Prosecuting Attorney Scott Ellington of Jonesboro announced Monday, according to NEA Report, that a grand jury had declined to indict former Arkansas State University Chancellor Tim Hudson.
The killing of a journalist in the Saudi embassy in Turkey has led universities to rethink arrangements with the Saudi Arabian government that have produced some $350 million in spending the last decade, the Associated Press reports. The Saudis have also been involved with higher education in Arkansas.
The state Health Department has issued a warning because a food service worker at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro and a volunteer at the Salvation Army in Jonesboro had tested positive for hepatitis A, a contagious liver disease.
The University of Arkansas has responded to my request for a count on scanned tickets Saturday at the Razorback's football opener against Eastern Illinois. I've been less successful so far in getting information from Arkansas State University.
The Razorbacks dined on cupcake Eastern Illinois to open the football season with a 55-20 win on a blistering hot day Saturday in Fayetteville and they announced the crowd at more than 63,000. in the newly expanded Razorback Stadium, which can seat 76,000. Was that the actual attendance?
The Chronicle of Higher Education recently released its survey of pay of top public and private university leaders in 2016-17. Donald Bobbitt, president of the University of Arkansas System, checked in at No. 57 on the list of 251 public university leaders.
The Windgate Charitable Foundation of Siloam Springs, which has awarded many millions of dollars to Arkansas universities in the past several years to advance the arts, has made a grant of $1 million to the Bradbury Art Museum at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro.
A study to help Arkansas State University make more money exposed an ugly fact about higher education in Arkansas — the system favors higher income students.
KAIT-TV in Jonesboro just tweeted that Arkansas State University intends to sue the University of Miami for $650,000 because Miami cancelled a September game with ASU in Jonesboro on account of Hurricane Irma.
The "2018 Delta National Small Prints Exhibition," a juried show of contemporary small printmaking by artists from across the country, opens today with 60 works in four galleries at Arkansas State University's Bradbury Art Museum with a 5 p.m. reception.
The Governor's office announced today that Gov. Asa Hutchinson has released $500,000 in state discretionary funds to bankroll an Arkansas State University efficiency study that will seek ways to increase revenue, reduce cost and reallocate resources in the Arkansas State University System. The half-million dollar allocation will be put toward the $945,000 "Accelerate ASU" study currently being conducted by Huron Consulting Group.