University of Arkansas System

The University of Arkansas System comprises six 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. [1]

Main Campuses

Campus	Preferred name	Founded	Enrollment	Endowment	Athletics	NCAA Division
Fayetteville	University of Arkansas at Fayetteville	1871	19,949	$939.8 million	Arkansas Razorbacks	NCAA DI SEC
Little Rock	University of Arkansas at Little Rock	1927	13,167	$136 million	Arkansas–Little Rock Trojans	NCAA DI Sun Belt
Monticello	UAM or University of Arkansas at Monticello	1910	3,762	$22.8 million	UAM Boll Weevils	NCAA DII Gulf South
Pine Bluff	University of Arkansas Pine Bluff or UAPB	1873	3,332	$1.9 million	UAPB Golden Lions	NCAA DI SWAC
Fort Smith	University of Arkansas - Fort Smith or UAFS	1928	7,329	$38.8 million	Fort Smith Lions	NCAA DII Heartland

Medical School

Location	Preferred name	Affiliated campuses	Founded	Enrollment	Endowment
Little Rock	University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences	Fayetteville, Little Rock, and Fort Smith	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	Preferred name	Founded	Enrollment	Endowment
Fayetteville	University of Arkansas	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)

• University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service (UACS)

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

• 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 [2], which includes the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station and the Cooperative Extension Service [3]
• Arkansas Archeological Survey [4]
• Criminal Justice Institute, University of Arkansas System [5]
• Winthrop Rockefeller Institute [6]

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. 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 "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. [7]

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

External links

• University of Arkansas System