated professors, a tight-knit campus offering countless leadership opportunities, and state-of-the-art facilities that enhance learning both in and out of the classroom. From painting murals as part of an international arts festival to being mentored by CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, UAFS students receive countless opportunities to develop the skills necessary to succeed in the 21st century. Visit our beautiful campus and learn more about the opportunities UAFS has to offer.”

“BHCLR is a unique institution guided by the healthcare workforce needs in Arkansas. We offerone-yearprograms,associatedegrees,and bachelor degrees through several university affiliations. Our outcomes in retention, board/ registry passage and graduate placement are competitive and are available on our website. BHCLR offers rich clinical experiences and a Christian environment. Individuals who fit well in health care have a natural tendency to care for others, enjoy learning and challenge and exhibit professionalism in all areas of their life. The field of health care is dynamic and growing and there are many avenues to an incredible career. Visit our website to learn more at www.bhclr.edu.”

“At the University of Central Arkansas, we are committed to the success of our students and helping them reach their degree goals. We are proud of our vibrant and diverse student body that is excelling inside and outside of the classroom. UCA students are part of a dynamic and growing university that aims to set students up for success in their careers and lives after graduation. UCA is recognized nationally as the most beautiful campus in Arkansas and when you combine that with some of the best faculty in the nation, you get a complete collegiate experience that is second to none. It is our goal that students will soon join the outstanding alumni of UCA who are making a huge difference as citizens of the world. Go Bears!”

JASON L. MORRISON, ED.D.

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“The SAU Tech Rockets take the court in November of this academic year and our men and women’s teams are ready for competition. New housing for students and expanded transfer options are making SAU Tech a real option for students who want to be part of a small family environment while earning their degree. We have added Religious Studies and Forestry Harvesting to our growing line up of in-demand degrees. We are looking forward to the basketball season and competing with some of our peers around the state. SAUTech’s staff and faculty have worked hard over the past year and a half making the College one filled with excitement and expectation.We are all looking forward to 2018-19! Go Rockets!”

“For over 141 years, Philander Smith College has been inspiring and educating the next generation of leaders who seek to enact change in our communities, state, nation and world. Our legacy of providing a quality liberal arts curriculum, with a focus on social justice, has withstood the test of time and asserted Philander as an educational pillar in Arkansas. Though a small, private institution, PSC dreams big. Our dreams include making education accessible to students who have a desire for knowledge and academic achievement. We know our greatest assets are our students and our faculty and staff. It is with a student-centered approach to learning and a steadfast focus on our mission that we help our scholars thrive as we continue to move FORWARD into the future.”

“Many people know the name Cossatot as it applies to the beautiful river in Southwest Arkansas, but few know that Cossatot is a Native American word meaning “skull crusher.” Our college adopted this name when we opened our doors in 1974. We feel that it is a name that fits our school well because imparting knowledge is what we do best at UA Cossatot. UA Cossatot is consistently ranked in the top five colleges in Arkansas for graduation rate and affordability. Our college and our faculty routinely win awards for creativity and excellence. Throw in the most creative and affordable textbook program in Arkansas, innovation in industry-certified technical training, a college that ranks in the top five for transfer education, and you have the recipe for the perfect college for you! We would be glad to welcome you as a part of the “skull crusher” heritage at the University of Arkansas Cossatot.”

“The University of Arkansas is proud to have students from every county in the state. Helping them maximize their potential and advancing Arkansas together has been a part of our mission for 147 years. We are also the most academically comprehensive university in the state with more than 230 different degrees and certificates available. Nowhere else in Arkansas can you find the range of majors, classes, research opportunities and access to world-class faculty with active research portfolios. That’s helped 126 undergraduates win State Undergraduate Research Fellowships in the last three years. Our graduates are state governors, Fortune 500 CEOs, scientists and novelists. They’re nurses, teachers, architects, engineers and lawyers. We’re routinely recognized as one of the best values in higher education, and Fayetteville has been ranked among the nation’s top 5 best places to live. I encourage you to come see why.”

“There is a lot to get excited about at National Park College! Join Nighthawk Nation and be a part of amazing student life, athletics and campus organizations. At NPC, student athletes are campus leaders and ambassadors for Nighthawk Nation. NPC offers NJCAA basketball teams for men and women, as well as a cheer team and we will be adding other sports soon. We know that students who are active and engaged on campus reflect that success in the classroom as well. We offer two-year degrees and certificates both on campus and online. NPC was designated as part of the top ten online colleges in Arkansas for 2017. NPC offers more than 70 transfer degrees, and if your ACT is 19 or higher, you may qualify for scholarships. Nearly 70 percent of NPC students receive financial aid and scholarships. Last year, NPC students received over $7.5 million in grants and scholarships. At National Park College, you can have the full college experience – close to home– at less than half the cost of the average four-year university. Our experienced faculty and staff are committed to your success in the workforce. In fact, we guarantee it. Find your path at www.np.edu.”

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“At JBU, our goal is for students to be change agents for good. We are pleased to be highly ranked by U.S. News, but our measure of success is when our graduates serve other people in ways that transform lives. From engineers providing sustainable water solutions in Guatemala, to teachers challenging at-risk students, JBU grads make a difference. Our academic program is built on intellectual rigor, practical application and integration of faith and learning. It is a program that encourages students to be Christ-like, seeking grace and truth, and engaging a broken world with compassion, insight, and love.”

“As chancellor of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, I invite students to consider an education in the state’s capital city, where access to many research, internship, community, and employment opportunities are just minutes away. We are dedicated to providing an affordable, quality education to Arkansas students to ensure they graduate with as little debt as possible in their pursuit of higher education. Our goal is to see them through to a timely graduation and ensure the appropriate skill sets are acquired so they are career-ready. Come by for a visit and learn about all UA Little Rock offers.”

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“As the chancellor for A-State, I dream of a time when every high school senior in the state of Arkansas knows that he or she has a place for them in northeast Arkansas. I want our faculty and staff to know they are respected and their ideas matter, and that we all share the same goal of helping our students reach their highest aspirations. Most of all, I hope for a university community that truly believes that ‘Every Red Wolf Counts.’ ”

“Lyon College supports its students’ success by being an innovator in higher education. Concluding my first year as president, I am proud that the campus community has worked together to identify common priorities and objectives that provide our direction for the next decade. Through this collaboration, we have added a film and media studies minor, restored a major in computer science, and brought in four new varsity sports and four new club sports. One of the outstanding aspects of the Lyon experience is its small class size which fosters rewarding mentorships among students and faculty. To maintain the low student- faculty ratio, we created several new faculty positions to support our curricular expansion. Our commitment to engaged and active education can be seen in our newly adopted 2018-2022 strategic plan that sets goals of supporting collaborative relationships between students, faculty and staff; expanding a robust, interdisciplinary liberal arts academic program, providing opportunities for experiential learning, and creating a culture that fosters innovation. We are also committed to establishing a diverse and inclusive residential community focused on educating the whole person. Additionally, Lyon became the first pet-friendly campus in Arkansas. Through this new initiative, Lyon joins just a small handful of colleges in the country that permit cats and dogs in on-campus housing, easing the transition to college for many students. Lyon College provides an exceptional and relevant liberal arts education for citizens of the 21st century. I look forward to welcoming you to campus when you explore Lyon in person.”

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“The next step in life after high school is enormous. Whether it is into a job or off to school, it is a move that can set the course of the rest of your life. We believe there is no better place to take that next step than Harding University. Embraced and nurtured by a community of teachers and students who seek to share the love of Christ, Harding students experience deeper friendships and greater learning than they have ever known. If this describes what you are seeking as you plan for your future, we invite you to join us at Harding University.”

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“EACC’s career-ready and transfer-ready programs provide students with the best and most economical education available, complemented by the highest degree of personal service. We are small but mighty, and we care deeply about our students. Our recent merger has resulted in an institution that is better than ever. All programs continue in the new institution, offering students the opportunity to select from a diverse menu of options when developing their educational plans. Our goals remain the same: to improve students’lives and strengthen our community.”

“Arkansas Tech University is a pathway to a brighter future for thousands of Arkansans every year. We rank No. 1 in the state and among the top 5 percent of colleges and universities nationwide in providing students with access to upward social mobility after graduation. More than 92 percent of our almost 12,000 students are from Arkansas, and approximately one of every four ATU students comes from a diverse background. We’re also the No. 1 STEM institution of choice for Arkansas high school graduates. Find your path to success at www.atu.edu/morethan.”

DR. RANDY ESTERS

PRESIDENT GLEN JONES

“Over the past few years, Northark has been recognized nationally for providing excellent instruction and for being one of the most affordable community colleges in the nation. The college has three campuses in Harrison and a Carroll County Center in Berryville. Our low tuition and world-class quality attract students from around the nation. Last fall, online enrollment jumped 32 percent. We are continually expanding our online offerings. We are excited to announce our Medical Laboratory Technology program is now offered in a hybrid format, with coursework online and the clinical in a facility near the student’s home. Northark fields athletic teams in men’s and women’s basketball, baseball and softball. Northark provides students with skills that enable them to enter the workforce quickly and general education classes that seamlessly transfer to a university. Our North Campus houses the Pace Industries Die Cast Simulation Cell, fully equipped with the latest technology that exactly simulates a real-world environment. On the South Campus, our Blue & You Health Education Simulation Center provides students with stress-free learning situations. The Sim Center looks and feels like an actual hospital but with no risk since life-like manikins serve as patients. Strong business and industry partnerships provide paid internships to enable students to earn while they learn. I have been proud to serve Northark as President for the past two years. I’d like to extend a personal invitation to you to visit our campuses in beautiful Harrison, AR and tour the college for yourself. We are proud to be Pioneers!”

“At Henderson State University, we believe in the potential of every person to become an extraordinary leader and difference maker in society. The university’s very foundation rests on its outstanding ability to educate students, many of whom are first-generation college students and come from rural areas, by harnessing the transformative power of higher education and making it available to any and all prospective students who desire to become educated. For 127 years, Henderson State has worked to bridge student aspirations to career success by instilling in students the skills employers most want – communication, decision-making, teamwork, and problemsolving – through a strong core of liberal arts and professional courses that are connected to the career aspirations of our students.”

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“NorthWest Arkansas Community College seeks to empower lives, inspire learning, and strengthen community through accessible, affordable, quality education at locations throughout Benton andWashington counties. We focus on providing what our learners need, whether that’s adult basic education, new job skills for today’s workplace, or the foundation to pursue a four-year degree and post-graduate study. NWACC creates an environment that inspires students and encourages them to maximize their potential.”

STEVE ROOK, ED.D.

COLLEGE OF THE OUACHITAS

“College of the Ouachitas is changing the lives of the residents of Hot Spring, Grant, Dallas, Saline, and Clark Counties. For almost 50 years, COTO has been committed to making a positive difference in people’s lives. COTO ensures you have an opportunity to achieve your educational goals by providing programs and services designed for students who plan to seek immediate employment, transition to a new career or a four-year degree. Nowhere else in Arkansas will you find the state-of-the-art technical programs with cutting edge technology to prepare you for today’s high tech world. Visit us at One College Circle in Malvern or on the web at www.COTO.edu. At College of the Ouachitas you will discover a Higher Degree of You!”

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ontrary to what you might have heard, it still pays to go to college. Just last year, USA Today reported that college graduates earned 56 percent more than high school grads in 2015. That’s

up eight percent from 1999 and the widest gap since the Economic Policy Institute started keeping track in 1973. But while the payoff for earning a college degree is undeniable, particularly over a lifetime, how people get that college degree — and what they expect from the experience — is in the midst of nothing short of a revolution. Colleges and universities nationwide find themselves under increasing pressure from students to deliver job-ready expertise and skills, while communities and politicians lean on higher education to help fill jobs in highest demand. “Students and parents of traditional students today are looking for return on investment and are consider-

ing the perceived value of a degree,” said Keli Jacobi, associate director of communications and marketing for the University of Arkansas Little Rock. “They seek scholarships and grants from universities in an effort to avoid college debt after graduation. They also anticipate good jobs or better chances for entry to graduate programs, medical school, law school, and other professional schools upon graduation. In a digital economy, expectations are much more focused on outcomes than before.” Jacobi said institutions’ responsibility to provide these opportunities means making higher education more accessible to the widest section of the community as possible. “An emerging trend for higher education is finding ways to close the inequality gap for underserved students,” she said. “One way UA Little Rock does this is with a partnership with the Charles W. Donaldson Scholars Academy aimed at improving educational

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achievement for all students, with a special attention to African American students and others who are atrisk of academic failures due to socioeconomic disadvantage or other factors.” “The Pulaski County Special School District has partnered with the Scholars Academy to invest in student achievement. The program’s summer academy is a three-week residential program at UA Little Rock and Philander Smith College aimed at preparing incoming freshmen for college-level work by eliminating the need for them to take remedial math and English courses.” Today’s college student also has a very different expectation as to how courses are presented and the mode by which they are taught. This has challenged conventional notions of pedagogy and changed the way many courses are structured. “Today’s students are coming to campus with greater expectations of taking courses and engaging in experiences that directly address their specific interests and goals,” said Kurt Boniecki, associate provost for instructional support at the University of Central Arkansas. “Gone are the days in which every undergraduate willingly enrolls in the same set of general education courses. Students are seeking greater individual choice in tailoring their course load and degree programs to their own interests.” This kind of individualized instruction is being achieved through online coursework and in some cases, the ability to build one’s own major. At UCA, it also includes experiences outside of the classroom. “These curricular and co-curricular experiences include internships, service-learning courses, study abroad, civic engagement, campus leadership, and undergraduate research,” Boniecki said. “UCA has long offered a wide range of these experiences to students, but has more recently sought to coordinate, support, and document these activities.” Getting students to campus and holding their attention is part of a larger trend of retention that’s the priority of virtually every college and university across the board, said Tim Jones, director of public relations and marketing for the University of Arkansas Pulaski Technical College in North Little Rock. “The major trend in higher edu-

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Frederick M. Dierks Nursing & Health Science Building, home to National Park College’s award-winning nursing program. cation in Arkansas is the emphasis on student retention and graduation,”he said.“UA-PTC works hard to ensure that students succeed and we seek to increase retention by offering convenient class scheduling, strengthening relationships between students and advisors, and offering tutoring and other wraparound services that diminish barriers to success.” Students today want to get a degree in the shortest amount of time and have the flexibility to transfer if they wish without losing any credits earned to that point. Jones said these points are at the heart of stackable credit programs, such as UA PTC’s highly successful 2+2 degree program. “Students today expect a tangible reward for their efforts, meaning they want results,” Jones said. “They want to become more employable as soon as possible and UA-PTC facilitates that goal through dozens of‘two-plus-two’transfer agreements with four-year institutions across the state.” One particularly successful partnership UA PTC maintains is the Metro Degree with UA Little Rock. “The Metro Degree is specifically designed to help families and students streamline a quality, four-year degree,” UA PTC Chancellor Margaret Ellibee said. “What’s new and exciting about this program is that we worked together with UA Little Rock to refine the transfer experience to be seamless and foolproof in very specific ways. That includes removing obstacles to success, like classes that don’t transfer.” Such arrangements are not only about delivering high-quality instruction in the shortest amount of time, but in controlling student cost. Other initiatives in the state have sought to deliver the same benefit in different ways. “The two primary factors that get in the way of completing an education are time and money, and students are well aware of that fact,” said Dr. David Stevens, dean of students

at the University of Arkansas Fort Smith. “Students want to minimize and pay for things along the way as they become more and more concerned about taking out student loans and garnering debt.” “Particularly among regional universities that have a high percentage of Pell Grant recipients and people of lower-economic situations, one of the trends is that students are working more and taking more college credit hours and balancing greater complexity in their lives in order to finish a degree with as little debt as possible.” In this process, students are more likely to patch together courses from a variety of different sources all while working additional hours to support themselves. Getting into step with this system is one of the biggest challenges for the future of many institutions of higher learning, Stevens said. “Institutions must become the most efficient organizations they can possibly be to keep tuition and cost of attendance as low as they possibly can,” he said.

ticipant in college society, but it also examines students’strengths, values, and motivations.” “According to research by theWorld Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Future of Software and Society, creativity, emotional intelligence, and cognitive flexibility are the new must-have skills for the workplace. Students, in turn, are seeking to sharpen these ‘soft skills’ to give themselves the edge and expect to gain these skills in the classroom.” Colleges and universities must also take a more proactive role in helping students succeed be it in the classroom or on the job hunting trail. Ritter said this not only provides schools with a competitive advantage, it is part of the value equation students are increasingly coming to expect. “TheNationalParkCollegeAcademic Success Center provides free tutoring and academic coaching for all NPC students. Tutoring is available for many subjects taught at NPC and is conducted by both professional and peer tutors,” she said. “Last year, NPC had a 63 percent increase in students served, and a 120 percent increase in the number of hours students spent in the center. And 84 percent of students who have completed at least five tutoring sessions in a particular subject earned a C or better in the course.” “Leveraging these support services and additional resources within a reasonable budget that doesn’t drive costs up will be a focus for many colleges and universities going forward.” College administrators said focusing on successful outcomes and investing in student graduation rates is a trend that’s leading to institutionalized services and a substantial investment of resources. Arkansas Tech University, for instance, is meeting this challenge by implementing new and innovative programs designed to facilitate student success. “ATU created its Office of Student Success in Fall 2016,” said Sam Strasner, ATU director of university relations. “The need for a centralized and concentrated effort on providing students with additional academic resources was identified during the institution’s 2015-2016 strategic planning process.” “As a result, the OSS administers the Bridge to Excellence mentoring program, which pairs incoming freshmen with faculty and staff mentors; the Doc Bryan Tutoring Center, which provides peer assistance in specific courses at no charge and Norman Career Services, which helps students keep their future in mind while making academic decisions today.” Schools such as ATU are also broadening their view of the educational process, increasingly adopting community service as an element of students’ overall development. “Service learning has become an integral aspect of the college experience for many students,” said Strasner. “Arkansas Tech University Office of Campus Life supports this trend by offering monthly action days and the annual Green and Gold Give Back Day to bring ATU students together to support causes that have meaning in their lives. Registered student organizations at ATU gave 14,824 hours of volunteer service during the 2017-18 academic year alone.”

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Melony Ritter, communications director with National Park College in Hot Springs, said the future of higher education is to broaden the definition of “education” to go past facts and figures and focus on a broader range of student attributes. “NPC recently redesigned its College Seminar offering to assist general education students with the skills needed for success in both college academics and life after college,” Ritter said. “The course focuses on the student as a learner and par-

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guage pathology, athletic training, clinical laboratory science, medical imaging and secondary education is how that degree translates to success in radiation science, nutrition, social work, disaster preparedness and emergency the working world. Arkansas’ colleges and universities provide management. outstanding knowledge and skills across a wide variety of job fields. All of which are predicted to be in even more demand in the future given the aging of the populations and the relative health of the population. ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY “Demographics note that there are nearly as many people As more people retire from the labor force, combined with turning 65 as there are turning 20 and many of these people the current economic prosperity, college graduates in many are living longer lives,” Hanrahan said. “However, in Arkansas, fields are finding employers bidding for their services. ASU is people are also generally very unhealthy. According to the preparing their graduates to take full advantage of the many

Arkansas State continues to be a force in the state’s higher education arena, resulting in more smiles on graduation day. opportunities that await them after college. “Graduates have had no difficulty finding jobs in or around our region and salaries are good,” said Dr. Susan Hanrahan, dean of the ASU College of Nursing and Health Professions. “It is predicted that there will be one million vacancies in nursing by 2024.” ASU’s nursing program offers a variety of associate, baccalaureate, masters and doctoral degrees. Career fields include nursing, occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech-lan10 AUGUST 30, 2018

United Health Foundation 2017 America Health Rankings, we rank 48th as a state. So there is definitely an increased demand for health services.”

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ATU exercises the philosophy that career education is not and cannot be a one-size-fits-all proposition. Therefore,the school’s curriculum is intentionally diverse, to allow multiple access points to higher education.

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“From the technical certificates, certificates of proficiency and associate’s degrees offered through our Ozark campus to the associate’s, bachelor’s and Master’s degrees as well as a specialist and a doctoral degree available through our Russellville campus, ATU allows students the freedom to investigate the full breadth of options available,” said Sam Strasner, director of university relations. Arkansas Tech also provides a conduit between the classroom and some of the state’s most in-demand jobs, particularly in the area of STEM studies. “Arkansas Tech University is a partner in the statewide movement to prepare a generation of Arkansans who can code,” Strasner said.“ATU founded its Bachelor of Science degree in computer science education in 2016, a program which will provide a supply of prepared educators who grasp both the technical side of computer science and the pedagogical side of delivering that information to students.” Arkansas Tech students also have a new pathway to a credential in business beginning this fall, an Associate of Science degree in business from which students may choose to pursue a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree specializing in accounting, business data analytics, economics and finance, management and marketing. Or they may complete a Bachelor of Science degree in business education and a Master of Business Administration degree. ATU’s business data analytics program is the first baccalaureate degree program in Arkansas that approaches data analytics from a business perspective. Graduates from the business data analytics program are prepared to analyze data in a way that allows firms to determine strategy and solve problems. Also, Fall 2018 will mark the first time management and marketing have been offered as separate and distinct majors at ATU. Meanwhile, Arkansas Tech University-Ozark Campus is preparing the skilled workforce of the future leveraging a $644,000 Regional Workforce Grant to provide access to relevant career training in support of regional industries as identified by employers. ATU-Ozark will utilize these grant monies to increase development in its current automation, robotics and industrial control systems degree program with additional training in machinist technology and computer-aided drafting.

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When Dr. Mike Murders, chief academic officer at ATU-Ozark Campus, surveys the curriculum offered to his students, he has a hard time finding anything that doesn’t have a technology component to it. Even programs traditionally thought of as vocational are now evolved courses of study that prepare graduates for technology-driven fields. “These programs now require more computerized equipment

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so that we may teach and practice in industry-standard environments,” said Murders. “In addition, students in fields related to automotive repair now require more computer operations classes because they are essentially running networks through diagnostic machines, in many cases wirelessly.” Computer information technology is one popular STEM program at ATU-Ozark. Like many programs at ATU, it is a stackable degree that offers opportunities at the Certificate of Proficiency, Technical Certificate and Associate of Applied Science levels with the option to continue on to the pursuit of a four-year degree in related fields such as cybersecurity. “CIT is a broad degree,” said Murders. “It’s almost like a medical doctor in the sense that you can become a doctor, but if you want to specialize you go to a lot more school. You get a great overview of programming, networking, web design and multimedia in our program. We put graduates in position to be a general practitioner in computer information technology and give them the chance to go on into specialty areas such as

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An aging population, opioid addiction and rising diabetes and other chronic disease rates have health care specialties commanding top dollar in today’s workplace. Jenn McDannold, enrollment coordinator with Baptist Health College Little Rock identified two health care specialties that provided particular opportunity for students. One, histotechnology, is a key part of the laboratory field working to reach definitive answers in the diagnosis of patients. “Histology Technicians prepare tissue for microscopic study by a pathologist to confirm or identify disease processes,” she said. “Histology is a career field that is at the forefront of testing changes that occur in the human and animal bodies. The histology job market is expected to grow by 11.6 percent by 2026.” Baptist Health College offers a one-year specific histology training program earning an Associate’s Degree and the ability to work in areas such as hospital labs, research labs, both

HARDING UNIVERSITY

The university keeps its finger on the pulse of market trends to help identify the jobs and associate skills most in demand by companies. This has led the school to accelerate its programs in the most desired areas of study, according to Dr. Butch Gardner, director of career services. “The career choices that are in high demand continue to be in the STEM areas and business,” he said. “The top areas, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers, are engineering, business, computer science, accounting, economics, physical sciences, communications, social sciences and humanities. Harding offers top notch academic programs in each of these professional fields.” Harding continues to make investment in teaching and resources that benefit students in these areas, particularly in business, Gardner said. This has resulted in a curriculum and support services that rival much larger schools’ programs. “Our College of Business Administration placement rate was 98.3 percent last year, with students getting jobs in their field of study or planning to attend grad school within six months of graduation,” he said. “Along with strong programs in management, marketing, information systems, accounting, finance, economics and international business, Harding offers a major in professional sales which includes a specialized curriculum designed to prepare students to excel in a professional selling environment.” “All COBA students are in demand by employers, but accounting and information systems students have the highest demand. Accounting majors can receive full-time job offers one to two years before graduation and information systems majors can receive job offers 6 to 12 months before graduation.”

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HSU continues to see a high demand for medical professionals in the surrounding communities. Nursing students at Henderson State University have achieved a 100 percent pass rate on the NCLEX-RN exam for three consecutive years. Graduates also have maintained a 100 percent employment rate with jobs secured prior to graduation. Henderson State has expanded its programs to meet the needs of working professionals by offering online programs for RN to BSN, Family Nurse Practitioner and Nurse Administrator.

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Nursing students carry out their drills at National Park College in Hot Springs. networking, programming and coding software.” Much of the evolving technology emphasis at ATU-Ozark centers around the concept of automation technology. That vision has extended to the Arkansas Tech Career Center (ATCC) in Russellville, where a new automation technology lab opened in fall 2017 and will prepare both secondary and adult learners for the next generation of jobs in local industry. A similar effort will begin in Logan County when ATCC opens a new satellite campus in Paris in 2018. “There are a lot of good job opportunities in industry that are essentially facilities maintenance,” said Murders. “As some of the equipment has become more automated and now includes robotics, now we need people who have the skills to maintain and program that equipment. You might have a contract with Ford to make Ford parts, and then the next day you might be making parts for Harley-Davidson. Industry has to be able to make those quick and accurate adjustments, and we are in the business of producing graduates who can do just that.” 12 AUGUST 30, 2018

diagnostic or pharmaceutical, animal research, crime labs, travel positions or teaching positions. Another health care specialty in high demand is sleep technology, also called Polysomnographic (PSG) Technology. This specialty is an allied health specialty focused on the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders. “Sleep medicine is a fascinating and rapidly expanding field of expertise,”McDannold said.“New advances in sleep medicine, technology and a growing public awareness into the health consequences of sleep disorders have led to an increasing need for qualified sleep technologists.” PSG techs operate a variety of electronic monitoring devices, record brain (EEG) and cardiac (ECG) activity, breathing, blood oxygen levels, muscle activity, eye movements, and other physiological events during a sleep study. Baptist Health College Little Rock offers a one-year program with no college prerequisites, for students interested in Sleep Technology. At the end of this one-year program, graduates have the ability to sit for certification and begin working in the health care field.

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Offering 41 majors, with top programs in business administration, graphic design, engineering, construction management, counseling, teacher education and nursing, JBU graduates are sought-after in their chosen fields of endeavor. Students put their knowledge into practice through real-world experience, as well as competing against students nationally. While in school, JBU students have the opportunity to showcase their abilities against peers from across the country in various academic competitions. JBU’s Enactus team, which focuses on entrepreneurial projects, placed first over 200 teams at the Enactus United States National Exposition last year, and competed against 35 countries at the Enactus World Cup in London. Since 2012, JBU’s business teams have advanced to Reynolds Tri-State Governor’s Cup Business Plan Competition. JBU construction management students received second place in the commercial building category at the Associated Schools of Construction Region 5 annual competition in Dallas, sponsored by TEXO. The squad also placed third at the 7th Annual Disaster Shelter Design Competition, sponsored by Samaritan’s Purse International and hosted on JBU’s Siloam Springs campus.

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Nearly half of Lyon students in any recent graduating class are trained in allied health, education and business/accounting, said Andrew English, director of institutional research for the school. Such graduates are in demand because their education

has been shaped by the liberal arts philosophy, making them adaptable to a wide range of circumstances. “The beauty of a liberal arts degree is that it is never antiquated,” said English. “So while we add things like new technology and programs into our curriculum, the skills and attributes our graduates possess upon graduation enable them to handle any challenge. This is precisely what we mean when we say our programs ‘foster the critical, creative thought and ethical, spiritual growth that will prepare students for fulfilling personal and professional lives.’” STEM curriculum is a particular specialty of the school. Fifty-six percent of Lyon students enroll with an interest in STEM, at least 20 percent more than any other category. The biology program alone teaches 320 percent more credit hours than in 2008-2009. “The outlook for STEM students truly depends on the student’s field, level of education, and willingness to go where the jobs are. STEM students are in demand, for certain, but these factors play a significant role,” English said. “Computer science students and mathematics majors are in high demand as the economy becomes ever more data-driven. Lyon’s biology and chemistry students are also in demand though careers in those fields often require post-graduate education. Lyon was also awarded as a Business College of Distinction by Colleges of Distinction for the 2017-2018 school year.”

advanced manufacturing, and finance. “The business community and corporate leaders have long tried to stay on top of emerging job trends,”said Randy Zook, president and chief executive officer of the Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce. “This partnership meets the demands of business and creates opportunity for more high quality jobs in our community.”

year. The curriculum is offered in partnership with MISO Energy which is providing ongoing academic counsel and support. With partial funding from the Arkansas Department of Education, the cybersecurity program will be administered by Philander’s Workforce Innovation Strategic and Economic Public Private Partnership Program (WISE P3). WISE P3’s purpose is to address the key areas of need in the state’s workforce through a mix of portable certifications, two-year technical and four-year applied degree programs, in the areas of computer coding, STEM, healthcare,

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UA Cossatot is committed to providing the skillset and expertise that enables graduates to

land the job of their choice and build a career. “Welding has been one of those career choices that has stayed in high demand since our program began; pay for welders can be $17 to $29 per hour,” said Emily Newlin, director of Institutional Advancement. “Local industries are assisting UA Cossatot in providing the necessary equipment and expertise to train students in industrial maintenance, a field that is expanding due to the age of current workers. Students completing this program successfully are almost guaranteed a job in the community.”

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National Park College is a fast-growing school, serving students with a broad range of expertise. Graduates find meaningful employment in diverse fields including nursing, business, education and a range of technical specialties. “All of the medical areas of study, especially nursing, has stayed in high demand over the last 5 to 7 years,” said Mary Kay Wurm, director of career services. “The registered nursing (RN) field is projected to grow because of the aging population and their medical problems. (Demand for) Practical Nurses is projected to grow as well. PNs will be needed in residential care facilities and in home health environments to care for older patients.” “Overall employment in Medical Lab Technology is projected to grow 13 percent. Again, the aging population will produce a greater need to diagnose medical conditions.” Technical positions are also expected to remain in high demand, Wurm said. “The need for automotive service technicians and mechanics is growing as the number of vehicles in use is expected to continue to rise. Service technicians will be needed to perform basic maintenance and repair,” she said. “There is a large demand for marine technologists locally, as we have four area lakes and many resorts. NPC has the only Marine Repair Technology program in the state.

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Philander Smith College has launched a new cybersecurity technical- and four-year degree program with the start of the 2018-2019 school

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In addition to supporting traditional skills, UA Cossatot has also branched out into a wider array of curriculum tailored to help meet the labor demands of the modern workplace. “Southwest Arkansas has a shortage of business professionals to fill jobs. The Associate of Applied Science degrees that UA Cossatot offers (business management, accounting, and administrative assistant) can be completed online and will prepare students to fill these vacancies,” Newlin said. “UA Cossatot also offers an Associate of Science degree with a STEM concentration to allow for easier transition to a four-year university where they will pursue a STEM bachelor degree.”

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Laura Wattles, creative director of marketing. “This is an exciting time to be a STEM graduate,”she said. “The four biggest problems that confront the global, human family are food insufficiency, an unstable climate, weak cybersecurity, and a lack of clean, renewable energy. The solutions to all four problems lie in the STEM disciplines.” Domestically, STEM employment growth is outpacing the general economy by more than 300 percent, Wattles said, adding the next five years are predicted to see as many as 1.3 million new STEM jobs. In Arkansas alone, there are more than 5,000 unfilled positions in engineering. “These positions aren’t just plentiful, they also pay well. In the United States, the average professional with a STEM degree earns about $78,000 annually, compared to the annual average wage for Americans of approximately $43,000. If current trends hold, it is estimated that nearly a third of domestic STEM jobs could go unfilled by 2020.” In 2016, UAFS launched an initiative to grow the workforce of the future, specifically, to produce career-ready graduates who possess key skills in a variety of fields. Utilizing a Regional Workforce Grant and local RWG team, UAFS is targeting career-

Technology graduates receive excellent starting salaries and substantial opportunities for rapid advancement and pay increases as they gain experience,” said Keli Jacobi, associate director of communications and marketing.“Also in EIT, students prepare for careers as computer and data scientists, where business demand for their skills is high and reflected in top salaries.” UALR continues to be a leader in computer science and technology fields, another high-growth, high-potential industry. “Big data majors continue to find high paying jobs because of the global need for data analysts,” Jacobi said. “Information quality, bioinformatics, information assurance and integrated computing are majors worth considering since median salaries in these jobs range from $60,000 to $110,000 depending on degree level and marketplace.” The school is also a center for excellence in the arts and humanities, fields that contribute to the well-roundedness of any graduate in any field. “Every graduate should acquire critical thinking skills that employers need, and therefore certain core courses in the humanities will always play a role at UA Little Rock,” Jacobi said. “The departments and majors housed within our College of Arts, Letters, and Sciences cover a broad section of the traditional humanities core, from history to English to the sciences, to math and the arts. “Majors that are particularly noteworthy include the state’s only Dance Performance major, which places a large focus on a successful career in the arts. Program graduates are dancing in Italy, New York, Los Angeles, and other cities across the U.S.”

The state’s flagship university not only features some of the best curriculum and teaching expertise in Arkansas, but leverages those attributes with partnerships within the larger community. Nowhere is that more evident than in the field of business. “Northwest Arkansas is home to some of the largest companies in the world, including seven Fortune 500 companies, and they need graduates who are well-versed in information science, logistics, supply chains, traditional management and marketing,” said Charlie Alison of university relations. “Nearly 90 percent of our Walton College of Business graduates have jobs lined up before graduation. The average salary for a Walton undergraduate business major is close to $53,000. MBA graduates’ median salary was $69,000, and 85 percent of them land a job within three months of graduation.” All seven departments at the Walton College – accounting, economics, finance, information systems, management, marketing and supply UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS chain management – are recognized as outThe United States Department of Labor standing both in their scholarly research and Occupational Outlook Handbook reported that the quality of their graduates. Of particular note, the top occupations projected to have a growth the Walton College’s supply chain management rate of 30 percent or higher, and create the department continues to grow and expand its highest number of new jobs, are home health influence in the fields of transportation and aides, personal financial advisors and physical retail. U.S. News & World Report ranks it number therapists. Marie Smallwood, UCA associate 13 in the nation among similar public supply director of career services, said the school has chain departments. invested in its curriculum to help student take “As we empower our students with businessadvantage of these growing fields. related knowledge, understanding, skills, expe“While home health aides only require a high rience, and a network, we serve as catalysts for school diploma, to offer advanced care a bachtransforming their lives, because these increase elor’s degree or higher is required. The degree Philander Smith College is enjoying a boom in numbers thanks to cutting edge the likelihood of success in business,”said Walton fields that UCA offers to help in this field will be instruction and equipment. College Dean Matthew A. Waller. “Business can found in the College of Health and Behavioral provide individuals with an avenue for exercising creativity, related studies in computer science, technology and robot Sciences,” she said. “Personal financial advisors can stem from a unlocking innovation, and operating with an entrepreneurautomation. The program is a cross-campus initiative, which variety of majors; UCA offers a bachelor’s and master’s degree ial spirit. It is our vision to be a catalyst for transforming lives engages academic experts from the College of Applied Science in accounting and finance. UCA also offers a doctoral degree through business; developing our diverse student groups and Technology and the College of Science, Technology, in Physical Therapy.” into successful business people can clearly be transformative.” Engineering and Math. The school offers one of the strongest business departments Many degrees outside of the Walton College also benefit from “Two partner groups are engaged with UAFS in this in the state. Smallwood said business specialties are expected the university’s strong ties to the local business community. endeavor: Educators and industries,” Wattles said. “K-12 school to grow 8 percent by 2024 and UCA has the curriculum to allow In information technology, mathematics and other fields, U of districts that have joined us as education partners include graduates to take advantage of these opportunities. A graduates are in high demands among local corporations. Alma, Booneville, Charleston, Fort Smith, Fort Smith Future, “Accountants and auditors are in demand due to the strong “The state and region have a shortage of workers in the Greenwood and Van Buren plus 20 additional school districts regulatory environment to prepare and examine financial information technology sector, so interest in computer engiwho are members of the Guy Fenter Educational Services documents. The NACE Job Outlook 2017 survey reported that neering, computer science and information systems continues Cooperative at County Line. Our industry partners are numerfinance, accounting, business administration/management are to be brisk, with after-graduation placement rates of between ous and serve as mentors to the students and professional the top business fields in demand,” she said. “UCA offers bach78 and 87 percent,” said Alison. “Nearly 100 percent of recently advisors to our faculty.” elor degrees in each of these areas. We also offer a Master of graduated, full-time Master of Information Systems students Business Administration with areas of concentration in finance, were employed by graduation. Employers include General health care administration, information management and interUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS LITTLE ROCK Motors, Hewlett Packard, Tyson Foods Inc., Atlas Technology national business, and a Master of Accountancy.” One consistent high-demand field since the recession has been Group, Walmart, J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc., HP, Symantec, One new curriculum at UCA looks to improve the safety and the engineering and construction industry, which employs Capital One, Dr. Pepper and Acxiom.” security of computing networks. more than 10 percent of the workforce. This spike in demand “The University of Central Arkansas is adding a bachelor’s has created a critical shortage within these professions to fill a degree in cybersecurity starting in fall 2018,” Smallwood said. variety of rewarding design, managerial, and supervisory roles UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FORT SMITH “This multidisciplinary program is designed to produce graduin this dynamic industry. Of all of the degrees that can can be attained at UAFS, the most ates who can identify, assess and manage cyber threats.” “UA Little Rock’s College of Engineering and Information in-demand positions fall within the STEM fields, according to 14 AUGUST 30, 2018

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number of Arkansas colleges and universities continue to enhance the student learning environment by investing in infrastructure. Athletic facilities, dormitories and classroom

celebrated its grand opening earlier this year. The facility will allow ATU-Ozark Campus to provide courses in automation technology, allied health and adult education in Paris as an Arkansas Tech Career Center (ATCC) satellite location. The center enables access to credit-bearing credential, certificate and degree attainments offered through Arkansas Tech-Ozark Campus and provide high school students in Scranton, Magazine and Paris with concurrent college credit at no charge. Adult learners will also have the opportunity to take both GED coursework and industry training classes as a result of the new facility.

buildings are all examples of these type of improvements.

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Red Wolves Convention Center and Hotel, a $60 million Embassy Suites Hotel and regional convention center, is under construction at Arkansas State. The first of its kind in Jonesboro, the eight-story complex will also serve as an internship laboratory for Griffin College of Business majors working on hospitality management courses. Construction on the project, a publicprivate partnership with O’Reilly Hospitality, is currently about 40 percent complete, with an opening scheduled in 2019. A $625,000 expansion of the university’s pedestrian and cyclists (PAC) trail system opened this summer, adding a ¾-mile separated multi-use path along University Loop. The new trail connects the recently opened graduate and faculty housing area, The Circle, to campus and is the first phase of a planned loop for walkers, runners and riders around A-State.

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Among the improvements in the floor-to-ceiling renovation are high-efficiency LED lighting, sound-resistant construction, sinks and new modular furniture, which will allow residents to maximize and personalize their room. This summer, JBU will also complete the Peer-Andrus Studio and Project Barn, which will provide studio and project space for art and engineering students. The 16,800-square-foot facility will include a space for commercial photography, video shoots, a wood shop and three large project areas for art students. As well, one large project area with 17 flexible workstations will be available for engineering students with a shared common entrance with offices and restrooms.

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The Scots’ athletic facilities are getting a boost with a new multi-purpose practice facility, the first phase of which, including turf and lighting, was completed in time for classes in Fall 2018 with the remainder of work slated to be completed in 2019.

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Big things are happening at Hot Springs’ National Park College. The school’s board Arkansas Tech University has received a approved last August a $15 million campus $500,000 grant from the Arkansas Natural extension to include construction of a new and Cultural Resources Council (ANCRC) to student commons facility, renovation of help fund a renovation of Williamson Hall the Fisher Campus Center, and updates to on its Russellville campus. Combined with technical program facilities. The project is an initial $600,000 grant awarded to ATU expected to be completed in August, 2019. in 2016 and a second grant of $600,000 in The new building will house a bookstore, 2017, the ANCRC has now committed $1.7 food services, coffee shop and other stumillion to the renovation project, which Lyon College’s Scots athletes and fans have even more to celebrate with brand new dent amenities. The first floor will include began in spring 2018 and is anticipated to facilities in the works. conference space, and the second floor be completed by the end of the calendar will include classroom spaces as well as offices for student year. Planned improvements to the two-story facility include HENDERSON STATE support staff. improving accessibility through the installation of an elevator, Henderson State University is introducing several new degree A new marine technology building will also be constructed enhancing safety features and improving the heating, ventiprograms in fall of 2018. The Master of Science in Nursing as part of phase one of the master plan, while the Gerald Fisher lation and air conditioning systems. The latest $500,000 grant degree includes new tracks for Family Nurse Practitioner and Campus Center will be converted into classroom spaces and will help ATU pursue a collaborative classroom, roof repairs and Nurse Administrator. These programs are geared for the workwill be home to the Innovative Technologies Center and the insulation replacement. ing professional with online classes plus an orientation meetHospitality and Tourism Program. The latter program attracted ATU dedicated its new $3.86 million multi-sport complex with ing on campus. Henderson also now offers bachelor degrees $400,000 in investment from the Oaklawn Foundation in April, a ceremony in April. The new facility provides indoor practice in engineering and social work. funds that will be used for new equipment and construcspace for the intercollegiate baseball, softball, tennis and men’s tion and renovation of the 7,500-square-foot Hospitality and and women’s golf programs at Tech. Locker rooms and office JOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY Tourism Center. space for the baseball program, a training room and a conferJBU has been on a tear when it comes to new construction ence room are also included in the project. It is anticipated that in recent years. More than 90 percent of JBU’s main campus additional intercollegiate athletics programs at Tech and stubuildings have been renovated or newly built since 2000 PHILANDER SMITH COLLEGE dents from the Department of Health and Physical Education and that progress continues for the current term. The school PSC’s Nursing Nook, a collaboration between Philander Smith will also utilize the facility. completed this summer a $6 million renovation of Mayfield College, Arkansas Department of Health, Healthy Active Arkansas The $1.3 million Tyson Foods Logan County Career Center Residence Hall, the university’s historic women’s dormitory. and Sisters United, provides breastfeeding accommodations 16 AUGUST 30, 2018

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in a centrally located area for students, faculty and staff. The PSC Nursing Nook is the first free-standing room solely dedicated to nursing among Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the state. Statistically, African-American mothers have the lowest rate of breastfeeding initiation and duration and the Nook seeks to reduce this disparity by promoting breastfeeding in the workplace and institutional settings, making it the norm. In response to PSC’s rapid enrollment growth, the college launched Panther Village South Campus, a student housing and learning community two blocks from the main campus. Panther Village was created to accommodate an overflow of some 60 students who were unable to secure on-campus housing due to capacity issues. The college’s 400 dorm beds have been full since 2016. Located in the 1600 Block of Chester Street in the Dunbar School Neighborhood Historic District, Panther Village houses six temporary modular housing units in a secured, gated area with 24-hour security personnel and on-site PSC professional staff. The modern-styled, prefabricated modular homes offer comfortable student living in a community whose aesthetic is reflective of the quality and dignity of the historic neighborhood in which it sits.

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Capital improvements have been full steam ahead in Magnolia these days with projects that benefit the majority of the student body. Foremost among these is the new Arkansas Hall dormitory, construction of which began in July. The $8 million structure will feature 132 beds and joins three other residence halls to provide a total capacity of 500 students living on campus. Other major projects include a tennis complex, which was finished in August at a cost of $625,000, serving the Mulerider tennis teams, intramurals and the community. A golf driving range and putting practice facility also welcomed new and returning students this fall. The Agriculture Shop for the Department of Agriculture/College of Science and Engineering was also completed in time for the start of the semester, providing additional shop space at a cost of nearly $300,000. Finally, SAU Beyond the Campus project was completed in August, providing continuing education classrooms and retail. The build-out of the donated building in downtown Magnolia was completed at a cost of $120,000.

pleted in time for football season at a cost of $160 million. Four sorority house projects are all in various stages of completion including Delta Delta Delta’s renovation and expansion and the new Phi Mu and Alpha Chi Omega houses, which are all completed or will be completed by the end of the year. The new Delta Gamma sorority will be completed in 2019. The university also opened a 27,000-squarefoot high-density storage facility for the University Libraries, which will hold 1.8 million volumes as part of the renovation of Mullins Library

and continued work on the 200,000-squarefoot Stadium Drive Residence Halls began in late 2017 and is expected to be finished for the 2019 fall semester. The latter project will offer a Living Learning Community aimed at students majoring in the fine arts, design and English and will include a recording studio, gallery spaces, music practice rooms, a dance studio and performance spaces.

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Academic buildings and residence halls received extensive attention recently. UCA

spent nearly $7 million on Conway Hall and Hughes Residence Hall including new HVAC and electrical work throughout, new private restrooms, upgraded data cabling and new card key access. Hughes was ready for the new term; Conway Hall will be completed next fall. The school is spending an additional nearly $2 million for roof work on the Snow Fine Arts Building (to be completed in 2019) and roof work and new HVAC ductwork on Mashburn Hall, home of the College of Education (completed in September).

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Arkansas’ flagship university continues to impress, investing heavily in infrastructure across a variety of projects. The list includes completion of Kimpel Hall addition, providing more space for classrooms, labs, offices and a student media studio at a cost of $13.6 million and a $15 million, 20,000-square-foot expansion of the Pat Walker Health Center offering students broader and more comprehensive services and programs. The much-anticipated North End Zone Renovation and Addition to Reynolds Razorback Stadium, which began in 2016, was com-

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any people consider college to be among the best experiences of their lives, but there’s no denying that it can be stressful too, between maintaining grades, working toward that first job, lack of sleep and a

whole raft of new social challenges. The American Psychological Association reported in 2017 that 61 percent of college students seeking counseling reported anxiety, 49 percent has issues with depression and 45 percent had problems with stress, which is why Arkansas’ colleges and universities have expanded

suicide. Those seeking assistance will find licensed counselors ready to listen in the ATU Counseling Center which provides free and confidential counseling, consultation and outreach services to the Tech community.

HARDING UNIVERSITY

The Ganus Activities Complex is recently renovated and offers racquetball and swimming in addition to basketball, volleyball, soccer and more. A two-story weight room and suspended track allows student to work off stress through exercise. Other stress-busting attractions include concerts, movies on campus, theatre programs and arts events during Homecoming. These include a school musical, theatre performances, Arts and Life concert series and Spring Sing, Harding’s annual spring music and dance, is an event produced by students. Counseling resources and services are available at no cost to students. A staff of six professional counselors answer questions and provide confidential counseling services as needed, assisting students in all areas of life. Harding University is a residential campus with a nightly curfew, creating opportunities for residence life staff to interact with each student on a daily basis. A Residence Life Coordinator lives in each residence hall providing visible and available support to students. The Counseling Center meets with resident assistants to provide ways to recognize changes in student behavior. The university also maintains a robust Student Health Services department, which assists students in maintaining optimum mental, physical, social and spiritual wellness. Staffed by registered nurses, the department handles health consultation and treatment of minor illness and injuries at no cost to students.

It’s easy to connect at Harding, with more than 100 social, musitheir offering of campus groups, health and wellness facilities and counseling. cal, religious and academic clubs and organizations as well as oncampus radio and television stations and a student newspaper. ARKANSAS TECH UNIVERSITY The intramural program, involving more than 60 percent of Involvement is the name of the game at ATU, with more than the student body, includes both team and individual sports. 170 registered student organizations representing a wide Harding helps new student adjust quickly via Bison Bound, variety of academic, professional and social interests. The year Harding’s mandatory two-day summer orientation program starts off with Welcome Week, an annual series of events that for first-year students and their parents. During Bison Bound, helps orient new students and re-engage returning students students engage in activities designed to help them get off to and ends with Summer Send Off, a carnival environment with a fast start in college. Student Impact is the second phase of amusement rides and favorite treats from the midway. In first-year orientation for new students, a program packed with between, Student Activities Board keeps the entertainment activities designed to be engaging, entertaining and exciting. going throughout the school year with various social activities. Students move into their dorm room, meet and connect with All students have the chance to work off stress at Tech Fit, other incoming students and start their Harding experience on which provides a workout space and indoor walking track. The newly-opened Tech Connect trail on the HENDERSON STATE UNIVERSITY western boundary of campus provides Henderson supports healthy, social members of the ATU community with lifestyles with a variety of indoor and access to a network of outdoor bicycle outdoor amenities. The Charles D. Dunn and pedestrian trails including the Student Recreation Center, opened in Bona Dea Trails and Sanctuary. In all, 2009, is a hub of student activity and the Arkansas River Valley features more campus life, featuring an elevated jogthan 150 miles of trails. There are also ging and walking track, 12-foot climbing/ multiple waterways within an hour of bouldering wall, state-of-the-art weight campus which students can explore using training, cardio and fitness equipment outdoor equipment available through and multiple sports courts. ATU’s Office of Campus Recreation. Henderson’s dining hall provides vegArkansas Tech University’s Health etarian, vegan and gluten-free options and Wellness Center received a new and provides students with access to and expanded home in the Doc Bryan menus and nutritional information to Student Services Center at the beginhelp them plan a well-balanced diet. ning of the 2017-2018 academic year. On-campus health services provide The center assists the educational misprimary health care for illnesses, minor sion of Arkansas Tech by modifying or injuries and health promotion services removing health-related barriers to provided by registered nurses and an Henderson State University students participate in, and get to enjoy, the arts as well as personal development and learning. advanced practice registered nurse. athletics and social activities. Arkansas Tech University is also a A variety of organizations suit every leader in combating suicide on college campuses, hosting one interest and give students the chance to connect with their a good note. Approximately 200 students volunteer to answer of the top Out of the Darkness suicide prevention walks in the peers. Among the 90 groups are spiritual and religious orgaquestions and help them get oriented to life on campus. United States, raising more than $92,000 during its five-year nizations, social fraternities and sororities, community service Harding’s Center for Student Success also sponsors First Year history. Tech’s walk has been ranked among the top 10 such and social awareness organizations, departmental groups and Experience (FYE), a program to help students make key conevents in the United States on three occasions. honoraries. The slate of campus activities is equally robust and nections early in their academic career through connections That show of support for suicide awareness carries through includes various artistic performances, sporting events, free with the people, programs and resources necessary to lay a to other aspects of campus. Faculty, staff and students have the movies and other activities to bring students together. strong early foundation. FYE also provides student mentoroption to make a report to the ATU CARE team if they know The university also takes an active interest in the emotional ing, learning enhancement seminars and several other events of a member of the university community who is considering health of students. University Counseling Center is available throughout the school year. 18 AUGUST 30, 2018

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Providing a variety of extra-curricular activities, ministries and student services helps students connect with the JBU campus and the community. Student government, internships, studentled ministries, the campus newspaper and intramural sports teams are just a few of the ways to get involved. The Walton Lifetime Health Complex, recently renovated, provides students, faculty, staff and the Siloam Springs community access to athletic facilities and equipment for exercise and activities. Through the student counseling center and student support services, JBU is committed to providing resources to help every student achieve success in academics as well as developing healthy emotional, physical and spiritual habits.

skills. This year-long engagement helps students prepare to balance school and life. Lyon provides stress management activities during finals weeks such as massage sessions, playtime with animals from the local shelter and late-night breakfasts. Year around, Residence Life staff and Student Activities Council provide opportunities for de-stressing and self-care, hosting events such as bingo, trivia, bubble soccer and movies. Lyon College also encourages the social health of students through ample opportunities for connection on campus. With more than 30 interest-based clubs and six fraternities and sororities on campus, students can tailor activities to their passion. Students with common interests also meet up at departmentsponsored events such as public readings, lectures, musical performances and art shows. Finally, students maintain their physical and emotional wellbeing through the Lyon College Counseling Center, complete with on-campus counselor and tranquility room, and the Health & Wellness Center, which includes trails, disc golf course, rock wall and swimming pool.

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to help students with the variety of concerns, from roommate difficulties to loneliness, family and interpersonal conflicts. In cases concerning problems with drugs or alcohol, professional counselors provide one-on-one consultation for Henderson students who require in-depth or definitive therapy. Group therapy is also available to provide peer support in times of need.

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This fall, Lyon became the first college in Arkansas to offer a pet-friendly dorm, allowing students to bring their four-legged companions to college. The living unit is just one pet-friendly amenity on campus; the college’s new coffee shop and study area, The Salty Dog, offers treats for both pets and students. A fenced-in dog park is being added on campus to give dogs leash-free time outside and obedience courses are offered throughout the school year. Freshmen participate in mandatory Weeks of Welcome to connect with their peers and learn about the rest of the college. These programs help them adjust socially to college life. The college’s Residence Life staff have been trained in conflict resolution to help students gain problem-solving skills in social settings and resident assistants frequently host community developments to encourage bonding within the dorm. Freshmen take Year One, a course where they gain the skills they need as students such as stress and time management and study

The campus Wellness Center is the center of health and wellness at NPC. The facility features features a gym, workout rooms and a wide array of physical education classes. On-campus nursing handle an array of conditions and provide services including flu shots, blood pressure checks and blood sugar monitoring. Another feature, a mobile mammogram bus, visits campus regularly and a bi-annual Health and Wellness Fair links students, faculty, and staff with other resources in the community. NPC provides mental health services to all employees and students as requested. These confidential services support student success and personal growth in a warm and safe environment. Ongoing campus awareness events include workshops on anxiety and depression screenings, to name a few. Speakers from the community frequently present on campus on a variety of topics. A big part of student success lies in connections to the campus and peers, which has fostered a long list of campus organi-

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zations. Students participate in clubs dealing with academics, service, cultural diversity, student government and interests from running to anime to writing. The Nighthawk basketball team and cheer squad provide another opportunity to foster school spirit. NPC has one of the most developed suicide prevention programs in the state. Working in partnership with area hospitals, the college developed a three-tiered system for increasing awareness of and training for suicide prevention on campus. This includes intensive training on how to spot behaviors consistent with someone contemplating self-harm. In addition, NPC worked closely with the Veterans Community Partnership of the Ouachitas in hosting a one-day Veterans Mini-Mental Health Summit of the Ouachitas to address mental health and suicide prevention. Orientation is required of all new incoming students, at which time students are introduced to available services including tutoring, career pathways, Title IX, student conduct, mentoring, disability services, financial aid and veterans services.

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Studies show students who get involved are more likely to thrive in college and earn their degrees. SAU encourages students to take advantage of the complete college experience through more than 145 student organizations and an active campus events calendar, as well as community involvement and leadership opportunities. The number of SAU students living on campus has reached record numbers thanks to a range of comfortable residence halls and apartments that provide a family-like atmosphere. Each residence hall offers specific programs and activities catered to its residents. Students have the opportunity to join Residential Interest Groups (RIG) in which they live among peers who share interests or academic fields such as art, music, video gaming, business and agriculture to name a few. A representative from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention assists in educating housing staff on how to recognize warning signs and respond to students in crisis. The SAU Mulerider Activity Center (MAC) provides programs and services for open recreation, intramural sports, equipment checkout and special events. Students get free access to weight lifting and exercise equipment, basketball courts, indoor walking track and exercise and wellness classes. The SAU campus also provides a variety of extra-curricular facilities for students to exercise outdoors and enjoy intramural or leisure activities. New to campus are four official sand volleyball courts (for open and intramural play) and an 18-hole disc golf course. Combined with the campus walking trail and intramural softball and soccer fields, students have ample opportunity to stay active. SAU faculty and staff members receive regular training which includes stress and anxiety among students and best practices for communicating and offering avenues for support. The expanded SAU Counseling Center is available to students, faculty and staff for talking openly about a range of issues, including handling crisis situations, stress, mood disorders and developing coping skills. During regular office hours, the Counseling Center offers an “open door” policy in which students are seen immediately if there is a crisis. All entering students and their parents are educated on campus resources during initial orientation and SAU’s Freshman Seminar course. “Healthy U,” a wellness program, promotes resources within the Counseling Center, University Health Services, Disability Services and the Mulerider Activity Center. During orientation, incoming freshmen are also introduced to topics about how to thrive in college and all of the services and opportunities available to them on campus. Once enrolled, they are required to take a three-hour Freshman Seminar course, which further details best-practices on school-life balance, stress management, study and test-taking skills, campus services and other important issues.

Protocols are in place to monitor students who demonstrate a decline in academic performance, changes in behavior and mood and any reports of threats to harm self or others. SAU utilizes an early alert system which signals appropriate staff to reach out to students who appear to need assistance.

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Among public universities in Arkansas, the University of Arkansas has the highest graduation rate and continues to improve that number thanks to the impact of resources having a positive effect on students. University of Arkansas orientation provides key information about the university’s support programs to incoming freshmen to keep them healthy in mind and body. All freshmen are required to take a University Perspectives class covering a host of issues faced by students making the transition from high school to college, including good study habits, how to stay healthy and resources for instruction outside of class. The Pat Walker Health Center’s wellness and health promotion department helps students achieve a holistic balance between schoolwork and life outside the classroom. The team provides individual wellness coaching sessions and group presentations. The center also monitors health trends, such as the annual increase of flu reports, and works closely with students to mitigate spread of illness and speed recovery. The university has created an early-warning system to help spot students having difficulty in their first year and offer direct extra academic guidance and tutoring. The Center for Learning and Student Success offers academic coaching, supplemental instruction, tutoring and writing support. The Mathematics Resource and Teaching Center offers similar help for students enrolled in math-intensive courses. University Recreation offers facilities for student exercise and recreation. The primary facility, Health, Physical Education and Recreation (HPER) offers comprehensive fitness and recreational opportunities for all students. Club sports include rugby, hockey and quidditch and intramurals feature basketball, flag football and volleyball. Recreational outdoor activities such as rock-climbing, canoeing, kayaking and bicycling and inclusive recreation activities like wheelchair basketball are also offered. Pat Walker Health Center is accredited by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care and offers health care services to all students on campus, including wellness classes, psychological counseling, nutrition consultations, orthopedics, women’s health, men’s health and immunizations, among other services. The center also provides counseling and psychological services for clinical consultations, group therapy and psychiatric services for depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder, among others. The university offers 24-hour, seven-days-a-week mental crisis hotline service. In addition, the U of A Cares team provides referrals to resources and support for anyone experiencing feelings of depression, hopelessness or being overwhelmed. There are more than 380 registered student organizations and if a student can’t find an organization to their liking, they can start their own. University Programs plans more than 200 events annually for the campus community. Students organize campus entertainment programs, including concerts by national acts such as Foo Fighters, Kid Cudi, Blake Shelton and Spoon. They also select distinguished national and international lecturers to address campus which have included Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, former President George H.W. Bush, His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Bill Nye, the Science Guy.

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In 2016, UAFS christened a student-funded 48,000-square-foot fitness facility, The Recreation and Wellness Center (RAWC). Features include cardio and weightlifting areas, two basketball courts, 35-foot rock climbing wall, 15-foot bouldering

wall and two large studio spaces. Outdoor Adventures are also offered, which allow students to experience the natural beauty of Arkansas through birding, hiking and rafting. UAFS supports a robust intramurals program and a number of competitive sports clubs. The UAFS Student Life Office supports more than 100 registered student organizations which put on more than 1,500 events just last year. Campus Activities Board (CAB) hosts nearly 50 events each year from roller skating in the old gym and playing laser tag in the library to taking in a performance from a variety of entertainers. In the residence halls, full-time professional staff and resident assistants assist with any conflicts or roommate disputes.

community comes with many perks, from a greater chance at academic success through a living-learning community to social activities brimming with possibilities around the clock. Available to all students are intramurals, Greek life and numerous other student organizations, along with honor societies and social groups. Students also get in free to all Trojan basketball games and other men’s and women’s sports including volleyball, baseball and soccer. The school will offer wrestling beginning fall 2019, making UA Little Rock the only campus with a NCAA Division I wrestling program in the state. Another perk available to UA Little Rock students is free use of central Arkansas’ public transit system, Rock Region Metro.

Nothing beats autumn on campus, especially at the U of A Fayetteville when fall colors are at their peak. Roommate selection is either by request or through a software program that collects data on each resident and matches them to a roommate with similar interests. UAFS offers an on-campus counseling center to assist with students’ mental and emotional health concerns. Students receive up to eight free visits per academic year. In addition, the university employs staff members who are certified Question, Persuade, and Refer (QPR) trainers. QRP is a three-step methodology focusing on early recognition of suicidal ideation, the different warning signs and how to respond. There’s also a strong emphasis on follow-through via a behavioral intervention team that make contact with students and provide updates to the Student Affairs staff. The Student Affairs Division at UAFS sponsors #Umatter which focuses on a different topic each month. Among the topics are alcohol awareness, drug prevention, hazing prevention, bullying and sexual assault. A peer education group, Lion’s ROAR, hosts a variety of health-related programs to make students aware of the resources available to them.

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Whether students live on campus or off, they have many opportunities to get involved on campus. Being part of a residential

The university offers several orientation sessions throughout the summer to welcome its newest members of the Trojan family. Orientation helps familiarize students with the campus and living arrangements. Students are encouraged to get involved in learning communities, study groups, church activities, social organizations and other clubs and organizations as part of their transition. August’s Welcome Week helps integrate students into their new home away from home on campus. UA Little Rock’s campus amenities serve students’ physical and mental health. The university fitness center and pool, supported by Campus Recreation, enhances quality of life for students. A pathway meanders through the heart of campus and runs parallel to Coleman Creek is ideal for walking or running. Health Services provides a variety of outpatient clinical services and the campus garden utilizes organic and sustainable methods for cultivating fresh produce each year. Counseling Services promotes mental health and wellness within an individual, group, and community format. Counselors help students overcome personal barriers and life’s stresses, as well as assist student in exploring and assessing strengths and developing healthy and sustainable coping skills. In addition, every student receives Student Health 101, a monthly newsletter with articles that address issues of school-life balance,

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Office of Student Wellness and Development hosts awareness campaigns and programs throughout the year on a variety of topics including mental health, bystander intervention, stress management and alcohol and drug abuse prevention. The UCA Counseling Center, accredited by the International Association of Counseling Services, provides a wide range of mental health services, including consultations. The Counseling Center conducts educational programs for student organizations, classes, UCA departments, and the community upon UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS - PULASKI request. The university has a Behavioral TECHNICAL COLLEGE Intervention Plan in place designed to assist UA-PTC employs counselors for all faculty, staff and administration in respondstudents, as well as more specialing to concerning behaviors. ized services such as disability and Students have access to the campus Health, veterans services. The college also Physical Education and Recreation Center (HPER) hosts student health and wellness including a 10,000-square-foot weight room, fairs twice yearly. six-lane indoor lap pool, large group exercise Students can take a break from classrooms, racquetball courts, treadmills and studies by engaging in some of other equipment. Students can sign up for UA-PTC’s cultural activities. Its Center personal training sessions as well as fitness for Humanities and Arts is a state-ofNational Park College in Hot Springs is discussing the feasibility of adding residence halls and nutrition assessments. UCA also operates the-art facility hosting concerts by as part of their growth. the Campus Outdoor Pursuits and Activities internationally famous musical art(COPA) program by which students can check out equipment ists plus plays, lectures and other presentations. The Windgate and recreational activities to help students engage in campus such as kayaks, canoes and bicycles. Gallery features visual artist ranging from local heroes to interlife and to become active members of the UCA community. Christian Cafeteria on the UCA campus offers nutritious meals nationally renowned masters. The Student Activities Board (SAB) offers free events including for students with options to accommodate a variety of dietary comedians, concerts, movies, ice cream socials and laser tag. needs. From vegetarian and vegan options to gluten-free, stuThe Wellness Ambassador Program encourages healthy behavUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS dents enjoy wholesome meals at breakfast, lunch and dinner. iors among students through programming and events. The UCA offers more than 200 registered student organizations, clubs stress management, depression and health issues. The university also has a behavioral intervention team that meets to assess whether a student’s behavior warrants attention and/or appropriate intervention. Other assistance and support is available through the Trojan Food Pantry, Trojan Career Closet and The Alliance, an organization for LGBTQ individuals.

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CITY

PHONE

YEARS PUBLIC/PRIVATE

HRS/SEM

TUITION/SEM

HOUSING/SEM

TOTAL SEMESTER COST

ARKANSAS BAPTIST COLLEGE

Little Rock

501-420-1200

4-year Private

12-18

$4,380

$4,412 (double occupancy: 16 meals/week)

$9,033 (Tuition + room & board)

ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY

Jonesboro

870-972-2100/1-800-382-3030 (in-state only)

4-year Public

15 (full-time undergraduate)

$4,247 (in-state)

$4,160 (room & board)

$8,407

ARKANSAS TECH UNIVERSITY

Russellville

479-968-0343/ 1-800-582-6953

4-year Public

$4,534 (includes fees)

starting at $3,103 (includes meals)

$7,637 (not including books)

CENTRAL BAPTIST COLLEGE

Conway

501-329-6872/1-800-205-6872

4-year Private

$7,575

$3,750

$11,325

CROWLEY’S RIDGE COLLEGE

Paragould

870-236-6901

4-year Private

12 or more

$5,625

$3,175 (includes meal plan)

$9,975 for boarding students

HARDING UNIVERSITY

Searcy

800-477-4407

4-year Private

$9,570

$3,502

$13,527

HENDERSON STATE UNIVERSITY

Arkadelphia

870-230-5028/800-228-7333

4-year Public

12-15

$2,652 (12 hrs)

$3,228 (room & board)

with fees, approx. $6,880

HENDRIX COLLEGE

Conway

501-450-1362/800-277-9017

4-year Private

4 courses/sem

$22,895 (including fees)

$6,142 (including meals)

$29,037

JOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY

Siloam Springs

877-528-4636/479-524-7157

4-year Private

12-18

$12,875

$4,612

$18,076

LYON COLLEGE

Batesville

870-307-7000/800-423-2542

4-year Private

12-17 (including tuition costs)

$14,395

$4,565 (for freshmen)

$18,960

OUACHITA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY

Arkadelphia

870-245-5110/800-DIAL-OBU

4-year Private

up to 18

$13,395 (including fees)

$3,940 (room & board)

$17,335

PHILANDER SMITH COLLEGE

Little Rock

501-370-5221

4-year Private

12-16

$5,902

1st/2nd-yr $2,596/upperclass suites $2,954; board/ sem $1,528; room reservation $235

$10,459

SOUTHERN ARKANSAS UNIVERSITY

Magnolia

870-235-4040

4-year Public

$3,420

$3,070

$7,468

UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK

Little Rock

800-482-8892

4-year Public

$4,888 (15 hrs)

$3,373 (including room & board)

$8,842 (est 15 hrs tuition/fees, rm/brd, books/ supplies)

UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT MONTICELLO

Monticello

870-460-1026/800-844-1826

4-year Public

$150/credit hr

$1,320-$2,260

$8,503 including campus room & board

UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS PINE BLUFF

Pine Bluff

870-575-8000

4-year Public

$2,454 (AY 2018-19)

$4,141 (20 meals)

$8,062 (based on 15 hrs/sem)

UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS

Fayetteville

479-575-5346/800-377-8632

4-year Public

$4,565 (including fees)

$5,510 (room & board)

$10,075

UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS

Conway

501-450-5000

4-year Public

$4,376

3427 (room & board)

$7,803

UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT FORT SMITH

Fort Smith

479-788-7120/888-512-5466

4-year Public

$166/credit hr (in-state); $461/credit hr(out-of-state)

$2,208-$3,506/sem + meal plan

Varies

UNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS

Clarksville

479-979-1227/800-264-8636

4-year Private

12-17

$12,115

$3,700

$15,815 (not including books or fees)

WILLIAMS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY

Walnut Ridge

800-722-4434/870-759-4120

4-year Private

12-17

$8,100

$3,900/$560 general fees

$12,560

2 YEAR COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIE

CITY

PHONE

YEARS PUBLIC/PRIVATE

HRS/SEM

TUITION/SEM

HOUSING/SEM

TOTAL SEMESTER COST

ARKANSAS NORTHEASTERN COLLEGE

Blytheville

870-762-1020

2-year Public

$70/hr

N/A

$1,050 plus fees

ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY BEEBE

Beebe

501-882-3600

2-year Public

$100/hr

$2,640(double); $3,065 (single)(including meals)

$1,440 tuition/fees

ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY MID-SOUTH

West Memphis

870-733-6722/866-733-6722

2-year Public

1-18

$92/hr (in-county); $112/hr (out-of-county/in-state); $152/ hr (out-of-state)

N/A

Approx. $2,600 but varies depending on academic/ technical program (does not include transportation, personal expenses, housing).

ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY AT MOUNTAIN HOME

Mountain Home

870-508-6100

2-year Public

$96/hr

N/A

$1,152 plus books & fees

ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY AT NEWPORT

Newport

800-976-1676

2-year Public

$96/hr

N/A

$2,610 (plus books & fees)

ARKANSAS TECH UNIVERSITY OZARK

Ozark

479-667-2117

2-year Public

$1,830

Commuter Campus

$1,830 (plus books, fees and materials as applicable)

BAPTIST HEALTH COLLEGE LITTLE ROCK

Little Rock

501-202-6200/800-345-3046

2-year Private

Varies by program

No Campus Housing

Varies by program

BLACK RIVER TECHNICAL COLLEGE

Pocahontas

870-248-4000

2-year Public

$122/ credit hr with fees (Fall 2018)

N/A

Varies

COLLEGE OF THE OUACHITAS

Malvern

501-337-5000/800-337-0266

2-year Public

$1,470

N/A

$1,470 plus books & fees

COSSATOT COMMUNITY COLLEGE OFTHE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS

De Queen

870-584-4471/800-844-4471

2-year Public

$85/hr (in-county)/$100/hr (non-resident)

N/A

$1100-$1500

EAST ARKANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE

Forrest City

870-633-4480/877-797-EACC

2-year Public

$85/credit hr (in-county); $95/hr (out-of-county); $113/ hr (out-of-state)

N/A

NATIONAL PARK COLLEGE

Hot Springs

501-760-4159

2-year Public

$90/hr, $1,350 max in-district; $100/hr, $1,500 max out-of-district

N/A

Varies

NORTH ARKANSAS COLLEGE

Harrison

870-743-3000/800-679-6622

2-year Public

$1,065 (in-county)

N/A

NORTH WEST ARKANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE

Bentonville

479-986-4000/800-995-6922

2-year Public

$1,125 in-district ($75/credit hr); $1,837.50 out-of-district ($122.50/credit hr)

N/A

$2,164 in-district, $2,876 out-of-district (tuition/ fees/books)

OZARKA COLLEGE

Melbourne

870-368-7371

2-year Public

12-15

$90/hr

N/A

Varies

PHILLIPS COMMUNITY COLLEGE

Helena

870-338-6474

2-year Public

$71/hr

N/A

$1,465

PULASKI TECHNICAL COLLEGE

North Little Rock

501-812-2200

2-year Public

Varies

$132.73/credit hr, in-state

N/A

The average cost of tuition and basic fees for a fulltime student taking 15 hours is $2,815 per semester.

UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS RICH MOUNTAIN

Mena

479-394-7622

2-year Public

$1,215

N/A

$2,130 including fees & books

SHORTER COLLEGE

North Little Rock

501-374-6305

2-year Private

$2,052

N/A

$3000 including books

SOUTH ARKANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE

El Dorado

870-864-7142

2-year Public

$1,260/$1,455/$2,580

N/A

Varies

SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS COLLEGE

Pine Bluff

870-850-8605/888-SEARKTC

2-year Public

3-18

$96/hr

N/A

Varies

SOUTHERN ARKANSAS UNIVERSITY TECH

Camden

870-574-4500

2-year Public

$108/hr (in-state); $156/hr (out-of-state)

$1300/sem double (on-campus); $1400/sem double (off-campus]; $1850/sem single

Varies

UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE AT BATESVILLE

Batesville

870-612-2000

2-year Public

$74/hr (in-district); $87.50/hr (out-of-district)

N/A

Varies

UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE AT HOPETEXARKANA

Hope & Texarkana

870-777-5722

2-year Public

$66/credit hr (in-district); $74/hr (out-of-district)

N/A

$1,350 (including textbooks)

UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE AT MORRILTON

Morrilton

800-264-1094

2-year Public

$91/hr (in-district); $101/hr (in-state)

N/A

$2,000 including books

TO COMPILE THIS, FORMS WERE SENT TO EVERY QUALIFIED COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY WITH INSTRUCTIONS TO RETURN BY A SPECIFIED DEADLINE. THOSE SCHOOLS NOT MEETING THE DEADLINE WERE REPEATED FROM LAST YEAR. EVERY ATTEMPT IS MADE TO GATHER AND VERIFY THE INFORMATION. INFORMATION CURRENT AS OF AUGUST 2018. 24 AUGUST 30, 2018

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FINANCIALAIDDEADLINE % ON AID

SCHOLARSHIP DEADLINE REQUIRED EXAMS

APP DEADLINE FEE

CREDIT EXAM ACCEPTED COMMENT

June 30th

97%

None

ACT/SAT/ACCUPLACER

Open Enrollment

CLEP

Home of the Buffaloes! BE SEEN. BE HEARD!

June 30th

77%

Feb. 1st

ACT/ASSET/SAT

1st day of classes/$15-Undergraduate;$30-Graduate/Masters Specialist; $40-International Students; $50-Doctoral

AP/CLEP

In-state tuition available to out-of-state students residing in counties in contiguous states. There is a higher per-credit-hour tuition for A-State courses in the following colleges: Griffin College of Business, Engineering, Nursing & Health Professions, and Sciences & Mathematics. www.astate.edu

Open

75%

Nov. 15 Priority, Feb. 15 Final

ACT/SAT

Open/No Fee

AP/CLEP

Find your path to ATU at explore.atu.edu. www.atu.edu

July 31st

99%

Dec. 10th First Priority

ACT/SAT

Aug. 15

AP/CLEP

Central Baptist College is committed to transforming lives through education that integrates Christain faith and academic excellence in a Christ-centered environment. www.cbc.edu

Open

80%

Aug. 1st

ACT/SAT

Aug. 1

CLEP/AP

CRC feels like home! If you would like to set up a visit, contact Chris Hughes at chughes@crc.edu or call 870-236-6901. You can get more information at www.crc.edu.

Aug. 1st

95%

Aug. 1st

ACT/SAT

Open/$50

AP/CLEP/IB

One of America’s leading character-building colleges with a distinguished academic program. www.harding.edu

N/A

90%

June 1st

ACT/SAT

None

AP/CLEP/IB

Connecting academic aspirations to career opportunities. hsu.edu

Mar. 1 Priority

100%

Feb. 1st for most scholarships, however scholarships are awarded through all application deadlines.

ACT/SAT

Early Action I - Nov. 15, Early Action II - Feb. 1

AP/IB

All Hendrix students complete hands-on learning experiences through the Hendrix Odyssey Program, which offers grants for projects from internships and international study to undergraduate research and serivce. www.hendrix.edu

Mar. 1 Priority

90%

Mar. 1 Priority

ACT/SAT/CLT

Rolling/$25

AP/CLEP/IB

John Brown University, a private Christian university founded in 1919, serves over 2,600 students from 51 nations and 40 states. JBU is Arkansas’s top-ranked regional university (U.S. News & World Report), and its graduates earn a higher average salary than graduates from every other Arkansas university (CNBC). www.jbu.edu

Rolling, but priority consideration by Feb. 1st

99%

Rolling, but priority consideration by Mar. 1st

ACT/SAT

Early Action 1 - November 15, 2018, Early Action 2 - February 15, 2019, Regular Decision April 1, 2019

AP/IB

Over the last three years, 95% of Lyon graduates are employed or continuing their education within six months of graduation. 96% of students who graduate from Lyon graduate within four years. More than 87% of Lyon graduates who apply to medical school are accepted - more than double the national average (41%). Winner of 14 Arkansas Professor of the Year Awards. 64% hold at least one internship before graduation. 95% of Lyon professors hold the highest degree in their field. www.lyon.edu

Rolling (Awards are made on an ongoing basis. Fall Priority Deadline: May 1, Spring Priority Deadline: Nov. 1

97%

Rolling (Awards are made on an ongoing basis. Fall Priority Deadline: May 1, Spring Priority Deadline: Nov. 1)

ACT/SAT

Open/No Application Fee

AP/CLEP

Ouachita: Invested in you. www.obu.edu

Mar. 1st

98%

Rolling Deadline

ACT/SAT

Open/$25

AP/CLEP/IB

Philander Forward. www.philander.edu

May 1st

82%

Mar. 1st

ACT/SAT

Open/No Fee

AP/CLEP

Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia has experienced record growth over the past five years because SAU “feels like home,” high quality new and traditional academic programs, and the complete college experience on campus. Find out more at www.SAUmag.edu.

February 1 (Priority), November 1 (Final Deadline)

85%

Dec. 1st Priority, March 1st Final

ACT/SAT/ACCUPLACER/COMPASS

Freshman admission and credential deadline is one week before classes begin.

AP/CLEP/ECE/Departmental Exam/DSST/Foreign Language Placement Exam/IB

Apply and register on-line today! www.ualr.edu

Rolling

83%

Mar. 1st Priority

ACT/ASSET/SAT/COMPASS/ACCUPLACER (for placement)

Rolling/No Fee - Except for international applicants

AP/CLEP

UAM consists of the main university campus in Monticello as well as the UAM Colleges of Technology in Crossett and McGehee. www.uamont.edu

Rolling Basis

90%

Mar. 1st/ April 1st

ACT/SAT

Open

CLEP

UAPB is a comprehensive 1890 Land Grant, HBCU institution and the second oldest public university in Arkansas with a diverse student population, competitive degree offerings and stellar faculty that provides liberal and professional education. www.uapb.edu

June 1st

65%

Feb. 1st (Freshmen), Apr. 1st (transfers)

ACT/SAT

Aug. 1

AP/CLEP/IB

Visit our website: www.uark.edu

Open

83%

Dec. 14th

ACT/SAT

None

AP/CLEP/IB

UCA is a comprehensive university offering students excellence in education. www.uca.edu

June 15th

96%

Nov. 15

ACT/COMPASS/SAT

Open/No Fee

AP/CLEP/Challenge

UAFS is a comprehensive workforce-focused university teaching real world professional employment preparation via certificate programs, associate degrees, and baccalaureate education. www.uafs.edu

Feb. 15 Priority

99%

April 1st Priority

ACT/SAT (Test Optional)

May 1st Priority

AP/CLEP

Compass is a comprehensive, campus-wide digital learning initiative that enhances students’ personal learning styles and increases accessibility for all students. www.ozarks.ed

May 1st

99%

None

ACT/SAT

Open/No Fee

AP/CLEP

www.williamsbaptistuniversity.com

FINANCIALAIDDEADLINE % ON AID

SCHOLARSHIP DEADLINE REQUIRED EXAMS

APP DEADLINE FEE

CREDIT EXAM ACCEPTED COMMENT

Open

86%

Apr. 1st Priority

ACT/ACCUPLACER

Open

AP/CLEP/Prior Learning

www.anc.edu

Priority dates June 1/Nov. 1/April 15

49%

June 15th

ACT/ASSET/ACCUPLACER

Open/No Fee

CLEP

ASU-Beebe has campus locations at Beebe, Heber Springs, Searcy, Little Rock Air Force Base, and online. Bachelor and graduate degrees are available through Arkansas State University on the Beebe campus. For more information, view www.asub.edu.

Open

Approx. 94%

Nov. 1 (Spring); May 1 (Fall)

ACT/ASSET/COMPASS/SAT/ACCUPLACER

Open

AP/CLEP/Prior Learning

ASU Mid-South is committed to economic development in the Arkansas Delta through the provision of high-quality, affordable, and convenient learning opportunities and services. www. midsouthcc.edu

Priority Consideration Deadline - June 1st

81%

Mar. 15

ACT/ASSET/COMPASS/SAT

Open/No Fee

AP/CLEP

Bachelor and graduate degrees are available in some areas through ASU-Jonesboro’s Degree Center at ASUMH. Nestled in the heart of Ozark Mountains. www.asumh.edu

Open

72%

June 1st

ACT/ACCUPLACER/COMPASS/SAT

Open/No Fee

AP/CLEP

Let’s face it. You want to make money fast. At ASU-Newport, we’ll give you the skills that can help you land a career that will pay you the money you deserve! ASU-Newport’s high-paying technical training is quick! Apply online today at asun.edu and soar with ASU-Newport. www.asun.edu

Open

76%

June 15 (Fall)/Nov. 15 (Spring)

ACT/SAT/ACCUPLACER

Open/No Fee

AP/CLEP

Visit our website: www.atu.edu/ozark

May 1 / Oct 1

85%

June 1st/Dec. 1st

ACT/SAT

Varies By Program/No Fee

CLEP/AP

Baptist Health College Little Rock provides nine programs of study in direct and indirect patient care in the fields of nursing and allied health. Interested students are invited to visit our campus by calling 501-202-6200 or study@bhclr.edu. Visit our website today at www.bhclr.edu!

Open

68%

Mar. 1st

ACT/ACCUPLACER

Open/No Fee

Black River Technical College transforms lives through quality academic and career education to enhance the community we serve. www.blackrivertech.org

Open

90%

May 1st/ Dec 1st

ACT/ASSET/SAT/ACCUPLACER

Open/No Fee

AP/CLEP

College of the Ouachitas is an ideal place to begin your college career, receive training, hone up on specific skills, and quite frankly, better your life! www.coto.edu

Fall- None, Spring- None, Summer- April 15

75%

Apr. 1st

ACT/ASSET/COMPASS/SAT/ACCUPLACER

Open/No Fee

AP/CLEP

UA Cossatot has completely online associate degrees and 90% of courses do not require the purchase of textbooks. The college also offers many technical programs, agriculture degrees, physical therapist and occupational therapy assistant programs, industrial maintenance, pipe welding, diesel technology, nursing degrees, and extracurricular activities such as club basketball and club soccer. www.cccua.edu

July 1st

73%

Varies

ACT/ACCUPLACER

Open/No Fee

AP/CLEP

EACC offers students a variety of academic, technical, vocational, allied health, business and industry training, and non-credit programs. EACC has one of the lowest tuition rates in the state, and faculty and staff are committed to providing students with access to high quality and affordable education. www.eacc.edu

Open

65%

Open

ACT/COMPASS/SAT

Open/No Fee

AP/CLEP/IB/Accuplacer

Learning is our Focus! Student Success is our Goal! Find Your Path in beautiful Hot Springs. www.np.edu

Varies

60%

June 15th

ACT/COMPASS

Open

AP/CLEP

Northark offers transfer and technical degree programs, one-year technical certificates, certificates of proficiency, customized business and industry training, adult basic education (GED) classes and non-credit community education courses. In addition, Northark offers one of the lowest tuition rates in the state. Northark’s academic programs have been recognized nationally for providing high quality instruction at an affordable price. For quality, value and convenience, think Northark first! www.northark.edu

N/A

Approx. 46%

Feb. 25

ACT/ACCUPLACER/SAT

Open/No Fee

AP/CLEP/DANTE

www.nwacc.edu

Priority deadline June 1

80%

Apr. 1st

ACT/ASSET/ACCUPLACER

Open/No Fee

AP/CLEP

Providing life-changing experiences through education. www.ozarka.edu

Call 870-338-6474.

66.2%(Federal), 90% Some form of aid

Call 870-338-6474.

ACT/ACCUPLACER

Open/No Fee

AP/CLEP

www.pccua.edu

Fall-May 15, Spring-Oct. 15, Summer-Mar. 15

72%

Open

ACT/ACCUPLACER

Open/No Fee

AP/CLEP

For more information and a schedule of classes, visit our website at www.uaptc.edu.

July 1st

83%

Nov. 15 & Apr. 1st

ACT/SAT/COMPASS

Open/No Fee

AP/CLEP

A comprehensive community college providing a variety of programs, services, and learning opportunities: transfer, technical degrees and courses; professional workforce, personal development and adult basic education; English as a second language; student support and outreach programs; and financial aid assistance. www.uarichmountain.edu

Open

95%

Open

ACT/SAT/COMPASS/ACCUPLACER

Open

CLEP

Serves traditional and non-traditional students, offering the Associates of Arts Degree in General Studies with concentrations in General Studies, Teacher Education, and Christian Leadership. www.shortercollege.edu

July 1st

60%

Mar. 1st Priority

ACT/ASSET/COMPASS/SAT/ACCUPLACER

Open/No Fee

AP/CLEP

Where students come first. www.southark.edu

Apr. 15 priority

85%

Apr. 30th

ACT/ACCUPLACER

Open

AP/CLEP

Empowering students...Changing lives. www.seark.edu

Varies

70%

Mar. 1st

ACT/ASSET/COMPASS/SAT/ACCUPLACER

Open/No Fee

CLEP

Southern Arkansas University Tech is a two-year comprehensive college emphasizing technical programs and is commited to providing quality educational programs. SAU Tech provides a quality, affordable college experience with its student housing and full student life program. www.sautech.edu

Open

Varies

Contact Financial Aid

ACT/ASSET/SAT/ACCUPLACER

Open/No Fee

AP/CLEP

Student Centered. Community Focused. www.uaccb.edu

Open

87%

Apr. 1st

ACT/COMPASS/ACCUPLACER

Open/No Fee

AP/CLEP

UAHT offers the best value in higher education with affordable tuition and a low-cost textbook rental program. www.uacch.edu

June 30 Priority

68%

Nov. 1st/ Apr. 1st

ACT/ASSET/COMPASS/ACCUPLACER

Open/No Fee

AP/CLEP

UACCM - A Journey with Meaning. www.uaccm.edu

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THE COLLEGE GUIDE 2018

TWO-YEAR SCHOOLS TWO YEAR SCHOOLS OFFER VALUE, PERSONAL ATTENTION

rkansas’ two-year colleges continue to thrive thanks to small class size and personal attention, offering a diverse list of course subject matter. And one look at national statistics show they’re not alone. In Fall 2016, 36 percent of all undergraduate students attended public and private two-year colleges and

among full-time students, one in five attended public two-year colleges, according to the Fall 2016 edition of NCES Enrollment and Employees in Postsecondary Institutions.

ARKANSAS TECH UNIVERSITY - OZARK

Career education is the daily focal point of ATU-Ozark. The college maintains robust educational programs across a variety of in-demand career options. This helps give students a jumpstart on a rewarding career in their chosen field of endeavor. The school offers a wide range of programs, from technical certificates to associates degrees in skilled fields such as weld-

ing, plumbing and air conditioning/refrigeration, to nursing, law enforcement and information technology, among others. “Our campus exists as a pathway to additional educational opportunities through our four-year ATU campus in Russellville, as well as to career opportunities immediately following graduation,” said Bruce Sikes, chancellor at ATU-Ozark Campus. “ATU-Ozark has established partnerships with industry leaders

throughout our region to ensure that our curriculum matches rapidly evolving workforce needs. Recent investments in facilities and equipment in fields such as allied health and automation technology are proof that ATU-Ozark has made a long-term commitment to connecting students with life-changing educational experiences and career options.” Throughout ATU Ozark’s catalog, STEM has become an increasingly important part of higher education. Computer information technology is one example — like many programs at ATU, it is a stackable degree that offers opportunities at the Certificate of Proficiency, Technical Certificate and Associate of Applied Science levels with the option to continue on to the pursuit of a four-year degree in related fields such as cybersecurity. Much of the evolving technology emphasis at ATU-Ozark centers around automation technology. That vision has led to the creation of the Arkansas Tech Career Center (ATCC) in Russellville. The facility has expanded to include a new automation technology lab in Fall 2017 and a new satellite campus in Paris in 2018. ATCC programs prepare both secondary and adult learners for the next generation of jobs in industry. Even programs traditionally thought of as strictly vocational have now evolved into courses of study that prepare graduates for technology-driven fields. Disciplines such as automotive service technology, collision repair and welding are some of the programs rapidly moving in that direction. “Many programs now require more computerized equipment so that we may teach and practice in industry-standard environments,” Sikes said. “ATU-Ozark is committed to providing these resources as part of our unrelenting focus on career education.”

COLLEGE OF THE OUACHITAS

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College of the Ouachitas is one of the biggest proponents of getting high school students a head start on their college education. One look at the student body tells you that. “Three distinct demographics make up College of the Ouachitas’ student body,” said Carla Crutchfield, executive director of planning and assessment.“Our Fall 2017 enrollment features traditional-aged undergraduates

making up 29.2 percent, 27.3 percent are nontraditional aged students and 43.5 percent are high school concurrent enrolled students.” COTO’s small class size allows for individual attention that helps all students, and particularly the high number of high schoolers, get acclimated to college-level coursework quickly. “College of the Ouachitas offers smaller class size with a student-to-faculty ratio of 11 to 1. For comparison, the University of Arkansas student-to-faculty ratio is 19 to 1,” Crutchfield said.“Our smaller class size encourages student success and more connections with other students, faculty and staff.” Being smaller also allows the school to adapt to changing market needs quickly. This means the school is constantly delivering curriculum that serves the needs of the community as well as those of its students. “The high demand for health science professionals has led to the expansion of COTO’s Practical Nursing program in Sheridan in May 2018,” Crutchfield said. “Responding to area demand, the College’s welding program is expanding from a certificate of proficiency to an associate’s degree beginning in January 2019.”

SOUTHERN ARKANSAS UNIVERSITY TECH

Being cost-conscious doesn’t have to come at the expense of value or expertise in higher education. That’s the philosophy of Southern

Arkansas University Tech, which delivers cutting edge instruction that lends value to the cost of the instruction. “Nationally, students are looking more carefully at the cost of their education as it relates to the amount of money they will be able to earn once they graduate,”said Kimberly Coker, dean of communications and development at SAU Tech. “In many cases, the more technical degrees have more appeal as skillsets are becoming as valuable as the degree itself.” “Every job is requiring some level of skill and training; even students who never saw themselves as college material are making the choice to obtain short-term training in order to obtain employment. Students overall are more successful when they start at a two-year college and then transfer to a four-year university. I think this is especially true for the generation coming up.” As a school serving 80 percent first-generation college students, with a majority being female, minority and largely low-income, SAU Tech has had a hand in changing many families lives for the better. “The average age of our students has changed in the past few years from 27 to closer to 21,” Coker said. “The student body has more recent high school graduates attending than ever before. We believe it is due to the lower cost of two-year colleges versus a four-year school. We also believe it is because we have

A COMMUNITY OF MISSION

FIND YOUR HOME AWAY FROM HOME At Harding, we believe who you learn with and who you learn from are vitally important. Our Christian faculty and high-quality degree programs equip graduates with an exceptional education and a Christ-centered worldview. Visit harding.edu to learn more. Or better yet, come visit and see for yourself.

Student body represents all 50 states and 54 nations and territories Study abroad programs in Australasia, Chile, England, France, Greece, Italy and Zambia Numerous domestic and international educational excursions for individual majors include major U.S. cities, global missions and more Specialized programs for students from China and Latin America including ESL support

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the ability to house students on campus and provide a full student life, including athletics.” “Students are often surprised about how the staff is so helpful and treats them like family. These days, customer service is the defining point. SAU Tech makes a real effort to assist students through every step of the admissions and financial aid process. Once they are enrolled, they receive tutoring, personal counseling, mentoring and more to help them be successful in their educational journey.”

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“Students receive one-on-one training, preparing them to enter the workforce in two years or less. This is not available at four-year schools.” “We are also seeing more students complete their first two years of college with a combination of classes completed in high school through UA Cossatot, followed by classes they take on our campuses after graduating high school.” The majority of the school’s demographic is age 18 to 24, but

“UA-PTC offers a diverse and challenging education that is decidedly unique in central Arkansas,” said Tim Jones, director of public relations and marketing.“Students at UA-PTC find specialties that are personally relevant and beneficial and immerse themselves in life-changing education that suits them best. Our multiple locations and diverse offerings allow a student to dig deeply into their particular discipline.” Jones said the college is particularly sensitive to students’ desire to complete their education in the most time- and cost-effective way possible. The school’s 2+2 program is one example of this commitment. “Nationally, enrollment is trending downward, and this has given rise to an increased awareness that institutions must remain competitive by offering high-quality programs at an affordable cost,”he said.“Transfer agreements like the 2+2 agreements with UA Little Rock ensure that students can map out their educational journey from start to finish, and thereby save time and money.” “What’s more, UA-PTC addresses this challenge by maintaining close relationships with area employers and with four-year institutions where our students transfer. Communicating with employers ensures that our training has relevance in the workplace.” The school also maintains a robust roster of coursework, designed to suit nearly every interest and professional goal. Many of UA-PTC’s degrees also meet the requirements for ArFutures Grant, which provides funding for students pursuing careers where more qualified workers are needed in the community. These degrees range from skilled jobs such as mechanical systems and drafting to media production, occupational therapy, culinary arts and more.

“Nationally, students are looking more carefully at the cost of their education as it relates to amount of money they will be able to earn once they graduate. In many cases, the more technical degrees have more appeal as skillsets are becoming as valuable as the degree itself.”

University officers say the biggest advantage of their two-year college is class size and one-onone instruction. “At a four-year (institution), students may have 200 people in their Intro to Biology class. At UA Cossatot, our classes cap at 30,” said Emily Newlin, director of institutional advancement. “Our best-kept secret is that once students interact with UA Cossatot staff or faculty, they become family. Students don’t feel like a number, but a family member. Instructors and staff make time to help students through every aspect of the transition from high school student to college student and then college student to professional.” UA Cossatot’s philosophy and programs don’t just make students feel good, they help them move from classroom to workforce faster, too. “We recently opened the Lockesburg Industrial Maintenance Institute (LIMI) that allows students from all of our service areas access to training that will prepare them for a job in one of the most understaffed fields in southwest Arkansas,” Newlin said.

one thing that sets the Cossatot student body apart is its diversity. “This is the first academic year that we have the U.S. Department of Higher Education’s designation as a HispanicServing Institution,” Newlin said. “This means over 25 percent of our students are of Hispanic descent. We are the only HispanicServing Institution in Arkansas.”

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UA-PTC’s best kept secret is there’s always more to the college than meets the eye. That’s how one administrator describes the North Little Rock college, which offers students a diverse range of courses and state-of-the-art facilities.

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opened in Mexico last fall. Arkansas State provided the academic management of the $100 million campus outside the U.N. heritage city of Queretaro. Students at A-State CQ choose from nine degree programs for both undergraduate and graduate programs. As the campus develops, study abroad opportunities will be available for Jonesboro-based students to take classes in Queretaro and vice versa. All instruction is in English, with graduates earning diplomas sanctioned by both U.S. and Mexican higher education authorities. A-State CQ campus features lecture-laboratory buildings, a student union and support area, university library, residence halls and campus life facilities similar to a U.S.-style campus.

universities and colleges included in the survey. It is the second consecutive year ATU has been among the top 70 institutions in the nation, and the fourth consecutive year the school has been No. 1 in social mobility in Arkansas. ATU finished 18th in the international 2018 Shell Eco-marathon Americas challenge, an automotive engineering competition which drew teams from the United States, Mexico, Canada, Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Guatemala, Peru and Ecuador. A total of 36 teams attempted to run in the prototype internal combustion engine category, including Arkansas Tech. ATU’s entry achieved a fuel consumption rate of 212 miles per gallon during the competition in Sonoma, California. For the sixth time in the seven-year history of the league, Arkansas Tech University is home to the top intercollegiate ARKANSAS TECH UNIVERSITY athletics program in the Great American Conference. ATU Arkansas Tech University ranks among the top 5 percent of U.S. was named the 2017-18 GAC All-Sports Trophy winner by the institutions of higher education in providing students with an league office on June 1. The Golden Suns and Wonder Boys opportunity to improve their economic standing. CollegeNET’s teams combined to accumulate 92 points through their conSocial Mobility Index (SMI) ranked ATU 68th among the 1,363 ference finishes in 10 sports — baseball, men’s basketball, women’s basketball, women’s cross country, football, men’s golf, women’s golf, softball, women’s tennis and volleyball — during the 2017-2018 academic year. Arkansas Tech captured GAC championships in women’s basketball, women’s golf, softball and volleyball while the Wonder Boys football team earned an invitation to the 2017 Agent Barry Live United Texarkana Bowl and the ATU men’s golf team reached the national quarterfinals of the NCAA Division II Golf Championships for a second consecutive year. Tech’s programs in baseball, men’s basketball, women’s cross country and women’s tennis also advanced to postseason competition last year. Individuals interested in pursuing job opportunities in law enforcement and corrections systems have a new educational option at Arkansas Tech University. Beginning this year, ATU is offering a Bachelor of Arts degree in criminal justice and criminology. Students may take courses in person on the ATU campus in Russellville or online in areas including, but not limited to, the transportation security industry, policing, security, cybersecurity and corrections. Trustees at Arkansas Tech University approved a campus master plan in October 2017 establishing short-term priority projects and long-term facility aspirations for all ATU campuses over the next two decades. Priority projects for ATU in Russellville include a new student union and recreation center, a new performing arts center, a new academic center for STEM programs and ASU’s business college, named for a distinguished alumnus, Neil Griffin ‘48. Griffin recently made a $10 million gift to the school.

Chancellor Kelly Damphousse appointed 15 faculty and administrators to address student retention and graduation rates at Arkansas State, setting a goal of 85 percent first-year student retention in three years, improving A-State’s four-year graduation rate to 45 percent and the six-year rate to 65 percent. In its first year of operation, the Commission on Completion identified numerous obstacles in the A-State bureaucracy and created new support programs to assist students. The initiative is paying immediate dividends: In the first year of the program, A-State improved retention from 72 to 77 percent for Fall 2018. The College of Business has been renamed in honor of retired executive and philanthropist Neil Griffin. A 1948 graduate of Arkansas State, Griffin made the largest individual gift in ASU history — $10 million — which was dedicated to student and faculty support. The Griffin gift was part of a record-setting fundraising year for Arkansas State which yielded $40.1 million. The first American-style residential campus, Campus Queretaro,

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student housing. On Arkansas Tech’s Ozark campus, priority projects include the construction of a new academic and conference facility and the relocation of the shop area currently located near the Technology and Academic Support Building.

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The college is focused on producing graduates who are prepared to fill the most pressing job needs in Arkansas. New courses of study at EACC include in-demand technical skills such as major appliance service, residential construction, automotive service technology, automotive body repair, certified nursing assistant, industrial equipment technology, heating and air conditioning repair technology, practical nursing and cosmetology. Dr. Terri Moody, a 2000 graduate of EACC’s Registered Nursing program has been hired to be the new Director of Nursing at her alma mater. Last spring, East Arkansas Community College held the first Concurrent Credit Scholars Convocation. During the event, area high school concurrent students were recognized and celebrated for their accomplishments.

grams in the state of Arkansas offering a Doctor of Pharmacy. Harding University is also ranked in the 10 Best Web Design & Development Programs (for Full Bachelor’s Degree) by 10 Best. Enrollment last year was 5,541 students — 58 percent women, 42 percent men — representing 50 states and 54 nations and territories. The average ACT composite score is 25. Twenty-five percent of students are from the top 10 percent of their high school classes; 52 percent from the top quarter and 44 are National Merit Scholars. Harding is in the top third of schools attracting National Merit Scholars nationwide.

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JBU, a private Christian university, has been ranked Arkansas’ top regional university by U.S. News and World Report.

Great College to Work For recognition and one of only 43 institutions with ‘Honor Roll’ distinction for being recognized in four or more categories. JBU also placed top 10 within the small enrollment size category.

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Starting in Fall 2018, Lyon College is the first and only campus in Arkansas to boast a pet-friendly dorm. Students wanting to bring their cats and dogs will have access to a dog park, a pet blessing and a pet training course. The college will consider opening up more pet-friendly residence halls as demand grows. “It is exciting to move Lyon in a more pet-friendly direction,” said President W. Joseph King. “Like many of our students, my family has had beloved dogs and cats. We know how much

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Harding’s Div. II athletics program enjoyed great success last year in the Great American Conference and nationally. The Bison football team was a national Div. II semifinalist, the men’s cross country team won the conference title and the men’s soccer team was the regular season conference champ. In tennis, the men ranked second in regular-season play and was a GAC finalist; the women were runners-up in the GAC meet. Women’s track and field was second at the GAC meet while the volleyball team was second in the regular season and advanced in the GAC tournament. Finally, men’s golf competed in the Div. II Midwest/Regional meet. Harding offers semester-long study abroad programs in Australasia, Latin America, England, Greece, France, Italy and Zambia as well as numerous short-term study abroad opportunities. New fields of study at Harding University include Civil Engineering, Medical Humanities, Acting and Set Design. The university’s Carr College of Nursing is one of two schools in the state that offer an accelerated second-degree Bachelor of Science in Nursing which began in Fall 2018. The Harding University Carr College of Nursing has been recognized as the Best RN Program in Arkansas by RegisteredNursing.org Lyon College is the first campus in Arkansas to open pet-friendly dorms, as well as provide other amenities for four-legged companions. Harding University was ranked as a top 10 university for engagement and inspiration in 2017. It was also they are a part of your life. Therefore, this change seemed like The university’s $125 million Campaign for the Next Century, ranked as a Top 10 Christian College in America by College a progressive step for student life at the college. Initial reaction ending on the university’s centennial in 2019, will help secure Atlas and ranked by U.S. News & World Report as one of the from current and prospective students has been very positive.” the university’s future with funding for endowed and annual best universities in the South for the 24th consecutive year. Lyon College is now offering loan repayment assistance to scholarships, new facilities and renovations, endowment for Harding University was selected as one of the top colleges its graduates who hail from nine area high schools and enter a academic excellence, and program and operating support. and universities in Arkansas according to Best Value Schools. teaching career. The new Loan Repayment Assistance Program Over $120 million of the funds have been given or pledged. The school has also been recognized in two categories by (LRAP) helps repay federal, private alternative and parent PLUS JBU’s Bachelor of Science in Nursing program has received College Consensus in its survey of top-ranked schools for 2018. loans until the graduate is earning at least $40,000 a year. Those full accreditation from the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Harding ranked sixth on the list of Best Regional Universities in eligible to participate in LRAP are incoming freshmen who Education, a national nursing accrediting agency recognized the South and ninth on the list of Best Christian Colleges and graduated from Batesville, Cave City, Cedar Ridge, Concord, by the U.S. Department of Education. The program has also Universities in the nation. Harding University is ranked No. 2 on Hillcrest, Melbourne, Midland, Newport, or Southside high received full approval from the Arkansas State Board of Nursing College Consensus’2017-18 list of Best Colleges and Universities schools and who major in education. to prepare nurse candidates for licensure. in the state of Arkansas, published last fall. The Lyon College Scots enjoyed success in their respecFor the fourth consecutive year, JBU is one of the best colThe Harding University College of Pharmacy has been tive fields of competition. The baseball team won its first-ever leges to work for in the nation, according to the Great Colleges awarded continued accreditation by the Accreditation Council American Midwest Conference regular season championship to Work For survey by The Chronicle of Higher Education. for Pharmacy Education (ACPE). It is one of two accredited proand clinched its second consecutive NAIA Tournament appearNationally, JBU is among only 84 colleges who received the ADVERTISING SUPPLEMENT COLLEGE GUIDE www.arktimes.com AUGUST 30, 2018 31

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ance. The women’s basketball team made its seventh straight trip to the NAIA National Championship, while the softball team set a program record for 37 single-season wins. Lyon also added cheerleading, competitive dance and track and field as varsity sports. Lyon College now offers a bachelor’s degree in computer science, a degree increasingly sought across the country. Also starting in Fall 2018, Lyon is also offering a minor in film and media studies, which will encourage students to bring the critical eye they are developing in their other classes to film, television, and video games. Digital Humanities is a special interest of Anthony Davis, who will join the program full-time in the fall. He is presently Chief Information Officer for the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission and has also been GIS Lead/Deputy Director and

program’s productions — “The Importance of Being Earnest,” “Provincetown: An Evening of One Acts,” and “Proof” — for meritorious achievement in various acting, directing and technical categories. “Boy Erased,” written by Garrard Conley, ‘07, has been made into a movie starring Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe, scheduled to premiere in theaters in November.

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NPC joined the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) this year and NPC Nighthawk men and women’s basketball teams will compete in Division II this fall. Last season, the Nighthawk men’s basketball team closed the season with a record of 12-5. NPC introduced an honors program in the 2017-2018 school year. The honors curriculum is designed to promote active and

Academic excellence and a supportive environment continue to grow the number of National Park College graduates. Senior GIS Analyst at the Arkansas GIS Office, a state agency reporting directly to the Governor’s Office. Lyon College’s annual Arkansas Scottish Festival will have its 40th anniversary in April 2019. To celebrate this milestone, the festival will be bigger than ever, reaching off campus to conduct events with the community alongside its usual sports and culture events. The college annually receives recognition for its academic programs. Lyon College has been recognized for its committed implementation of High-Impact Educational Practices, earning its title as one of the nation’s Colleges of Distinction. The new career search site ZIPPIA recently calculated Lyon produced the highest earning graduates in the state. In 2017, Lyon was also named a Best Bang for the Buck College (Washington Monthly), a Top 25 Low Debt College (Forbes), one of the Private Colleges with the Most Creative Arts Scholarship Aid (The Student Loan Report), and one of the Top 50 Private Colleges that Give Students the Least Private Student Debt (The Student Loan Report). In the arts, Lyon College’s theatre program saw its most successful season in five years. The Region VI Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival recognized all three of the 32 AUGUST 30, 2018

experiential learning and foster intellectual independence and includes advanced research and critical thinking, service learning, international travel and cultural experiences. National Park College was named one of 18 Most Promising Places to Work In Community Colleges by the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD) and Diverse: Issues In Higher Education. NPC was one of eight schools with a perfect score. The award is presented annually to community and technical colleges who show a commitment to diversity through best-in-class student and staff recruitment and retention practices, inclusive learning and meaningful community service opportunities. The college prioritizes diversity as part of the strategic plan, which outlines the goals of celebrating diversity among students, staff, faculty, and supporting constituents, as well as identifying and eliminating institutional barriers to cultural diversity. The college’s minority recruitment percentage has grown to 21 percent and there was no pay gap between male and female faculty for the second year in a row. NPC assists international faculty members with transitioning so they can teach on campus and share new cultures with students.

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The NPC Board of Trustees approved a resolution to begin a feasibility study for on-campus housing. The need for on-campus housing was identified in a recent campus climate survey. When surveyed, 38 percent of responding students were interested or very interested in on-campus housing options and 34 percent of respondents travel more than 30 minutes to campus. National Park College experienced a 25 percent increase in graduates last year. The college held spring commencement ceremonies at Bank of the Ozarks Arena Saturday, May 12. NPC students earned 651 degrees and certificates during the 2017-2018 academic year, compared to 483 in 2016-2017. The college had 458 graduates for the 2017-2018 academic year, compared to 365 in 2016-2017.

NORTH ARKANSAS COLLEGE

North Arkansas College offers a wide variety of programs, certificates and certificates of proficiency across three campuses in Harrison and a Carroll County Center in Berryville. The North Campus houses the technical programs and a Technical Center which provides classes for high school students at no cost to them. Northark is a regional hub for the BEST Robotics Competition which draws teams from Arkansas and Missouri. Northark was one of nine colleges in the nation to receive a $2.24 million Title III Strengthening Institutions grant in late 2017. Funds are being used to upgrade the student information management system and improvements include redesigning student intake procedures, advising, tracking and the creation of a Learning Resource Center. Northark enjoys close partnerships with area business and industry. In 2016, the college received a $1 million Regional Workforce Implementation Grant to boost the manufacturing and health care workforce. In the two years since, Northark substantially increased the interest and credentials in the pool of skilled workers entering emerging health care and manufacturing jobs. Most notably, Northark has increased interaction with K-12 students by encouraging them to attend college or enter technical careers in manufacturing and healthcare. Northark provided camps, industry tours and Manufacturing and Health Career Day events for students. Attendance at these events increased a whopping 714 percent from 20152016 to 2016-2017. Known for historically low tuition rates, Northark was ranked the 29th Most Affordable Online Community College in the nation by AffordableSchools.net in 2017. Most recently, Northark’s Online Associate’s Degree in Accounting ranked second in the nation among Best Online Associates Degrees in Accounting (greatbusinesschools.org). The Online Associate in Small Business Program ranked third in the nation (bestcolleges.com). Garnering attention nationally has helped online enrollment explode, resulting in 32 percent increase in Fall 2017. Last year, Northark hosted the NJCAA Division II National Women’s Basketball Tournament for the second time. Sixteen teams from across the nation competed in Pioneer Pavilion for the coveted top spot; the Lady Pioneers finished sixth place in the nation. The tournament is estimated to contribute $2 million dollars to the local economy each year.

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For the third year in a row, Philander Smith College is experiencing double digit growth in enrollment. The Fall 2018 student body, numbering more than 1,000, represents a nearly 15 percent increase over last year’s enrollment. The positive momentum comes after years of concerning decline in enrollment in one of Arkansas’ most prominent Historically Black College or University (HBCU) institutions, at one point recently dropping as low as 500 students. The college has not only grown enrollment, has also increased retention more than 10 percent over the previous year, a direct result of new policies and program-

North Arkansas Community College prepares students for in-demand careers, such as health care. ming targeted specifically at retaining students. The college’s success is gaining the Little Rock school regional and national recognition. A recent report from the Arkansas Department of Higher Education noted Philander Smith as the fastest-growing four-year institution in the state. Additionally, the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) recognized Philander Smith as the fastest-growing HBCU among its 38 member institutions, growing twice as fast as any other UNCF member school. “This growth is not by chance,”says Philander Smith College President Dr. Roderick L. Smothers, Sr. “It is the direct result of our concentrated efforts to provide educational opportunities to a broader range of students. Our admissions and enrollment management teams work diligently to expose students across the country to the unique opportunities that exist as part of the Philander experience.” This year, Philander Smith College kicks off a new lecture series named for one of its most famous alums. The Joycelyn Elders Distinguished Lecture Series is designed to educate the community on critical issues facing public health and health care with an emphasis on those matters most prevalent in minorities. Dr. Elders, a 1952 graduate of Philander Smith College, is a native of Camden and was the first African-American to serve as United States Surgeon General.

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A new and innovative program is being offered by the School of Graduate Studies at Southern Arkansas University,“Buy One, Get One TuitionFree,”providing a free course to degree-seeking graduate students. Students are eligible for the offer upon admission to graduate school and meeting program requirements.

A new Public Health program began at Southern Arkansas University this fall, designed to incorporate several disciplines which work together to ensure a community’s health needs are addressed from all angles. In addition to core public health courses, the degree plan includes courses in nursing, biology, psychology, sociology, health sciences and recreation. The program also incorporates an upper-level public health internship, which emphasizes the importance of community collaboration and SAU’s commitment to meaningful career preparation, skill development and effective citizenship. SAU’s Lady Mulerider softball program had a historic season with a record number of wins, the program’s second Central Region Title in three years, the program’s first outright regular season conference championship and a top-three finish at the national championship. Meanwhile, the Mulerider baseball team won the GAC Conference Tournament Championship for the fifth time in seven years. The SAU Men’s Track & Field team also won the 2018 GAC Championship, the program’s first title as a member of NCAA Division II and its first championship since 1985. National accreditation was awarded last fall to SAU’s Online Masters degree in KinesiologyCoaching, one of only three online Master’s programs in coaching education to be accredited nationally under the United States Center for Coaching Excellence’s (USCCE) National Committee for Accreditation of Coaching Excellence (NCACE). The online master’s program started in 2010 with fewer than 15 students and has grown to 43 students enrolled this semester. Southern Arkansas University continued its long-running growth trend last fall with at least ADVERTISING SUPPLEMENT COLLEGE GUIDE www.arktimes.com AUGUST 30, 2018 33

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five new enrollment records, including the university’s largest freshman class (870) for the fifth consecutive year. The previous record-holder, last year’s freshman class, now represent the largest sophomore class in school history. Overall undergraduate enrollment also attained record-setting numbers at around 3,450, as have the number of students choosing to live on campus. SAU residence halls are home this fall to more than 1,850 students. SAU Honors College’s incoming class is also the largest in the organization’s history. The program allows diverse students to take classes together, travel, and live in Honors Hall.

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UA Cossatot continues to find ways to reduce costs for students to attend college. Since 2015, the UA Cossatot Textbook Rental/ Open Educational Resource (OER) program has saved students

The University of Arkansas is categorized among the 2 percent of research institutions in the country with the highest research activity. Over the years, student researchers have also been awarded 132 National Science Foundation graduate research fellowships. The university has produced 77 Fulbright scholars, 53 Goldwater scholars, 44 Gates Millennium scholars, 23 Truman scholars and 10 Rhodes scholars. Most recently, three Honors College students from Arkansas — Katherine Branum of Jonesboro, Stephanie Galen of Bentonville and Casey Gibson of Jonesboro — were named Fulbright Scholars this year. Likewise, three graduate students from Arkansas — Lauren Gentles of Pearcy, Karla Morrissey of Beebe and Stephanie Sandoval of Springdale — earned the prestigious titles of National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellows. Mattie Harris of Springdale was awarded a

The state’s flagship university, University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, is enjoying record enrollment. over $1,000,000. UA Cossatot now offers free 24/7 online tutoring through a partnership with Tutor.com. It also now offers a Physical Therapist Assistant program on its Ashdown Campus. The school’s basketball team competes against other twoyear school in Arkansas. Their home games are in the historic UA Cossatot Bank of Lockesburg Gymnasium in Lockesburg, Arkansas.

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This was the University of Arkansas’ 147th year, and for the second decade in a row, had record enrollment numbers: 27,558. Students from all 75 counties attend the University of Arkansas, and alumni return home to give back to their communities in all 75 counties. The most recent economic impact survey indicated the University of Arkansas has an economic impact in excess of $1.2 billion on the state. The Arkansas Research and Technology Park, managed by the U of A, contributes $55 million of that. The Arkansas Research and Technology Park has helped three dozen promising tech firms get started, firms that have created nearly 350 jobs that pay an average salary of $80,000 each, annually. 34 AUGUST 30, 2018

nationally competitive Boren Scholarship. Olga Brazhkina of Fayetteville was named a Goldwater Scholar. Two major gifts to the University of Arkansas have pushed art and graphic design forward in Arkansas. A $120 million gift from the Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation has established the School of Art. And a $40 million gift from the Windgate Charitable Foundation will help create the Windgate Art and Design District south of the main campus. The achievements of the University of Arkansas Razorbacks athletic program last year placed the U of A among the country’s elite intercollegiate athletics programs. The Razorback baseball team finished second in the College World Series and the men’s basketball team qualified for the NCAA Tournament for the third time in four years. These achievements, along with national rankings in 14 more sports competing in NCAA championships, put the Razorbacks at No. 16 in the hunt for the Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup.

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plans to begin offering courses on the technology – better known as drones – that would transition into degree programs at the university to prepare residents for jobs in the emerging technological field. After receiving approval April 20 from the Arkansas Department of Higher Education, UAFS will offer that program – an associate degree in unmanned aerial systems – beginning in the fall semester. The degree, which is largely online, will feature two options of study for students: An operator and maintainer concentration and an analyst concentration. The former offers training in operating and repairing the machines, while the latter deals with capturing, interpreting and presenting data captured from unmanned aircraft. UAFS developed coursework after recognizing its potential for massive job growth in the coming years. In a study by the Association for Unmanned Vehicles Systems International (AUVSI), the unmanned aircrafts systems industry is forecasted to create more than 600 jobs and nearly $500 million in economic impact in Arkansas in the next 10 years. UAFS’ School of Education was the first public university in the state to complete the accreditation process through Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) and did so with flying colors. The university was granted accreditation with no areas for improvement, an indicator of the quality of the education program as well as the hard work of the administration, faculty and staff within the school. The School of Education has been nationally accredited since 2005 through the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE). NCATE merged with another agency to become CAEP, an accrediting body that provided a more challenging process. CAEP reviewers assessed the university in five standards: Content and pedagogical knowledge; clinical partnerships and practice; candidate quality, recruitment and selectivity; program impact; and quality assurance and continuous improvement. The assessment included extensive documentation, which faculty and staff compiled beginning in 2015. Following submission of the many required documents, a site team visited the campus, reviewed data, and conducted interviews with multiple stakeholders. The chair of the site team reported that in 16 interviews, he had never before seen an institution achieve a perfect score. For the second straight year, the University of ArkansasFort Smith is the most affordable university in Arkansas. UAFS continues to hold the designation after changes were made in tuition and fees at universities across the state for the 201819 school year, according to data released by the Arkansas Department of Higher Education. In-state undergraduate students pay just $166.30 per credit hour at UAFS, excluding additional mandatory fees. A full-time student can expect to pay $7,127.50 for a year of schooling at UAFS. On average UAFS is more than $1,300 less expensive than other public four-year universities, according to ADHE data. Dr. Paul B. Beran, UAFS chancellor, said the university is proud to be the most affordable university in the state, adding, “As an institution serving a large portion of first-generation and Pelleligible students, UAFS recognizes the importance of an affordable, accessible education that will help our students achieve social mobility. Not only are we committed to remaining one of the most affordable universities in the state, we are looking at innovative opportunities and programs to keep costs low for our students moving forward.”

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The University of Central Arkansas continues to rank among the top 30 best regional public institutions in the South, according to the 2018 Best Colleges rankings by U.S. News & World Report. UCA ranked 26 in the category of “Top Public Schools” among regional universities in the South. The National Association of School Psychologists re-accred-

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870.574.4558 Little Rock’s historic Philander Smith College is one of the state’s best-known Historically Black Colleges and Universities institutions. ited the school psychology Master’s degree program. The program earned a seven-year re-accreditation, a designation that represents the highest accreditation status from the NASP. UCA’s program has maintained its accreditation with the NASP since 1994. The University of Central Arkansas hosted the investiture of Houston D. Davis in October 2017. Davis became the 11th president of the university, ushering in the next chapter of the institution’s history. The investiture, a formal ceremony conferring authority to Davis, was held during Homecoming Week 2017, during which the institution also celebrated its 110year anniversary. Day of Giving at the University of Central Arkansas surpassed all expectations. During the 24-hour drive Thursday, March 8, 2018, alumni, parents, faculty, staff, students and friends raised a total of $434,526.95, easily surpassing the event’s goal of $50,000 to support 44 funds that impact students, the campus or the community. In 2017, UCA raised $41,504.80 during Day of Giving. UCA selected 30 students as the 2018 inaugural class for the University Scholars program, a pilot initiative aimed at expanding honors programming to a greater number of students. The new program is designed to expand the current Norbert O. Schedler Honors College, which only has the capacity to serve about three percent of UCA’s undergraduate population. The pilot class of 2018 has an average high school GPA above 4.0 and an average

ACT score of 28. The university is adding several new degrees to its already-robust catalog. New bachelor’s degrees include cybersecurity, general studies, logistics and supply chain management; new Master’s degrees include athletic training and nutrition. Students can also pursue a graduate certificate in data analytics and a specialist degree in school psychology. The Confucius Institute at the University of Central Arkansas (UCACI) celebrated its 10th anniversary with a banquet Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017. Dignitaries from the Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China in Houston, Texas, joined representatives from UCA and other high-ranking dignitaries at the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock for the banquet. UCACI was founded in 2007 thanks to collaboration between the UCA and East China Normal University. UCACI is the 23rd Confucius Institute founded in the United States and remains the only Confucius Institute in Arkansas. First-time undergraduate fall enrollment, transfer students and full-time equivalent with regard to total enrollment were up at UCA. First-time undergraduate enrollment grew to 1,937 for Fall 2017, up three percent from 1,880 in Fall 2016. The number of transfer students at UCA also increased by more than 12 percent to 742 for Fall 2017. Another critical enrollment category, full-time equivalent, remained steady at 9,696. Total Fall 2017 enrollment at UCA is 11,350. ADVERTISING SUPPLEMENT COLLEGE GUIDE www.arktimes.com AUGUST 30, 2018 35

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Rivers Museum and the Hunter/Coulter Museum. Millwood Lake and Millwood State Park are known for their trophy fishing contests, camping sites and sports facilities, such as a country club, golf course and swimming pool.

BATESVILLE

Home to: Lyon College Population: 11,000 Located in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains on the beautiful White River, the community provides a safe and welcoming setting for Lyon College and its students. The oldest surviving city in the state, Batesville boasts three National Register Historic Districts and is home to an award-winning, regionally focused history museum. Other amenities include two art galleries in the downtown area, several antique stores, an active symphony league and a community theater group. Outdoor enthusiasts can enjoy abundant opportunities for outdoor activities such as hiking, canoeing, camping, caving, rock climbing, water skiing, scenic photography, fishing and hunting. ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND TOURISM

Home to: Henderson State University Population: 10,800 Nestled in the foothills of the Ouachita Mountains, Arkadelphia has many opportunities for outdoor recreation. There is also no shortage of cultural activities, performances and athletic competitions. Arkadelphia is just eight miles from DeGray Lake, a 13,800-acre lake that offers swimming, fishing, water sports, golfing, camping facilities, wildlife and spectacular views. Arkadelphia is only 30 minutes from Hot Springs. The town has many dining options that welcome college students. Arkadelphia is also an Amtrak stop.

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ASHDOWN

Home to: Cossatot Community College Population: 4,400 Originally known as Turkey Flats, Ashdown lies among rich, fertile land, ideal for growing cotton, soybeans, rice, corn, wheat, and other crops. Its greatest industry is timber. Ashdown is located between two rivers—the Little River and the Red River — which provide ample outdoor beauty to enjoy. The development of Millwood Lake in 1966 was a major boost to Ashdown’s industrial growth. Nekoosa Paper Mill was built in Ashdown in 1968, primarily because of Ashdown’s accessibility to waterways. The mill was sold to Georgia-Pacific Industries in 1991 and sold again to Domtar Industries in 2001. Domtar Industries remains a major employer. The 110-year old courthouse is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is the centerpiece of the charming downtown area. Other attractions include two museums - the Two 36 AUGUST 30, 2018

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Home to: NorthWest Arkansas Community College Population: 47,100 Located in the fastestgrowing region of the state, Bentonville and the nearby communities of Rogers, Fayetteville and Springdale have produced a unique environment. The influx of people from other parts of the country has created a diverse cultural population, thanks to the presence of several major corporate headquarters including Walmart, Tyson Foods and J.B. Hunt. The natural beauty of the region is outstanding and miles of trails connecting the various communities helps the hiker or mountain biker get out and enjoy them up close. Off the trail, visit Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, take in a concert at Walmart AMP pavilion, cheer the Razorback football team during home games or catch an Arkansas Naturals baseball game. In addition to the main campus in Bentonville, NWACC offers courses at the Washington County Center and The Jones Center for Families in Springdale, the Regional Technology Center in Fayetteville, The Center for Nonprofits in Rogers, Farmington High School and online. More than 1,000 high school students took concurrent classes for college credit last fall semester.

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Home to: Southern Arkansas University Technical Population: 11,200 History runs deep in Camden, dubbed the “Queen City”, which according to legend was the site of an encampment by Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto. Other landmarks of a more recent nature include the McCollum-Chidester House Museum, built in 1847 by local merchant Peter McCollum. It served as the headquarters of the Chidester Stage Line in 1858, served as a Civil War headquarters and was featured in the television miniseries North and South. Oakland Cemetery, which is on the National Register of Historic Places, is the largest Confederate cemetery in the area. In September, the BPW Barn Sale is held at the Old Tate Barn, constructed in the 1880s. Just to the west of Camden are Poison Spring State Park and White Oak Lake State Park offering outdoor recreation opportunities. Also of interest is the 1913 Missouri Pacific Railroad depot, which was restored in 1995. Every spring, the Camden Daffodil Festival features tours of gardens, historic homes and a log cabin village.

CONWAY

Home to: University of Central Arkansas Population: 65,300 Conway is home to a beautiful and historic downtown community as well as a vibrant arts community that provides a plethora of free and ticketed events throughout the year. With walking trails, art galleries, a multitude of dining and shopping venues and local theaters, Conway offers activities for every unique individual. Among the many attractions are Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre, the state’s only professional Shakespeare Company; Blackbird Academy of Arts, a not-for-profit arts education center offering programs and performances for children and adults and Reynolds Performance Hall, a 1,200-seat, state-of-the-art theatre on the UCA campus presenting performing arts programming to the entire central Arkansas community. As for community events, don’t miss the one-and-only Toad Suck Daze, home of the “The World Championship Toad Races” part of the largest free-admission family festival in the state. The festival attracts 160,000 over three days for food, music, a fun run and various other events.

FAYETTEVILLE

Home to: The University of Arkansas-Fayetteville Population: 83,800 You’re never at a loss of something to do in Fayetteville. For a taste of the outdoors, check out one of the city’s many parks, including a regional sports park at Mount Kessler. The city’s trail system includes about 30 miles of paved trail and 20 miles of single-track mountain bike and hiking trails. Within an hour’s drive are Devil’s Den State Park, Lake Wedington Recreational Area, Beaver Lake, the Buffalo National River and the Ozark Highlands Trail. Closer to campus, check out George’s Majestic Lounge for live music or Fayetteville Farmers Market open on

network with students and alumni to connect them to employment opportunities. Many employers also speak to classes and serve on campus advisory boards.

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FORREST CITY

Home to: East Arkansas Community College Population: 14,500 Named in honor of Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest, Forrest City is the only such-named city in the world spelled with two Rs. Agriculture drives the local economy and unlike other communities in the Arkansas Delta, Forrest City’s population continues to grow. Recreational attractions in the area include Village Creek State Park and the L’Anguille and St. Francis rivers, which are popular local fishing streams. Several structures in Forrest City are included on the National Register of Historic Places; one, the Rush-Gates Home, is the site of the St. Francis County Museum. Forrest City is also located less than an hour’s drive from Memphis and it’s many entertainment, dining and shopping attractions.

FORT SMITH

Home to: University of Arkansas-Fort Smith Population: 88,100 Despite a population of almost 90,000, Fort Smith retains it small-town charm and atmosphere with abundant natural scenery and plenty of attractions. Parks, trails, festivals, free events, shopping, dining and entertainment options are all within reach, as are abundant opportunities for student internships and employment after graduation. The city of Fort Smith, local organizations and UAFS work together in numerous ways that enhance quality of place and further economic development. Through its Center for Business and Professional Development and a number of ad hoc programs, UAFS provides technical and professional training to targeted groups in the workforce to close the skills gap in high-demand disciplines such as medical billing, commercial driving and industrial maintenance. The Babb Center for Student Professional Development acts as a conduit for students to network and find employment with local companies. The center helps students develop professional skills and provides networking opportunities with partner companies, including Walmart, ArcBest, Tyson and J.B. Hunt.

HARRISON

Home of North Arkansas College Population: 13,000 From the city’s National Historic District to the natural beauty of the Ozark Mountains, Harrison offers recreation and attractions to suit

Home to: Arkansas State University Population: 74,900 Jonesboro’s Parks and Recreation Department manages 20 parks that total just over 900 acres. With dozens of athletic fields, water features, community centers, recreation programs and events, the Parks Department offers something for nearly everyone. Downtown Jonesboro is a beautiful district with an amazing culture and a historic past. The music lover and patron of the visual and performing arts will want to check out The Forum community theater or The Foundation of Arts for lessons in dance, art, and theater. The city’s state-of-the-art performance facility, The Fowler Center, is hosts more than a dozen professional performances each year and is home to the Arkansas State University Theater Department.

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every taste and interest. The community sponsors a number of events and festivals, including the annual Arkansas Hot Air Balloon Championship, Arkansas Fiddlers Convention, Annual Bluegrass Festival, Fire in the Sky- 4th of July Celebration, and the local favorite Crawdad Days Festival. Harrison’s close proximity to the Buffalo National River (America’s first national river) provides easy access to exciting outdoor activities including hiking, canoeing, biking, elk watching and camping. Harrison is also within easy driving distance of other attractions in Branson and Eureka Springs, perfect for a quick road trip getaway.

HOT SPRINGS

Home of: National Park College Population: 36,800 Hot Springs is a vibrant arts and tourism community with something to do every weekend. The city’s event calendar is always full of fun things such as music festivals, poetry slams, concerts, art galleries and award-winning restaurants throughout the year. Hot Springs is large enough to have great shopping and restaurants, but small enough to feel like a cozy community. NPC has a great relationship with the community and maintains a unique agreement with the city’s sports leagues that allows student intramural teams to play in the city leagues. Local industry partners are extremely supportive of the college’s events and programs, often donating time and resources to help with events, like the Young Manufacturers Camp, Kid’s College, candidate forums and dozens of scholarships. Garland County has many employment opportunities in health care, education, tourism and hospitality. NPC Career Services hosts many employers on campus throughout the year as well as at the annual Job Fair in the spring. Employers

LITTLE ROCK

Home to: University of Arkansas Little Rock, Baptist Health College, Philander Smith College Population: 198,500 Kiplinger’s magazine put Little Rock atop the list of Top 10 places to live in the U.S., and as the state’s capital city, Little Rock offers all the expected benefits of a metropolitan center including access to cultural, business, government and historically significant resources and attractions. The famed River Market District, one of the top spots for live music venues, dining, and community events headlines entertainment options. Free options abound such as outdoor movies, jazz concerts and the nearby Arkansas Arts Center. Near the River Market runs the Arkansas River Trail System where walkers, cyclists and joggers take advantage of the scenic, 15.6mile loop from the Clinton Presidential Bridge via North Little Rock to the Big Dam Bridge and back. Pinnacle Mountain or a relaxing float down the Maumelle River await nearby. The professional possibilities are nearly endless thanks to the presence of Acxiom, Caterpiller Inc., Windstream, Arkansas government offices, Southwest Power Pool, Arkansas Children’s Hospital and Heifer International, just to name a few.

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the town square three days per week. And of, course campus activities abound from Razorback athletics, arts and culture, music and recreation. The Northwest Arkansas region is home to many Fortune 500 companies, such as Walmart, Tyson Foods and J.B. Hunt Transport Services, which provide strong collaboration in research for U of A professors and wide opportunities for students who want to pursue internships. U of A’s service-learning program is integrated with coursework and sends students out into the global community to put their coursework into action while the campus Volunteer Action Center involves students in dozens of projects that help local residents.

Home to: Southern Arkansas University Population: 11,600 “Hometown” and “community” are commonly used to describe Southern Arkansas University and Magnolia. Many incoming students and their families say they chose SAU because of the caring atmosphere and the close-knit community that makes both the school and the town safe, caring, and family-like. Centrally located to both outdoor activities and urban attractions in Texarkana, El Dorado, Shreveport, and Little Rock, much of what makes Magnolia special involves shared events with the university starting with the annual Blue and Gold Day at the Magnolia square that draws thousands to welcome the Mulerider students back to town.

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Magnolia has also embraced a growing community involvement organization started at SAU in 2014 called Making Magnolia Blossom (MMB). MMB brings together campus and community members to volunteer together at cleanup and economic improvement events each year. Another major annual event is Celebration of Lights where the entire community comes together for a Christmas meal, caroling, singing, games for children, pictures with Santa, snow globes for everyone and a train for children to ride.

MALVERN

Home to: College of the Ouachitas Population: 11,000 Established in the 1870s as a railway station, Malvern has come to be known as the “Brick Capital of the World.” Abundant clay deposits in the area, especially in nearby Perla, made the location ideal for production of brick. Among the earliest plants was the Atchison Brick Company, which began operation early in the 1890s, just in the nick of time as it turned out. When fires in 1896 and 1897 destroyed virtually all of downtown Malvern, the city rebuilt

the business district with all-brick structures. Not surprisingly, summertime’s Brickfest is a highlight of the community calendar. Malvern is developing a whitewater park on the river, which attracts paddlers from throughout Arkansas and surrounding states. Malvern’s most famous residents include Academy Award–winning screenwriter, actor and musician Billy Bob Thornton, who graduated from Malvern High School, and screenwriter, novelist and producer Tom Epperson, a lifelong friend and collaborator with Thornton

NORTH LITTLE ROCK

Home to: University of Arkansas-Pulaski Technical College Population: 66,200 As a first-class, urban playground, North Little Rock draws people of all ages, interests and lifestyles with its small-town atmosphere and large-city offerings. With quality entertainment, great restaurants, attractions, shopping, beautiful scenery and hospitality-focused hotels, North Little Rock offers something unexpected around every corner. The historic Argenta District on the city’s original main street offers bars, restaurants and a growing brewpub scene, as well as Farmer’s Markets and arts and entertainment in a one-of-a-kind setting. Nearby, catch a show at Verizon Arena or spend an evening at Dickey Stephens Park to cheer on the hometown Arkansas Travelers. Other points of interest throughout the city’s neighborhoods include the unique shops in Park Hill, the gardens at the Old Mill, shopping at McCain Mall and the largest park in the area, Burns Park offering everything from walking and jogging to softball and soccer fields, tennis courts, horseback riding and even a skateboard park.

OZARK

Home to: Arkansas Tech University-Ozark campus Population: 3,600 Clean, safe and close to nature, Ozark is a small town with big things to offer. From its historic sites including the Ozark Depot Museum and charming downtown Courthouse Square, Ozark exudes charm around every corner. Nearby attractions include the Arkansas Wine Country in Altus, where several wineries provide tastings and tours amid scenic vineyards. Adventurers will want to explore area lakes, hiking and trails as well as take advantage of

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esque spot to land largemouth bass and bluegill among other game fish. Two wildlife refuges in the vicinity — Henry Gray/Hurricane Lake and Bald Knob National Wildlife Refuge — offer duck hunting and bird watching opportunities. Downtown, enjoy events like Beats & Eats, Get Down Downtown festival and don’t miss Spring Sing, featuring more than 1,000 Harding students in a musical revue.

Scenic Highway 23. Known as the “Pig Trail,” this National Scenic Byway was named one of the top 10 scenic drives in the U.S. by the Lonely Planet and listed in USA Today as one of the top 10 greatest places to admire the peak foliage.

RUSSELLVILLE

Home to: Arkansas Tech University Population: 29,500 “Welcoming”is the first word that comes to many people’s minds when describing Russellville, a friendly place that is large enough to offer the amenities of modern life and small enough to maintain a sense of community. Outdoor recreation is king here, including Lake Dardanelle State Park, Mount Nebo State Park, Bona Dea Trails and numerous other venues within a short drive of campus affording students the chance to connect with nature through biking, climbing, fishing and hiking. The university enjoys tremendous support from area communities. One of the most visible signs of this is“Paint the Town Green and Gold,” which is a shared venture between ATU and the Russellville Area Chamber of Commerce, which has its own committee dedicated to promoting the school. The week-long event welcomes new and returning Arkansas Tech students to Russellville while encouraging members of the community to show their support for the institution.

SILOAM SPRINGS

Home to: John Brown University Population: 16,500 “Siloam” refers to the healing waters of

the Pool of Siloam in the New Testament and health seekers were once important to Siloam Springs’ economy. The town is known for the beauty of the parks lining Sager Creek and for the diversity of its industries. Simmons Foods, a poultry processor, became a major employer in town when it built a plant and headquarters there; as of 2011 it has approximately 1,200 employees in Siloam Springs. There are now two National Register Historic Districts within the city limits, downtown and Carl’s Addition, which is a residential area. John Brown University recently established an art gallery and the Sager Creek Arts Center con-

tinues to exhibit art and host plays and workshops in its historic building. The Siloam Springs Museum preserves the objects, photographs, and documents of Siloam Springs’ history. Thanks to the efforts of the Chamber of Commerce and Main Street Siloam Springs, the city’s core is thriving with 94 percent of downtown building occupied. In 2015, 12,000 people attended 80 Main Street events including the Farmer’s Market, Girls Night Out Series, Beyond the Farm Series, Farm to Table Dinner and Holiday Open House. Local volunteers also logged more than 1,200 hours toward downtown development.

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Home to: Harding University Population: 24,000 Searcy offers small town living at its finest, where you’re never too far from anywhere. Among the area’s outdoor attractions are the Little Red River tailwaters below Greer’s Ferry Dam featuring world-class trout fishing. There are also several lakes nearby including Greers Ferry Lake, offering fishing and relaxation on crystal clear water, and Lake Barnett, a pictur-

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ny way you care to look at it, online learning has become a force in the American higher education marketplace. Last year, the Digital Learning Compass (DLC) organization reported in its Distance Education Enrollment Report that the number of online learners (people who had taken at least one online class) had topped six million in 2015. The report also noted that more than one in four college students took at least one online course as part of their college education. Earlier this year, Babson Survey Research Group released “Grade Increase: Tracking Distance Education in the United States,” which suggested the already high numbers were accelerating even faster. That data showed the number of online learners had jumped by 400,000 in just one year since the DLC report and the number of students having taken at least one course was very close to one out of three. From busy professionals trying to finish their degrees to traditional college students looking to save money on room and board, online learning is everywhere. Arkansas’ colleges and universities have long recognized the power of online learning both as it benefits students and as it helps them remain competitive in the never ending quest for students. As a result, many of Arkansas’ institutions of higher learning have developed a substantial presence in the brave new world of online learning. “Arkansas State is one of the oldest, and the largest, provider for online learning in the state,” said Thila Sivukumaran, ASU’s executive director of global engagement and outreach. “Whether it is degree completion for undergraduates, specialized Masters or certificate programs or one of the nation’s top online MBAs, A-State is a leader in online.” Sivukumaran said being an early entrant into the online learning space has allowed ASU to refine its curriculum and programs, which has accelerated student participation. “A-State Online is our support team backing our faculty and students and with a decade of experience in the online space, we bring our knowledge in curriculum delivery and design to the table,” Sivukumaran said. “One of the important differences for the place-bound or time-shifted student between A-State and others is this experience, which leads to better-designed courses.” “Having experienced course designers is key; the online learning environment is different and we engineer our content to fit rather than just dropping traditional classroom materials into a website.” Another school on the forefront of online learning is the University of Arkansas Little Rock. Keli Jacobi, UALR’s associate director of communications and marketing, said the university has developed its online programs to appeal to the widest possible range of learners. “UA Little Rock has the same goal as any other educational institution in Arkansas, to help educate as many people as possible,” she said. “We appeal to any demographic since our students have many options on how to complete their degree

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or certificate program. The age range for all online students, meaning those that take all online courses and those that take a combination of courses, is 18 to 67. The average age range for fully online students is 25 to 42. And, keeping with national trends, more women take our online classes than men.” Jacobi said the element of the UALR program that many learners find most appealing is the access they have to oncampus resources, even if their classwork is exclusively online. “Our advantage is that fully online students have the option of visiting the physical campus if the student wants to meet with a professor, gain career mentoring or use academic resources on campus, such as the library and writing center,” she said. “Ottenheimer Library works closely with online students to provide access to important databases within various disciplines, so students can complete research. The library also works with online students via the library reciprocity program, ARKLink, so that the students have library privileges in other parts of the state.” UALR isn’t the only Arkansas college or university to take this approach. Tim Jones, associate vice chancellor of public relations and marketing for the University of Arkansas Pulaski

university, undergraduate online offerings are primarily used to supplement on-ground offerings,” she said. “A full slate of online classes is offered in the summer to enable students to focus on specific classes, improve their GPA, catch up or get ahead on their degree program.” Meanwhile, the university has developed several degree programs that can be completed entirely online, tailored specifically to non-traditional students, lengthening the school’s reach into new pools of students. “The Harding University College of Bible and Ministry Center for Distance Education offers an online Bachelor of Arts in Bible and ministry,” she said. “The program is designed for non-traditional students with some college credit who are adult learners age 24 and older. The degree functions as a two-plus-two program, meaning...some students may finish in as little as two years.” “Also now fully online, the Harding Master of Business Administration program has also been re-engineered to deliver a top-notch, Christ-centered curriculum accredited by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP). Structured with working professionals in mind, the online format allows for increased flexibility and maximum engagement with other participants in the online environment.” Another smaller, private Arkansas school, John Brown University, has also found an expanding online catalog to be useful in attracting new groups of students beyond the traditional person right out of high school, people who otherwise would not have the time or ability to attend in-person instruction. JBU’s online class offering is considerable, and includes bachelor’s degree programs in business administration, liberal arts, organizational management and psychology. It also offers a robust list of Master’s degree programs including higher education, cybersecurity, business administration, design, thinking and innovation and leadership, along with a range of advanced degrees in the health care field. “JBU’s online programs are a flexible means for working adults to earn a degree,” said Tarah Thomas, JBU communications specialist. “Online courses offer students the convenience of access to quality academic course material and instruction, while learning in their preferred location and environment.” The reason so many students are choosing the online learning option — either entirely or in part — comes down to convenience. “E-learning allows students the option of accessing their classes at any time regardless of their location. Another advantage is that students can access course materials and listen to videos or lectures as often as they would like in order to master the material,” said Dr. Georgia Hale, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Arkansas Fort Smith. UAFS introduced online learning in 2000 and has grown its catalog of online courses to 171 online and 60 hybrid courses in Fall 2016 and 178 online and 76 hybrid courses in Spring 2017, which attracted a combined total enrollment of more than

Arkansas’ colleges and universities have long recognized the power of online learning.

Technical College said students there are also afforded access to all the on-campus resources they need. “More than half of UA-PTC students take at least one online class in any given semester. We offer all-online Associate of Arts degrees and have for many years,” he said. “Our online students have access to the same tutoring and library resources as inperson students. In this way, virtually all students can benefit from the convenience of distance learning.” While national statistics report that public institutions represent the bulk of online learners, the technology holds equal value for private schools and their students. Harding University Director of E-Learning and Classroom Technology, Paula Kirby, said the school’s online options have steadily grown. “Due to the nature of Harding as an on-ground, residential

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11,000. It has also developed corresponding technological tools to maximize the educational value of those classes. UAFS’ surgical technology program is one particularly noteworthy example. “Students in the UAFS Surgical Technology program have much more opportunity to work with advanced medical technology than other programs before entering the clinical area,” Hale said.“The Surgical Technology program uses two interactive computer programs in the educational process. One program introduces students to the physical parts of the operating room (OR) and the second program allows students to interact with three different surgeries. There is a self-contained laparoscopic simulator to allow students to practice the interbody cavity manipulation of instruments and cameras. “With the latest advanced equipment such as the OR beds, lighting, laparoscopic simulators, computer programs, UAFS students learn important skills and knowledge before entering the surgical area at local hospitals. We have been told on many occasions by hospital employees that UAFS graduates are better prepared than those from other programs in this area.” Donna Kay, director of instructional learning and development with National Park College in Hot Springs said as prevalent as online learning is, not every student comes in understanding how to take full advantage of what the school offers. That’s why the college is proactive in giving students an orientation to online learning, to help them make an educated decision about which learning model is best for them. “Any student may elect to take online or blended courses anytime they are offered. This has been an option for students for over 15 years and the number of online offerings continues to grow,”she said. “Our small class sizes and limited resource requirements makes NPC the ideal place to study through e-learning, that’s why all students are required to take our LMS training course which prepares them to take courses in the online environment.” Students are additionally supported as they work through digital learning by expanding resources and technology campus-wide and keeping cost additional to the student to a minimum, Kay said. “On-campus, additional computers have been added in the library and library hours have been expanded to allow students access, whether traditional face-to-face students, blended, or fully online,” she said. “Our science classes offer

up to two on-campus lab experiences per semester, giving students the flexibility of e-learning with the benefit of fully equipped science labs. “We also strive to provide e-learning options to students that do not require the purchase of additional software or equipment. The college provides Office 365 to all faculty and students. This is available through a download from the college website.” As online learning has become more mainstream, it has given colleges and universities the opportunity to branch out of traditional academic areas and get in step with technological trends as it adds to its offering. This has helped online learning

online learning will look like in the future, given the pace of change in the tech world. Which is precisely why schools such as the U of A are being so proactive in the development and refinement of curriculum to produce graduates equipped to succeed in the real world. “While many of the University of Arkansas programs look at developing new technologies, the university has developed overarching programs that encompass several programs,” Bartlette said.“The nanotechnology center, for instance, provides resources for disciplines as varied as biomedical engineering, solar technology and environmental dynamics to develop fundamentally new technologies on the scientific side of campus.” “One of the most interesting interdisciplinary projects is a fashion show that combines the design work of our apparel studies program, the introduction of LED lighting elements within the apparel via our electrical engineering program and digital promotion of the fashion show by students in the strategic media program.” For all of the technology that’s at work in providing robust online content, it’s the human element that lies at the heart of the most successful college programs. “As is the case with its in-person offerings, the greatest strength of Arkansas Tech University online is its people,” said Sam Strasner, director of university relations. “Dedicated academic advisors deal specifically with online students on a daily basis and that helps guide ATU online students through the process from application for admission through graduation day.” The hands-on approach is paying off big for the Russellville-based school. Not only does it offer 27 online degrees ranging from certificate programs through Master’s degrees, but students are demonstrating their eagerness to learn online, particularly those outside the traditional college student demographic. “For fall 2018, as of mid-July, more than 1,250 students are enrolled fully online at ATU. Of those, 56 percent are age 30 or older,” Strasner said. “The quality of the experience is demonstrated by the fact online students often travel to Russellville to participate in their commencement ceremony and it is sometimes their very first visit to the physical campus.”

As online learning has become more mainstream, it has given colleges and universities the opportunity to branch out of traditional academic areas. emerge from being a copy of classroom curriculum to developing its own identity at many schools. “The university has invested in the Tesseract Center for Immersive Environments and Game Design, which uses digital game software to create digital environments that are then used for education in a virtual environment,” said DeLani Bartlette with university relations. “At the University of Arkansas Global Campus, a robust team of instructional designers, academic technologists, media-production specialists, and specialists in a range of learning technologies help with development and delivery of the university’s catalog of online programs.” Even with such expertise in play, it’s hard to predict what

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CAMPUS SAFETY A TOP PRIORITY FOR PARENTS, COLLEGES

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“safety” as the most important attribute of their child’s college or

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university, outranking a school’s academic reputation, affordabil-

Campus safety is of utmost importance at Armed officers patrol the Harding University campus 24 hours Arkansas Tech. During the 2017-2018 acaa day, every day of the year while public safety officers and/or ity and their student gaining marketable skills. This fact is not lost on demic year, the ATU Department of Public event staff provide security for every major event on campus. Safety introduced a new and enhanced tool Students can also request courtesy safety escorts starting Arkansas’ colleges and universities, which go to great lengths to help for notifying the university community in the at 6 p.m. every night of the week while school is in session. keep students safe and secure while they continue their education. event of an emergency. ATU Alert reaches Armed officers are trained medical first responders and provide Arkansas Tech faculty, staff and students emergency medical assistance as well as medical transport. In with important information when time is of the essence. addition, there are emergency call boxes placed in strategic ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY Existing programs include Tech Safety Transport, an onlocations throughout campus. Last spring, Arkansas State University launched a sweeping campus transportation service to ensure no student, faculty Freshmen and transfer students take part in “Bison Bound” new program, “Pack PACT-Acting for Change Together,” spearor staff member must walk alone on campus at night and mulorientation program which covers topics of crime prevention headed by ASU Chancellor Kelly Damphousse. The program is tiple education outreach programs on topics such as women’s and safety concerns, which are also part of resident assistant an ongoing effort to emphasize the entire ASU community’s self-defense, theft prevention and emergency preparedness. training programs. In addition, Harding University Public Safety, role in reducing sexual violence and providing a safe campus Each incoming student at Arkansas Tech University particiSearcy Fire Department and Searcy Police Department present environment for all. pates in two online training. AlcoholEdu empowers individuals programs covering fire/life safety and active shooter prepared“Sexual assault is a reality on every college and university to make well-informed decisions about alcohol; Haven, provides ness training on campus. campus and education is how we can come together to preeducation about healthy relationships and the importance of Harding requires all students, faculty and staff to enroll in an vent this problem,” Damphousse said. “The national statistics consent and the many ways members of the campus comonline Canvas course addressing sexual violence prevention show that more than 10 percent of all students – male and munity can help create the safe, positive learning and living including a definition of terms, how to reduce risk, general female – experience rape or sexual assault through force. Less environment. safety measures, confidentiality, accommodations and unithan 20 percent of female college-age student victims will versity procedures. report to authorities what happened to them. We Harding also plays an active role in monitorneed to step up to support those who have felt ing students’ adjustment to college life and the they had no voice.” stresses that come with it. Harding University’s Initially targeted toward sexual assault awareOffice of Student Success oversees a First Year ness, the programs focus on active bystanders’ Experience program that provides opportunities roles in promoting positive intervention by peers for academic and social growth during a student’s related to a wide range of negative behaviors. It has first year in college. also inspired the formation of an affiliated student On the fifth week of the semester, all teachers group imPACT. This group is creating and delivering flag students who aren’t doing well in class with peer-to-peer programs to heighten sexual assault an Early Alert. Students receiving at least one Early awareness, sensitivity toward all groups, and fosAlert flag are sent a letter from the provost recomtering an inclusive, safe atmosphere on campus mending they seek assistance from various campus among the student body. resources. Students receiving three or more Early Pack PACT and imPACT further what is already Alerts are required to speak with someone about a robust culture of safety at ASU. The campus has the difficulties they are having. received national recognition for its safety trainThe university’s Concerned Alert Response Effort ing programs provided through the First-Year (CARE) enables any Harding employee to complete Experience course. The school is also one of a a CARE form requesting CSS proactively check on handful of schools that train all students on what a student who appears to be struggling. to do during an active threat event. In addition to working with FYE courses, University Arkansas State University recently launched Pack PACT, a sweeping campus-wide Police hosts Safety Week each fall with each day initiative to promote campus safety. HENDERSON STATE UNIVERSITY focusing on a specific student issue. UPD also hosts Henderson State University offers Reddie Rides, programs on drinking and texting while driving, substance Additional related resources offered by ATU are informational an on-call ride home service for students. The University abuse, sexual assault awareness and domestic violence and sessions during new student orientation, continuing educaPolice personnel provide 24-hour assistance on campus, and crosswalk safety awareness. UPD coordinates a student escort tion and resources provided by the ATU Health and Wellness emergency Blue Light phones are located across campus. HSU patrol to provide assistance returning home from a party or Center and the Jerry Cares program. Any member of the camutilizes the Alertus campus notification system and Rave text walking someone from their parking lot to a residence hall pus community may submit a report to the CARE team when message alerts to share immediate safety updates and advise after work. As a part of UPD’s welcome week and safety week they encounter an individual who is experiencing problems of weather alerts and closings. activities, keychain fobs are provided with the phone number and needs assistance. Reports may be made anonymously. to request an escort. In addition to the ATU Department of Public Safety, the JOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY Last year, the campus added to the already-significant numRussellville Police Department is located 1.4 miles from camRanked the safest college in Arkansas by Niche.com, JBU has ber of emergency alert towers and video cameras on campus pus and St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center is located two miles security officers on campus 24 hours a day and offers late-night and installed new lighting along a new mixed-use path near from campus. A number of medical clinics in Russellville offer shuttle services for students. JBU’s campus safety officers have 42 AUGUST 30, 2018

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years of law enforcement and security experience and are committed to the safety of students and the campus. The team also has excellent working relationships with local police, fire and EMS services in the Siloam Springs area.

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According to Campus Safety and Security data, Lyon has one of the safest campuses in the state a title grown out of deliberately making student safety a top priority. Lyon has a 24 hour, around-the-clock campus safety team patrolling campus, which provides walk-home and ride-home services. The Lyon Campus Safety team has a good working relationship with the Batesville Police Department. The current police response time is under four minutes and the college is located less than five minutes from White River Medical Center. Lyon hosts orientation for new students at the beginning of each school year called Weeks of Welcome (WOW) during which students are issued handbooks detailing campus safety rules, and hear speakers discussing safety behaviors, alcohol abuse and drug abuse. The Student Life Office has resident assistants and resident directors go over safety procedures and regulations with students in a required meeting after move-in. The college employs extensive training of the student body on sexual assault and rape prevention through required training sessions, with additional training sessions targeting Greek organizations, male and female athletes and faculty and staff members. These classes are reinforced by online training modules required of new students, faculty and staff members. All freshmen participate in the Year One program to help them adjust to life at Lyon. Each new student has a Year One faculty/staff mentor, a student mentor and a faculty advisor. There’s also a variety of resources for providing academic help, counseling and wellness assistance.

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any student who is out at night. Residence halls require card identification to enter. Emergency phone kiosks are located across campus and well-lit pedestrian walkways are maintained on campus. The University of Arkansas Police Department, established in the 1980s, was the first accredited university police department in Arkansas. The department recently added a campus security patrol separate from the law-enforcement division to provide an extra layer of safety. UAPD pursues a strategy of prevention and education to help students recognize things they can do to increase their own safety and deter crime. These efforts contribute to the University of Arkansas enjoying a very low rate of crime. The university’s Substance Education and Alcohol Resources Office works collaboratively across many departments, This entity makes presentations in the freshman University Perspective classes regarding alcohol and other drug use, risk reduction strategies, bystander intervention strategies, signs of alcohol poisoning and how to react in emergency situations.

Counseling and Guidance Center, Crisis Intervention Center and the Sebastian County Prosecutor’s Office. Fort Smith is served by two hospitals. Sexual assault and rape prevention efforts are a shared venture with University Police and Student Affairs partnering on student education. The Title IX office coordinates efforts and delivers training during New Student Orientation and has ongoing efforts throughout the year. Lion’s Alert, the emergency mass alert system, allows notification to cell phone via text, home phone and messaging and email. Emergency messaging dealing with active shooter, severe weather, natural disasters or any other emergency is sent through Lion’s Alert. The University of Arkansas-Fort Smith Police Department serves the campus community with full-time police services. The department is staffed by state-certified police officers with 24-hour/7 day a week services. The department offers safety escorts, lighting tours, emergency phone locations, building locks and unlocks and mass emergency alerts.

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The North Little Rock-based college employes certified, uniformed police officers who assure the safety and well-being of students, visitors and employees. In addition, all employees are given regular training in emergency procedures, Laura’s Law, Title IX, and other measures that enhance the safety and wellbeing of the campus community.

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Despite having no residence halls, National Park College employs safety measures that rival that According to one ranking, Lyon College in Batesville is one of the of institutions several times its size. This fall, NPC safest colleges in Arkansas. hired a Director of Campus Safety, whose primary Campus resources for handling stress and the transition into duty is to coordinate various safety and security systems and college life are also addressed, as well as offering recovery serprocesses on campus. vices such as SMART Recovery meetings and wellness coaching Among these processes is the Red Flag Campaign whereby each for individuals who are unsure about how to manage college life. semester, a Behavior Intervention Specialist conducts monthly In addition to the UAPD, the Fayetteville Police Department workshops open to all students, faculty and staff. These events and Washington County Sheriff’s Office offer assistance to the address the topics of sexual assault, dating violence, domestic university when events dictate the need for additional security. violence and the characteristics of healthy relationships. The Fayetteville Fire Department provides emergency response NPC has a faculty/student mentoring program available to for fire alarms and other medical emergencies and a firehouse all students. Peer-to-peer opportunities are offered through is located just a block off campus. For conditions beyond the Student Support Services and all sanctioned student groups reach of the onsite Pat Walker Health Center, the region’s largand clubs. Faculty utilize an Early Alert system for students they est medical hospital, Washington Regional Medical Center, is identify as struggling in their coursework or in their personal within 10 minutes from campus. lives. Once notified, the Early Alert coordinator disseminates the student contact information to various departments on campus who can provide help for academic support, disability UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS — FORT SMITH services, health services and mental/behavioral health support. New students are educated through New Student Orientation as well as Cub Camp regarding safe behaviors. Ongoing educational outreach efforts through housing and Greek Life also UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS — FAYETTEVILLE address these concerns. Resident Assistants receive separate The university provides emergency notification through training prior to the beginning of each school year in conflict RazAlert, which sends key messages by text, email and voice resolution, communication in crisis situations, sexual assault to all campus community members whenever an imminent reporting and all other reporting options. threat is posed. The university also offers the Guardian app for Community resources which enhance on-campus safety smart phones, which offers several safety features. measures include the Fort Smith Police Department, Sebastian The Associated Student Government operates a safe-ride County Sheriff’s Department, Fort Smith EMS, Western Arkansas program for students and campus escorts are available for

The University of Central Arkansas has taken several steps to address sexual misconduct. UCA’s Title IX Coordinator oversees training and ensures prompt and equitable resolution of complaints. The Sexual Misconduct Prevention and Awareness Committee focuses on enhancing student awareness and understanding of the factors that contribute to sexual assault. UCA participates in numerous awareness and prevention programs, including Stand Up and Speak Out Carnival, One Billion Rising event, Clothesline Project, Walk a Mile in Her Shoes and Sexual Assault Awareness Month. UCA requires online training courses for students, staff and faculty that addresses sexual misconduct, gender and LGBT issues. Throughout the year, the UCA Police Department also provides training for the community on different topics such as situational awareness, self-defense, activeshooter and hazing awareness. In order to acclimate new students to campus, resident assistants conduct meetings in resident halls to help everyone understand where to go during emergency situations. The UCAPD conducts training with housing staff annually on a variety of topics, such as Campus Security Authority training, alcohol and drug awareness, situational awareness and scenario training. The UCA Police Department employes 28 full-time officers, all with arrest authority. The department operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week and has a 911 communications center. Officers conduct regular patrols through all campus buildings, including residence halls, and the communications center can issue emergency alerts through email, text and telephone. Strategically located throughout campus, Blue Light emergency phones are available for requesting assistance. Students simply press a button and the phone automatically dials the UCA Police Communication Center. In addition, e-phones are located in every elevator on campus, in stairwell landing areas and other various locations. These phones operate in the same one-button manner as Blue Light emergency phones.

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PAYING YOUR WAY: COLLEGES SHARE TIPS ON LANDING FINANCIAL AID ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY

Percent of Students Receiving Financial Aid: 80+% Work Study Available: Yes Highlighted Scholarships (See full list and complete eligibility/application information at http:// www.astate.edu/a/finaid/): ASTATE SCHOLAR • Provides up to $15,000 annually, including up to $3,720 for on-campus housing and up to $3,000 for on-campus meal plan. • Award is for eight consecutive semesters or completion of degree, whichever comes first. Renewal is contingent upon student meeting all scholarship requirements. • Requirements include a minimum 32 ACT or 1450 New SAT and 3.50 GPA ASTATE EXCELLENCE • Provides up to $9,220 annually, including up to $3,720 for on-campus housing. • Award is for eight consecutive semesters or completion of degree, whichever comes first. Renewal is contingent upon student meeting all scholarship requirements. • Requirements include a minimum 30-31 ACT or 1390-1449 New SAT and 3.50 GPA ASTATE LEADERSHIP • Provides up to $8,220 - $8,720 annually, depending on ACT score. • Award is for eight consecutive semesters or completion of degree, whichever comes first. Renewal is contingent upon student meeting all scholarship requirements. • Requirements include a minimum 29 ACT/13501389 New SAT OR 28 ACT/1310-1349 New SAT. Both scholarships require a minimum 3.500 high school GPA NOTES: • Arkansas State offers financial literacy classes for freshman as well as upper level students. Parents and students should attend any programs about filing for federal and state financial aid. • ASU offers merit, performance and need based scholarships. • In the past, dropping below a certain GPA or number of hours meant a scholarship was gone forever. Arkansas State now has a program for students who lost a university scholarship to regain it if they can rebound their grades. TIPS FROM THE TOP ON FINANCIAL AID: “First, never take more student loan funds than necessary. Second, save money in the summer on purchasing or renting books before classes start. And finally, giving to Arkansas State is at record levels and as a result, the number of privately funded scholarships has grown 40 percent in the last five years. Make sure that you have applied for all possible scholarships, public and private.” — Terry Finney, ASU director of financial aid

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Percent of Students Receiving Financial Aid: 80+% Work Study Available: Yes Highlighted Scholarships (See full list and complete eligibility/application information at www. atu.edu/scholarships and www.atu.edu/finaid): BOARD OF TRUSTEES • Provides $10,000 annually. • Award is for eight consecutive semesters or completion of degree, whichever comes first. Renewal is contingent upon student meeting all scholarship requirements. • Minimum composite ACT score of 30 to 36 (New SAT score of 1390-1600) and 3.25 cumulative GPA PRESIDENTIAL • Provides up to $9,000 annually. • Award is for eight consecutive semesters or completion of degree, whichever comes first. Renewal is contingent upon student meeting all scholarship requirements. • Minimum composite ACT score of 28 or 29 (New SAT score of 1310-1380) and 3.25 cumulative GPA UNIVERSITY • Provides up to $8,000 annually • Award is for eight consecutive semesters or completion of degree, whichever comes first. Renewal is contingent upon student meeting all scholarship requirements. • Minimum composite ACT score of 26 or 27 (New SAT score of 1240-1300) and 3.25 cumulative GPA NOTES: • Athletic scholarships and music fellowships are among the specialized types of financial aid offered to Arkansas Tech University students with a particular talent in those areas. • Each ATU student who qualifies for the Miss Arkansas Scholarship Pageant receives a $1,000 per semester award. • Scholarship opportunities also exist for transfer students, graduate students and students at ATU-Ozark Campus. TIPS FROM THE TOP ON FINANCIAL AID: “The application for undergraduate admission serves as the scholarship application. There is not a separate scholarship application to complete. However, an early admission status is required. Know your deadlines!” — Sam Strasner, director of university relations

HARDING UNIVERSITY

Percent of Students Receiving Financial Aid: 95% Work Study Available: Yes Highlighted Scholarships (See full list and complete eligibility/application information at https:// www.harding.edu/admissions/cost/scholarships):

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TRUSTEE SCHOLARSHIP • Covers full tuition • Open to incoming freshman • Must have a minimum composite score of 31 on ACT or 1420 SAT ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT SCHOLARSHIP • Awards range from $4,000 to $11,500 per year • Open to incoming freshman with minimum high school GPA of 3.0 • Must also have a minimum composite score of 22 on ACT or 1100 SAT HARDING GRANTS/PRESIDENT’S ENDOWED & STEPHENS • Awards $500 to $3,000 the first year, then $2,000 for remaining years based on GPA. • Awarded to students with financial need after all free money is awarded, who may or may not qualify for Pell Grants. • Eligible students may apply for and receive both grants, to a maximum of $6,000 in freshman year. NOTES: • Various Harding University academic departments also offer scholarships to those students majoring in that discipline, including music, communications, nursing, and Bible and ministry. • Harding is a member of NCAA Division II athletics and offers numerous sports with accompanying athletic scholarships. Talent scholarships are available to music, theater and art majors who qualify. • Discounts are available for eligible students who are children of ministers, missionaries, and employees of Christian schools and colleges affiliated with Churches of Christ. TIPS FROM THE TOP ON FINANCIAL AID: “Very carefully fill out the FAFSA beginning Oct. 1 during senior year of high school. Some aid is‘first come, first served,’so do not delay. Take the ACT or SAT as many times as you think you can improve your score and pay attention to financial aid and scholarship requirements and deadlines. To keep a scholarship, know the GPA requirements and make sure to maintain that GPA; if you are falling behind in a class, seek help immediately. Professors, tutors and other resources are available to help you work on improvement before it is too late.” — Jay Simpson, senior associate director of Financial Aid Services

• Scholarship is renewable by maintaining courseload and GPA (2.75) requirements PRESIDENTIAL SCHOLARSHIP, TIER 1 & 2 • Tier 1 awards $10,000 annually,Tier 2 awards $9,500 annually; both include $500 housing credit • Minimum ACT scores of 28-36 and high school GPA between 3.25 and 3.5 depending on tier. • Scholarship is renewable by maintaining course load and GPA (2.75) requirements UNIVERSITY CENTURIUM SCHOLARSHIP, TIER 1 & 2 • Tier 1 awards $7,000 annually,Tier 2 awards $6,500 annually • Minimum ACT scores of 25-27 and high school GPA between 3.25 and 3.5 depending on tier. • Scholarship is renewable by maintaining course load and GPA (2.50) requirements NOTES • Performance scholarships are offered for students interested in art, band, choir, print and broadcast journalism, forensics, theater and dance. • Visits with any area of interest can be arranged during your campus tour. TIPS FROM THE TOP ON FINANCIAL AID: “Students are encouraged to complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). This is not required for scholarship application, but Henderson State highly recommends it, even if a student believes he/she may not qualify for federal aid. Millions of dollars in federal financial aid are awarded to Henderson students each year, and there is no fee to apply.” — Christina Jones, Director Financial Aid

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Percent of Students Receiving Financial Aid: 90% Work Study Available: Yes Highlighted Scholarships (See full list and complete eligibility/application information at https:// www.jbu.edu/financial_aid/):

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PRESIDENTIAL SCHOLARSHIP • Four awards annually, $27,000 each • Eligibility determined by ACT/SAT/CLTA minimum scores and high school GPA requirements • Applicants must compete in scholarship competition, demonstrate leadership ability and high Christian character • Renewable with minimum 3.2 cumulative GPA

DISTINGUISHED FRESHMAN SCHOLARSHIP • $12,000 annually, includes $1,000 housing credit • Minimum required ACT between 31 and 36 plus student must live in campus housing

COMMUNITY CHANGERS SCHOLARSHIP • Limited number of awards annually, from $500 to $8,000 • Highlights students who demonstrate leadership potential and dedication to improving their community • Qualifiers include first-year, first-generation and/or minority students with financial need entering traditional undergraduate programs at the Siloam Springs campus

Percent of Students Receiving Financial Aid: 90+ Work Study Available: Yes Highlighted Scholarships (See full list and complete eligibility/application information at http://www.hsu.edu/FinancialAid/academicscholarships.html/):

TRUSTEE’S AWARD • Academic achievement awards of $11,500 • Minimum ACT between 26 and 28+, SAT 12401310+ or CLT 82-86+ with corresponding minimum high school GPA. • Renewable with minimum 3.2 cumulative GPA NOTES: • JBU offers need based aid, performance scholarships (athletic, music and visual arts) academic merit scholarships and a limited number of competitive scholarships. • Financial aid awards are made beginning February 15 to those who have completed admission and financial aid application requirements.

own minor and the opportunity to participate in the Lyon College Pipe Band. TIPS FROM THE TOP ON FINANCIAL AID: “Colleges are mandated to have a net price calculator available on their websites to help parents and students understand actual net cost. To help reduce costs, take advantage of options such as work study, textbook rental, participating in textbook buyback and campus employment.” — Thomas Tucker, director of financial aid

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Percent of Students Receiving Financial Aid: 82% Work Study Available: Yes Highlighted Scholarships (See full list and complete eligibility/application information at https://web. saumag.edu/admissions/apply/scholarships/): PRESIDENTIAL • Provides up to $5,500 per semester for eight semesters. • Requires being named a National Merit or National Achievement finalist or semi-finalist • Requires a minimum 30 ACT or SAT equivalent

UNIVERSITY • Provides up to $4,500 per semester • Renewable for eight semesters. • Requires a minimum 27-29 ACT or SAT equivalent VALEDICTORIAN/SALUTATORIAN • Provides up to $3,300 per semester for eight semesters. • Requires being named a valedictorian or salutatorian of high school graduating class • Requires a minimum 19-23 ACT

TIPS FROM THE TOP ON FINANCIAL AID: “Last year, JBU awarded over $13 million in scholarships and grants to assist 90 percent of our full-time students. The cost of a JBU education is an investment in the future. Students invest four years of their lives in an experience that will shape them and influence who they are going to be personally and professionally. JBU’s financial aid staff go above and beyond to help students afford JBU whenever possible.” — David Burney, director of financial aid

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• Percent of Students Receiving Financial Aid: 98% • Work Study Available: Yes • Highlighted Scholarships (See full list and complete eligibility/application information at https:// www.lyon.edu/scholarships-aid-programs): MERIT-BASED SCHOLARSHIPS • Awarded according to a student’s academic performance. • Awards are annual and renewable for up to eight semesters of undergraduate study provided that the student maintains requirements. • Includes three scholarship categories (Dean’s, President’s, Trustee) ranging from $13,000 to full tuition. PERFORMANCE AWARDS • Awards presented based on outstanding ability in music, theatre, or visual art. • Awarded in addition to any and all other Lyon institutional scholarships and grants, with the total monies not to exceed the cost of tuition. • Audition categories include vocal or instrumental music, theatre, visual art and Scottish Heritage, awarded to pipers, drummers and Highland dancers. PRESBYTERIAN GRANT • Awards $1,000 per year to incoming students who are current members in good standing of any Presbyterian Church for a period of at least one year. • Awarded in addition to any and all other Lyon institutional scholarships and grants, with the total monies not to exceed the cost of tuition. • Requires letter from pastor, certifying church membership for the required period of time. NOTES: • Students in the Honors Fellows Program also receive academic scholarships. • Lyon College awards scholarships to athletes participating in varsity sports as well as several club sports (archery, trap, disc golf and mountain and road cycling), plus cheer and dance. • Scottish Heritage Scholarship is part of Lyon’s Scottish Heritage Program which comes with its

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NOTES: • Retention criteria for most incoming freshman scholarships include 30 credit hours with a 2.75 GPA each year and enrolled in a minimum of 15 hours each semester. • SAU offers art, music and theatre awards as well as academic scholarships. • Parents and students should file the Free Application for Federal Student Aid as early as possible. The new FAFSA application launches October 1, 2018; SAU financial aid priority deadline is June 1, 2019. TIPS FROM THE TOP ON FINANCIAL AID: “Some colleges provide guidance on paying for college. At SAU we visit area high schools for night sessions about financial aid, host a high school counselor workshop each November and work closely with Upward Bound students and families. We also integrate financial aid into our campus tours and have one-on-one counseling sessions with incoming students and their parents during orientation.” — Marcela McRae-Brunson, director of financial aid

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Percent of Students Receiving Financial Aid: 65% Work Study Available: Yes Highlighted Scholarships (See full list and complete eligibility/application information at https:// finaid.uark.edu/) SILAS HUNT DISTINGUISHED SCHOLARSHIP • Competitive scholarship targeting students who have demonstrated outstanding academic leadership qualities and potential and are from under-represented communities. • “Under-represented” can mean under-represented ethnic and minority groups; students with interest in fields of study that do not attract members of their ethnicity or gender; under-represented counties in Arkansas or first-generation college students. • Variable awards of $5,000 or $8,000 WAL-MART SCHOLARS ENDOWED FUND • Annual awards of $2,500, providing financial assistance to students who are Arkansas residents with demonstrated financial need. • Renewable for up to three additional years of undergraduate study as long as the student maintains a 2.0 cumulative GPA. • New freshmen financially needy recipients are nominated by admission, scholarship, and financial aid counselors. ARKANSAS ACADEMIC CHALLENGE SCHOLARSHIP • Scholarship funded by Arkansas Lottery that can be used at any two- or four-year Arkansas public or private nonprofit college or university. • Graduates of Arkansas high schools with a minimum score of 19 on the ACT are eligible. • Awards $1,000 in Year One; $4,000 in Years Two and Three and $5,000 in Year Four. For two-year schools, awards $1,000 in Year One and $3,000 in Year Two • For full details, visit http://scholarships.adhe.edu/ NOTES: • The University of Arkansas disbursed nearly $49 million in institutional scholarships and funding during the 2017-18 academic year, including aid for new freshman, transfer students, military, athletes, and departmental-specific scholarships 46 AUGUST 30, 2018

among others. The majority of scholarship funding is merit-based and competitively awarded requiring written applications, special talent, test scores and high school and/or college GPA. • The University of Arkansas launched Advance Arkansas scholarship initiative in 2017 to support native Arkansas students who exhibit financial need, academic success, and civil engagement or community leadership. • U of A offers a number of scholarships for special circumstances, such as special talent in band, music, art or athletics. Some scholarships target students in a certain major, are legacies or alumni affiliated, or require recipients to be members of an under-represented community, such as first-generation college students or who come from an under-represented county in Arkansas. TIPS FROM THE TOP ON FINANCIAL AID: “Apply for ‘outside scholarships.’ Students need to be scholarship search-savvy. Scholarship organizations, community organizations and businesses have millions of dollars in scholarship aid to give, but students have to apply for them. It takes time and effort, but the payoff can be great. The CollegeBoard’s Big Future website (https:// bigfuture.collegeboard.org/scholarship-search) is a wonderful scholarship resource for students.” — Charlie Alison, U of A university relations

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Percent of Students Receiving Financial Aid: 85% Work Study Available: Yes Highlighted Scholarships (See full list and complete eligibility/application information at http:// ualr.edu/scholarships/) DONAGHEY SCHOLARS PROGRAM • Highly selective honors program enrolling 25 new scholars each year, open to all students and majors. • Application process includes ACT/SAT scores, two letters of recommendation, on-campus interview and two essays. • Award includes up to full tuition and fees, $6,000$10,000 yearly stipend, study abroad funding, laptop and housing subsidy LOUIS STOKES ALLIANCE FOR MINORITY PARTICIPATION IN STEM • Awarded to students of African-American, Hispanic American, Native American, Alaskan Native, or Native Pacific Islander ethnicity majoring in science, technology, engineering or mathematics • Minimum 19 ACT or equivalent SAT and 3.00 minimum cumulative high school GPA • Awards $3,600 over 2 years ($1,800 per year) plus $1,200 for a summer institute CHANCELLOR’S LEADERSHIP CORPS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM • Highly competitive scholarship program based on academics, leadership, activities and community involvement. • Required minimum 3.0 GPA, ACT score of 19 or SAT equivalent and two letters of recommendation. • Awards up to $4,000 per year. NOTES: • Utilize the Office of Financial Aid for assistance deciphering the types of scholarships offered. There are hundreds of awards available, and it pays to do your research. • Students must fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) by visiting fafsa.

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gov as soon as possible. Final deadlines are in November. • The university also offers payment plans so that any balance due may be broken up into smaller, more manageable monthly amounts over a semester. TIPS FROM THE TOP ON FINANCIAL AID: “If you’re looking for scholarship opportunities, you can now apply for several different types of UA Little Rock scholarships by submitting a single scholarship application. By applying, you will be considered for all awards for which you may be eligible, including general private scholarships Alumni Association scholarships or departmental scholarships.” — Keli Jacobi, associate director, UALR Communications and Marketing

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Percent of Students Receiving Financial Aid: 80% Work Study Available: Yes Highlighted Scholarships (See full list and complete eligibility/application information at https:// www.uaptc.edu/scholarships): CHANCELLOR’S SCHOLARSHIP • Up to $10,920 in tuition and fees waived. • Renewable for up to four consecutive semesters. • Open to graduates from accredited Arkansas high schools in the UA-PTC service area of Pulaski, Faulkner, Lonoke or Saline counties, enrolling in the first semester following high school. GED SCHOLARSHIP • Up to $10,920 in tuition and fees waived. • Renewable for up to 60 hours. • Open to first-time college students only, who have completed the GED examination at an adult education center in Lonoke, Pulaski, Saline or Faulkner counties. UA-PTC CAREER SCHOLARSHIP • Covers tuition and fees, excluding general fee and specialty fee. • Renewable for up to four semesters with fulltime enrollment and maintenance of a 3.0 cumulative financial aid GPA. • Open to students who have graduated from a high school in the UA-PTC service area of Pulaski, Lonoke, Saline or Faulkner counties and who are in their first semester following high school. • Minimum high school GPA and pre-requisite classes required to be eligible for this award. TIPS FROM THE TOP ON FINANCIAL AID: “Concerning your application: Be thorough, be accurate, be on time and especially, be on time. Did I mention being on time? Also, write a good essay! Many private scholarships go underutilized because students don’t want to take the time, but it’s a worthwhile investment.” — Tim Jones, Director of PR & Marketing

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Percent of Students Receiving Financial Aid: 83% Work Study Available: Yes Highlighted Scholarships (See full list and complete eligibility/application information at http:// uca.edu/scholarships/prospective-students/):

DISTINGUISHED ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIP • Awards $8,500 to incoming students who meet academic requirements. • Applicants must have attained an ACT score between 31 and 36 or SAT score between 1390 and 1600. • Applicants must also have achieved a minimum 3.5 high school GPA. EXCELLENCE ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIP • Awards $7,000 to incoming students who meet academic requirements. • Applicants must have attained an ACT score between 29 and 30 or SAT score between 1330 and 1380. • Applicants must also have achieved a minimum 3.5 high school GPA. BAXLEY FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP • Provides two full-ride scholarships ($34,000/ year for three years) to a rising sophomore from any major. • Award covers tuition, books, fees, housing and meal plan. • Funded through $102,000 pledge from the Baxley Foundation in support of student scholarships. NOTES: • The University of Central Arkansas has a number of performance-based scholarships available to entering and continuing students (athletics, cheer, dance, band, music, etc.). • UCA Foundation has a wide range of scholarship opportunities for students based on specific donor criteria such as field of study, hometown, volunteerism, special interests, etc. TIPS FROM THE TOP ON FINANCIAL AID: “The single most effective element in getting the most out of financial aid is to research and apply for institutional and private funding early and submitting requested information in a timely manner. The most common mistakes people make are not following up and assuming all costs will be covered by financial aid.” — Cheryl Lyons, director of student financial aid

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n 1932, Florence Beatrice Price broke her foot and composed the work that would define her career: a four-movement symphony with parts for two flutes, two piccolos, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four Florence Price stepped across the threshhold of horns, two trumpets, three trombones, a progress with a broken foot. tuba, a timpani, percussion and strings — a full orchestra, though at that time no BY KALLY PATZ major orchestra in the United States had performed a piece by a black woman. The work, “Symphony in E Minor,” was to become inseparable from Price’s reputation as a pioneer among black woman composers, a legacy for which she will be honored Thursday evening by the Arkansas Women’s Hall of Fame in a ceremony at the Statehouse Convention Center. When Price began “Symphony in E Minor,” she was completely unknown outside her circle in Chicago. She had recently left her husband, who had turned abusive, and her home in Little Rock, where a brutal lynching had left her traumatized five years before. At the time of the broken foot, Price was living with her two daughters at the home of her 18-year-old student, Margaret Bonds. For one month, the two women sat at the kitchen table, Price composing, her pupil extracting parts for each instrument to copy onto separate pieces of paper. Nine months later, when the winners of the Rodman Wanamaker Contest in Musical Composition for African-American composers were announced, newspapers described the results as if a oncein-a-century meteor had dropped to earth. POSTHUMOUSLY HONORED: Florence Price is among the 2018 inductees to the Florence Price had won not only first place Arkansas Women’s Hall of Fame. in the competition’s most prestigious category for her symphony, but also honorable mention in that category, first place in a different category, and honorable mention Orchestra at a World’s Fair Exposition Minor” was more aspirational than repin that category as well. Even in the song with the motto “Century of Progress” the resentative. Price’s debut did not, in fact, category, which she’d not entered, she following summer, it was billed as “the reflect a century of steady progress, nor had, in a sense, won: Bonds, her student, first work in this form by a Negro woman was it a breakthrough that would drahad taken first place. composer,” proof of progress on par with matically change the world for woman One headline read “$750 CASH the first rotor capable of harnessing wind composers. While it might initially have PRIZES THE RESULT OF INJURY — 2 energy and a prototype for gluten-free appeared as the first in a train of dominoes, WOMEN GET ALL THE CASH GIVEN bread. The authors of the program were, with orchestras in New York and Europe IN MUSIC CONTEST — INJURY A apparently, oblivious to the irony of pre- waiting at the end, all of them ready to fall HELP,” brushing aside Price’s and Bonds’ senting a black woman composer as a sym- before the first black woman composer to victories as anomalies, events that were to bol of progress at a fair where restaurants have a symphony performed by a major be accepted as inexplicable and unlikely refused service to black customers and American orchestra, Price found herself to occur again anytime soon. women were summarily ignored. on lesser stages. Though she continued When “Symphony in E Minor” was As a symbol of change, that World’s composing for another 20 years, penning performed by the Chicago Symphony Fair performance of “Symphony in E works that critics agree are far superior to 22

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that first, tentative composition, her later symphonies were performed by women’s groups and second-rate regional orchestras. That broken foot in January 1932 gave Price a reprieve from her schedule, which generally consisted of teaching lessons, playing the organ at silent movies, writing for radio commercials and composing pieces for young students. During that month, she’d written “Symphony in E Minor,” another symphony and two more sonatas. Perhaps thinking of it as a joke, Price wrote a friend: “Oh, dear me, when shall I ever be so fortunate again as to break a foot.” But the broken foot was a once-in-alifetime event, a stroke of fortune never to be repeated. Price died in 1953, and her body of work, over 300 compositions, was quickly forgotten. Piles of her manuscripts were left to rot at an abandoned summer home in Illinois until they were discovered by a couple who moved there in 2009. Since then, a modest wave of attention has come to her work in the form of articles in The New Yorker and The New York Times, a new recording of her violin concertos and, most recently, the announcement of her induction into the Arkansas Women’s Hall of Fame. While admirable in its aim to undo the last century’s neglect, the rediscovery of Price is not entirely free from the contradictions of 1933. At a time when female composers represent less than 2 percent of the work performed by major American orchestras, classical music remains a frontier largely closed to women, and Price’s inclusion in a Hall of Fame that seeks to honor “significant and enduring contributions” carries with it a certain incongruence. Nearly 100 years after Florence Price’s debut at the World’s Fair, she is not so much the pioneer who opened the door as she is the fluke who slipped inside: a symbol ahead of a century’s progress. Price, along with Dr. Carolyn F. Blakely, Karen Flake, Dr. Sue Griffin, Dr. Raye Jean Jordan Montague, Mary Steenburgen, Annabelle Imber Tuck and Bessie Grace Boehm Moore, will be inducted into the Women’s Hall of Fame during a ceremony Thursday, Aug. 30, in the Wally Allen Ballroom at the Statehouse Convention Center. For tickets and details, see arwomenshalloffame.com.

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The Oxford American announced this week that its 20th annual music issue will focus on the music of North Carolina, “including James Taylor, Nina Simone, John Coltrane, Rapsody” and many others, a press release stated. The issue, which hits newsstands Nov. 20 will be accompanied by a sampler of North Carolina’s music, available as a CD and as a digital download. Reserve a copy at oxfordamerican. org/music. The 2018 Porter Fund Literary Prize was awarded to Dr. Tyrone Jaeger, associate professor of English and creative writing at Hendrix College and author of the story collection “So Many True Believers” and the cross-genre novella “The Runaway Note.” “When I received the call about winning the Porter Prize,” Jaeger said in a press release, “I immediately thought back to the summer my wife and I moved to Arkansas. After spending hot and humid days unpacking, I would immerse myself in Frank Stanford’s “The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You” and Donald Harington’s “The Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks.” How quickly the strange magic of Arkansas and its writers gripped my heart and my imagination. To be recognized by the Porter Fund, and by extension previous Porter Prize Winners, tightens that grip.” Jaeger will be honored at a ceremony at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 11, at the Main Library’s Darragh Center. Ever wondered how a property gets nominated for the National Register of Historic Places? The Arkansas Historic Preservation Program will offer a free training session on the National Register’s history and the criteria for nominating a property to the register at 9 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 8, in the Diamond Room at the Department of Arkansas Heritage Building, 1100 North St. For information, call 324-9880 or email ralph.wilcox@ arkansas.gov.

In 2014, after 90 years of being veiled in mystery and virtually unknown to the general public, the Albert Pike Masonic Center was opened up to the entire State of Arkansas to rent for weddings, fundraisers, non-profit organizations, the performing arts as well as many other usages. It has quickly become one of the most beautiful, majestic, versatile and affordable event venues in the State. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Albert Pike Masonic Center is the headquarters for the Masonic fraternity in Arkansas. Designed by architects George Mann and Eugene Stern, it was dedicated on May 12, 1924. Mann was considered the “dean of Arkansas architects” having designed several important Arkansas buildings, including the Arkansas State Capitol and the Arlington Hotel in Hot Springs. The building is a monumental three-story structure in the Neo-Classical Revival style, lined on its front facade with nineteen Greek Ionic columns. With seating for 774 in the auditorium, 450 in the formal dining room, and several other unique spaces, the Center is perfect for banquets, receptions, performing arts, and many other events. The building is truly an Arkansas treasure that we wish to share with everyone.

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BIG SHIP: Reggae icon and ambassador Freddie McGregor takes the stage at Rev Room Thursday night.

THURSDAY 8/30

FREDDIE MCGREGOR 9 p.m. Rev Room. $20-$25.

THURSDAY 8/30

JOHN MCATEER AND THE BASTARDS OF JUNG, FRONTIER CIRCUS 9 p.m. White Water Tavern.

Longtime singer for The Reds and The Baileys John McAteer — whose band The Gentlemen Firesnakes was described at the 2017 Arkansas Times Musicians Showcase as having “shades of Westerberg without the snarl” — has put together a promising outfit called The Bastards of Jung, with a reliably stellar group of Little Rock scene cornerstones: Dave Hoffpauir, Andy Warr and Chris Michaels. According to McAteer, it’s “for fans of Television (the band), The Rolling Stones, Built to Spill, or really double guitar bands in general.” The Bastards of Jung will release a new record, “Killjoy Was Here,” with support from Danny Grace’s “psycho-western” provocateurs Frontier Circus.

The Rastafari movement’s soundtrack goes far beyond Bob Marley, and one of Jamaica’s most enduring (and versatile) contributions to the reggae/rocksteady playlist is landing in Little Rock this week. “Little Freddie” McGregor, so named because he began singing backup for The Clarendonians when he was 7 years old, lent his warm baritone to Generation Gap and Soul Syndicate before converting to Rastafari in 1975, penning breezy metaphors like “Big Ship” and politically pointed anthems like “Bobby Bobylon”: “You took away our fathers’ gold/ Robbed them of their sevenfold/Now you’re locked behind the door/Not knowing one day we would know the score, man.” Now, half a century into a music career, McGregor’s become a de facto preservationist of reggae culture: He’s chairman of the Jamaica Reggae Industry Board, recipient of the Institute of Caribbean Studies’ Marcus Garvey Lifetime Achievement Award and father to two sons working as musicians in the Jamaican dancehall tradition. McGregor’s joined by his son Chino McGregor and by Katrice “Butterfly” Newbill.

FRIDAY 8/31

SARA EVANS 7 p.m. Oaklawn Racing & Gaming, Finish Line Theatre. $55-$70.

If Dolly Parton and Loretta Lynn have taught us anything about country music, it’s that rhinestones shine brighter when preceded by rags, and twangy heartbreakers pack more of a wollop when they’re buttressed by a history of actual heartache. Count Sara Evans as supremely qualified. Songs like “Suds in the Bucket” and “Born to Fly” came from a singer/songwriter who broke both her legs at age 8 when she was hit by a car, cut her teeth singing in a nightclub when she was 16 and, later, endured a much-publicized divorce with the father of her three children that involved some messy slander and a six-figure settlement. With all that in the rearview mirror, Evans visits Hot Springs as the founder of her own record label, “Born to Fly Records,” est. 2017. She’s also a newly “empty-nested” parent; the transition inspired her 2017 “Letting You Go” with Victoria Banks and Emily Shackelton. The lyrics recall Evans’ 2000 hit “Born to Fly” with a retrospective reference to her own flight from the nest: “ ’Cause part of loving you is letting you go/No matter how I wanna make you stay/You were also born to fly away.” She’s joined at Oaklawn by longtime Nashville songwriter Jerrod Niemann and spousal duo Thompson Square. BORN TO FLY: Country star Sara Evans shares a bill with Jerrod Niemann and Thompson Square at Oaklawn Friday night. 24

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HOT SPRINGS JAZZ FESTIVAL 7 p.m. Thu.-Fri., 11 a.m. Sat., 10:45 a.m. Sun. Various venues. Free-$55.

The year-round jazz offerings in Hot Springs are nothing to scoff at. There’s a weekly session at the storied Ohio Club with The Clyde Pound Trio, monthly dances in the Arlington Hotel’s Crystal Ballroom with the Stardust Big Band, and a Saturday morning radio program on KUHS-FM, 102.5, from trombonist/University of Missouri-Kansas City Professor Emeritus Dr. John Leisenring titled, forthrightly, “Jazz on a Saturday Morning.” This time of year, though, the Spa City’s jazz community congregates for a weekend in the name of the distinctly American art form, holding concerts, most of which are free, across the span of historic Bathhouse Row and environs. The Thursday night Ohio Club set kicks off the festival with the Spa City Stompers: George “Doc” Ryan on cornet, Paul Stivitts on drums, David Higginbotham on bass, Clyde Pound on keyboard, Earl Hesse on clarinet and Leisenring on trombone, 7 p.m., free. The lone ticketed festival event kicks off Friday night at the Hot Springs Bathhouse Dinner Theatre, with the

Arkansas Brass Quintet and the Anything That Moves (ATM) quartet with guest vocalist Diane Kesling and saxophonist/keyboardist Matt Catingub. Admission is $40 for the show, 7 p.m., and $55 for the show and preshow dinner, 6 p.m. On Saturday, “Jazz in the Streets” begins at 11 a.m. under the “Sky Bridge” at 200 Broadway St., with concerts from the Ted Ludwig Trio, jazz bands from Henderson State University and the University of Arkansas at Monticello and a jazz jam featuring some of the festival’s headliners. On Sunday morning, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church (228 Spring St.) hosts a Jazz Mass with Jeff Long on piano, Matt Dickson on tenor saxophone, Brad Birge on bass, Shelley Martin on flute/soprano saxophone and Jay Payette on drums, followed by a “Jazz After Church” jam at Grand Avenue United Methodist Church (841 Quapaw Ave.) with vocalists Ruby Hill and Jennifer Evans, as well as Dr. Ron Hall on keyboards, Byron Yancey on bass and Paul Stivitts on percussion. See hsjazzsociety. org for more.

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‘THE HOUSE THAT WILL NOT STAND’ 7:30 p.m. Fri.-Sat., 2:30 p.m. Sun., through Sept. 15. The Weekend Theater. $12-$16.

As the histories and archives of enslaved people will reveal to their observer, the story of American slavery is not as plain as school textbooks have tended to make it. One particularly complex chapter of that story is the placage system, by which white men and free women of color in French colonial Louisiana were bound by contractual (but nevertheless legally murky) marriage-ish agreements, sometimes called “left-handed marriages.” It is in that corner of history that Marcus Gardley’s “The House That Will Not Stand,” The Weekend Theater’s weighty but fiery follow-up to “Bare: A Pop Opera,” takes place. At the center: a wealthy widow, Beatrice Albans (played by Andrea

Robinson), her sister Marie-Josephine (Phyllis Madison) and Beatrice’s daughters Agnes (Shadayja Bush), Maude Lynn (Alexandra Echeverria) and Odette (London Jones), whose fate, financial and otherwise, teeters on a precipice as the United States acquires French colonial New Orleans. Felicia Richardson directs the drama, which she described in a televised interview on KLRT-TV, Ch. 16 (Fox 16) as a tale of sisterhood and motherhood told through parallel stories, saying, “It’s a case of ‘if you don’t learn your history, you’re doomed to repeat it.’ ” In addition to the weekend shows, there’s a Thursday performance, 7:30 p.m. Sept. 13. See centralarkansastickets.com for tickets.

The sweet harmonies of A Rowdy Faith ring through the rafters at The Joint, 7:30 p.m., $10. Potterheads, assemble for the Museum of Discovery’s “Science After Dark: Wizards, Muggles and Science,” 6 p.m., ages 21 and up, $10. Comedian BT goes for laughs at The Loony Bin, 7:30 p.m. Thu.Sat., 10 p.m. Fri.-Sat., $8-$12. Brian Ramsey plays a free happy-hour set at Cajun’s, 5:30 p.m., or come later and catch Tragikly White, 9 p.m., $5. Kassie Moe entertains for The Meteor After Dark, 7:30 p.m., 1001 Kavanaugh Blvd., donations. The Toadies revive “Possum Kingdom” and other alt rock anthems at George’s Majestic Lounge in Fayetteville, 8:30 p.m., $20-$25. In El Dorado, DeFrance turns up the volume at the Griffin Restaurant, 8 p.m., free. Flying Saucer hosts “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” Trivia Night, 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. At Arkansas State University, John McEuen and the String Wizards give a concert, 7:30 p.m., Fowler Center, $25-$35.

FRIDAY 8/31 Wrestler/rocker Chris Jericho and Fozzy take the stage at the Rev Room, with Adelita’s Way, Stone Broken and The Stir, 7:30 p.m., $20. Marquis Hunt & Mood kick off a sax-centric set at Hibernia Irish Tavern, 7:30 p.m. Polyester Robot, a band formed from members of Magnolia Brown and Jamie Lou & The Hullabaloo, takes the stage at Four Quarter Bar, 10 p.m., $7. An art sale and show from Silver Anchors and Shoe benefits the grassroots initiatives of the Central Arkansas Harm Reduction Project, White Water Tavern, 9 p.m. Cofresi, 12th Planet, Barely Alive and a host of other EDM artists are on the bill for the Natural Land Camping Music Festival at Carter Off-Road Park in Alexander, see nlcmf.com for passes and details. The City Boyz take the stage at Stickyz Rock ’n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9 p.m., $5. Nuthin’ Fancy performs at Thirst N’ Howl Bar & Grill, 8:30 p.m., $5. Fayetteville-based rockers Mouton and Whoopsi share a bill with Sean Alexander Dixon at Maxine’s in Hot Springs, 9 p.m., $5. The Shotgun Billys take their Southern rock set to Silks Bar & Grill inside Oaklawn Racing & Gaming, 10 p.m. Fri.-Sat. The West King String Band kicks off the weekend in Conway with a set at Kings Live Music, with John Severs, 8:30 p.m., $5.

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FRIDAY 8/31

GOON DES GARCONS 8 p.m. Vino’s. $10.

The tagline on Goon des Garcon’s Instagram page is — or was when we last checked in — “What would happen if I set this on fire?” That, coupled with a quick read through an astrological rundown of classic Gemini traits — “expressive, quick-witted … with a tendency to suddenly get serious, thoughtful and restless,” one site says — gives you a pretty good read on what the Arkansas expat hip-hop artist’s music feels like in a live setting. Exhibits A and B: Head to goondesgarcons.co and cue up the gelatinous, wobbly backdrop from Idle Kid on GDG’s “Parade,” or the bamboo-flute underpinning of a serpentine verse from cohort Tan the Terrible on “Revenge in L.A.” GDG, now based in Los Angeles, followed up the syrupy incantations on last year’s “Sore Loser” with a stint in New Zealand and a single called “Pop Art,” with markedly bright, buoyant production from Mike Hector. GDG is joined for this hometown show by Hector Slash, Tan the Terrible and more.

BLUES IN SPA CITY: Guitarist Jarekus Singleton headlines an otherwise all-Arkansan lineup at the Hot Springs Blues Festival.

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HOT SPRINGS BLUES FESTIVAL Noon. Hill Wheatley Plaza, Hot Springs. Free.

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BACK ON THE RD’: Goon des Garcons comes home for a concert at Vino’s Friday night.

ALL-STARR: Ringo Starr lands at the Walmart AMP Sunday evening.

As if to prove that blues music is not the realm of old folks, a group called the Spa City Blues Society has doggedly focused its efforts on bringing up-and-comers into the fold, pairing the aspiring Spa City Youngbloods on bills with the likes of mean Mississippi guitarist Jarekus Singleton, this year’s Hot Springs Blues Fest headliner. Singleton aside, the entire day’s lineup is devoted to putting Arkansas’s own on stage: the Spa City Youngbloods, 1 p.m.; Heavy Suga’ & The SweeTones featuring bassist/singer Heather Crosse, 2 p.m.; lo-fi blues rockers Soaker, 3:45 p.m.; the Akeem Kemp Band, 5:30 p.m.; Charlotte Taylor and Gypsy Rain, 7:15 p.m.; and Singleton, 8:30 p.m. The Arkansas Brewers Guild will be on site with a beer garden, and the Blues Society is giving away prizes between sets: a Clevenger guitar, a Tomcat Cigar box guitar, a stay at Mountain Harbor Resort & Spa in nearby, picturesque Mount Ida, and more. For the too-devoted-to-wait, The Big Chill hosts a kickoff party Friday night with music from Lil’ Ed and The Blues Imperials. Online sales for Saturday’s festival have ended, but you can still grab your tickets at the gate on the day of show.

SUNDAY 9/2

RINGO STARR & HIS ALL-STARR BAND 7:30 p.m. Walmart AMP. $56-$95.

Ringo Starr — Beatles timekeeper, character actor, hard partier-turned-health nut, constant source of comic relief and a perpetually sunny forgetter of an unsunny Liverpudlian upbringing — is bringing his Starr status to Northwest Arkansas. The Fab Four-fatigued (a category which could arguably include Starr himself) may find solace in the set list from Starr’s July date in Rome, when tunes like “With A Little Help From My Friends” and “Yellow Submarine” were folded in with the likes of “Rosanna” and “Down Under,” hits from the respective outfits of the members of his All-Starr Band: Men at Work’s Colin Hay, Toto’s Steve Lukather, Santana and Journey’s Gregg Rolie and 10cc’s Graham Gouldman. Starr described this era of touring as a “peace and love fest”; expect all the levity that crowd singalongs afford. 26

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FRIDAY 8/31

RODNEY BLOCK COLLECTIVE, BIJOUX

9 p.m. Cajun’s Wharf. $15.

Rodney Block spends enough time at posh soirees to know the sartorial dilemma: You have acquired an especially choice T-shirt — say, a vintage Whitney Houston or a lone gray wolf howling at a (bedazzled) starlit sky. You are having difficulty convincing yourself that it is the right choice for a Friday night out on the town. Add to that fact that the trumpeter you’re going to hear is perennially debonair — a year-round wearer of glossy three-piece suits. You can quiet that internal tete-a-tete — for the weekend, anyway: Block is calling an amnesty. The Rodney Block Collective, vocalist Bijoux and DJ G-Force are calling this concert/social/T-shirtcentric night “Express Yourself,” with an in-house photographer to document the tee brigade and an after-concert “Soul Cypher” session and cigar party on the patio. If you’ve decided to make an evening of it, catch Alex Summerlin’s happy hour set, 5:30 p.m., before dinner and the show.

SATURDAY 9/1

JOINTSTOCK

Noon. The Joint Theater & Coffeehouse. Donations.

Gas prices are up over last year, and your weekend river float plans are precariously hanging on to a sunny forecast bookended by storm clouds on either side. So, here’s a case for sticking close to Little Rock this Labor Day weekend. The Joint’s fifth-ever Jointstock is pay-what-you-can this year, with the what-you-can-pay benefiting the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. The all-day music and comedy festival is slated for sets from This Morning, noon; Won Run, 1 p.m.; Jason Lee Hale and The Personal Space Invaders, 2:30 p.m.; WIC, 4 p.m.; Lady J & The Trebled Souls, 6 p.m.; Manatee Matinee, 7 p.m.; Punch Line Stand Up Comedy features from David Kleitch, Wesley Kleitch, David Bair and Devincey Chopz Moore; improvisation from The Joint Venture, 8 p.m.; Cosmocean, 9 p.m.; and The Big Dam Horns, 10 p.m. The cozy Argenta theater is gorgeous, the craft beer is on special for Jointstock and, lest you delay a visit to one of the neighboring pubs for sustenance, the Hot Rod Wieners food truck will show up at some point to temper your day drinking.

Longtime Little Rock blues ambassadors Gil Franklin and Ricky D share a bill at White Water, 8:30 p.m. The Phlegms, Mouton and Fiscal Spliff share a rock show at Four Quarter Bar, 10 p.m., $7. R&B holds sway at the Rev Room with a show from SYNRG, 10 p.m., $15-$30. Van Buren’s historic Main Street is home to the Downtown Junk Fest, 9 a.m. Sat.-Sun., free, see vanburen. org/events for details. The Shame fires up a set at Stickyz, 9 p.m., $6. YouTube star Jacob Sartorius, 15, lands at Timberwood Amphitheater at Magic Springs Theme & Water Park, 7 p.m., see magicsprings.com for details. Elsewhere in Hot Springs, Westbound Revival plays at Fat Jack’s Oyster & Sports Bar, 9 p.m. Liquid Kitty fires up a set at Rodney’s Handlebar & Grill, 8 p.m. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville glows for Light Night, with pop-up light installations, fire dancers and EDM from Kishi Bashi, 8 p.m., free. Michigander, a solo project from Jason Singer, plays a set at Nexus Coffee & Creative, 7 p.m., $7-$10. Mayflower rock outfit Siedswipe entertains at Kings Live Music, 8:30 p.m., $5. Turnpike Troubadors take the state at Robinson Center Performance Hall, 8 p.m., $22-$40.

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ew Orleans, 1836. Following an era of French colonial rule and relative racial acceptance, Louisiana’s “free people of color” are prospering. Beatrice has become one of the city’s wealthiest women through her relationship with a rich white man. Society is changing, racial divides are growing, and as the household turns on one another in their fight for survival, it could cost them everything.

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New Orleans rap legend Juvenile takes the stage for an All-White Affair at Empire, 9 p.m., $45-$80. Indie Music Night celebrates eight years of hip-hop showcase events, 8 p.m., $10-$15. Bhutan-born improvisational guitarist Tashi Dorji joins upright bassist Haley Bowman at the next installment of the Trillium Salon Series, 5 p.m., Matt Miller Studio, Fayetteville, donations. Dance Monkey Dance, the multi-instrument project of one-man band Doug Dicharry, kicks off a free, early Sunday set at Four Quarter Bar, 8 p.m. Banda Carnaval returns to Timberwood Amphitheater at Magic Springs, 8 p.m., see magicsprings.com for tickets.

TUESDAY 9/4 The Diamond Empire Band puts inventive spins on danceable covers at Stickyz, 8 p.m., free. In Conway, Southern rock quintet Vintage Pistol plays a set at Bear’s Den Pizza, 10 p.m.

WEDNESDAY 9/5 TwiceSax kicks off the sixth season of the Jazz in the Park series, 6 p.m., History Pavilion, Riverfront Park, free. Magic Beans of Denver take their sunny, funk-informed jams to Stickyz, with string duo Woody & Sunshine, 8:30 p.m., $8-$10. Follow Rock Candy on Twitter: @RockCandies

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NEW BEERS will help us celebrate Labor Day weekend, when we honor the working class and lament the destruction of unions by the country’s tilt to the greedy right, and our ease into September. Easing the pain will be Lost Forty Brewing’s new batch of Month of Sundays Amarillo Pale Ale, Rebel Kettle’s release of Smooth Mooves, a sour IPA and, in Rogers, Ozark Brewing’s Ozark Lager. Ozark, at 109 N. Arkansas St., will celebrate its new year-round beer with Lager Day, from 3-6 p.m. Sept. 9.

MORE ON TAP: On Sept. 15, Casey Letellier and Dorothy Hall will open their new venture, Ivory Bill Brewing, at 516 E. Main St. in Siloam Springs. Letellier and Hall were previously at 28 Springs restaurant in Siloam, she as head chef and he as head bartender. Ivory Bill’s taproom will seat 48, and though the bar won’t serve food, folks will be welcome to bring in food from the “half a dozen really great restaurants downtown.” Letellier said they chose Ivory Bill as the name because Siloam Springs is making a comeback. Siloam went dry during Prohibition, and it was “the end of the convivial culture around shared conversations over beer,” Letellier. And when it’s gone, he said, “you think, well that’s it.” So when sightings of the ivory-billed woodpecker, long thought extinct, were reported in 2005, “it just felt like this incredibly, improbable and hopeful thing, something coming back we’d assumed was gone forever. So it felt like it made sense to name the brewery after something aspirational. And it was an Arkansas story.” Also an Arkansas story, he said, is the revival of Siloam Springs thanks to its Main Street program, which has made Main Street more walkable thanks to a road diet, something that has made “an amazing difference,” Letellier said. “Now there are people sitting out on the street in cafes. It’s really been a transformation.” A BANNER SAYING “ATLAS” has appeared at 1224 Main St. to pique interest in what might be coming to replace the piano company that used to be at that address. If you’re curious, you can go to atlaswhat.com and put in your name and email to “be the first to know.” THE FOLKS AT GUSANO’S, which we thought might be serving Shack barbecue on Saturday, said Monday they could not confirm the opening date. 28

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t gets hot in Mumbai. But when the sun starts to set on a long day, you can hardly beat a sweet, warm gulab jamun from the neighborhood street vendor. The cardamom-flavored balls are made of dried milk, flour, spices and water. They’re fried and end up with a bready, cakey texture. Then they’re promptly soaked in rose syrup. On the street, they’re served warm, straight out of a large cast iron vat where hundreds of these delicious little balls swim in the sweet, sticky syrup. We haven’t had anything close until a few nights ago at Saffron, a new Indian restaurant in the shopping center at Sam Peck and Cantrell roads in West Little Rock. But let’s back up. There’s plenty to

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experience at Saffron before dessert. ($21.95) for an appetizer as well. Four The Duck Sarpotel ($7.95) announces sizable pieces of lamb are grilled to itself with a bold range of colors: bright dang-near perfection: enough to cloak shades of red and orange that let you the spiced yogurt marinade in a thin know the dish means business. Fried crust but not enough to cook all the bits of duck meat and caramelized pink out of the middle. They’re tender onions were held together with a pun- and juicy, full of mint, ginger, coriangent chili paste and topped with a driz- der and garam masala. zle of a light creamy sauce. Everything We were pleasantly surprised by sat atop a grilled piece of paratha. The the main course, Nargisi Aloo ($11.95). first bite lured us into a false sense of Two plump potatoes, each stuffed with security. The chili paste presented as paneer and spices, were served with a sweet, but punched the palate just as cashew sauce in a squat copper pot; the we were ready to take the next bite. sauce positively begged for a dunking The paratha was great on its own. What of garlic naan ($2.95). can often be too dense and chewy is The rich and creamy Butter Chicken light and flaky at Saffron. ($12.95) is one of our favorites and If you’re a party of four, consider Saffron does it well. It’s a safe bet sharing the Peshwari Lamb Chop for the less adventurous. The Bhindi

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t is as silly to call a drawing or painting beautiful as it is to describe food as tasty, because what do those words tell you? But Jowita Wyszomirska’s installation, “Water Memory,” in the Small Gallery at the Windgate Center for Art + Design at UA Little Rock is of such ineffable quality that beautiful will have to do. It is impossible to describe the transporting effect of her manipulation of line — in places dark, others thin, others inky, some jagged, some sinuous. Wyszomirska, who was born in Poland and lives in Maryland, was a resident artist last year in the remote Alaskan town of McCarthy in the Wrangell Mountains. The experience, and her concerns with ecological changes, inspired the installation. In a note to UA Little Rock gallery director Brad Cushman, Wyszomirska talked about her walks on the Root Glacier

near McCarthy: “I was grounded on the surface of something ancient that is moving, churning ground, melting away. At first, I felt that my body is a short-lived object held in contrast to the slow and firm glacier occupying the landscape. Yet the melting of glaciers and the speed at which landscape changes in the Arctic is itself a fragile and quickly disappearing body.” In “Water Memory,” Wyszomirska places the viewer among snow, ice and rocks, with both two-dimensional works — tinted in places with glacier blue — and nine-foot strips of Mylar descending from the ceiling. The painted strips are staggered so that the viewer can walk among them, as if they were walking through the landscape. Each strip stands alone as an engaging piece of art that is both abstract, representational and fresh, thanks to the artist’s unconventional

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application of mediums. Wyszomir- parking lot). Sixteen artists are repska suggests snow-covered mountains, resented in the show, which is from rocky valleys and dark crevasses with the Pierrette Van Cleve Collection, paint that is splotched, sponged over and many employ symbols surely only with white and dripping, and with an partly understood by Western viewers, interplay of white space and drawn which is part of the reason for hangareas that suggests blinding snow ing the show. Several works address against rock. women’s issues in particular: In one, In a happy accident of installation, a woman hovering over vibrators with light passing through a strip of Mylar clown-like decorations has her face in one part of the gallery creates an obscured by a silly Instagram animal image of moving water on a wall as filter, keeping her identity secret. air currents move the film. Other works address prostitution as “Water Memory” is wrenching in a way of survival and the impact of the its beauty and its reminder of melting Khmer Rouge on mothers and wives. where there should be no melting. In Amy Lee Sanford’s videotaped perfora nod to place and changeability, the mance art in which she smashed clay strips are anchored with clear jars Cambodia pots and then put them, of Arkansas River water, born in the imperfectly, back together again consnowpack of the Rocky Mountains cern the destruction and rebuilding and, perhaps, remembering its source. of culture. Surjit Akre’s “Earth” is a The artist will give a talk about the painting about men and war, depictwork at 6 p.m. Sept. 28 in room 101 of ing in greens and black on a textured the Windgate Center. surface a wide hole in which partially “Memory / Commitment / Aspi- lit bodies have been tossed. ration,” works by artists from VietA public reception for this show nam, Cambodia and India and other and “Water Memory” will be held 5-7 Asian countries that address oppres- p.m. Sept. 5. Van Cleve will talk about sion, are on exhibit in the Brad Cush- the work in “Memory / Commitment man Gallery, the main gallery on the / Aspiration at 12:15 p.m. Sept. 4 and second floor of the Windgate Center Sept. 6 in room 101 of the Windgate (which is the entrance level from the Center. Both shows end Sept. 28. arktimes.com AUGUST 30, 2018

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AUGUST 30 – SEPTEMBER 3 HOT SPRINGS JAZZFEST The 27th Hot Springs JazzFest presents four days of jazz with events ranging from free to $55. Jazz Night at The Ohio Club opens the festival on Thursday with the Spa City Stompers playing in Arkansas’ oldest Bar. Entrance is free. The unique Classical & Jazz Blow Out on Friday presents the Arkansas Brass classical quintet followed by the ATM jazz combo. The JazzFest’s special guest musician, Matt Catingub will perform on saxophone, keyboard and vocals. Joining the evening is mezzo-soprano Diane Kesling with a tribute to Leonard Bernstein and an operatic Aria. Attendance to this spectacular concert is only $50/Dinner & Show or $35/ Show Only for Jazz Society members. For all those who have not yet become a member of the Jazz Society, tickets are $55/Dinner & Show or $40/Show Only. Get tickets now at HSJazzSociety.org to ensure your seat for this one-of-a-kind concert. On Saturday, the traditional free, outdoor concert “Jazz in the Streets” will begin at 11 a.m. with New Orleans jazz guitarist Ted Ludwig and his band followed by the Arkansas High School

Jazz Band, Henderson State NuFusion, Arkansas Jazz Orchestra, University of Arkansas in Monticello jazz group and a “Jam Session” of the festival’s headliners closing the day. Sunday completes the festival with St. Luke’s Episcopal Church’s Jazz Mass and the “Jazz After Church” concert of sacred vocal and instrumental jazz music, both events being free. For tickets and further information visit HSJazzSociety.org or call 501-627-2425.

AUGUST 31 SARA EVANS WITH THOMPSON SQUARE AND JERROD NIEMANN Oaklawn’s 2018 Finish Line Theater Concert presents Sara Evans with Thompson Square and Jerrod Niemann! Multi-platinum entertainer Sara Evans is among country music’s leading ladies. Her distinctive country sound has earned her Academy of Country MusicTop Female Vocalist honors as well as numerous American Music Awards. She will be performing with Thompson Square, best known for “Are You Going to Kiss Me or Not” and “If I Didn’t Have You,”and Jerrod Niemann, whose hits include platinum certified multi-week #1 “Drink To That All Night,” “Lover, Lover” and his current single “I Got This.” Tickets go on sale August 14 at 9 a.m. Concert at 7 p.m. Tickets $55 and $70.

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SPRINGS BLUES FESTIVAL Don’t miss the 2018 Hot Springs Blues Festival over Labor Day weekend! This year, the Spa City Blues Society is getting back to their roots. The festival will be one day only, with reduced admission pricing, utilizing Arkansas-based performers except for the headliner. Festivities begin on Friday, August 31, with the Kickoff Party at The Big Chill featuring Lil’ Ed and The Blues Imperials. Then, gates open at Hill Wheatley Plaza at noon on Saturday, September 1, for the following lineup: Spa City Youngbloods, Heavy Suga’and the SweeTones, Soaker, Akeem Kemp Band, Charlotte Taylor and Gypsy Rain, and Jarekus Singleton. Tickets at wwwspacityblues.ticketleap.com/ hot-springs-blues-festival.

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SEPTEMBER 6-8 13TH ANNUAL HOT SPRINGS MOTORCYCLE RALLY The largest motorcycle rally held annually in central Arkansas! It offers something for every motorcycle enthusiast. This 3-day rally includes vendors, two poker runs with a chance to win $2,000, an indoor bike show, a concert both Friday and Saturday night at the Bank OZK Arena, field events and bike games, and a parade through historic downtown Hot Springs. Visit thehotspringsrally. com for more information on the schedule and tickets!

SEPTEMBER 17 HALFWAY THERE TO THE 16TH ANNUAL WORLD’S SHORTEST ST PATTY’S DAY PARADE PARTY What a great reason to put on a big old Irishthemed party in September! On Monday, September 17, we’ll be halfway there to the First Ever 16th Annual World’s Shortest St. Patrick’s Day Parade on 98-foot Bridge Street in downtown Hot Springs. To mark the occasion, Visit Hot Springs will celebrate the Halfway There point with a Pop Up Pub Party from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. on the Plaza Lawn of the Hot Springs Convention Center. The party features the world-famous world’s largest inflatable pop up Irish pub, O’Kelley’s, plus music and entertainment. Free and open to the public!

SEPTEMBER 8 HOT SPRINGS LUAU The Hot Springs Luau will be held from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the Farmers Market Pavilion. Hawaiian themed food and drinks will be served, with live entertainment from steel drummers and hula dancers throughout the evening. This event is a fundraiser for the Hot Springs Future Fund, which donates $10,000 to local nonprofits each year. 11TH ANNUAL ANTIQUE MOTORCYCLES IN THE PARK The 11th Annual Antique Motorcycles in the Park is proudly presented by the Diamond Chapter of Arkansas, Antique Motorcycle Club of America. Head to Hill Wheatley Plaza in Historical Downtown Hot Springs to see their exhibit of vintage motorcycles, ranging from 1903 to 1985. Free to the public! If you have a vintage motorcycle and want to display it, contact Mike Thompson by September 1 at 501-525-9833 or safari100usa@yahoo.com.

of pagan-related topics, as well as special musical performances from pagan artists Mama Gina and SJ Tucker. The event will also offer vendors to fulfill all your shopping needs. There will be food trucks on site to feed the masses, plus two playgrounds on site as well as a kid’s zone. Come celebrate the rich culture of Paganism in Arkansas. Visit arkansaspaganpride.org.

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and Enon, John Schmersal at the Starlite Club. Joined by Little Rock synth-ghouls, Funeral Cars. Open to the public ages 21 and up. Admission is $5 at the door plus one-time $3 Starlite Club Membership. Sponsored by Low Key Arts! Visit lowkeyarts.org.

riod panties as works of art. Her beautifully vulnerable and endlessly funny first book of poems, New American Best Friend, dropped this March and was number one in the poetry category on Amazon within the first week. $5 at the door, 6:00 p.m.

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TIONAL HORROR FILM FESTIVAL Presented by the Hot Springs Arts & Film Institute, this festival is dedicated to helping promote aspiring and talented filmmakers. There are opportunities for networking and exhibition in a historic theater venue where films can be experienced on the“Big Screen.” The HSHFF recognizes and promotes a variety of films in the horror, sci-fi, and thriller genre. Visit hotspringshorrorfilmfestival.com.

MARKET A variety of food truck vendors gather to offer awesome food in a family-friendly atmosphere! Relax on the lawn or under the pavilion while visiting with friends, listening to music and enjoying great food. Free and open to the public. Farmers Market, 121 Orange Street. Check out hotspringsfarmersmarket.com.

SEPTEMBER 23 OLIVIA GATWOOD + JOAQUINA MERTZ Enjoy an intimate performance at Kollective Coffee by renowned poet, author and spoken word artist Olivia Gatwood. Gatwood is a forever-touring poet and educator who believes in the sanctity of girlhood and pe-

SEPTEMBER 30 STARDUST Stardust Big Band welcomes the return of Gary Meggs on tenor sax to replace Dr. Earl Hesse who has retired from Stardust after 18 years on the band. Gary, a student of Dr. Hesse, has performed with Stardust on Flute, Alto and Tenor Sax alternately for 15 years. Stardust plays from 3:00 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. at the Arlington Resort Hotel & Spa. Admission is $10 and free for students K-12. Call 501-767-5482 or visit stardustband.net for more information.

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Brian Martin with Kenny Tillery and Nick Brumley @ SQZBX

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Aaron Balentine @ Rolando’s Heavy Suga and the SweeTones @ The Big Chill The ShotGunBillys @ Silks Bar and Grill, Oaklawn Ohio Club Players @ The Ohio Club

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Larry Womack and Jackie B. @ The Ohio Club

SEPTEMBER 3 (MONDAY)

Bobby Rogers @ The Ohio Club

SEPTEMBER 2 (TUESDAY)

Christine DeMeo @ The Ohio Club

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SEPTEMBER 6 (THURSDAY)

SEPTEMBER 7 (FRIDAY)

Christine DeMeo @ The Ohio Club

SEPTEMBER 18 (TUESDAY)

Rick Mckean @ Rolando’s Hall and Malec Session @ The Big Chill Mister Lucky @ Silks Bar and Grill, Oaklawn Ohio Club Players @ The Ohio Club

SEPTEMBER 8 (SATURDAY)

Aaron Balentine @ Rolando’s DeFrance @ The Big Chill Mister Lucky @ Silks Bar and Grill, Oaklawn Ohio Club Players @ The Ohio Club

SEPTEMBER 9 (SUNDAY)

Larry Womack @ The Ohio Club

SEPTEMBER 11 (TUESDAY) SEPTEMBER 12 (WEDNESDAY)

Relentless @ The Big Chill First Resort Band @ The Ohio Club

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The Hot Springs Convention Center, in conjunction with the Garland County Library, is hosting a multi-genre entertainment and comic convention at the Hot Springs Convention Center, 134 Convention Boulevard! It’s not just comic books and sci-fi/ fantasy-related film and television. This convention includes pop culture and entertainment elements spanning virtually all genres, including horror, animation, anime, manga, toys, action figures, collectible card games, video games, webcomics, fantasy novels and more! Get tickets to this fantastically fun event at spa-con.org.

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FINISH LINE THEATER CONCERT SERIES PRESENTS JOHN OATES John Oates is one half of the bestselling duo of all time, Hall & Oates, as well as an accomplished solo artist, whose latest album, titled Arkansas, was released in February. Digging back deep into his early influences, on this current tour, Oates takes concert goers on an uplifting musical journey from the birth of popular music in the American Delta all the way through re-imagined versions of his iconic 80s hits. Tickets go on sale September 4 at 9:00 a.m. $40 and $55. Concert at 7:00 p.m.

Larry Womack @ The Ohio Club

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SEPTEMBER 10 (MONDAY)

SEPTEMBER 21 OAKLAWN’S 2018

The Arlington Resort Hotel & Spa has live entertainment and dancing every Friday and Saturday evening from 7-11 p.m.!

SEPTEMBER 5 (WEDNESDAY)

Josh Stewart @ The Big Chill First Resort Band @ The Ohio Club

Steve Malec @ The Ohio Club

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SEPTEMBER 13 (THURSDAY)

Christine DeMeo @ Rolando’s J.P. Soars @ The Big Chill Clyde Pound Trio with Special Guests @ The Ohio Club

SEPTEMBER 14 (FRIDAY)

Jeff Hartzell @ Rolando’s Steve Malec & Electric Food @ The Big Chill Highway 124 @ Silks Bar and Grill, Oaklawn Grayson Goff Band @ The Ohio Club

SEPTEMBER 15 (SATURDAY)

Rick Mckean @ Rolando’s Steve Malec & Electric Food @ The Big Chill Highway 124 @ Silks Bar and Grill, Oaklawn Grayson Goff Band @ The Ohio Club

SEPTEMBER 19 (WEDNESDAY)

Josh Stewart @ The Big Chill First Resort Band @ The Ohio Club

SEPTEMBER 20 (THURSDAY)

Rick Mckean @ Rolando’s Dallas Moore & Garth Iagrone @ The Big Chill Clyde Pound Trio with Special Guests @ The Ohio Club

SEPTEMBER 21 (FRIDAY)

John Oates & The Good Road Band @ Oaklawn Finish Line Theater John French @ Rolando’s Nace Brothers @ The Big Chill The Brent Frazier Band @ Silks Bar and Grill, Oaklawn Ohio Club Players @ The Ohio Club

SEPTEMBER 22 (SATURDAY)

Aaron Balentine @ Rolando’s Nace Brothers @ The Big Chill The Brent Frazier Band @ Silks Bar and Grill, Oaklawn John Calvin Brewer Band @ The Ohio Club

SEPTEMBER 27 (THURSDAY)

Jeff Hartzell @ Rolando’s Steve Malec @ The Big Chill Clyde Pound Trio with Special Guests @ The Ohio Club

SEPTEMBER 28 (FRIDAY)

John French @ Rolando’s Mike Mayberry and The Slow Hands @ The Big Chill John Calvin Brewer Band @ Silks Bar and Grill, Oaklawn Ohio Club Players @ The Ohio Club

SEPTEMBER 29 (SATURDAY)

Rick Mckean @ Rolando’s Mike Mayberry and The Slow Hands @ The Big Chill John Calvin Brewer Band @ Silks Bar and Grill, Oaklawn Ohio Club Players @ The Ohio Club

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9/1: Goat Pilots 9/6: Dazz & Brie 9/8: Dexter Duran of The Hollow Decks 9/13: Ernie Biggs Roadshow 9/20: Charley Crockett 9/27: Barrett Baber The Center for Humanities and Arts at UA Pulaski Tech has THREE upcoming shows: Take Me To The River, Puddles Pity Party, and Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn! Tickets will sell out so get yours soon! All tickets at uaptc.edu/CHARTS. Tickets on sale now for the Arkansas Times Blues Bus to the King Biscuit Blues Festival, Oct. 6 from 10:00 a.m. to midnight. It’s the party to the party! Tickets $99. Entertainment by Stephen Koch of Arkansongs, catered by Boulevard Bread Co. plus adult beverages! Tickets at centralarkansastickets.com. Jazz in the Park, sponsored by the Little Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau, partnering with Art Porter Music Education, Inc. Each Wednesday this month, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the History Pavilion in Riverfront Park, featuring: TwiceSax, Tawanna Campbell, Dizzy 7, and The Rodney Block Collective.

SEPTEMBER 7

SEPTEMBER 8

The Rev Room presents RESPECT: A TRIBUTE TO ARETHA FRANKLIN. Q Colonial Wines & Spirits hosts a FRIED CHICKEN & SPARKLING WINE TASTING EVENT, a celebration of this unexpected but delicious combination, 1:00 p.m. to 7 p.m Q CHERRY RED with TREY JOHNSON and JASON WILLMON play from 10:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. at Four Quarter Bar. $7.

SEPTEMBER 14-16, 21-23, 28-30

The Community Theatre of Little Rock presents THE PRODUCERS! A down-on-hisluck Broadway producer and his accountant come up with a scheme to produce the most notorious flop in history but one thing goes awry: the show’s a hit! Plus, the Community Theatre is offering BRUNCH THEATRE on Sept. 23 from 1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.: brunch before the show provided by the Elks Lodge 1004. Limited tickets available at centralarkansastickets.com!

SEPTEMBER 20

Old Chicago – Conway is kicks off fall with the FALL BREWERS DINNER! Certified Beer Experts guide you through a 4-course meal. Each meal pairs one Old Chicago favorite with one of their select rotating craft beers. Guests receive a souvenir from Old Chicago and a goodie bag from some local breweries. 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. at Old Chicago in Conway. Limited tickets available at centralarkansastickets.com. Q UCA Reynolds Performance Hall presents BUDDY GUY, a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, a major inﬂuence on rock titans like Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton, and a living link to the halcyon days of electric blues. 7:30 p.m. Tickets at uca.edu. Q “Party like an animal” at Little Rock Zoo’s ZOO BREW! Sample a selection of the best craft and local beverages along with some of America’s best quality beer. Zoo animals, food trucks and live music! Tickets $30 in advance, $35 at the door, include admission, drinks and a souvenir cup. 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Tickets at eventbrite.com.

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The UCA Baum Gallery presents PETER PINCUS: COLOR AND FORM plus Art Processes: Drawings and More. Free and open to the public. More info at uca.edu/art/ baum.

AUGUST 31

POLYESTER ROBOT plays from 10:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. at Four Quarter Bar. $7.

AUGUST 31, SEPTEMBER 1, 7-9, 13-15

The Weekend Theater presents THE HOUSE THAT WILL NOT STAND. Set in 1836 New Orleans, Louisiana’s “free people of color” are prospering. Tickets at centralarkansastickets.com.

SEPTEMBER 9 SEPTEMBER 12

THE BIG DAM HORNS play from 10:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. at Four Quarter Bar. $7.

THROUGH SEPTEMBER 22

The Friends of KLRE/KUAR host KUAR PUB QUIZ, a Team Trivia Fundraiser, at American Pie Pizza in North Little Rock! Starts at 2:00 p.m. Register at events. kuar.org!

THE J.COLE KOD TOUR with Guests YOUNG THUG, EARTHGANG, JADEN SMITH, and KILL EDWARD at Verizon Arena. 7:30 p.m. Tickets at verizonarena. com.

SEPTEMBER 15

The 1st Annual DecARcerate Conference will gather scholars, advocates, and formerly incarcerated people to discuss Arkansas’ systems of mass incarceration and criminalization through presentations, stories, and personal reflections. 10:00 a.m to 3:00 p.m. CALS Ron Robinson Theater. Tickets at centralarkansastickets.com. Q World Class Revolution Wrestling comes to the Murphy Arts District for a national television taping at the Grifﬁn Music Hall. Bell-time 7:00 p.m., doors open at 6:00 p.m. Tickets start at $10, VIP packages $60. Tickets and info at eldoMAD.com.

SEPTEMBER 21

The Rev Room presents THE FABULOUS FREDDIE MERCURY TRIBUTE!

SEPTEMBER 22

Verizon Arena presents THE COMEDY GET DOWN World Tour with Cedric ‘The Entertainer,’ Eddie Griffin, D.L. Hughley, and George Lopez. Tickets at verizonarena.com.

SEPTEMBER 28-29

SEPTEMBER 2

DANCE MONKEY DANCE plays from 8:00 p.m. to midnight at Four Quarter Bar. Free show!

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SEPTEMBER 16

STARTING SEPTEMBER 25

Murry’s Dinner Playhouse presents THE FOREIGNER. A shy Englishman goes to a Southern boarding house for a rest and pretends not to understand English to preserve his privacy. A sidesplitting and heart-warming comedy! Call 501-562-3131 for reservations and visit murrysdp.com.

Don’t miss the 21st ANNUAL DEPOT DAYS FESTIVAL in downtown Newport! The festival is a showcase of local, regional, and national talent paying tribute to the rich musical history of Jackson County! The lineup includes Rodney Crowell, Earl and Them, Cody Slaughter, and more! Music, food, vendors, and children’s activities available. Free to the public! Info at depotdays.org.

SEPTEMBER 1

THE PHLEGMS, MOUTON, FISCAL SPLIFF play from 10:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. at Four Quarter Bar. $7.

Kick off JAZZ EUREKA FESTIVAL on Thursday with a Roaring 20s Party on the lawn of the Crescent Hotel. Live jazz, lite snacks, and drinks! Purchase tickets to the party at reserveeureka.com. Basin Spring Park’s free concerts include: Blair Crimmins & the Hookers, Lao Tizer’s Band, and Picante. Get tickets to Grammy winner Larry Carlton at the Auditorium at theauditorium.org. Full lineup at eurekasprings.org/jazz.

SEPTEMBER 17

Don’t miss PETER BERNSTEIN & TED LUDWIG with Special Guests: AN EVENING OF JAZZ GUITAR in the intimate setting of The Joint in North Little Rock. Tickets $30 in advance, $40 at the door. Centralarkansastickets. com.

SEPTEMBER 25

Join United Cerebral Palsy of Arkansas for their fundraiser ONCE UPON A TIME at the Robinson Center Ballroom. Live and silent auctions, heavy hors d’oeuvres, libations, a wine raffle, and entertainment provided by The Goat Band. Cocktail attire. 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Tickets at centralarkansastickets.com.

SEPTEMBER 29

The Griffin Music Hall in El Dorado presents MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET, featuring the music of Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley, and Johnny Cash. $55 Orchestra seating, $45 Mid, $35 Rear. Tickets at eldoMAD.com.

SEPTEMBER 6-9, 13-16

The Studio Theatre presents THE LEGEND OF GEORGIA MCBRIDE. Casey, an Elvis Presley impersonator barely making a living, finds a path to prosperity by becoming a lipsyncing drag queen. He’s young, he’s broke, and he’s just found out his wife is pregnant. Tickets are $20, $15 for senior, student, and military. Lobby Bar open before and after the show, and at intermission. Tickets at centralarkansastickets.com.

SEPTEMBER 13-15

MONTU plays from 10:00 p.m. to midnight at Four Quarter Bar. $5. Q The Oxford American presents MWENSO & THE SHAKES, the ﬁrst show in their 2018-19 Jazz Series. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. with dinner and drinks available for purchase at that time. Tickets at metrotix. com. Q Celebrate National Bourbon Month at Colonial Wines & Spirits with Phil Brandon of RockTown at the Tasting Bar! Stop by between 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. to sample and shop.

THE STEVE’N’SEAGULLS and THE RESTLESS LEG STRING BAND play from 8:00 p.m. to midnight at Four Quarter Bar. $12. Tickets at centralarkansastickets. com.

Murry’s Dinner Playhouse presents SOCIAL SECURITY, a feel-good, hilarious Broadway hit about an 83-year-old “Cinderella” who teachers her family that “it’s never too late” to find Prince Charming. Call 501-562-3131 for reservations and visit murrysdp.com.

SEPTEMBER 18

Film Quotes Film and The Arkansas Times present THE ARKANSAS TIMES FILM SERIES, hosted by the Riverdale 10 VIP Cinema! September’s film is Bob Fosse’s All That Jazz. 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

SEPTEMBER 14

Don’t miss SECOND FRIDAY ART NIGHT, the after-hours art night held every second Friday of the month. Hosts include Historic Arkansas Museum, Matt McLeod Fine Art Gallery, Bella Vita Jewelry, Cranford Co., and more! More info at facebook. com/2ndFridayArtNight. Free trolley.

SEPTEMBER 18-23

ACANSA presents the ACANSA ARTS FESTIVAL! The lineup includes A Rowdy Faith, MilkDrive, Steve Azar and the Kings Men, and more! Full schedule and tickets at acansa.org.

SEPTEMBER 25-26

Adverse childhood experiences affect the health of children into adulthood. Learn how you can build resilience in families at the 2018 ARKANSAS ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES AND RESILIENCE SUMMIT. Preconference begins at 1:00 p.m. on Sept. 25 at Camp Aldersgate, followed by an evening session at Pulaski Heights United Methodist Church. Summit begins at 7:30 a.m. on Sept. 26 at Camp Aldersgate. Admission $35 for Tues. & Wed. sessions, $20 for Wed. only. Free for Tues. evening session. Register at afmc.org/ACEsummit.

SEPTEMBER 29-30

The Quapaw Quarter Association explores the architecture of Little Rock’s Broadmoor area. The tour is led by Mason Toms, Exterior Design Consultant and Architectural Historian for Main Street Arkansas. Callie Williams, National Register Historian at the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program, will also serve as a guide. Tour includes a special reception Sept. 29 at the ASU System offices in the Old Line Building, 501 Woodlane. Trolley-led tour Sept. 30 at 1:00 p.m. Info and tickets at centralarkansastickets.com.

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The Weekend Theater The House That Will Not Stand

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The Studio Theatre The Legend of Georgia McBride

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CALS Darragh Center Preservation Conversations: The Adaptive Imagineering of Main Street, Little Rock

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Community Theatre of Little Rock Mel Brooks’ The Producers

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The Joint Peter Bernstein & Ted Ludwig with Special Guests: An Evening of Jazz Guitar

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Old Chicago - Conway Fall Brewers Dinner

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It’s not uncommon for a campaign to return an unwanted contribution to a donor during election season. However, Sloan, the director of the state Ethics Commission, said it’s unlikely current or former elected officials could give back the Cranford contributions, because too much time has passed. After an election, a campaign may “carry over” a limited portion of its unexpended funds for use in a future election. It can also return the money to donors on a prorated basis, or donate it to a political party, a nonprofit organization or the state. But once a new election cycle begins and new contributions begin flowing, Sloan said, “that’s just a different pot of money.” “At that point, as a practical matter, it’s too late to start trying to refund money,” he said. “I would advise against that.”

Sloan said it would be permissible at the end of an election cycle for a campaign to make a donation to a nonprofit that was equivalent to a tainted contribution received in a previous cycle, but he questioned whether such a divestment would have more than a symbolic impact. “If someone robbed a charity and gave you the money — two election cycles later, [you’re] going to give that money back and it’s going to restore the money taken?… Well, OK,” Sloan said. “As a gesture, you could make a donation to a 501(c)(3) charity. … But did you really unring the bell?” Rebekah Hall contributed reporting to this story. This reporting is courtesy of the Arkansas Nonprofit News Network, an independent, nonpartisan project dedicated to producing journalism that matters to Arkansans. Find out more at arknews.org.

Sitting legislators who received campaign contributions from Cranford, 2010-2016 (Totals are cumulative across multiple election cycles. Data retrieved Aug. 28, 2018 from the National Institute on Money in State Politics, http://followthemoney.org)

Name Sen. John Cooper Sen. Joyce Elliott Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson Sen. Eddie Cheatham Rep. Jeff Wardlaw Rep. Dan Sullivan Sen. Missy Irvin Rep. James Sturch Rep. Fred Love Sen. Linda Chesterfield Sen. Keith Ingram Sen. Bill Sample Sen. Larry Teague Sen. Jonathan Dismang Rep. Charlie Collins Rep. Mark Lowery Sen. Terry Rice Sen. Bryan King Rep. Robin Lundstrum

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FINE ART, HISTORY EXHIBITS

St., Helena/West Helena: “Songs from the Field,” Delta music. 870-338-4350.

ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER, MacArthur Park: “Robert Baines: Living Treasure and Fabulous Follies,” jewelry, through Oct. 7; “Delta Through the Decades Deux: Selections from the Collection,” through Nov. 4; “Through Our Eyes,” works by students, through Nov. 11. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Fri., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat., 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sun. 372-4000.

ESSE PURSE MUSEUM & STORE, 1510 S. Main St.: “Up in Smoke,” smoking accessories and paraphernalia, through Oct. 28, reception 6-8 p.m. Aug. 30 with refreshments and a spokesperson fron the UAMS smoking cessation program; “What’s Inside: A Century of Women and Handbags,” permanent exhibit. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Tue.-Sat., 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Sun. $10, $8 for students, seniors and military. 916-9022.

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ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY, Jonesboro: “Body [Parts],” contemporary works by Jacqueline Bishop, Lynne Bowman Cravens, Rod Moorehead, Angela Davis Johnson, Dustin Steuck and Neal K. Harrington, through Sept. 19. Noon-5 p.m. Tue.-Wed. and Fri.-Sat., noon-7 p.m. Thu., 2-5 p.m. Sat. 870-9723471. ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS, 701 S. Main St.: “Small but Mighty,” works from the permanent collection, through Oct. 27; “Pencil and Persistence,” botanical watercolors, pencil and ink drawings by Elsie Mistie Sterling; “UAPB & ASC: Five Decades of Collaboration,” work by Tarrence Corbin, Earnest Davidson, Fred Schmidt, Dr. William Detmers and others from UA Pine Bluff in the ASC permanent collection, through Nov. 3; “Imaginate,” STEAM exhibit in the International Paper Gallery. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Fri., 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat. 870-536-3375.

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ARTS CENTER OF THE OZARKS, 214 Main St., Springdale: “Sensory Iconoclast,” collaboration of chefs and artists concerned with unequal pay for women and minorities, through Sept. 28; “An Unnatural History,” installation addressing science and pseudoscience by Sarah Hearn, through Sept. 22, reception 7 p.m. Sept. 6. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Fri., 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday. 479-751-5441. CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL MUSEUM VISITOR CENTER, Bates and Park: Exhibits on the 1957 desegregation of Central and the civil rights movement. 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. daily. 374-1957. CLINTON PRESIDENTIAL CENTER, 1200 President Clinton Ave.: Permanent exhibits on the Clinton administration. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun., $10 adults, $8 seniors, retired military and college students, $6 youth 6-17, free to active military and children under 6. 374-4242.

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CRYSTAL BRIDGES MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, One Museum Way, Bentonville: “Amy Sherald,” portraits by the artist who created the official portrait for Michelle Obama, Sept. 1-Dec. 31, talk by the artist 7 p.m. Sept. 7, gallery conversation, 1 p.m. Sept. 20; “In Conversation: Will Wilson and Edward Curtis,” Native American portraiture over time, Sept. 1-February 2019; American masterworks spanning four centuries in the permanent collection. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon., Thu.; 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Wed., Fri.; 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sat.-Sun., closed Tue. 479-418-5700. DELTA CULTURAL CENTER, 141 Cherry

FORT SMITH REGIONAL ART MUSEUM, 1601 Rogers Ave.: “Todd Gray: Pop Geometry,” sculpture, through Nov. 18. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. 479-784-2787. HISTORIC ARKANSAS MUSEUM, 200 E. 3rd St.: “Space Between Teeth: Linda Lopez + Marc Mitchell,” through Nov. 4; “Justin Bryant: That Survival Apparatus,” through Oct. 7; ticketed tours of renovated and replicated 19th century structures from original city, guided Monday and Tuesday on the hour, self-guided Wednesday through Sunday, $2.50 adults, $1 under 18, free to 65 and over. (Galleries free.) 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. 324-9351. GALLERIES AT LIBRARY SQUARE, Arkansas Studies Institute, 401 President Clinton Ave.: “A Matter of Mind and Heart: Portraits of Japanese American Identity,” “A Legacy of Brewers: The Paintings of Nicholas, Adrian and Edwin Brewer,” through Oct. 27. 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 320-5790. MacARTHUR MUSEUM OF ARKANSAS MILITARY HISTORY, 503 E. 9th St. (MacArthur Park): Closed for renovation; reopens Sept. 29. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Mon.Sat., 1-4 p.m. Sun. 376-4602. MOSAIC TEMPLARS CULTURAL CENTER, 9th and Broadway: “Don’t Touch My Crown,” artifacts that tell the story of the aesthetics and cultural impact of AfricanAmerican hair, curated by Stephanie Sims, closes Aug. 31; permanent exhibits on African-American entrepreneurship in Arkansas. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 683-3593. OLD STATE HOUSE MUSEUM, 300 W. Markham St.: “A Piece of My Soul: Quilts by Black Arkansans,” through fall 2019; “Cabinet of Curiosities: Treasures from the University of Arkansas Museum Collection”; “True Faith, True Light: The Devotional Art of Ed Stilley,” musical instruments, through 2017; “First Families: Mingling of Politics and Culture” permanent exhibit including first ladies’ gowns. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. 324-9685. UA LITTLE ROCK, Windgate Gallery of Art and Design: “Memory / Commitment / Aspiration,” works about oppression in Southeast Asia and India from the Pierrette Van Cleve Collection, through Sept. 28, Cushman Gallery; “Water Memory,” installation by Jowita Wyszomirska, through Sept. 28, Small Gallery, talk by Van Cleve 12:15 p.m. Sept. 4 and 6, gallery receptions 5-7 p.m. Sept. 5, talk by Wyszomirska 6 p.m. Sept. 28. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri. 569-8977.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR SUMNER COUNTY, TENNESSEE AT GALLATIN VICTOR WILLIAM ESQUILLA and, JESSICA JEAN ESQUILLA, Petitioners, Docket No: 83CC12018-CV-387. Notice of Entry Requested PAUL EDWARD DAUGHERTY, Defendant. TO ADOPT: GRACIE MAE CREEKMORE (DOB: 03/26/2014) A Child Under Eighteen (18) Years of Age. ORDER FOR PUBLICATION. 4

This cause came on to be heard on this the 20th day of June, 2018, before the Honorable Joe H. Thompson, Judge of the Circuit Court for Sumner County, Tennessee upon the Motion for Publication filed by the Petitioners, and after review of the entire record, it appears that said Motion is well taken and that publication should run in the Arkansas Times for four (4) consecutive weeks. ENTERED this 8th day of August, 2018. JUDGE JOE H. THOMPSON. APPROVED FOR ENTRY: McCLELLAN, POWERS, EHMLING & ROGERS, P.C. M. ALLEN EHMLING, TSCRN: 9429 Attorney for Petitioners 116 Public Square, Gallatin, Tennessee 615-452-5872

COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, a non-profit advocacy organization in Little Rock, seeks a full-time Communications Director. Position will work to promote social and economic justice by leading our communication strategies, media relations, social media, website, and publication design. Requirements include a bachelor’s degree in communications or related field, and at least three years of related experience. Competitive salary and benefits. Send cover letter, resume, and references to jvazquez@aradvocates.org or 1400 West Markham St., Ste. 306, Little Rock, AR 72201.

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University of Central Arkansas, College of Business Conway, AR Position: Research Associate with Arkansas Center for Research in Economics (ACRE)

Job Description and Responsibilities: Conduct policy-based research & provide policy makers w/ an academic source for sound economic ideas. Develop &/ or maintain a research agenda & conduct research w/ other Research Associates, ACRE’s Director, UCA faculty members, & other ACRE-affiliated researchers on policy issues of importance to Arkansans. Author &/or co-author policy papers, short policy briefs, & op-eds w/ ACREaffiliated researchers. Provide background research for ACRE-affiliated researchers for interviews, testifying before state legislatures, & meeting w/ state policymakers & state policy analysts. Education and experience requirements: Master’s degree in economics, political science, public admin., education or health policy, or closely related field, plus 3 years of research experience.

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To apply, mail C.V to ATTN: Dr. David T. Mitchell, Director of ACRE, 201 Donaghey Ave., College of Business, Suite 211G, Conway, AR 72035

The Little Rock Housing Authority, doing business as, Metropolitan Housing Alliance, will have vacant positions on the Board of Commissioners September 30, 2018. This is a volunteer position, no compensation is provided. Term of Office is 5 years. Regular and Special meetings are held alternately during midday and evenings. QUALIFICATIONS: • Ability to contribute to the Alliance to achieve the mission & goals • Ability to carry out duties as Commissioner, if appointed INTERESTED INDIVIDUALS MUST: • Submit a letter addressed to the Board of Commissioners expressing a desire to be considered. • Submit a resume, limited to 3 pages. Your letter of interest and resume are to be mailed to: Metropolitan Housing Alliance 100 South Arch Street Little Rock, AR 72201 or emailed to: imckinney@mhapha.org DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION IS: September 19, 2018 For additional information about MHA log onto www.mhapha.org or contact Rodney Forte, Executive Director, at 501-340-4821.

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