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The average age of farmers today is 58, setting up a need to adopt new government policies to attract and retain new farmers and protect the agricultural industry’s ability to meet growing world food needs.
Debbie and Treg Stark have both taught at the school and in local prisons. Their scholarship fund is for former inmates and business and IT majors.
Tips for ensuring children with epilepsy and seizure disorders get the care and support they need during the school day.
Informal negotiations over how to expand the Pell Grant to job-training programs have begun but lawmakers face uphill challenge in getting a bill through Congress. With three different bills proposed that would allow students to use the Pell Grant for short-term programs of fewer than 15 weeks, the current minimum, momentum is building on the issue, and House lawmakers are beginning to talk about it informally. But muscling any legislation through this Congress will be difficult, advocates and lobbyists say.
Longtime U of A supporters Dillard's Inc., headquartered in Little Rock, continued to show tremendous support of students and faculty through time and donations this school year.