University of Arkansas System

Short description: Public university system in Arkansas

University of Arkansas SystemType| State university system

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Chairman| John Goodson
President| Donald Bobbitt

Administrative staff

| 17000
Students| 60,000
Address|

2404 North University Avenue

Little Rock

Arkansas

United States

Website| uasys.edu/

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The University of Arkansas System is a state university system in the U.S. state of Arkansas. It comprises six campuses; a medical school; two law schools; a graduate school focused on public service; a historically black college, statewide research, service, and educational units for agriculture, criminal justice, and archeology; and several community colleges. Over 50,000 students are enrolled in over 188 undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs.

Legally, the entire system carries the name University of Arkansas. Nonetheless, to avoid confusion with its flagship campus in Fayetteville, the system usually refers to itself as the University of Arkansas System and the Fayetteville campus usually refers to itself as the University of Arkansas.

## Contents

* 1 History
* 1.1 University presidents
* 2 University campuses
* 3 Medical school
* 4 Law schools
* 5 Graduate school
* 6 Community colleges
* 7 Advanced high school
* 8 Other system units
* 9 References
* 10 External links

## History

The original and flagship campus was established in Fayetteville as Arkansas Industrial University in 1871 under the 1862 Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act. The system now includes both of the state's land-grant colleges, as University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (UAPB) was later designated as such under the 1890 Morrill Act; it left the system in 1927, but returned in 1972. The Division of Agriculture and UAM's forestry programs also contribute to the system's land-grant mission. The Division of Agriculture includes the statewide Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station (AAES) and the Cooperative Extension Service (CES). AAES and CES were managed by the dean of the College of Agriculture and Home Economics on the Fayetteville campus until 1959, when the Board of Trustees established the statewide Division of Agriculture as a unit of the U of A System.[citation needed]

The University of Arkansas System as an organized educational alliance (system) could be said to date from the founding of UAPB (1873) or perhaps UAMS joining the system (1911). The Division of Agriculture was established in 1959 as a statewide system unit with its own line-item appropriation from the state Legislature. University of Arkansas President David Wiley Mullins, along with the Board of Trustees, brokered a series of mergers in the late 1960s. The Little Rock and Monticello campuses joined the system in 1969 (UALR) and 1971 (UAM), and UAPB returned to the system in 1972. In 1975, a University of Arkansas Board of Trustees policy officially adopted the name "University of Arkansas System" as an alternative identification for the system, along with the present names of the campuses, in order to allow the Fayetteville campus to continue its identification as the "University of Arkansas". The policy has been amended over the years as other campuses were added. [1]

In March 2014, the University of Arkansas Board of Trustees created eVersity, a 100% online university aimed to serve students who were unable to access traditional higher education campuses. The University of Arkansas System eVersity was the first and only public, online university in the state of Arkansas.[1] In November 2021, the University of Arkansas System acquired Grantham University, a for-profit online college based in Lenexa, Kansas, for $1[2] It was renamed the University of Arkansas Grantham, into which eVersity was merged to become one institution. University of Arkansas Grantham now serves as the only 100% online institution for the entire system.

The administrative offices for the University of Arkansas System are located in Little Rock.

### University presidents

Up until 1982, the president was the chief administrative officer of the Fayetteville campus and the University of Arkansas System. In 1982, the position of chancellor was created to be the top administrator at the Fayetteville campus, and the title of president referred only to the University of Arkansas System.

President  | Tenure

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Noah P. Gates | 1871-1873
Albert W. Bishop | 1873-1875
Noah P. Gates | 1875-1877
Daniel Harvey Hill | 1877-1884
George M. Edgar | 1884-1887
Edward H. Murfee | 1887-1894
John L. Buchanan | 1894-1902
Henry S. Hartzog | 1902-1905
John N. Tillman | 1905-1912
John Hugh Reynolds (acting) | 1912-1913
John C. Futrall | 1913-1939
J. William Fulbright | 1939-1941
Arthur M. Harding | 1941-1947
Lewis Webster Jones | 1947-1951
John T. Caldwell | 1952-1959
Storm Whaley (acting) | 1959-1960
David Wiley Mullins | 1960-1974
Charles E. Bishop | 1974-1980
James E. Martin | 1980-1984
Ray Thornton | 1984-1990
B. Alan Sugg | 1990-2011
Donald R. Bobbitt | 2011–present

## University campuses

Campus  | Official name  | Founded  | Enrollment  | Endowment  | Athletics
(nickname)  | Division
(NCAA)  | Primary
conference

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Grantham  | University of Arkansas Grantham  | 1951  | 4,427  |  |  |  |
Fayetteville | University of Arkansas  | 1871  | 30,936[3] | $1.7 billion  | Razorbacks  | Division I (FBS)  | Southeastern (SEC)
Little Rock  | University of Arkansas at Little Rock  | 1927  | 13,167  | $136 million  | Trojans  | Division I (non-football)  | Ohio Valley (OVC)
Monticello | University of Arkansas at Monticello  | 1910  | 3,762  | $22.8 million  | Boll Weevils  | Division II  | Great American (GAC)
Pine Bluff | University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff  | 1873  | 3,332  | $1.9 million  | Golden Lions  | Division I (FCS)  | Southwestern (SWAC)
Fort Smith | University of Arkansas at Fort Smith  | 1928  | 7,329  | $38.8 million  | Lions  | Division II  | Lone Star (LSC)

## Medical school

Location  | Official name  | Affiliated campuses  | Founded  | Enrollment  | Endowment

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Little Rock | University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences | Fayetteville | 1879 | 2,907 | $75.9 million

## Law schools

(Neither one is officially independent of its parent campus, though the Bowen School of Law is on a separate campus from UALR proper)

Location  | Campus  | Official name  | Founded  | Enrollment  | Endowment

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Fayetteville | University of Arkansas at Fayetteville | University of Arkansas School of Law | 1924 | 445 | $84.2 million
Little Rock | University of Arkansas at Little Rock | William H. Bowen School of Law | 1975 | 450 | $43.4 million

## Graduate school

Location  | Campus  | Official name  | Founded  | Enrollment  | Endowment

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Little Rock | Independent | University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service | 2004 | 96 | $0.00 million

## Community colleges

Location  | Campus  | Preferred name  | Founded  | Enrollment

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De Queen | Cossatot Community College of the University of Arkansas | Cossatot | 1975 | 1,486
Batesville | University of Arkansas Community College at Batesville | UACC Batesville | 1997 | 1,745
Hope | University of Arkansas Hope-Texarkana[4] | UAHT | 1965 | 1,358
Morrilton | University of Arkansas Community College at Morrilton | UACC Morilton | 1961 | 2,421
Helena-West Helena | Phillips Community College of the University of Arkansas | Phillips | 1965 | 2,350
North Little Rock | University of Arkansas – Pulaski Technical College | Pulaski Tech | 1945 | 6,576
Mena | University of Arkansas Rich Mountain | UA Rich Mountain | 1973 | 824

## Advanced high school

* Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts

## Other system units

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* Cammack Campus, site of the system headquarters in Little Rock
* University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture
* Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station
* Cooperative Extension Service
* Arkansas Archeological Survey
* Criminal Justice Institute, University of Arkansas System
* Winthrop Rockefeller Institute

## References

1. ↑ "University of Arkansas System eVersity - University of Arkansas System" (in en-US). https://uasys.edu/campuses-units/universities/university-of-arkansas-system-eversity/.
2. ↑ Adame, Jaime (12 August 2021). "$1 deal to add online school to University of Arkansas System receives board approval". Arkansas Democrat. https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2021/aug/12/1-deal-to-add-online-school-to-university-of/.
3. ↑ "University of Arkansas tops 30,000 students at Fayetteville campus". https://www.nwaonline.com/news/2022/sep/08/university-of-arkansas-tops-30000-in-student/?news-arkansas-atkins.
4. ↑ http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2019/2019R/Acts/Act204.pdf [bare URL PDF]

## External links

* Official website

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Colleges and universities in Arkansas

Public institutions|

* Arkansas State
* Arkansas Tech
* Henderson State
* Southern Arkansas
* University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
* University of Arkansas at Fort Smith
* University of Arkansas at Little Rock
* University of Arkansas at Monticello
* University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff
* University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
* University of Central Arkansas

Private institutions|

* Arkansas Baptist
* Central Baptist
* Crowley's Ridge
* Ecclesia
* Harding
* Hendrix
* John Brown
* Lyon
* Ouachita Baptist
* Ozarks
* Philander Smith
* Shorter
* Williams Baptist

Community colleges|

* Arkansas Northeastern
* ASU Beebe
* ASU Mid-South
* ASU-Mountain Home
* ASU-Newport
* Black River Tech
* ASU Three Rivers
* Cossatot
* East Arkansas
* National Park
* North Arkansas
* Northwest Arkansas
* Ozarka
* Phillips
* UA Pulaski Tech
* UA Rich Mountain
* Shorter
* South Arkansas
* Southeast Arkansas
* Southern Arkansas Tech
* UACC Batesville
* UACC Hope
* UACC Morrilton

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