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Good afternoon everyone!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is my great pleasure to welcome you to the Trojan Way Dedication Ceremony. Thank you all for being here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today we celebrate a significant addition to our campus\u2014a pathway and central plaza that represent our commitment to enhancing the student experience, fostering campus engagement, and embracing the future of our university.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before we begin, I\u2019d like to make sure we recognize a few of our special guests:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Would members of the George W. Donaghey Foundation Board please wave so we can recognize you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Would any members of the UA Board of Trustees wave so we can recognize you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Would any members of the UA Little Rock Board of Visitors wave so we can recognize you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And finally, would any members of the UA Little Rock Centennial Campaign Cabinet please wave so we can recognize you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you all for your support of this project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I would also like to thank President and Mrs. Bobbitt for being here today. I deeply appreciate your support of this institution and its mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you to Congressman French Hill for being here, and thank you for your support of UA Little Rock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I would like to recognize Chancellor Emeritus Joel Anderson, on whose shoulders I stand. Thank you for being here Joel, it means the world to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And a heartfelt thanks to all of you for joining us today in our celebration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The idea for this project emerged four years ago, one year into my tenure as chancellor. I asked our then-facilities director to give me a grounds tour so I could see what needed to be done. When we finished the tour and I had my long list of things to address, we returned to our starting point, the Library Plaza. As I looked around at the empty expanse, I wondered aloud what we might do to make the plaza more user friendly. I noted that this spot should be the heart of the campus with the student center on one side and the library on the other. But the plaza was nearly always empty, no one seemed to want to linger there. Dave asked me what I had in mind. And there the seed was planted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I knew that if we could make the plaza a more inviting and comfortable place for students to hang out and meet with one another, it could really make a difference in how students perceive the campus. We had done a lot over the years to improve internal space with new residence halls, new classroom buildings, and we were starting work on a new learning commons on the first floor of the library. Yet the outdoor space was definitely in need of some TLC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We started with a scope of work that just included the library plaza and I knew I\u2019d need to seek outside funding. The Donaghey Foundation had never done anything like this before, but I took a chance on convincing them of the transformational impact a project like this could have. I introduced them to the concept of the living and learning environment of a university. I explained that improvements in the living and learning environment are important because they have the potential to create engaging spaces that support student wellbeing, that enhance high-impact learning, and that provide a strong sense of Trojan community. Through these efforts, our spaces not only become more functional, but also more welcoming, secure, and attractive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Donaghey Board liked the idea. In fact, they liked it so much, they invited me to think bigger and expand the project. So, I went back to the design team and asked, \u201cwhat would it take to redesign the entire north-south promenade of the campus from 28th Street to University Drive, integrating it with the plaza and other adjacent areas?\u201d We went to work on that plan, took it back to the Donaghey Board in October of 2021, and here we are today about to see the results of what Greg Flesher would call a big hairy audacious goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The version of the campus promenade that you see on these screens was the result of many years of piecemeal development that did not have the benefit of a comprehensive plan with a substantial investment at one point in time. This is not uncommon for any institution that\u2019s been around for a hundred years. The previous promenade was made of different materials\u2014brick and cement mostly\u2014it was bumpy and uneven, it was different widths at different places, some sections had a divided path, and the place where we\u2019re standing right now, was a parking lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be hard to overstate the impact of this opportunity to create a unifying experience on this campus. Through the generosity and vision of the Donaghey Foundation as well as others who have stepped up to contribute to this effort, we have been able to turn a walkway into a destination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I want to thank Shawn Luther with DCI for his work in creating a beautiful destination design that will take us into our next 100 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you to WER and Nabholtz Construction for taking on what turned out to be a very challenging project with lots of buried surprises, and seeing it through to the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I want to thank our Facilities Director, Leslie Hutchins and her team, for their tenacious attention to detail and for putting up with my incessant questions for the last three years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And of course, I want express my deepest appreciation to the Donaghey Foundation for inviting me to dream big, for supporting our vision, and, for graciously providing the funding to make this project possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is now my honor to invite Greg Flesher, President of the Donaghey Foundation Board to come forward and say a few words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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For a number of years prior, I would say that we were adrift, trying to find our place in a rapidly changing environment, unable to focus on the horizon, and often trying to do too much with too little. So, we needed to start the conversation about our core purpose as an institution of higher education, about our institutional priorities, and about how to meet the needs and expectations of our community. In a word, we needed focus. And we needed to infuse that into everything we did from there on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fast forward five years and now we can begin to see the results. Although there is still plenty of work to do and things to fix, I stand before you today to say that this ship HAS turned around and is sailing forward with a strong hull, an experienced crew, and a clear destination. There are several key indicators that should give us cause for optimism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First, and foremost, we have demonstrated that in spite of strong headwinds, we CAN increase enrollment, we CAN bring people back to campus, and there is still a significant number of people in the State of Arkansas who believe in the value proposition of a college education. When we make it affordable, and reduce other barriers to entry, they will make this investment in their future. We are seeing that now with a 29% increase in new first-time freshmen this fall, an 18% increase in new transfer students, a 1% increase in undergraduate retention, and a 9.3% increase in residence hall occupancy. Residence hall occupancy is at its highest level in years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A second key indicator is that we have demonstrated that we can live within our means and end each year in the black by a comfortable margin. While we still have to be prudent, we still have to budget carefully and be prepared for setbacks, I can reassure you that we are financially stable and will remain so as long as we maintain our current approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A third indicator supporting a positive outlook is the increasing level of investment that external entities have made in this institution. Over the last four years, our revenue from grants and contracts has increased by 45%. We\u2019ve gone from an annual award level of around $30M to a level of around $45M. This fiscal year, just three months in, we\u2019re already at $13M and projected to top $40M. This is a testimony to the exceptional work of our research faculty and public service personnel. It is also reflective of our growing reputation as an institution of excellence. Word is getting out and our grant revenue is growing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our revenue from private donations has been equally impressive. Five years ago, we had a fledgling unfocused capital campaign with loosely defined objectives. We threw out the old campaign and started over by rebranding the new campaign as this institution\u2019s Centennial Campaign for a new generation, and we made sure our donors understood that we were raising money for institutional priorities like access and affordability, program excellence and experiential learning opportunities, improving the living and learning environment, research support, and community engagement. Our donors connected with these priorities and we\u2019ve seen the results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, we\u2019ve raised record levels of funding. As many of you know, our current capital campaign has a goal of $250M. Christian is planning a big milestone announcement very soon, so I won\u2019t steal his thunder, but I can tell you that we are very confident that we will reach our goal and then some. The endowment portion of our foundation funds has grown from $84M five years ago to over $141M today. That\u2019s an increase of nearly 68%. Today we average well over 7,000 unique donors each year with corporate investment (which we had very little of before) now at a level of $13M.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All of this investment in UA Little Rock, both in grants and private giving, shows that we have earned the confidence and trust of our community. People are now asking us; how can we help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And now, after years of cutting, we\u2019ve been able to invest these new dollars into improving our infrastructure, expanding our scholarship base, supporting student success, and supporting faculty excellence. These investments have helped us turn around enrollment and reinvigorate the campus experience. In addition to the beautiful new Trojan Way and the Library Learning Commons, we have refurbished 20 classrooms through corporate donor contributions and the Provost has upgraded labs and other academic spaces with a combination of different university resources. As our annual grant fund revenue has increased, we\u2019ve been able to commit an additional $500K to the research office to better support our research enterprise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As heartening as this has been, we have struggled to make progress on one of our most important challenges\u2014employee salaries. Individual units and divisions have reorganized and restructured their operations in order to raise salaries for positions that were no longer attracting applicants and to address internal equity issues. We did a faculty salary study a few years ago, and were able to raise below median salaries to the median by rank and discipline using salary savings in the instructional reserve. We have a salary committee working on an equity analysis for staff. And finally, this year, using last year\u2019s increase in student semester credit hours, we took the first step in raising salaries across the board with a $1,000 raise for all full-time employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019re not done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With this fall\u2019s enrollment increase and the projected enrollment for the rest of the year, I am pleased to announce that we will implement an additional raise of $2000 for all eligible full-time employees effective November 1st of this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And we will keep working on this. That is my commitment to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope you are as encouraged by our progress as I am. I think we\u2019ve come a long way in five years. Nevertheless, it is important to understand that it\u2019s not magic, and it\u2019s not just hard work, although there\u2019s plenty of that. It\u2019s a matter of understanding who we are, what we have to offer, and what the world needs from us. If we can stay focused on our priorities, and if we can keep telling our story, tell people about what we do really well, to everyone who needs to hear it, we can keep sailing forward, getting stronger and getting better every year. We can do this, we are doing it, and I am deeply grateful to each and every one of you for your commitment to this journey. Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good afternoon everyone, and welcome to the beginning of a new day at UA Little Rock! 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I\u2019m pleased to welcome all of our new faculty, staff, and students to UA Little Rock this fall, and to offer my heartfelt gratitude to everyone in our Trojan family for all that you do each and every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At today\u2019s assembly you\u2019re going to hear some encouraging enrollment news from Cody Decker, you\u2019ll hear about our new faculty and other academic news from David Montague, and you\u2019ll hear about the spectacular success of our capital campaign from Christian O\u2019Neal. So, I won\u2019t steal their thunder by talking about those topics in substantial detail. Rather, I\u2019d like to focus my remarks on where I think we are at this moment in history and what the future may hold in store for UA Little Rock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As you know, over the last several years, this institution has made significant strides to improve its performance in all areas, to demonstrate its value proposition to all stakeholders, and to respond effectively to a legion of extraordinary environmental challenges. In that time, we have demonstrated that we have the capacity to problem-solve, to think innovatively, and to adapt and change to produce better outcomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last fall, we were able to increase our freshman class by 29% reversing a downward trend of many years. With such a big increase in one year, we worried a bit that we might not be able to sustain the same size of freshmen class this year and would backslide. So, we doubled down and continued to innovate, and this fall I\u2019m happy to say, we held steady on freshman enrollment bringing in the same size class as last year. This is critically important because as those larger freshmen classes move up each year, it should increase the overall size of our student body and help stabilize our enrollment. And this year, as you know by now, we finally halted a thirteen-year decline and posted a 1% increase in FTE enrollment. This is a big deal and we can be very proud of this accomplishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nevertheless, we cannot rest. Sustaining this forward movement is going to be our challenge. The higher education landscape is highly volatile at this time and we must continue to analyze the trends and adjust our strategies accordingly. We must ask ourselves what will it take to push forward to a state of sustainable equilibrium? For instance, we\u2019ve done a lot of work on improving the affordability of education for our students through fundraising and partnerships. Our net price has gone from being the highest among public 4-year institutions in Arkansas to now being one of the lowest. We have also made great strides in providing more flexibility and points of entry in the types of credentials we offer and the modality of attaining them. Accessibility is a foundational value and goal of this institution. It is the first among our institutional priorities. But is it enough? I would argue that the answer to that question is no. It is certainly an essential ingredient, but insufficient by itself in the formula for sustainable success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another area we\u2019ve been working to enhance is the experience that people have when they engage with this campus. Experience is the theme of our second institutional goal, specifically to cultivate an engaging campus community. There are a lot of things that go into this\u2014the physical space must be compelling, indoor and out, it has to facilitate engagement as well as being attractive and functional. As you know, we\u2019re working on this in dozens of different ways such as the Trojan Way project, the Library Commons, the Grove, and upgraded labs and classrooms to name a few. Our campus looks better than ever and it\u2019s improving every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Customer service and communication for all constituents, internal and external, has to be excellent in order to build and maintain positive relationships. We\u2019ve taken significant steps forward in several key areas, but this is the kind of work that is never completely done; there is always room for improvement and we will continue to identify and pursue those opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A critical part of the UA Little Rock experience is the cultural environment. The campus must not just tolerate, but celebrate the rich diversity of backgrounds and perspectives that our students and employees bring to the campus community. We don\u2019t have to agree about all things, but as our guest speaker, Monica Guzman, said last spring, we should be fearlessly curious about each other and recognize that this is a valuable asset for ourselves, for our campus, and for our community. It improves our ability to be a collaborative, problem-solving organization, and facilitates better retention because everyone can feel a sense of belonging to something bigger than themselves. We\u2019ve been working on this goal as well, and I want to thank Melvin Beavers, the Diversity Council, and the newly renamed Committee on Racial Equity for Students for their help in promoting this initiative. It\u2019s clear that we have more to do, but I think we can all agree that the way that people experience our campus, physically and interpersonally is another essential ingredient in the formula for sustainable success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still, are these two ingredients enough? I don\u2019t think so. The last ingredient that I\u2019ll talk about today concerns our purpose for existing\u2014the educational product we offer that results in our students\u2019 educational attainment; our third institutional goal. We can have an affordable product in a cool environment, but if the product itself is not compelling, the first two things don\u2019t matter. Once upon a time, universities based their curriculum on traditional, mostly medieval categories, and change was very slow. But that was OK because the needs of the elites who attended those universities didn\u2019t change very fast either. Today, we have a different kind of student body, and not only has the pace of change increased exponentially, but the institution that does not have its ear to the ground for the approaching needs of society will be the institution that fades away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UA Little Rock\u2019s current value proposition is that our career path programs across the curriculum, and our experiential learning opportunities, enhanced by our research status, our industry partnerships, our community engagement mission, and our location in Arkansas\u2019 capital city, give our students a significant advantage in building a future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I believe we are making good on that proposition in a wide variety of programs. And new initiatives like the CyberLearN program, and the teacher education residency program are strengthening our proof of concept in critical need areas. I invite you to listen to the student and alumni testimonials we\u2019ve been recording over the last year if you have any doubt of that. They will blow you away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And this is, I have no doubt, the key to our future. Much like we\u2019ve done with accessibility and the campus experience, we need to double down on our efforts to develop innovative and compelling educational opportunities that serve tomorrow\u2019s needs and distinguish our institution as an educational leader. This is the last and perhaps the most challenging essential ingredient in the formula for sustainable success. It can be difficult to let go of familiar patterns and take risks. But we have clearly demonstrated that we are up to the task. We have the capacity and the talent, and the plan to grow again, to thrive, and continue to build a sustainable future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chancellor Drale’s University Assembly Address Good afternoon. 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She is shown with ARA President and CEO Bryan Barnhouse, Chancellor Christina Drale, Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and ARA Chairman Ritter Arnold. 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She is shown with ARA President and CEO Bryan Barnhouse, Chancellor Christina Drale, Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and ARA Chairman Ritter Arnold. Photo by Focus 501.\u00a0<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Mary Yang, professor of information science at UA Little Rock, has joined an elite group of state scientists and academics as she was inducted into the Arkansas Research Alliance (ARA) Academy on Aug. 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am very excited to join the ARA Academy and deeply grateful for this opportunity,\u201d Yang said. \u201cI look forward to collaborating with ARA on research initiatives that benefit Arkansas and contribute to the advancement of knowledge.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Highlighted by a special welcome and recognition from Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the ARA welcomed Yang and six new members to the ARA Academy of Scholars and Fellows, the largest class in ARA\u2019s 15-year history, during a ceremony in the Governor\u2019s Conference Room in the Arkansas State Capitol Building. The ceremony expanded the membership to 34 research scientists and engineers working across six institutions in Arkansas, which include the five research universities and the state\u2019s largest federal lab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is a very exciting day in our state to have the opportunity to recognize some of the best and brightest in research, not just in Arkansas but in the country,\u201d Gov. Huckabee Sanders said. \u201cWe are so excited about what this organization does, and we have the opportunity to highlight these individuals. Not only do each of these individuals contribute a significant amount when it comes to research in the state, but most of them are also professors in the classroom. I know first-hand what a difference a quality, top notch professor can make.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ARA fellowships recognize scientists and engineers who reside at a university or institution in Arkansas for their ongoing, exemplary contributions to the state\u2019s core research focus areas. Each fellow receives a $75,000 grant to advance their research vision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter wp-image-3090\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"204\" height=\"136\" src=\"https:\/\/ualr.edu\/chancellor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/166\/2023\/08\/Research-Alliance-governors-ceremony-2023_1018-204x136.jpg\" alt=\"UA Little Rock Chancellor Christina Drale, left, and other participants and honorees applaud Mary Yang, UA Little Rock professor of Bioinformatics and Genomics, center left, during an Arkansas Research Alliance Academy of Scholars and Fellows induction ceremony held at the State Capitol Building. Photo by Benjamin Krain.\" class=\"wp-image-3090\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ualr.edu\/chancellor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/166\/2023\/08\/Research-Alliance-governors-ceremony-2023_1018-204x136.jpg 204w, https:\/\/ualr.edu\/chancellor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/166\/2023\/08\/Research-Alliance-governors-ceremony-2023_1018-444x296.jpg 444w, https:\/\/ualr.edu\/chancellor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/166\/2023\/08\/Research-Alliance-governors-ceremony-2023_1018-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ualr.edu\/chancellor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/166\/2023\/08\/Research-Alliance-governors-ceremony-2023_1018-320x213.jpg 320w, https:\/\/ualr.edu\/chancellor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/166\/2023\/08\/Research-Alliance-governors-ceremony-2023_1018-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/ualr.edu\/chancellor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/166\/2023\/08\/Research-Alliance-governors-ceremony-2023_1018.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>UA Little Rock Chancellor Christina Drale, left, and other participants and honorees applaud Mary Yang, UA Little Rock professor of Bioinformatics and Genomics, center left, during an Arkansas Research Alliance Academy of Scholars and Fellows induction ceremony held at the State Capitol Building. Photo by Benjamin Krain.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cArkansas\u2019s opportunities in the knowledge economy depend on a talented research workforce,\u201d said Bryan Barnhouse, president and CEO of ARA. \u201cThe ARA Academy represents the vanguard of intellectual capital that helps the entire state be more globally competitive. The seven new members added today help our state reach its fullest potential through their creativity, vision, and collaboration.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also serving as director of MidSouth Bioinformatics Center at UA Little Rock, Yang received her bachelor\u2019s degree in engineering and physics from Hunan University, followed by a Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering, a Master of Science in Experimental Solid State Physics, and a Ph.D. in Computational Science and Physics from Purdue University. She completed her postdoctoral training in human genomics and bioinformatics at the National Human Genome Research Institute and conducted research as a research fellow at the same institution from 2008 to 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yang has also worked as a professional engineer in software engineering at Shenzhen Electronic Industry and Trade Co. from 1992 to 1995. She has certifications in NIH Post Doctor Completion, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Graduate Studies and Research from John Hopkins University. She is a member of several professional organizations, including the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Association for Computing Machinery, Sigma Xi: The Scientific Research Society, and MidSouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She has received numerous awards for her academic and research achievements, including NIH Academic Research Enhancement Awards, the Engineering and Information Technology Faculty Excellence Award in Research, Innovative Research-Education Integration Award from the American Council on Science and Education, Best Research Paper Awards, and Outstanding Tutorial Education Awards from various conferences and societies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yang was among a cohort of seven new academics to join the ARA Academy, including John Imig of UAMS, Antino Allen of UAMS, Heather Nachtmann of the University of Arkansas, Igor Pogribny of U.S. FDA National Center for Toxicological Research, Grace Ramena of the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, and Jianfeng Xu of Arkansas State University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>***Written by Angelita Faller<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Mary Yang, professor of information science at UA Little Rock, has joined an elite group of state scientists and academics as she was inducted into the Arkansas Research Alliance (ARA) Academy on Aug. <a href=\"https:\/\/ualr.edu\/chancellor\/2023\/08\/14\/ua-little-rock-professor-inducted-into-arkansas-research-alliance-academy\/\" class=\"more-link\">…<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> UA Little Rock Professor Inducted Into Arkansas Research Alliance Academy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7763,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[621],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presentations"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>UA Little Rock Professor Inducted Into Arkansas Research Alliance Academy - Office of the Chancellor - UA Little Rock<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ualr.edu\/chancellor\/2023\/08\/14\/ua-little-rock-professor-inducted-into-arkansas-research-alliance-academy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UA Little Rock Professor Inducted Into Arkansas Research Alliance Academy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dr. Mary Yang, professor of information science at UA Little Rock, has joined an elite group of state scientists and academics as she was inducted into the Arkansas Research Alliance (ARA) Academy on Aug. ... 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While these employment pathways are certainly important to the state\u2019s economy and should be supported, this restricted view overlooks the equally important need for professional-level workforce development.<br>\nContinually, the business community is telling us they need professional workers. They are in dire need of more accountants to manage company finances, engineers to lead construction growth, and cybersecurity professionals to keep company data safe. We hear from legislators and community leaders that more nurses and teachers are needed to support the health and education needs of our citizens across the state. If we only invest in the narrower concept of workforce development, we are only growing half of our economy. We\u2019re missing out on the part of the economy that depends on advanced professional skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s undeniable that Arkansas needs more graduates with professional degrees. Research by the Federal Reserve recently found that among the 50 states, Arkansas ranked 48th when it comes to the percentage of residents with bachelor\u2019s degrees. A broadly educated workforce is fundamental to attracting new businesses and growing a diversified economy. The more students we can put on these pathways, the more capacity this state will have to create a promising future that will serve Arkansans for generations to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it\u2019s not just about the numbers. At the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, we\u2019re committed to smart, targeted workforce development that listens to industry partners when they talk about what they need from our graduates. By seeking feedback from those who will hire the students we graduate, our programs and curriculum are continually evolving to meet the changing demands of our economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, we know that access to an affordable college education is one of the largest challenges that threaten the success of students in Arkansas. We are tackling that head-on at UA Little Rock with efforts designed to boost college affordability and support student success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That includes the Half-Off Scholarship, which pays 50% of tuition and fees for most incoming freshmen for up to two full years, a robust on-campus work program, and a comprehensive suite of free student success initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Across the nation, regional public universities like UA Little Rock are the workhorses of higher education. Collectively, they are where the majority of students go to college, and they do the lion\u2019s share of professional workforce preparation. 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We already have 76 applications from local Amazon employees for the fall semester. Starting this summer, thanks to Donaghey funding, we will be hiring a full-time non-traditional recruiter to work with companies and others to recruit more non-traditional students. Also, thanks to Donaghey funding, we have a new graduate recruitment program called the \u201cget your feet wet\u201d scholarship. This program is designed to encourage college seniors who might not otherwise consider going to graduate school to try it out and get their first course for free. We brought in twenty-five new graduate students this year and we\u2019re doubling the size of the program for next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are making strides in retention support. This slide shows just some of the initiatives we\u2019ve invested in, largely through grants and gifts. The highlighted programs are new. We have greatly expanded our capacity to offer mentoring, coaching, and intervention services to all of our students. Through the Child Care Connections program we are now able to offer child care funding to PELL-eligible undergraduates. Our new Career Services Center is now in full swing assisting students with internships, job searches, career preparation and other critical services. We are also increasing our investment in student activities and clubs to enhance the campus experience and provide additional learning opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the category of student success support, I also include investments we make in our living and learning environment because students (and all of us) benefit by having up-to-date, functional, accessible, and welcoming environments both in our educational spaces and our shared congregational spaces. You no doubt saw our recent communication about a variety of campus improvements, but let me share a few more. We are in the process of transforming the center of campus into the true heart of our campus that it should be. We have completely remodeled the first floor of the Ottenheimer Library transforming it into the new Learning Commons housing our various tutoring centers and providing more space for student learning. We have refurbished the first floor of SUB formerly occupied by Rhetoric and Writing and brought in previously far flung student services like TRIO, McNair and PEAW so that most of our student services will be concentrated in the center of campus. We are about to begin a remodeling project on the second floor of Ottenheimer to provide optimum space for our new Multicultural Center. Student Affairs has invested over $1 million in campus living and the DSC to make much-needed upgrades in those facilities. New signage is in the works and will be in place over the summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The newest project that will help tie all of this together and improve the connections to the rest of campus is a $5.5 million Donaghey-funded redesign of the library plaza and the north-south campus walkway. The new Trojan plaza will feature bistro seating with a natural tree canopy for shade, various plantings with seat walls, a raised stage area, and space for outdoor art installations. Oh, and by the way, all of the brick pavers will be removed and replaced with a mobility-friendly alternative. The current north-south campus corridor, which was built in different phases with different materials and different designs will be completely replaced with a unified design and a spectacular border of flowering native trees. This project will begin in late summer and probably take about a year, but I guarantee you, it will be worth the wait. This project will be transformational for the look and feel of the campus and will greatly enhance the living and learning experience of our students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the recent campus survey on values, we asked faculty, staff, and students to comment on what makes us unique, what, we do well, and what we could do better. The answer to all three questions included academic programs. Respondents identified us as unique in our program variety and flexibility. They said we particularly do online education very well and that we do a better job than others in providing opportunities for internships, research with faculty, and community engagement. This slide provides a graphic of some of the many educational partners we have at UA Little Rock that invest in our programs and help us offer some of the best experiential learning in the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some survey respondents felt that we should expand these opportunities across more of our programs, and I couldn\u2019t agree more. I\u2019d like to see every department and school on campus have a career path-oriented advisory board that can help them build their community connections, update their curriculum, expand their internship base, and develop new sources of investment. Industry and community partnerships are the key to growth of programs and the key to ensuring relevance to our constituents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Building on another of our strengths, I\u2019d like to see all programs provide opportunities for students to work directly with faculty on projects\u2014research, creative works, community initiatives\u2014whatever it is, this is an important part of what makes us better and we need to make sure every academic program is doing this in some form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As chancellor, I am committed to investing in our academic programs to build on our strengths and meet the needs of our community. Last year I asked the Donaghey Foundation to fund an internship expansion program so we can offer paid internships in organizations and agencies that are important career-path partners, but that don\u2019t have the means to offer paid internships. We have funding for 20+ internships now and we\u2019ll expand that as needed. Departments that are interested in developing these types of internships can contact the career center for more information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To help programs build capacity, the Provost and I will work with academic units and deans to identify strategies for building better career-path connections as well as potential sources of investment. Meanwhile, the Academic Strategic Planning Committee is hard at work analyzing our academic portfolio and preparing goals that reflect the kind of educational experiences and opportunities that will ensure our relevance into the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our research portfolio is growing and we continue to work on several fronts to secure more funding for this priority. Our grant awards have been growing steadily and we are developing donor sources to supplement this, for instance with incubator funds to develop new areas of research. You\u2019re probably familiar with our biggest grants through MidSouth, Nanotechnology, Information and Computer Science, and Emerging Analytics. I applaud the hard work of those units and I\u2019m pleased to see that they continue to grow and thrive. But I want to bring to your attention to a recent grant that I believe has the potential to bring another discipline into the spotlight and strengthen our connections with the community. In December, we learned that we are one of eight universities to receive a grant from Forward Arkansas, a non-profit organization established to improve educational outcomes in the K-12 system. Thanks to project leads Kent Layton and Sarah Beth Estes, we were awarded a $100,000 planning grant to grow our teacher education program and increase the number of teachers in Arkansas, particularly in high-need locations. This will help produce the kind of program capacity I just mentioned and will help us make a stronger contribution to the supply of teachers in Arkansas. This is a great example of why it matters that we are here, and why research is a vital part of our mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You may be interested to know that we invest very little of our regular institutional funds in our public service operations. These units run mostly or entirely on grants, contracts, and gifts, and yet, they provide great value for our campus in the form of community engagement, experiential learning opportunities, and research collaboration. One example of this is the Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center. The ASBTDC provides consulting and training to people across the state who want to start or grow a small business, but in addition to that, they also facilitate what they call the real-world classroom, which brings faculty, students, and small business clients together to work on projects to help those clients prosper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another example is the University District Partnership, which serves as a revitalization program for the neighborhoods surrounding the UA Little Rock main campus. It works with our 501(c)3, the University District Development Corporation to rehab or rebuild houses in the district for income-qualified first-time homebuyers. This year we are building seven new homes, the most we\u2019ve done at once since the unit was formed in 2006. In addition to the great work they do lifting up the University District, they also provide experiential learning opportunities for our students. Each semester the UDDC works with the Innovation Clinic at the Bowen Law School to have law students assist in acquiring titles to donated property. This fall, they also worked with students and faculty from the Social Work and Public Administration programs to interview community stakeholders in preparation for redeveloping the University Plaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are two more examples of why it matters that we are here. So, take heart. We\u2019re doing great work here\u2014indispensable work, and we can do more. Help me spread the word that UA Little Rock is the community\u2019s best educational partner. Best in educational opportunity, best in flexible, career-path education, best in community engagement. 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While most of our students stay in Arkansas after graduation, we know that our real job is making sure that the education we provide will connect students to a bright and productive future for themselves but also for the state of Arkansas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So today, I’m going to talk about several elements that go into making those connections and connecting our students to Arkansas’s future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I’m going to focus on access, which really means getting students into the educational setting so that we can help them plan their future and prepare for their future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also about support for student success so that once we get them here, they have the proper tools and experiences that will help them connect the dots to what they’re doing after they graduate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then finally, the community connections that help us bring all of that together so that students can actually see through our connections with partners in business and industry where that educational pathway is going to take them, and they can start having those experiences while they’re still in school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, let’s start with access. We know that for a lot of our students, the cost of education is still a primary barrier for them. For the last two years, we’ve really been working on the affordability factor. In addition to our one-time $15 million dollar donation for need-based scholarships that we got about two years ago, we have been working for the last two years on endowed scholarships and not just any kind of endowed scholarships. We’ve really changed the template on our gift agreements to emphasize need-based scholarships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So all of our scholarships that come in now, some of them may have merit elements to them, but they are all need-based oriented so that we can increase then the number of opportunities for our students. As an example, or not an example, but as an illustration of this, I can share with you that we have grown our endowment in the last two years by $44 million since 2019, and as part of that, we’ve added 50 new endowment accounts also since 2019, most of those are scholarships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So this all goes towards that affordability issue and trying to make sure that we can help Arkansas students get in the door so that we can start working with them. Also starting in the fall, we are offering a half off scholarship initiative that for qualifying students, they will get half off their tuition not just for their freshman year, but if they remain in good standing, also for their sophomore year. So these are some ways that we are starting to work on that affordability access issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now also what we’re doing there is improving access to and the quality of our financial aid information. Some of you know that we’ve really done a turnaround in our financial aid operation, and one of the things that we’ve added fairly recently is something called “Scholarship Universe.” It’s a scholarship matching tool. It is a service that we subscribe to, but what it does is really kind of interesting. It takes all of our internal scholarships and puts them into this database, but it also surveys all of the external scholarships so when students go to this app and they enter their information, they get a list not only of the institutional scholarships that are available to them, the private scholarships that we provide but also external scholarships that might be available to them for which they qualify. So Rotary Club or Lions Club or whatever it might be, and then our financial aid counselors can work with them to stack those scholarships to prepare a package that will maximize their benefit and make college all that much more affordable for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All of this together has addressed what is called the “net price.” If you’re not familiar with this concept, let me just remind you that the net price is the average actual price that students pay for cost of attendance. So, this illustrates that over the last three years or two years since fiscal year 19, we have lowered our net price by 13.5%. We’re very proud of that and we intend to continue working on that to enhance that affordability aspect of working with our students and getting them in to college to have those educational experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second area is the focus on student success. And this is an area that we’ve either invested in anew or reinvested in things that we’ve already had. So what you see here is a list, it’s actually not a complete list, it’s a partial list of our student support, our student success support programs and the ones that are highlited are all the ones that are new that we’ve started up just in the last couple of years. And I’ll tell you all this also that 90% of this is private funding supported, so we have gone out and raised the money to support much of what you see here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I want to just highlight a couple of the new ones. I won’t go through this whole list. The endowed Student Retention Initiative Office is something that we started up several years ago. The anonymous donation we got a couple of years ago allowed us to endow that office in its entirety, and it provides a whole range of services that I’ll talk about also in this list. But they’re there for advising and counseling and coaching and all of those things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the things that the office does in conjunction with student affairs is something called the Care Team. And the Care Team is an intervention team. It is there to intervene when it is noticed either by a faculty member or staff member, an advisor, or the student him or herself can self refer for students that are having challenges whether it’s financial, whether it’s academic, whether it’s trying to find daycare. Whatever it is, this Care Team will intervene and help that student find solutions to their problems and remove those barriers or at least mitigate those barriers and try to keep them in school. This has been tremendously successful. This team also has a full-time licensed social worker on the team to help students deal with any kind of issues that may be in that category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We’ve had additional investment in our student leadership programs, and you’ll see some of those on here. One of the programs that I also want to highlight is called Trojan Works. Trojan Works is a comprehensive work study program, but what’s different about this is it does two things that are different than the typical federal work study program. It, first of all, takes the federal work study program combines it also with an institutional work study program for students who don’t fully qualify for the federal program so they can still do work study on campus even if they don’t qualify for federal work study. But here’s the really unique thing about this: we don’t just provide campus jobs. What we do is we add workshops. All the students that participate in this have to participate in workshops for financial literacy, communication, professional practices, and a host of other things that, in addition to their work experience, help them prepare for professional life and professional career paths. So we’re very proud of that. That is donor-funded; also, of course, the federal part is federally funded. So that’s Trojan Works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another thing that we’ve done is the Internship Expansion Program. We have a lot of paid internships that are available to our students, but we also know that there are organizations out there that can provide great experiential learning but for a variety of reasons aren’t able to provide a paid internship. So we have a program that works with those organizations to provide a stipend to students who want to intern at that organization or that business and still get paid even if the organization can’t provide that payment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We also have a wide variety of programs that offer student success coaches, academic coaches, expanded mentoring programs. We’ve done a little bit of this prior to 2019, but a lot of that was cut or we disinvested, you might say, in some of those programs and we have reinvested and added more to all of that activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the last one that I’ll highlight in this category is called Child Care Connections. We just got a federal grant for this, a CCAMPIS grant for about $600,000, and what this does is this allows us to work with students to find qualified child care. This is working with students who have small childeren so what it does is since we can’t actually provide a child care center on campus, we don’t have the means to do that right now, but this program allows us to work with students to essentially provide a voucher program. They can sign up for this program, and then we can work with them to find qualified child care in the community. In case you’re wondering what CCAMPIS stands for, let me see if I can remember this, I think it’s Child Care Access Means Parents In School. That’s what it’s all about is trying to keep those students with children in school in a viable way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next category I want to talk about is community connections. And this is kind of coming back to our internships and those kinds of experiences, but one of the things that we pride ourselves on being in the capital city is to take advantage of the opportunities and the resources that we have here in Little Rock and in the surrounding communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of our, well in fact, all of our pre-professional programs have some kind of field placement: internships, clinicals, teacher placement, and so forth. And we’re expanding those internship opportunities in the liberal arts field as I just described with our Internship Expansion Program. So these are all experiential learning opportunities that really transform the educational experience by helping students connect those dots to their career path. But in addition to those, we have other kinds of field prep partners as well that make up this sort of fabric of community connections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So we have educational partners up here. We have other types of field prep partners who serve as clients in capstone courses and who also work with us in other kinds of experiential learning opportunities. These include government agencies like the Department of Corrections, Department of Children and Family Services; non-profits like Easter Seals and Heifer International; and local small businesses. These are all operating as educational partners by serving as clients or experiential learning partners with our students in our regular classes. There’s a long list of these types of partnerships too numerous to mention today, but you’ll see on the previous slide some of the logos here of the people that we’re working with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other educational partners involve some pretty significant projects that we have going on. UA Little Rock’s Construction Management program is proud to partner with Vilonia High School’s new K-12 Conversion Charter Pathways Academy in construction. So through our high school concurrent enrollment program, Vilonia construction students will be able to earn college credit in two stackable certificate programs that build towards an associate degree in Construction Science. We have students engaged in this program right now, and we expect to see some of the first graduates this spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also on December 1 of just last year, UA Little Rock along with UA Pine Bluff, the Forge Institute, and Acxiom Corporation announced the Consortium for Cyber Innovation that will leverage shared resources to grow industry presence in cyber technologies in Arkansas through workforce education and applied research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are the kinds of things that we’re working on to enhance the learning experiences of our students but, more importantly, to create opportunities for them to connect with people in our community that are in the professions, the industries, the government agencies, the organizations that will be career paths for our students, and we’re very proud of those connections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another area that we’re working on in terms of enhancing the student experience is working on something we’re calling “the living and learning environment,” and we have several projects underway right now where we’re trying to enhance the physical environment that our students are living in and learning in. So we have a couple of these on tap. We’re working with industry and other donors to support this work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have, for instance, well, this is the Windgate Center so you know about the Art + Design Center that was funded by the Windgate Foundation. That has been a great partnership. Windgate has actually been supporting our art program for many years, and this building really has been the culmination of that, and with this building we were able to create exactly the kind of spaces and facilities that our students need to become professional artists. We often think of art as a liberal arts major that doesn’t have a career path, well, our art and design program does have career paths, and we emphasize that a lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also we have worked with companies like Associated General Contractors and Clark Contractors to help build new facilities. So here, you’re seeing the Business Information Modeling Lab, and here, you’re seeing the Clark Project Management Lab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have had, in the last two years, six sponsored instructional spaces created for our students in these partnerships with our industry partners. We have over 22 advisory boards on campus that are filled with these community and industry partners that help us create these experiences, promote the living and learning environment for our students, and help us in any number of other ways to promote experiential learning for our students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some projects that are coming up that we’re working on right now is the Learning Commons. What we’ve done is we’ve taken the ground floor of Ottenheimer Library, and we are turning this into something called the Learning Commons. We are taking all of our student tutoring services, the writing center, the math center, the communications center. All of that. We’re bringing it into the library, bringing it into one place so that in the heart of the campus, students can come to the library and have a variety of learning support systems right there. If you have a chance to look at this before you leave today, Ottenheimer’s just to the west of us, to the west of this building, and it’s not 100% done yet, but it’s getting there. If you’d like to poke your head in and take a look, you’re welcome to go in there and look. It’s going to be a great facility. We’re very excited about that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another project that we have in the beginning stages is just outside of the Learning Commons — the Library Plaza — is to redevelop that into a completely new space for students and our employees that will serve as a physical part of the campus so that it will be aesthetically inviting. There will be a tree canopy, there will be tables and chairs, and a beautiful setting for students to congregate in and to enjoy as they come in and out of the Donaghey Center, as they come in and out of the library, and as they come in and out of the Starbucks which is right around the corner from that. And we think that this will also enhance the experience of our students. And we have secured private money, too, to pay for that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We also, as you know, have been talking about a redevelopment project for the southside of the university which is the University Plaza property, which we own. We have had tenants in that space. We have also occupied the space ourselves. But we really think that this needs a complete redesign to make better use of it. We are anticipating launching a P3 project through the RFP process. Now, the image you see here is not the artist image of what we’re going to have. This image is actually from the 2005 master plan, a couple of my predecessors ago, and this was the vision for a southside entryway into the campus. And we still think that it can be a grand doorway, gateway into our university. It won’t look exactly like that, but it will be, I think, a dramatic improvement when we get that project fully underway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So those are things we are doing in terms of improving the elements of access, improving the elements of student support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I want to just add very quickly that we’re also in the process, I mean, we’re moving ahead, but we also realize that we have do some strategic planning to make sure that we stay on track with our fundamental institutional priorities. And you’ll see in this somewhat unlovely graphic here that I made myself on my computer so it’s not professional, but the idea what we did this year is we launched a strategic planning process that you know, and I know you always hear about people doing strategic plans and then they put them on the shelf and they think, “Okay we’re done with that. Our accreditors will be happy with that.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We’re doing this a little bit differently. We’re talking about this as an integrated strategic planning process, and we’re going sort of in and out of those concentric circles so at the core we want our plan to reflect our role and scope, our mission, our values and all of that. And we’re going to come up with a five-year plan that identifies institutional goals and objectives, but meanwhile when we’re doing that, we’re also going to have what we call component plans. So we’re going to have a variety of other groups, and it won’t all happen at once, but it will happen over the course of the next few years, those component strategic plans like academic, the academic, the master plan, the enrollment management plan which we already have, and other plans that feed into that. Those will all be integrated with the institutional plan so that we can make sure that we stay focused on the things that we think are so important: access, support, student success, and the other areas of our role and scope which include research and community service. So we think that this is all going to come together and serve us very well, but I wanted you to know that we have this strategic planning effort in the works as well. We just launched it this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, I want to leave you with a sense of why we believe it is so important to help students connect with the regional community and what this ultimately means to our students, to our local leaders, and to our professional partners in the Little Rock area. So right now, we’re going to show you a brief video, so please enjoy this video, and then when we come back, I’ll introduce you to a few students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>{video presentation TRT 5:33}<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So now I’d like you to meet several of our students who have taken and are taking advantage of these connections, and so, I’ll let them say more about themselves. I’ll just tell you that we have Stephen Malec, who is a finance real estate and financial services major. He’s interning with Windstream, and he’ll start working for Windstream after graduation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have Turner Hudson, a mechanical engineering major who’s also in the Chancellor’s Leadership Corps, one of those student leadership programs I was talking about, and has interned with Cromwell Architects Engineers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then we also have Nikki Mullen who is a graduate student in systems engineering, and she’s interning with NuShores Biosciences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I’ll start by inviting up the first individual, and that will be Stephen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>{Stephen Malec}<\/strong> Thank you, Chancellor Drale, and thank you to the Board. Thanks for being here today. It’s a pleasure to speak to you. My name is Stephen Malec, and I’m a senior Finance major, as Chancellor Drale mentioned, with concentrations of Real Estate Finance and Financial Services and Risk Management. When I first enrolled here at UA Little Rock, I was not only new to the university but to the State of Arkansas as well. So this is where my wife is from and where we ultimately decided to raise our family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pursuing an education and potential career opportunities as a nontraditional student in a place where I didn’t really know anyone initially felt like a large mountain to climb. However, the learning resources, outstanding faculty, flexibility, and great networking opportunities made available here have all been key contributors to making my experience a rewarding one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Being a student here has made me feel more supported than I could have imagined. I found this is a place where teachers become mentors, and classroom assignments often expand well beyond the conventional realm. For example, within the real estate finance program, I was challenged to complete an extensive research assignment centered on the relevance of Little Rock as an inland port city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to this real world work, I’ve also had the opportunity to meet, network with, and heard industry experts who are land planners, architects, developers, and brokers in the real estate profession. This type of interaction is all part of what makes the student experience here extraordinary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, I’ve had the opportunity to be involved with various organizations as a School of Business ambassador, vice president of the Epsilon Pi chapter of Beta Alpha Psi, and the vice president of the Accounting Society. Within these roles, I’ve experienced many great networking opportunities with various leaders in the Central Arkansas business community. The events organized by the Career Center, I believe, play a crucial role in helping students to connect to opportunities. I experienced this firsthand in the fall of 2020 when I attended an internship market event. As a result, I was a selected intern with Windstream’s Finance Leadership Program this past summer where I continue to work today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The organizing of these types of events has led to the placement of many of my peers with leading organizations and has materialized for me into a full-time contract with Windstream, beginning in May. I believe the experience I have had as an intern has played a pivotal role in shaping my future and has been an exciting opportunity to put much of my educational experience into practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I’ve also learned greater insight as to what can potentially help me to add greater value within an organization and achieve future success. As an intern, I have discovered a greater sense of direction involving my selection of electives, a stronger appreciation for technical skills such as data analytics and a heightened interest for returning for a graduate degree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Balancing the demands of full-time enrollment, family, and working part-time can be challenging. However, the flexibility made available by accommodations such as synchronous hybrid class options and virtual networking events help make the balance more manageable. In my view, being able to actively learn and continually work is perhaps the most mutually beneficial relationship a student can experience. I believe internship opportunities should be a center focus for college students everywhere much like they are here at UA Little Rock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall, my experience has surpassed my expectations, and I am hopeful for an exciting and rewarding career in this great state of Arkansas. I appreciate being able to speak with you today and all your leadership efforts to further elevate the student experience and help the student body achieve greater success both in and out of the classroom.<br>\nThank you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>{Turner Hudson}<\/strong> Good morning! I just want to start off and say thank you for letting us speak to you today. I know you all have very important busy schedules, so it means a lot for students like us to come up and be able to share some of our experiences that we’ve had here at UA Little Rock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So like Chancellor Drale said, I am Turner Hudson, and I am a senior in the College of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, studying mechanical engineering, hopefully graduating this May, fingers crossed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I’m also not only a member of the Chancellor’s Leadership Corps, but I’m also a mentor in that, so I’m able to give back to the students as they come in to campus and show them where to be involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Along with that, I’m also the chief of staff for the Student Government Association, former IFC president, as well as the member of the Delta Chi fraternity here on campus, so if you can’t tell, I like to be involved. I like to be in the middle of things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I’ve loved all of my experiences here at UA Little Rock and wouldn’t trade them for anything. So this past summer, I had the great pleasure of being able to intern at Cromwell Architects Engineers. At Cromwell, I worked very closely with a lot of other mechanical engineers that have worked in the HVAC design industry for many, many years and learned a lot of tricks of the trade, as they’ll say, along with just being able to learn what kind of software and stuff that they do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the first two weeks of working there, it actually felt like I learned more in those two weeks than I had the entire two years prior in school just because of how much I was being able to do things hands-on and work with them, so it was a lot of fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And being able to actually use some of that information that I’ve learned excited me because it showed me a little bit of what I was working toward is actually important and actually useful and actually beneficial for me. During that time I got to work on designing some HVAC systems, some piping systems for some different buildings around Little Rock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One thing I always like to tell people because it kind of cracks them up is the UAMS surgical annex was designed by Cromwell, and I got to help with some of the plumbing. So if you go on the third floor of the UAMS surgical annex and use the bathroom, I designed that. Unless it doesn’t work in which case I didn’t do it. But yes, it was a lot of fun being able to do thing like that. I went out a lot of time with them and helped them scan building and get different architectural scans that they do and see how they do that part of it as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, all in all, it was a great experience and even if I’m not able to work at Cromwell in the future, I hope to be able to work in some sort of architectural firm so it kind of helped me decide what path I would like to take whenever I do graduate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, again thank you for your time, for letting me speak today, and thank you for listening. Thank you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>{Nikki Mullen}<\/strong> Hello, everybody! My name is Nikki Mullen, and I am a mechanical and material systems engineer PhD student. I actually graduated from UALR in 2020 for my mechanical systems degree, and during that time I was able to do an internship program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So the engineering department has this really nice program that for three credit hours you can partner with a company and relay what you’ve learned and make sure everything worked out, right? So what I got to do was I got to intern at NuShores Biosciences, which is actually a startup company that started here at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock at the Center for Integrative Nanotechnology Sciences. Dr. Biris had come up with the bone scaffold that I’m not sure if any of you guys are aware of… yes? Awesome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So we started up this startup company at UAMS, and it has now progressed to their own facilities out in West Little Rock. And so when I first started, I was actually the second employee to start at NuShores Biosciences. And the CEO Sharon Ballard had a custom curriculum set up for interns and so with this internship, it’s a very strict eight-week curriculum where they give you this project. You are the head of the project. You also have your mentor, but at the end of this eight weeks you present, and you relay all of your work. Well, my work was actually to come up and compile all the requirements for FDA approval. Now, that’s not a little project, that’s a big boy and remember, I am a junior in college. So to echo what one of my other students said, in that two years that I had been in school, it was nothing compared to those eight weeks at this industry, so I learned so I learned a lot during my degree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Something unique about UALR was that in our classes, we would also have these projects. So, for example, one of my electives was mechatronics. In mechatronics, we were assigned to build a dancing robot, and with this dancing robot we, actually, each group focused on one side of the wheel and with this, we had several different backgrounds: electrical, mechanical, gear ratios, the motor, and all these different things, and we got to come together as a group.. electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, and work on this project very similar to what happens in industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so when I got into industry, I got to see this as well, how the company works on a project as a group and how things slowly come together from the very beginning all the way up to its fruition, and I don’t think my degree would have been nearly as impactful if I did not have this internship. Because originally, I did not plan on staying in Arkansas. I wanted to work at a research company to develop medical devices, and without this, I would not have known that we had a medical device company here in Central Arkansas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And to relate that even more, one of the other students in my degree plan, Nigel Kelly, he also needed a couple of extra credit hours, and I said, “Hey, why not internship at NuShores Biosciences? It’s a lot of work; it’s very hard, but I feel like you’re going to learn a lot.” And so he did. His original dream and goal was to work for NASA, aerospace industry. When he saw how much work went into designing a concept and working on a project like that just in the medical industry, it completely changed his mind. He now loves NuShores as a full-time student, and he is staying in Arkansas as a result. That wasn’t the original case, and I know this situation with several other people hat I’ve talked to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By getting to work in these companies and getting to see what’s happening on that surface level, you develop a bond with that company, and you’re able to say, “Hey, I really like what I’m doing,” or “This probably isn’t for me.” Because a lot of students, they’re coming right out of high school; we don’t know what we want you know? It’s brand new. There’s too many options and possibilities. So by actually working with a company and getting to see what you would be doing everyday, it kind of solidifies what your dreams are or what your thought for your career path is. And there are so many different industries around here, you know. Molex, Caterpillar, these are just engineering groups, but to get these guys to work with the university and say “Hey, let me show you what we need and let me contribute back,” it really does keep us in Arkansas, and it just gives us a great opportunity to see what is actually happening out in industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So just to relay back, thank you guys so much for letting us talk. I am very grateful to have this opportunity and thank you very much. Thank you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>{Chancellor Drale}<\/strong> I want to thank Stephen, Turner, and Nikki. Those were great presentations. That concludes my campus report, but we will be happy to take any questions, and you can also ask any questions you might have of our students that are here with us today. Thank you all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UA Little Rock Presentation by Chancellor Drale to the Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022. 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promote the healing of the wounds created by racial, ethnic and religious bias; and build an equitable and just society so that our people can thrive; and,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WHEREAS: We are dedicated to ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to learn, grow, and thrive in nurturing environments that do not violate their safety, dignity, and humanity; and,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WHEREAS: Every individual possesses the opportunity to exhibit an act of kindness to make a simple change within themselves that can have a profound effect on an entire society; and,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WHEREAS: If we all dedicate ourselves to the principles of truth, racial healing, and transformation, then we can all bring about the necessary changes in our thinking and behavior. 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