University of Arkansas at Little Rock

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University of Arkansas Little Rock
Motto	Where Excellence Has Many Faces
Established	1927
Type	Public University
Chancellor	Joel Anderson
Students	12,000
Location	Little Rock, AR, USA
Campus	Urban
Nickname	UALR Trojans [1]
Website	www.ualr.edu

University of Arkansas at Little Rock is the third largest university, by enrolment, in Arkansas, USA.

Established as Little Rock Junior College by the Little Rock School District in 1927, it became a private four-year institution, called Little Rock University, in 1957. It returned to public status in 1969 when it was merged into the University of Arkansas System under its present name.

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock is a dynamic metropolitan university with a student population of 12,000 full and part-time students, and has a large number of non-traditional students. As an active and integral part of the community, UALR is able to put its students in close contact with the state's most influential leaders in government, business, industry, medicine, and information technology. In fact, offering the state's only comprehensive information science and systems engineering program, UALR is a leader in the field of information technology, with projects such as the Development Information Network of Arkansas [2] — a host for 25 websites for communities around the state. UALR also has a leading law school.

[edit] Notable campus buildings and facilities

The 150-acre UALR main campus features buildings finished in glass, concrete and orange brick, and wooded areas of pine and oak trees. Most of the buildings were built after 1970, and none were built before 1947. The campus features three fountains, most notable of which is the Elizabeth Cooper Fountain west of Student Union Building A.

The Donaghey Student Center, a 180,000 square-foot complex completed in 1993, connects with a three-building student activities complex built in 1952, 1970, and 1976. The upper level houses the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Educational and Student Services/Dean of University College and the Dean of Students, and the Office of Campus Life, which includes Student Activities, and the Adult Student Campus Connection. Also found on the upper level are dining and food service facilities and offices for student organizations, including the office of the UALR Forum. Health Services, Disability Support Services, and the UALR Barnes and Noble Bookstore may be found on the lower level, along with the gymnasium and an Olympic-sized swimming pool. UALR’s physical education facilities also include six lighted tennis courts.

The 180,000-square-foot Engineering Technology and Applied Sciences Building, completed in 1987, houses the Graduate Institute of Technology, the Office of the Dean of the Donaghey College of Information Science and Systems Engineering, the Office of the Dean of the College of Science and Mathematics, as well as classrooms, laboratories, and offices for the Departments of Applied Science, Computer Science, Engineering Technology, Nursing, and Systems Engineering.

The Fine Arts Building, completed in the fall of 1977, houses the Departments of Art and Music and the Office of the Dean of the College or Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. In addition to general classrooms and highly specialized instructional space for the two departments, the building includes three galleries and the 312-seat Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.

The Ottenheimer Library was completed in 1976, and holds more than 470,000 volumes. Other resources include the Government Documents Depository, microfilm and microfiche, recording equipment, subscriptions to 2,500 periodicals, and the UALR Archives and Special Collections. The fifth floor of the building is the location for the Instructional Media Services, and various other Library departments, as well as to part of the library's circulating collection.

Donald W. Reynolds Center for Business and Economic Development was completed in 2004. This 98,700 square foot building houses the three units of the College of Business; the academic departments, the Institute for Economic Advancement, and the Arkansas Small Business Development Center state headquarters. The building anchors the campus’ northwest entrance. The College, government, and industry can work together in this facility to address economic development and important community issues. The building has state-of-the-art technology for computer technology with a distance learning center, a Geographic Information System Support Lab, and a video conferencing center. It includes spacious facilities for study and socializing in the food court, atrium, library, classrooms, and computer laboratories.

G. Robert Ross Hall opened during the 1981-1982 academic year. It houses all the activities of the College of Business Administration as well as the College of Professional Studies, Offices of Academic Advising, Institute of Government, Cooperative Education, Counseling and Career Planning, and Testing and Student Life Research. It also includes general purpose classrooms, including two small lecture halls.

H. Tyndall Dickinson Hall was completed in the fall of 1999. It houses the majority of the College of Education, as well as the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, the Department of Computer Science, and the George W. Donaghey Scholars Program. The building is structurally similar to Ross Hall, and is one of the most wired facilities in the Southeast. Dickinson’s smart-classrooms, auditorium, and offices rely on high-tech teaching tools to make sure UALR students are ready for the new marketplace.

The William H. Bowen School of Law is located near downtown Little Rock, separately from the main campus, in a building that originally housed the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.

Jack Stephens Center is a state-of-the-art sports arena for the UALR Trojans NCAA team. Furnished with 5,600 seats, an auxiliary practice court, and facilities for sports medicine, it was completed in the fall of 2005.

The 700-seat University Theatre is the site of academic activities, theatre and dance, and many programs of public interest. Rehearsal hall and shop facilities were added to the Theatre early in 1977. The building also contains a smaller studio theatre.

[edit] Notable graduates

• James Richard Cheek — former US ambassador to Sudan and Argentina.
• Charlie Daniels — Arkansas Secretary of State.
• Derek Fisher — professional NBA basketball player
• Kimberly Forsyth — Miss Arkansas USA 2006
• Mary Mel French — United States Presidential Advisor (Clinton)
• Max W. Hooper — co-founder of Equity Broadcasting.
• Lynda Hull — award-winning poet
• Stewart Isbell — an American photographer
• Koby Koomson — Ghana Ambassador to the U.S.
• Jerry Maulden — CEO of Entergy.
• Robert Palmer — 20th century American writer, musicologist, clarinetist, saxophonist, and blues producer (author of Deep Blues)
• Wesley Pruden — editor-in-chief of The Washington Times
• Mike Ross — an American politician and US Congressman
• Bob Stokes — meteorologist for the The Weather Channel since 1996.

[edit] External links

• University of Arkansas at Little Rock
• Development Information Network of Arkansas, a project of UALR's Institute for Economic Advancement
• UALR Trojans official university athletics department website
• Theta Eta Chapter of Kappa Sigma - UALR's first and largest fraternity
• LittleRockTrojans.com a fan-based athletics website and forum (not affiliated with nor operated by UALR athletics)

Sun Belt Conference
Arkansas–Little Rock • Arkansas State • Denver • Florida Atlantic • Florida International • Louisiana–Lafayette • Lousiana–Monroe • Middle Tennessee • New Orleans • North Texas • South Alabama • Troy • Western Kentucky

Public Colleges and Universities in Arkansas
Arkansas • Arkansas-Fort Smith • Arkansas-Little Rock • Arkansas-Monticello • Arkansas-Medical Sciences • Arkansas-Pine Bluff • Arkansas State • Arkansas Tech • Central Arkansas • Henderson State • Southern Arkansas