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Safe Places. Arkansas African American History - African American Heritage Tours - Mosaic Templars. Arkansas Humanities Council. UALR Campus Life. LULAC. Top News Story Cambia Tu Futuro Evoluciona, Conectate, Crece . El acceso a la banda ancha tiene un gran potencial para la comunidad latina. Vincula a los solicitantes de empleo con oportunidades ... more LULAC Collegiate Emerge Latino Conference February 25-27, 2014 in Washington, DC. 2014 LULAC National Women's Conference Sponsored by the LULAC National Women's Commission and chaired by LULAC National Vice President for Women, Elsie Valdes Ramos, the Conference was celebrated in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on March 28-29, 2014.

College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. Clinton School – global leadership program – international internship programs. Visit Heifer Village in downtown Little Rock, Arkansas | heifer.org | Heifer.org. A Hands-On, Global Education Facility Heifer Village Little Rock, Arkansas Get Directions 1 World Ave. Monday – Saturday: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Heifer Village is home to interactive exhibits that provide a stimulating and challenging educational experience for people of all ages. Heifer Village Programs We offer programs and events throughout the year for school groups, families or just anyone who wants to drop in and learn about world hunger. National Federation for Just Communities - Social Justice Topics - Just Communities of Arkansas. Chancellor. Since 2003, it has been my privilege to serve as Chancellor of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

UALR serves the people of Arkansas, our country, and the world. It is known for excellent graduates, innovative research, bold ideas, and its willingness to tackle tough community and state issues. Our students are wonderfully diverse and hard-working, and they leave UALR with a greatly expanded understanding of our complex world. Our faculty hold degrees from the finest graduate schools in the nation and the world including MIT, University of Michigan, Russian Academy of Sciences, Harvard, Duke, Stanford, and Yale. The faculty and staff at UALR stand ready to help you meet your highest goals. Our purpose is to help you come to value the process of learning and make it your own.

—Joel E. Bless the Mic. Bless the Mic Bless The Mic is a contemporary spin on the traditional President’s Lecture Series. These events, held on hundreds of campuses across the country, have been a way to stimulate the intellectual discourse on the campus. Even today, these series seek to bring in noted scholars, authors, politicians and public intellectuals to expose not only the campus community to their ideas and concepts, but the broader community in which the institution resides. Tavis Smiley These lectures also serve as an opportunity to hopefully expose the institution to a segment of the community that may have never interacted with the institution.

Glenda Hatchett The problem with most of these traditional president's lecture series is that they have the tendency to become stale, stuffy, dry, and well, boring. James Carville Bless The Mic is different. Little Rock NOW | National Organization for Women. ACWHE - Arkansas Council for Women in Higher Education.