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At the the second annual College Hunger Summit in Little Rock on Wednesday, students and staff from around Arkansas spoke about the stigma across their campuses associated with food insecurity.
A man wanted in connection with a fatal shooting at a University of Arkansas at Little Rock apartment complex last week opened fire after demanding a backpack the victim was wearing during a get-together at the apartments, according to an affidavit by a Little Rock police detective.
A former president of what is now Philander Smith University in Little Rock is a finalist for the University of New Orleans presidency, the University of Louisiana System said Tuesday.
The newly minted university is just the latest institution attempting to reframe its image at a time of enrollment declines and public skepticism about higher education. What’s in a name? Apparently a lot for some higher ed institutions. “Names matter because they are a reflection of identity,” said DeRionne P. Pollard, president of Nevada State University, a regional public four-year institution that was called Nevada State College until last month. Students and alumni had been pushing for a name change for years before Pollard took the helm in 2022. She was open to the idea, but it was...
The Arkansas HBCU now offers an MBA with more graduate classes to come.