University of Arkansas System

University of Arkansas System
Type State university system
Chairman Ben Hyneman
President Donald Bobbitt
Administrative staff
 17000
Students 60,000
Location Little Rock, Arkansas
Website uasys.edu/

The University of Arkansas System comprises six campuses within the state of Arkansas; a medical school; two law schools; a unique graduate school focused on public service; a HBCU, 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.

University Campuses

Campus Official name Founded Enrollment Endowment Athletics NCAA Division
Fayetteville University of Arkansas, Fayetteville 1871 26,301[1] $1.06 Billion Arkansas Razorbacks NCAA D-I SEC
Little Rock University of Arkansas at Little Rock 1927 13,167 $136 million UALR Trojans NCAA D-I Sun Belt
Monticello University of Arkansas at Monticello 1910 3,762 $22.8 million UAM Boll Weevils NCAA D-II Great American
Pine Bluff University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff 1873 3,332 $1.9 million UAPB Golden Lions NCAA D-I SWAC
Fort Smith University of Arkansas at Fort Smith 1928 7,329 $38.8 million UA Fort Smith Lions NCAA D-II Heartland

Medical School

Location Official name Affiliated campuses Founded Enrollment Endowment
Little Rock University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Fayetteville 1879 2,400 $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
Fayetteville University of Arkansas, 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

(Independent Campus)

Location Campus Official name Founded Enrollment Endowment
Little Rock Independent University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service 2004 96 $0.00 million

Community Colleges

Location Campus Preferred name Founded Enrollment
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 Community College at Hope UACC Hope 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

Advanced High School

Other System Units

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 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.

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.

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

References

  1. ↑ http://news.uark.edu/articles/24997/university-of-arkansas-enrollment-tops-26-000-for-first-time. Missing or empty |title= (help)

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