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An audacious effort

In 2009, Donald Weatherman, who wrote a weekly column for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette when he was a political science professor at Lyon College, returned to Batesville as the school s president. A year later, Weatherman was among the college presidents who hired me to head Arkansas Independent Colleges & Universities, the association of the state s 11 private four-year institutions of higher education. ....

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Lyon College's gamble

In 1871, Batesville on the White River lost its bid for the state s flagship university to Fayetteville. Rev. Isaac Long and other ministers from the Arkansas Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church in the United States had another plan for Batesville. ....

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New veterinary school will be a first for Arkansas

Plans are under way to develop a veterinary school and a dental school at Lyon College in Batesville, Arkansas. ....

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Lyon College plans vet and dental schools with private funds

Lyon College is partnering with a private funding group to open veterinary and dental schools in Arkansas. It’s an untested strategy that the college believes will work. ....

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Lyon College begins plans to develop proposed Veterinary and Dental Medicine Schools in Little Rock

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Lyon College announced it has begun developing plans for proposed veterinary and dental schools located in Little Rock, Ark. The schools ....

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