University of Central Arkansas students kicked off the school?s centennial year celebration with a bang.
Fireworks danced in the sky above Estes Stadium Thursday as part of a student-organized centennial celebration kick-off event prior to the UCA Bears basketball game against Southeastern Louisiana. Thousands of UCA students donning purple t-shirts flooded onto the football field before their fireworks display and arranged themselves in the shape of a 100 while campus and community supporters watched from the stands.
This was just the first of several events being planned by the university in celebration of its centennial anniversary year.
The institution was founded 100 years ago, in 1907, when the Arkansas State Legislature passed a bill to establish the state?s first teacher-training school. Then Arkansas State Normal School, the institution has undergone four name changes to emerge as the University of Central Arkansas.
The former teacher-training school with an enrollment of 100 students in one building has, in a century, grown into the state?s second largest, four-year comprehensive university. Today, the university offers over 100 courses of study at the undergraduate level and more than 30 options at the graduate and doctoral levels to over 12,000 students.
More information on UCA?s centennial celebration is available at www.uca.edu/100.
