UCA history professor Dr. SONDRA GORDY will be a presenter at the Arkansas Historical Association’s (AHA) 66th annual conference, which will take place April 26-28 in Little Rock. “Not Just Black and White: The Fight for Civil Rights in Arkansas” is the theme of the conference. Gordy’s presentation is titled “Twice Removed,” and it relates the story of three Japanese-American boys affected not only by World War II internment camps but also by the 1957 Little Rock Central High School integration crisis and the closure of their high schools in 1958-59. Several members of the Little Rock Nine will participate on the program with Gordy, who is a member of the AHA’s board of directors.
LAUREN MAXWELL of UCA’s Department of Economics, Finance and Insurance & Risk Management, and Dr. SHERRI LATIMER, Title III Grant, presented ?Plugging Into Education: Using Technology In Economics Classes? on April 17 at the Teaching in Higher Education Forum in Baton Rouge, La. Their presentation concerned Maxwell?s use of the DyKnow Vision software in the classroom.