Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. will team with the University of Central Arkansas (UCA) to provide assistance to Wal-Mart communities facing economic hardship. "Wal-Mart is committed to developing partnerships with communities that encourage additional economic growth and development, and we believe that working with UCA will enable us to focus and leverage our resources," said Keith Morris, Director of … [Read more...]

The BA/BFA Juried Senior Exhibition, an exhibition in all media by UCA graduating art majors, tomorrow will open at the Baum Gallery of Fine Art at UCA. Sponsored by the UCA Department of Art, the exhibition will be on view at the Baum Gallery from Nov. 13 through Dec. 4. The Juried Senior Exhibition will open with receptions on Nov. 13, from 4 to 6 p.m., and Nov. 16, from 2 to 4 p.m. This … [Read more...]

The Miss UCA Scholarship Pageant will take place this Friday, Nov. 14 at 7:30 p.m. in the Donald W. Reynolds Performance Hall on the UCA campus. Sarah Slocum, Miss UCA 2008, will perform as well as co-host the pageant with Doug Patchell. The winner will receive a one-year tuition and fees scholarship and prizes worth over $13,000. Scholarships totaling $2,500 will be given to other winners … [Read more...]

Mark Spitzer, assistant professor of writing at UCA, recently had his essay "Gar in the Balance: Texas, the Trinity, and the Homosexual Rod and Reel" accepted for publication in the Oregon Literary Review. Roy Whitehead, professor of business law at UCA, and Walter Block, professor of economics at Loyola of New Orleans, recently published an article, "Christian Landlords and the Free Exercise … [Read more...]

UCA Public Appearances tomorrow night will present the Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montreal production of Minus One in Donald W. Reynolds Performance Hall on the UCA campus. Created by the celebrated Israeli choreographer Ohad Naharin, one of the most influential contemporary dance makers working in the world today, Minus One is a 90-minute spectacle consisting of seven of Naharin … [Read more...]

UCA lecturer Donna Lampkin Stephens last month received the Robert Lance Memorial Award for Outstanding Student Paper at the The American Journalism Historians Association's national convention in Seattle. Stephens won the award for her paper, "The Conscience of the Arkansas Gazette: J.N. Heiskell Faces the Storm of Little Rock," which was submitted as part of a seminar on media research taught … [Read more...]

Dr. Lynn Burley, an Associate Professor in UCA's Department of Writing, last month presented her poster entitled "An Exploratory Study of Morphological Errors Produced in Testing Situations" at the first meeting of the newly formed International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE) which took place in Freiburg, Germany. Burley was one of only three Americans at the conference, which had … [Read more...]

UCA will host Bear Facts Day for prospective students and parents this Saturday, Nov. 8. Registration begins at 9:30 a.m. at the UCA Student Center, and the day will include presentations by UCA students, faculty and staff, as well as tours of campus. There will also be a special tailgate party ahead of the UCA Bears football game at Estes Stadium, which begins at 4 p.m. Participants can … [Read more...]

A group of 10 students from Northern Illinois University will drive 11 hours from DeKalb, Ill. to show their support for UCA in the wake of the Oct. 26 shooting incident. The students are part of an organization called Huskies United, which held a candlelight vigil for UCA on Oct. 28. NIU experienced a similarly tragic incident on Feb. 14, when a gunman killed six people and wounded 18 on its … [Read more...]