• UCA has had two fight songs: “The Eyes of Teachers,” a fight song based on the music of “The Eyes of Texas.” The song was played as early as 1938. A second fight song, “Purple Pageant March,” was introduced to the public at a pep rally in the fall of 1973.
• Lencola Sullivan was the first African-American named Miss UCA and the first African-American to win the Miss Arkansas Pageant in 1979.
• At one point, UCA President Nolen Irby and his wife lived in a two-bedroom apartment on the first floor of Wingo Hall.