The University of Central Arkansas Board of Trustees voted this morning to opt out of the new state law that allows concealed guns to be carried on campus.
Last week, as part of UCA’s writer-in-residence series, over 100 people gathered in Conway for a reading and Q&A session with Pulitzer Prize winning author Jennifer Egan.
Sunday or no, University of Central Arkansas President Tom Courtway got back to me on questions I'd asked relative to the hiring of Sen. Gilbert Baker as a $132,000-a-year assistant to the president for duties including lobbying state and local governments.
Some odds and ends this gray Sunday morning:
* UCA ETHICS: I've asked several questions to UCA President Tom Courtway and Sen. Gilbert Baker of Conway about Baker's recent hiring as a $132,000-a-year lobbyist for the college.
Outgoing Sen. Gilbert Baker, with a retirement plan under his belt from the University of Central Arkansas already thanks to time on the music faculty, is heading back to the campus in more rarified territory.
Fox 16 reports that Jack Gillean, the former chief of staff at UCA, surrendered at the Faulkner County Jail today on charges related to an allegation that he provided a campus master key to a former student who used it to steal tests from faculty offices.