University of Arkansas at Little Rock

If you’ve been laid off and are having trouble finding another job you should consider applying to graduate school? This depends on several things, including your industry, your long-term career goals and your financial situation.

If a graduate degree makes sense generally for your career, this period of unemployment could be seen as a window of opportunity, said Jeffrey A. Heath, a managing director of the Landstone Group in Manhattan, an affiliate of the recruitment firm MRINetwork.

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Graduate Travel Scholarship
The Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) provides travel funds to four selected graduate students who have been accepted to present research or scholarly papers, symposia, roundtables, or posters at the ASHE annual meeting.

Travel Scholarship Information and Application

Larry Dickerson, the coordinator for the Rehabilitation of the Blind program at UALR, will be the new CEO of Lion World Services for the Blind. He succeeeds Ramona Sangalli, who was dismised in April.

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UALR’s Office of Campus Life kicks off the fall semester for incoming freshman and returning students with “Reconnect: Welcome Week 2009.”

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Gov. Mike Beebe released today a list of about $42 million in federal stimulus money on higher education institutions and other educational needs.

The biggest single expenditure was $6 million for the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Science and the Arts, the boarding high school for brainy students, in Hot Springs. The Arkansas Wireless Information Network got $4.1 million. $4 million allocations went to ASU, UA, UALR and the Department of Correction. The Schools for the Blind and Deaf got $3.5 million each.

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