UCA soccer player, Jacob Campbell, was featured in the spring issue of the UCA Magazine for his inspirational story of determination. Read the story here!
His amazing story was also featured on KATV Channel 7, and the video is available here.
Achievements
May Move Out Collection Proved Successful
UCA collected 10,425 pounds of goods during the May move out time period. Last year, 6,750 pounds were collected.
Non-perishable food was also collected in partnership with the UCA Food Bank.
In the past two years, UCA students have diverted over 17,000 pounds from the landfill and supported Goodwill’s mission of putting Arkansans to work.
UCA is proud to support Goodwill and to take care of the environment and our community.
Another Success For Thank-A-Teacher
The UCA Instructional Development Center is proud to announce another successful round of the Thank-A-Teacher program.
An announcement was made in mid-April about the program and the form was left open for student submissions until after the close of the spring semester.
Many UCA students submitted a brief note of appreciation to various UCA faculty through the Thank-A-Teacher website.
This summer, the IDC will be sending 165 “Thank you’s” to 126 different faculty members.
This service will be available again during the last few weeks of the fall semester.
For more information, visit their website.
COE Graduate Student Turned Experiential Learning into $4,400 Grant
Dr. Jud Copeland, associate professor of Leadership Studies, is always happy to report how his students are successfully applying classroom concepts to real situations. In the Library Media (LIBM 6380) Administration of Information Programs class, students are required to remodel an existing library media center facility or to design a new one. The Facilities Design assignment requires the investigation of a current school library media center design, obtaining a copy of the blueprints, rating the current facilities, and determining if the center meets the current population’s needs (its strengths and weaknesses).
Angela Criss, who is working as the librarian at Harrisburg Middle School while pursuing her library media master degree at UCA, used her own library at the middle school to develop the library improvement design for Dr. Copeland’s class. She then used the information from the assignment to apply for a Lowe’s grant and was recently awarded $4,400 to incorporate part of those changes to the Harrisburg Middle School library media center, including an outdoor reading space.
Angela has promoted several fun and interesting activities in her library that include:
• Book fairs
• A trick-or-treat activity at Halloween where students drew titles out of a pumpkin and then located the title in the library and then read the book in question
• A “book tasting” event where she set up the library as a café so students could pass around new books and write the titles of ones they would like to read in the future on their “menu”
• Angela’s school was recently awarded an Apple grant and all students will be receiving
Occupational Therapy Instructor Awarded Scholarship From Arkansas Council For Women In Higher Education
UCA occupational therapy clinical instructor Elizabeth LeQuieu received a scholarship from the Arkansas Council for Women in Higher Education recognizing outstanding women in the field of higher education.
LeQuieu has been practicing as an occupational therapist since 2002. She has been an instructor at UCA since 2005. Her clinical practice has been in the areas of physical disabilities in a rehabilitative setting and most recently in pediatrics