UCA News

The UCA Debate Team finished its strong 2008-09 season by advancing two competitors to semifinals, three competitors to octo-finals and one to double octo-finals at the national tournament as well as finishing fourth overall for their season-long performance. In its second year of existence, the team was recognized for finishing fourth in overall season-long success that consisted of third place … [Read more...]

Six faculty grants, totaling more than $9,000, were awarded recently by the University of Central Arkansas Foundation. The UCA Foundation awards grants each year to faculty for programs that enhance learning opportunities at UCA. These grants, generally in amounts less than $3,000, are intended to encourage creative programs that may serve as "seeds" for future programs and provide for unique and … [Read more...]

Jessica Tabor Lassiter, who graduated from UCA last May, recently received the Best Paper Award at the annual meeting of the International Academy of Business Disciplines in St Louis. "This is not an award for the best student paper," said Dr. Mike Casey, Chair of UCA's Department of Economics. "It is an award received in competition with Ph.D. business faculty members from around the world. I … [Read more...]

UCA will host "Gospel Explosion" on Thursday, April 16, at 7 p.m. at the Donald W. Reynolds Performance Hall on the UCA campus. Eight gospel choirs and the UCA Ebony Models will take part in the event, which is sponsored by the UCA Financial Aid Office as a tribute and memorial scholarship fund-raising event in honor of the late longtime UCA employee, Fay Dunevant. The goal of the Financial Aid … [Read more...]

The UCA Department of English will host its third annual Graduate Student Conference on Literature this Thursday and Friday, April 9 and 10, in the UCA Student Center. This year's theme is We Are One People: Writing America. Because there are many "Americas" and many American voices, this conference hopes to create a place where those voices may be heard as we consider the idea and ideal behind … [Read more...]

Ashley Byrd, a graduate English M.A. student, recently won the $200 Ellen Millsaps Prize in American Literature at the Alpha Chi National College Honor Society's National convention in Indianapolis for her paper "'Stop mixin' up mah doings wid mah looks': Exploring Surrogacy, Sex, and Separation in Janie Crawford's Early Self-Image." Byrd originally wrote the paper in Dr. Jeffrey Johnson's … [Read more...]

Raymond-Jean Frontain, professor of English at UCA, delivered a belated Milton Quartercentenary Lecture title "Milton, Theology and Syntax" at four universities in West Bengal, India: Kalyani University, the University of Burdwan, Vidyasagar University in Midnapore, and Viswa Bharati, the experimental "open world" university founded in 1921 by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore. The lecture will … [Read more...]

The Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards Inc. (CFP Board) recently renewed its registration of the financial planning curriculum offered by the University of Central Arkansas. The CFP Board is the professional regulatory organization for those who hold the CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER … [Read more...]

The UCA Debate Team followed up strong debate showings in the fall semester with competitive performances in regional competition, and was joined for two tournaments by Honors College individual events competitors who turned in a second place sweeps performance in their third competition. The debate team continued to be led by Ashley Hale who followed up her varsity win at the LSU-Shreveport Red … [Read more...]

A statewide conference on college retention will be held at the University of Central Arkansas this Wednesday and Thursday, April 1 and 2. The Student Success Symposium is designed to provide two- and four-year institutions in Arkansas the opportunity to create alliances, and it will feature six national speakers and two keynotes. Speakers will present on proven strategies for engaging students, … [Read more...]