The following contribution is courtesy of Sarah Lindsey Harrison, manager of annual giving in the Department of Development.
We’re coming to the end of The Fund for UALR Fall Phonathon, a six-week effort conducted every year where current UALR students reach out to alumni, previous donors, and friends to ask for their support of The Fund for UALR. The Fund, UALR’s Annual Fund, provides a source of unrestricted donations that go to support the needs of students on campus.
“The UALR Phonathon has provided me with a wonderful opportunity to learn more about the university, its history, and the opportunity to talk with people who want to support it,” said junior Mikelle Moore, a business management major from Milwaukee, Wis.
In addition to asking for donations, student callers must be prepared to answer questions about the university, its history, current events or updates on campus.
“At first, it was a little intimidating, but you get into a rhythm and feed off the energy of everyone else,” said Kimberly Gulley, a junior social work major from Magnolia. “It is really great to see that the money we are raising is directly impacting the lives of students such as myself.”
Learn more about the Fund for UALR here.
Walter C. “Buddy” Coleman, whose family and farm have been neighbors of UALR since the campus was established, died Monday, Oct. 24, just days after he and his family were honored for their support for Trojan athletics. He was 83.
Trustees of The Stephen Harrow Smith Revocable Trust announced a $1.15 million gift to UALR to establish a dean’s endowment and seminar room for the College of Business that will honor the late Little Rock financier.
In the wake of their success creating their first endowed scholarship, friends of UALR’s School of Social Work will gather Friday, Sept. 30, for the annual Blue Jeans and Birkenstocks bash to benefit more scholarships.
Sarah Lindsey Harrison, a veteran fundraiser and event coordinator for several central Arkansas non-profit and political organizations, has joined UALR’s Office of Development, Vice Chancellor Bob Denman announced.
UALR’s College of Business has received a gift of $41,550 from Arvest Mortgage Co. to provide the Bloomberg data system that enables financial professionals to monitor and analyze real-time financial market data movements.
Continue reading “Arvest Gift to Finance Terminals, Data for COB”
High school students representing 21 hometowns across Arkansas were able to attend on-campus, no-cost summer academic programs this summer at UALR’s Donaghey College of Engineering and Information Technology (EIT), thanks in part to a $40,000 grant from the AT&T Foundation.
Continue reading “AT&T Grant Expands EIT’s High School Programs”
A new scholarship at the UALR William H. Bowen School of Law will honor the late U.S. District Court Judge George Howard Jr. of Pine Bluff, the first African American federal district judge in Arkansas and one of the “Six Pioneers” who racially integrated the law school at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.
Emeritus Assistant Professor of Economics Mary Inez Martin, whose career spanned the three faces of UALR, died peacefully Saturday, June 18. She was 96. Visitation will be at 9 a.m. Wednesday, June 22, followed by 9:30 a.m. funeral at the chapel of Ruebel Funeral Home and burial at Roselawn Memorial Park. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Martin Athletic Scholarship Fund at UALR.
Ambassador James Richard Cheek, UALR’s 1992 Distinguished Alumnus, died Saturday, May 14. He was 75. A celebration of the life of was held Wednesday, May 18, at the Roller-Chenal Funeral Home.