PEAW Facts

PEAW 1300 originated in 1977 as PEAW 1100 Human Potential, created for campus survival. The course has evolved into a 3-hour, mandatory course titled PEAW (PErsonal AWareness), First Year Experience 1300 and is now the most commonly enrolled First Year Colloquium  (FYC) course.

Freshmen Enrolled in PEAW (Fall)
Year FYC PEAW 11th Day Enrollment of Freshmen 1st Time Degree Seeking Freshmen Percentage of Freshmen in FYC PEAW
2018 448 557 80.4%
2019 357 563 63.4%
2020 305 494 61.7%
2021 257 441 58.3%
2022 342

While academic advisors strongly encourage incoming freshmen to take the course during their first UA Little Rock semester, other students enroll in the course in subsequent semesters due to first semester schedule conflicts, failing the course during the incoming freshmen semester, or realizing that the course is a graduation requirement

Students Enrolled in PEAW by Classification (Fall)
Year Total Freshmen Sophomore Junior Senior
2018 521 448 60 11 2
2019 436 357 69 6 4
2020 350 305 38 6 1
2021 309 257 40 11 1

Source: Office of Institutional Research