Achievements

Marketing & Fashion Merchandising Class Took Field Trip To Texas With UCA President

UCA professor Dr. Don Bradley’s Marketing/Fashion Merchandising class went to Dallas, Texas on a field trip in March of 2015. The 30+ students and accompanying faculty and administrators were treated to tours as well as question and answer sessions by top level executives at Dallas Cowboys Merchandising Complex, AT&T Stadium (Cowboys/Jerry Jones Stadium), Nordstrom, a high-end retail department store in the Dallas Galleria Mall, and the Dallas World Trade Center/Wholesale Market Complex.

Dr. Bradley’s marketing classes take field trips in both the Fall and Spring Semesters. UCA students can leave their resume’s with the various organizations visited, and frequently internships and jobs have resulted. In Fact, a recent UCA graduate, Lacey Edwards, was managing one of the wholesale spaces at the Dallas Trade Center.

Accompanying Dr. Bradley and his class on the field trip were President Tom Courtway, Dr. Laci Lyons, Assistant Professor of Management, and Dr. Joe Cangelosi, Department Chair of Marketing & Management.

UCA Interior Design Program Selected for NCPE National Membership

abryan-210x278 The UCA’s Interior Design Program has been selected for membership in the National Council for Preservation Education.

The NCPE has designated UCA’s BA and BS degrees in Interior Design as the only program in Arkansas to be accepted for membership in the prestigious NCPE association.

Approximately fifty institutions throughout the nation are members of the NCPE and the majority of those are located in architecture degree programs.

Dr. Ann Bryan coordinated efforts with other UCA interior design faculty for inclusion of historic preservation concepts into the curriculum and served as author of the NCPE membership proposal.

For more information on the NCPE association, please visit their website.

UCA Students Win in Regional Conference

Thirteen students attended the 2015 Beta Alpha Psi Southwest Regional Conference on March 6th and 7th representing UCA’s Theta Lambda chapter in the national honors organization.

Jered Bryan, Alex Hoyle, and Jessica Lasater (all junior accounting majors) won 1st place in the Best Practices Competition for Effective Chapter Operations. They presented the chapter’s Checklist for Success, which contains a variety of professional development activities we encourage our students to complete prior to graduation. The checklist allows officers to schedule the types of meetings current members need to check more items. As a result of their 1st place win, they will compete at the BAP Annual Meeting in Milwaukee in August.

Abby Perdue, Parker Somerfield, Rachel Street, and Tyler Stage (three junior and one senior accounting major, respectively) won 3rd place in the Best Practices Competition for Financial Literacy. They presented @UCAMoneyWhiz, the chapter’s efforts to improve financial literacy of college students using twitter. Weekly financial-tip tweets are sent to their followers who can win gift cards to local businesses by reading and retweeting. With 600 followers and retweets, some of their tips reached more than 30,000 twitter users.

All of the students including Melissa McDowell (senior accounting major), Brittany Ammons, Zhu Nim, Tyler Rogers, and Kevin Wan (junior accounting majors) enjoyed the opportunity to attend conference sessions on networking, career paths, and chapter operations.

Congratulations to these students on their performances in the competitions and their commitment to developing into a professional accountants. Thanks to BKD’s generous contribution to the UCA Accounting Department that funded our travel to Dallas. Also, thanks to the UCA Student Government Association for paying a portion of their registration fees.

UCA’s Who’s Who Winners Announced

The University of Central Arkansas is pleased to announce this year’s Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities & Colleges award winners for the 2014-2015 school year.

This year’s awards mark UCA’s largest Who’s Who group yet at 77 students. The national Who’s Who Program annually recognizes outstanding campus leaders across the nation for their scholastic achievements and outstanding contributions to the campus community.

These outstanding students were recognized on Saturday, February 21, 2015 during the halftime of the Men’s Basketball game. Before the game, they were invited to a reception where they were presented their award by UCA Vice-President for Student Services Ronnie Williams and Executive Assistant to the President Kelley Erstine.

This year’s award winners are: Abigail Cruz, Amber Rolland, Amber Cope, Anna Frederick, Anna Kirk, Anterrika Williams, Ashley Hickman, Ashley Ross, Ashley Hopper, Ashley Villarreal, Ashra’el Wordlaw-Tramble, Audrey Paladino, Autumn Reddell, Bethany Verkamp, Breyionna Flowers, Brittany Taylor, Brittany Hurley, Caitlyn Trostel, Catherine Miller, Chani Wolf, Charles Gardner, Colby Qualls, Dequarius Campbell, Edouard Niyonsaba, Emily Brown, Emily Harper, Ethan Erwin, Ethan Breckinridge, Forrest McDougal, Gari Bodiford, Gerard Munyazikwiye, Hailey Ellison, Hannah Banning, Hayden Knox, Jackson Bagby, Jason Alderson, Jenna Henson, Jenna Hutchins, Jennifer Speaks, Jessica Hale, Johnathan Mablin, Joshua Nguyen, Juan Mayen, Kailen Hardman, Kameron Lovelace, Kati Kagel, Katie Stahler, Kelsey Allen, Kelsey Lagaly, Kolten Hight, Lacy Flurry, Lance Nail, Maddie Maginn, Madison Wineland, Maiah Holbrook, Margaret Mehl, Mariska Jordan, Melissa Mortimore, Michael Lukacs, Michael Palese, Mollie Henager, Payton Daniel, Pharon Williams, Pilar Simmons, Rachel Missman, Rachel Parker, Randall Young, Reagan Ellis, Rebecca Kirby, Samuel Davis, Sarah Purdiman, Shannon Stinnett, Sydney Bryant, Torie Dailey, Tracie French, Vicki Jou and William Edmondson.

Inaugural Class Of Presidential Leadership Scholars Announced

Hunter-New-200x300 Dr. Hunter Phillips Goodman, graduate of UCA’s Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Leadership, has been selected to be a member of the inaugural class of Presidential Leadership Scholars, a unique leadership development initiative that draws upon the resources of the U.S. presidential centers of Lyndon B. Johnson, George H.W. Bush, William J. Clinton, and George W. Bush. These presidential centers have partnered to bring together a select group of leaders who have the desire and capacity to take their leadership strengths to a higher level in order to help their communities and our country.

Sixty scholars from a variety of sectors – private, public, non-profit, military, and academia – were invited to participate in this year’s cohort, which will begin a 6-month, executive-education series at Mount Vernon, George Washington’s home, in late February. Over the course of the program, scholars will travel to each participating presidential center to learn from former presidents, key administration officials, and leading academics to learn and put into practice varying approaches to leadership, develop a network of peers, and exchange ideas with mentors and others who can help them make an impact in their communities.

The program is non-degree bearing, and entails approximately 100 hours of informative sessions and case studies, and covers expansive approaches to leadership theory, drawing upon examples from recent presidents. The curriculum draws from presidential center archives and resources related to leadership moments from each administration. It includes insights from how each president addressed pressing challenges and benefits from the participation of President George W. Bush and President William J. Clinton. It also relies upon in-depth analyses of how leaders across all sectors address similar types of challenges.

Dr. Goodman serves as the UCA Division of Advancement’s Executive Director of Development at the University of Central Arkansas. Hunter is a proud alumna of the Bonner Scholars Program, Leadership Arkansas, University of Southern Mississippi Master of Education program, Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee, and Bayside Academy in Daphne, Alabama.

If you have any questions, please contact Hannah Abney, Director of communications at the Bush Center. Email: habney@bushcenter.org or (214)200-4328

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