University of Arkansas at Little Rock

2012 Scholarship Award Ceremony May 8, 10:00 am.

2012 Scholarship Application

Photos of the 2011 Scholarship Awards and Recognition Ceremony

Out-of-State Students’ Opportunity to Study in a Specialized Field while Paying In-state Tuition Rates Four of the degree programs in the College of Education have been approved to charge in-state tuition rates to students residing in a participating state within the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB):

1. BA degree in Interpretation: ASL/English [http://ualr.edu/ba/INAS/]

2. MA in Rehabilitation for the Blind with emphasis in Orientation and Mobility [http://ualr.edu/orientationandmobility]

3. MA in Counseling with emphasis in Rehabilitation Counseling [http://ualr.edu/rc]

4. MA in Rehabilitation of the Blind with emphasis in Rehabilitation Teaching. [http://ualr.edu/ma/rhblr/]

Students must obtain approval from their respective Academic Common Market state coordinators. Approval is generally based on a comparable degree program not being available in the student’s home state.

The states that participate in the Academic Common Market-Electronic Campus (ACM-EC) are: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and West Virginia. States within the SREB who do not approve ACM-EC programs are: North Carolina, Texas, and Virginia. Students need to contact their respective ACM state coordinator to obtain current approval process and programs. Further information can be found at http://www.sreb.org/page/1304/academic_common_market.html

01.28.11

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The National Association for Gifted Children recognized two UALR graduate students at the group’s Research Gala event in Atlanta Nov. 11 to 14 that attracted 2,500 attendees.

Debbie Dailey, a doctoral student from Beebe, (pictured at left with UALR’s Dr. Ann Robinson, president of the NationalAssociation for Gifted Children), placed second in the doctoral category for her paper, “Interim Effects of Implementing a STEM Initiative on Elementary Teacher Perceptions and Concerns About Science Teaching and Learning.”

Mary Lin McNeill, (at right), a graduate student from Lake Charles, La., won first place in the masters category for her paper, “Creativity and Perfectionism: Are They Related?”

A national panel of 20 leading researchers judged the work. McNeill and Dailey competed against graduate students from the College of William and Mary; Duke; Purdue; Texas A&M; and the Universities of Arizona, Connecticut, Denver, Ohio State, and Virginia.

“Debbie and Mary Lin are wonderful young researchers with innovative ideas and a solid understanding of empirical inquiry,” said Robinson, director of UALR’s Center for Gifted Education. “The national recognition of their work by a panel of the leading researchers in gifted education is exciting for them personally and for our program at UALR.”

The Online Orientation and Mobility (O&M) Program recently received a Five-Year, $500,000 personnel preparation grant from the U.S. Rehabilitation Services Administration to primarily fund student scholarships. The scholarships funded each year will enable eight graduate students to train to become O&M specialists for persons who are blind or visually impaired. UALR was one of only three institutions to receive a scholarship grant through RSA in this field this year.