- University of Arkansas System
The University of Arkansas System comprises five main campuses within the state of
Arkansas ; a medical school; two law schools; a unique graduate school focused on public service; statewide research, service and educational units for agriculture, criminal justice and archeology; and several community colleges. Over 42,000 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. However, one key division of the system prefers the title "University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture" (without "System"), even though it is a unit of the system with official ties to the Monticello and Pine Bluff campuses as well as Fayetteville. [http://division.uaex.edu/]
Main Campuses
*University of Arkansas, Fayetteville (UA) (the flagship campus; in Arkansas law and legally is the "University of Arkansas at Fayetteville," but prefers to be known as the University of Arkansas,(as it was before the merger with Little Rock's university).
*University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR)
*University of Arkansas at Monticello (UAM)
*University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (UAPB or Arkansas-Pine Bluff)
*University of Arkansas - Fort Smith (legally "University of Arkansas at Fort Smith" but the campus prefers this form; though "UAFS" is sometimes used, the campus officially prefers "UA Fort Smith". [http://www.uafortsmith.edu/News/Index?skin=&storyid=233] )**
Medical School
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University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS)Law Schools
(neither is officially independent of its parent campus, though the Bowen School of Law is on a separate campus from UALR proper)
*University of Arkansas, Fayetteville (UA), School of Law
*University of Arkansas, Little Rock (UALR),William H. Bowen School of Law Graduate School
(independent campus)
* University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service (UACS)Community Colleges
*Cossatot Community College of the University of Arkansas
*University of Arkansas Community College at Batesville
*University of Arkansas Community College at Hope
*University of Arkansas Community College at Morrilton
*Phillips Community College of the University of ArkansasAdvanced High School
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Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts Other System Units
*Cammack Campus, site of the system headquarters in
Little Rock
*University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture [http://division.uaex.edu] , which includes theArkansas Agricultural Experiment Station and the Cooperative Extension Service [http://www.uaex.edu]
*Arkansas Archeological Survey [http://www.uark.edu/campus-resources/archinfo/]
*Criminal Justice Institute, University of Arkansas System [http://www.cji.edu]History
The original and now 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. 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 "University of Arkansas System" as an alternative name for the 'System' overall, along with the present names of the campuses; it has been amended over the years as other campuses were added. [http://vcfa.uark.edu/Documents/BOTPol_0100_4.PDF]
The administrative offices for the University of Arkansas System are located in Little Rock.
Links
* [http://www.uasys.edu/ University of Arkansas System]
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