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The Windgate Foundation has awarded a two-year, $469,420 grant to the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff to support teacher preparation programs for students through its Educator Preparation Program.
The program aims to increase the number of highly effective educators by supporting evidence-based practices that prepare, develop and strengthen the skills of UAPB students through its competency-based curriculum. This opportunity will serve to address many of the preparation and training issues we too often wrestle with in preparing the next generation of teachers, Vice-Chancellor of Institutional Advancement George Cotton Sr. said in a news release. This funding can also serve as an institutional springboard in helping to carve out UAPB s space as a go-to institution in making a difference in teacher preparation.
- Advertisement - The Art Yard is located at the ASC’s new ARTSpace on Main, which will be a location for exhibitions and workshops this summer.
The Arts and Science Center (ASC) for Southeast Arkansas in Pine Bluff is preparing to host summer art camps. Public Program Coordinator Shakeelah Rahmaan said there are several opportunities for students to learn new skills.
“We do have a lot of camps this summer that we are excited about,” Rahmaan said. “Our June camps will be Art 1, Theater, and Theater Junior. Ceramics Camp actually starts in June and ends in early July. July camps are Steam, CrEATe Lab, and Dance.”
PINE BLUFF (AP) – An 18-year-old man was arrested on a first-degree battery charge in connection with an altercation at an Arkansas university campus that wounded two people.
Kendrin Hicks was arrested on suspicion of shooting a University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff student late Thursday, the Pine Bluff Commercial reported. Police said a woman was stabbed by another woman during the scuffle as well.
Hicks was released from the Jefferson County jail Monday after posting $10,000 bond, according to jail records, which do not list an attorney who could speak on his behalf.
Authorities have not yet released a motive in the shooting, which happened in a parking lot outside of a campus dining facility. The campus is in Pine Bluff, about 37 miles (60 kilometers) southeast of Little Rock.