The investigation into the misuse of university funds by the former dean of the UALR College of Business began Nov. 4, 2011, the day college staff and faculty reported to Interim Provost Sandra Robertson allegations of improper use of funds for personal travel and abuse of leave time regulations.
Angela Laird Brenton, UALR’s dean of the College of Professional Studies who has been at the university for the past 29 years, has accepted a new position as provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at Western Carolina University.
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Before the age of 16, Penn Ross Jackson saw his father leave the family, lived with his mother out of a car on the streets of New Orleans, and was diagnosed with a brain tumor and underwent surgery. Then Hurricane Katrina hit.
A joint project between the UALR Anthropology Program, the Anthropology Club, the UALR Non-Profit Leadership Organization, and the Central Arkansas New Agrarian Society submitted the winning proposal for a campus garden.
Roberta Moore, an administrative assistant in the College of Business at UALR for 25 years, died Thursday, May 3, in Grand Prairie, Texas. She was 71.
Faculty and students in UALR’s School of Social Work are teaming up with members of the Oak Forest United Methodist Church on Fair Park Boulevard and other volunteers to expand a one-stop health care center for the working poor by providing counseling and other social work services.
The Arkansas Department of Higher Education (ADHE) has approved a new name for an existing program in UALR’s College of Engineering and Information Technology (EIT) to better reflect the degree. The new name: Bachelor of Science in Civil and Construction Engineering.
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The Internet and other distance learning tools won’t demolish the institution of the university that has been in place since the 11th century, Dr. Donald Bobbitt, president of the University of Arkansas System, told educators and administrators from UA campuses gathered for a symposium at UALR in April.
Educators in several UALR colleges are working together to recruit more science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) undergraduate students into teacher prep programs with the goal of adding teachers in these critical areas at public schools.
Ryne Ramaker of Bentonville has been named the 2012 winner of the Edward L. Whitbeck Memorial Award, UALR’s top academic prize.