- University News Archive - ��Vlog��ý Little Rock

Handcock Wins Phi Kappa Phi Essay Contest

John Hill — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 14:03:29 +0000

Bobbie Handcock, a rhetoric and writing graduate student from Lonoke, has won the 2022 Phi Kappa Phi Essay Contest and a $250 scholarship. Phi Kappa Phi, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary at ��Vlog��ý Little Rock, selected Handcock as the winner of its 1,000-word essay contest on the theme: Love of Learning in a Pandemic. “I am so honored to receive this award so early in my graduate career,” said Handcock, who is in her first semester of graduate school. “The scholarship means a lot to me, and it will really help me as I pursue my master’s degree.” Handcock, who works as a web content specialist in the Office of Communications and Marketing, plans to graduate in 2024 with a Master of Arts in Professional and Technical Writing degree. She is a first-generation college student who will be the first person in her family to earn a master’s degree. Handcock wrote about how the COVID-19 pandemic encouraged her to make important changes in her life. She had always dreamed of getting her master’s degree, so Handcock took a new and challenging position at ��Vlog��ý Little Rock where she can take advantage of the tuition discount for university employees. “COVID helped me refocus and renew my love of learning,” Handcock wrote. “It helped me pause and see what was possible. COVID might have driven me to grad school but I’m now the one at the wheel.”

Graduating Student Finds New Career, Love of Writing at ��Vlog��ý Little Rock

John Hill — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 13:55:43 +0000

Kristina Johnson, a Little Rock native who now lives in Hot Springs Village, has known since high school that she wanted to pursue her passion for writing in college. “When I was a senior, I thought about what I was good at. I really liked English and creative writing. I’ve enjoyed writing short stories in my free time for many years.” After graduating high school, Johnson joined ��Vlog��ý Little Rock in 2014 for the close location to home and focus on education. “I took my ACT here and really liked the campus,” she said. “It was just a really pretty campus that fit my dreams of college. I wanted to live at home, and it was the perfect setting for me to focus on my education.” She would graduate in 2018 with a bachelor’s degree in English with an emphasis in creative writing and then join the graduate program. Johnson is now looking forward to her December graduation with a Master of Arts in Professional and Technical Writing degree. She is thankful to professors Heidi Harris, Karen Kuralt, Londie Martin, and Joe Williams for helping her. “The feeling of finishing my professional portfolio and my professors coming back and saying, ‘This looks good,’ is the most relief I’ve ever had,” Johnson said. “It took a lot of effort and hard work to get here. I’m very happy and proud of what I accomplished.” She cites her greatest accomplishment at graduate school as writing a grant that provides $10,000 in funding for two pilot suicide prevention programs in Arkansas jails. “I took the grant writing class with Dr. Barb L’Eplattenier,” she said. “It was one of the hardest classes I took in all my education, but it was worth it. I wrote my first grant, and it was funded. It was definitely my biggest accomplishment of graduate school, maybe ever, and it gave me a new appreciation for writing and how it can be used to help people.” Unlike most new college graduates, Johnson won’t have to worry about finding a job as she started her career as a technical writer at MidSOUTH, ��Vlog��ý Little Rock’s social work academy, last year. She is responsible for developing training materials and coordinating continuing education trainings. “I’ve done it sort of backwards,” Johnson said. “I’ve already gotten a job so this degree will help push my career forward and give me bigger opportunities in the future.”

��Vlog��ý Little Rock Student Writes Grant to Help Fund Suicide Prevention Programs in Arkansas Jails

John Hill — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 12:37:08 +0000

A ��Vlog��ý Little Rock student has written a successful grant that will help fund a pilot suicide prevention education program in Arkansas jails. Kristina Johnson, a graduate student in professional and technical writing, wrote the grant on behalf of the (AFSP-AR). The nonprofit received a $10,000 grant from the Roy and Christine Sturgis Trust to supplement funding for a pilot suicide prevention education program in two Arkansas county jails. Bank of America is the sole trustee of the Roy and Christine Sturgis Trust. The nonprofit’s Project 2025 Corrections Program will offer and evaluate suicide prevention education programs for Pulaski County Regional Detention Center and Garland County Detention Center. Over nine months, they will implement the “Talk Saves Lives: Corrections” suicide prevention curriculum within the jails. Afterwards, they will gather feedback on what was successful about the program, which will help AFSP-AR gain insight on growing the program in the future. Altogether, they plan to reach 350-500 people in Pulaski and Garland counties through the program. The Project 2025 Corrections Program is also funded by a ��Vlog��ýMS Translational Research Institute Community Based Participatory Research Award. Johnson wrote the grant as part of her fall 2021 grant writing class with Dr. Barb L’Eplattenier, a professor of rhetoric and writing at ��Vlog��ý Little Rock. “This is my favorite class that I have taken in the graduate program,” Johnson said. “It offered real-world experience that is absolutely paramount to grant writing. I learned a lot about myself as a professional, and I have built a great relationship with the nonprofit I worked with.” Johnson, who also works as a technical writer at MidSOUTH, got involved with AFSP-AR after hearing Susie Reece, a volunteer with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, speak about suicide prevention as part of the Arkansas Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect. Johnson worked with Reece and Jacqueline Sharp, area director of the Arkansas chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, to write the grant. “I had never written a grant before this class, so I was very proud of the work that all of us did to write and receive the grant,” Johnson said. “I was so proud to use my writing in a meaningful way to help a meaningful cause. The goal is to save lives, and there is nothing quite like knowing that I was able to help with that. This experience has reinforced how important it is for me to use my writing skills in a way that directly helps people.”

Jones to Receive National LULAC Award

John Hill — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 12:57:58 +0000

Christine Jones, a graduate student in technical and professional writing at ��Vlog��ý Little Rock, has been selected to receive the Aspiring Scholar Award for her outstanding achievements by the LULAC National Educational Service Centers (LNESC). The award is presented to a LULAC scholarship recipient currently enrolled in college who has exceeded academically and has demonstrated success in their educational pursuits. This individual expresses the promotion of scholarly achievement and is an excellent example of an outstanding leader and role model for peers. “When I first found out that I had won a national LULAC award, I was initially in disbelief,” Jones said. “However, since I’ve had time to let it sink in, I’m so honored that not only has LNESC believed in my abilities from the beginning of my graduate studies by the very generous scholarships that they have afforded me for my continued education, but that they also feel I have far exceeded their expectations with my educational pursuits.” Jones will receive the award during the ceremony July 29 during the 2022 League of United Latin American Citizens Council (LULAC) National Convention in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The focus will be on participants that have demonstrated academic and professional successes, as well as to acknowledge those who have given back to their communities. Five ��Vlog��ý Little Rock students will attend the LULAC National Convention. Her academic and leadership activities at ��Vlog��ý Little Rock have included maintaining a 4.0 GPA all while serving as chair of the Racial Barriers Committee, president of LULAC Council 771, student vice president of Phi Kappa Phi, past vice president/incoming president of the Graduate Student Association, a senator with the Student Government Association, and a member of the Academic Integrity Committee. “Whether it be raising funds for caps and gowns for students with low incomes, ensuring equity exists among all students and promoting racial healing, or helping raise funds for several LatinX students to fulfill a dream, I feel that I have demonstrated to other students what can be achieved when you really put your heart and mind into something,” Jones said. “I am especially proud, as a Puerto Rican/Dominican LatinX American, to be recognized by the LULAC National Educational Service Centers as a role model for my peers and can only hope that I can continue to be a role model and inspire many more students—especially other LatinX students—to continue in their educational pursuits.”

��Vlog��ý Little Rock Alum Fulfills Lifelong Dream of Becoming a Writer

John Hill — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 15:00:36 +0000

A 2021 ��Vlog��ý Little Rock graduate has achieved her dream of becoming a professional writer nearly 30 years after she first considered becoming a writing major in college. Virginia Pitts, a native of Bismarck, graduated high school in 1992. She first attended the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville for a short time, but didn’t follow through on her desire to become a writer. “I wasn’t in the right frame of mind then,” Pitts said. “Deep down, I knew I wanted to be a writer, but I didn’t have the nerve to pursue it.” Later on, Pitts met her husband, Jake, and had four wonderful children. She decided to take a second chance on going to college. “I found myself with four kids, and there was a lot of pressure on my husband to provide and I wanted to ease that pressure,” she said. “I also wanted to finish what I started. It was really important to me to get a bachelor’s degree and earn it myself.” In 2017, Pitts enrolled at National Park College and graduated with an associate degree with honors in 2019. She found ��Vlog��ý Little Rock’s online bachelor’s degree program in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing, and said it hit her like a ton of bricks. “I was very fortunate to find the online Professional and Technical Writing Program at ��Vlog��ý Little Rock,” she said. “��Vlog��ý Little Rock is a good school. As soon as I saw that program, I knew it for me. It felt like an epiphany that this is what I am supposed to do. The degree introduced me to a lot of writing styles and genres. I knew it would give me the opportunity to apply the program to a lot of different writing jobs.” At ��Vlog��ý Little Rock, Pitts found mentors in professors Karen Kuralt, Londie Martin, and Greg Graham. Under Dr. Kuralt, she put her newfound skills to good use as an intern at Wildwood Park for the Arts. She even wrote a grant to help Wildwood purchase a golf cart to shuttle passengers in need of assistance. “I would just like to thank all the teachers and staff at ��Vlog��ý Little Rock for a job well done,” Pitts said. “I want to thank them for their support and their assistance during classes. I really miss the whole experience. It was an amazing chapter, but this next chapter is turning out even better.” In May 2021, Pitts graduated with a bachelor’s degree and a perfect 4.0 GPA. Wade “Pete” Tubbs, editor in chief of the , hired Pitts as a staff reporter in September. At the newspaper, she enjoys telling the stories of the people in Malvern. “I did a story on the Urban Search and Rescue Team that came to do some training with the Malvern Fire Department and I got to watch them in action,” she said. “I did a story about a Malvern veteran who was inducted into the Arkansas Military Hall of Fame on Nov. 6. . That was an honor. It’s something new and different every day, and it’s a dream come true.” Nearly three decades after first thinking about becoming a writer, Pitts said it still feels like a dream now she has accomplished her lifelong goal. “It still doesn’t feel real,” Pitts said. “My boss is very complimentary and told me I am a great writer. It took me so long to even pursue a writing career, let alone achieve it, that it’s taking me some time to believe it’s real. I have a lot of goals. I think every writer dreams of writing a book one day. For now, I’m basking in the moment and enjoying this opportunity.” For any other students who are thinking about going to college, Pitts would advise them not to waste any time in pursuing your education. “You just have to dig deep and be brave and figure out what you want to spend your time doing,” she said. “I think the most important thing is to know what you want to do. If you don’t know, look at your opportunities, take different classes, and figure out what you are going to be happy spending your time doing.”

First-Generation Student Spotlight: Casey Williams

John Hill — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 14:58:23 +0000

In honor of First-Generation College Student Celebration Month, ��Vlog��ý Little Rock is profiling some of its outstanding first-generation students. Casey Williams is a first-generation student from Fort Smith, Arkansas. What is your major? My major is Interdisciplinary Studies, focusing on professional and technical writing, history, and political science. What does it mean to you to be a first-generation student? It means breaking barriers and setting your own course in life as you explore the possibilities of the world. How did your family react when you told them you wanted to earn a college degree? My parents were proud. My husband Craig is the most supportive man I’ve ever met. He has believed in me when I didn’t believe in myself. What has been the most rewarding aspect of college so far? I love being able to do what I love in writing but also having the ability to study political science and history. It meant I was able to pursue all of my passions and have a more complete understanding in my studies. What made you choose ��Vlog��ý Little Rock? I came to dance here as a little girl for dance recitals and fell in love with the campus. I told my mom when I was eight that I wanted to go here, and she told me to go for it! What do you plan to do after graduation? I’d love to write for a local magazine. I also want to work for the Ronald McDonald charities as they supported my family immensely when we had our baby girl, Olivia prematurely. I want to give back and help tell other people’s stories so their voices are heard. Everyone has a right to their voice. Do you have any advice for future first-generation students? The acceptance letter that you get is your treasure map. Use it and know no one can take it away from you. Life is full of mountains to climb and narrow dark valleys. With an education, determination, and hard work, you can guide yourself to opportunity. You are worth pursuing, just like that treasure.

��Vlog��ý Little Rock student discovers passion for bookbinding

Ajani Oyindamola — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 14:16:32 +0000

In 2018, Mitchel Gundrum, a former executive information technology support specialist living in San Francisco, was ready for a career change.�� “I did some research and realized ��Vlog��ý Little Rock had the best professional and technical writing program online,” said Gundrum, a Wisconsin native. “I was working full-time, so I wanted to get my bachelor’s degree but needed the flexibility of an online program.”�� One of Gundrum’s spring 2019 classes included grant writing with Dr. Barbara L’eplattenier, professor of rhetoric and writing. Through this class, Gundrum wrote and earned a $19,500 grant from the Windgate Foundation for his favorite nonprofit, the San Francisco Center for the Book.�� The nearly $20,000 grant will help extend the center’s visiting instructors program, which provides workshops and lectures on the arts of letterpress printing and bookbinding. The funds will cover travel, housing, and lecture fees for six additional instructors for the center’s 2020 lecture series. Additionally, the grant will help students in need attend the workshops by covering class material fees and a student stipend.�� “The grant writing class was an amazing opportunity to get support for their organization,” Gundrum said. “It’s very difficult to get such a high level of instruction in such a niche market like bookbinding. To be able to get classically trained instructors in San Francisco is a great opportunity. I am beyond words at how well the project turned out. I’m trying hard not to get a big head over my first grant being successful, but it does make me want to try my hands at more grant writing.”�� After his success in the grant writing class, L’eplattenier recommended Gundrum apply for the. He spent the summer working as an archivist intern for the Lincoln Archives Digital Project, which is dedicated to digitizing all federal records housed within the National Archives created during President Abraham Lincoln’s administration.�� “I applied with Dr. Barb’s blessing. She gave me some assistance during the application since I tend to be a very lengthy, verbose writer,” Gundrum said. “I worked to digitally archive and translate more than 500 documents from 1861-1865, the years of Lincoln’s presidency.” The internship gave Gundrum a chance to get his foot in the door and gain some professional experience.

These are a selection of some of the Gundrum’s bookbinding work.

“I jumped at the opportunity,” Gundrum said. “For me, it was beneficial to work at the archives, to learn new technology, and to work with older documents that need to be preserved for the future.” L’eplattenier said Gundram is a great example of how ��Vlog��ý Little Rock students can use their classes to pursue meaningful interests. “Mitch is passionate about bookbinding and used the grant-writing class to develop a deeper relationship with an organization that focuses on bookbinding,” L’eplattenier said. “Then he used the requirements of his internship through The Washington Center to interview and network with prominent people in the book restoration world like Elmer Eusman, head of the Conservation Division at the Library of Congress, and Katie Wagner, senior paper conservator at the Smithsonian Institute Libraries. It’s really exciting and a wonderful example of how students can build on what they’ve learned in their classes with other experiences that ��Vlog��ý Little Rock offers” Gundrum, who graduated with his bachelor’s degree this month, has already embarked on the next step in his professional career. He has enrolled in the two-year bookbinding program at North Bennet Street School in Boston, one of a handful of programs in the country that offers hands-on book arts education taught by traditionally trained instructors. The two-year, comprehensive bookbinding program teaches students how to make, restore, and preserve books and other printed treasures.�� “Restoring old books and bringing them back to life is something that really clicked for me. I am out here in Boston to learn to professionally repair and restore old bindings,” Gundrum said. “I never thought I would go to school again after my bachelor’s degree, but here I am.”

��Vlog��ý Little Rock student learns valuable skills on summer internship found through Handshake

Ajani Oyindamola — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 13:01:54 +0000

As the end of her junior year at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock drew near, Keely Reeves was concerned about a lack of professional experience that she felt would hurt her chances to get a job after graduation.�� “I will graduate in May 2020,” said Reeves, a Benton native double majoring in mass communication and professional and technical writing. “I only had one internship under my belt before last summer, and I was panicking, thinking that I might graduate without having any internships related to my majors.”�� Last spring, she began an intense search for internships that involved video editing, photography, social media, writing, and editing.�� “I went on Indeed.com and applied for everything under the sun in Arkansas,” Reeves said. “Then I tried the university’s new job-search platform, Handshake, since it specializes in internships. I applied for everything under the sun, and I found a great internship with P. Allen Smith Co. in Little Rock.”�� Vlog��ý Little Rock launched Handshake, a career network tailored to college students, in December 2018 to help students connect with future employers. The digital platform system is easy to use and allows users to customize every step of their career development journey.�� “We wanted to provide our students with a professional online job search platform,” said Lisa Henderson-Davis, director of Distributed Learning and Career Center. “It is the most popular and diverse platform, and that is why we picked it. It definitely helps us enhance our services to our students. The creators of Handshake went to Michigan State, and they realized they didn’t have the same opportunities as people coming from Silicon Valley or the East coast, so they built a platform to democratize job searching.”�� Reeves is the first ��Vlog��ý Little Rock student to officially find an internship through Handshake. As a production intern, she spent her summer producing videos and content to increase traffic to P. Allen Smith Co.’s�� social media pages.�� “Keely was a pleasure to work with,” said Patrick Green, director and executive producer of P. Allen Smith Co. “She came in each day ready to learn and to take on any task assigned to her. Our company has expanded our multimedia department into the realm of YouTube. Keely learned how micro content is created and used on Instagram and Facebook to help promote YouTube videos.”�� Green began using Handshake in 2018 as a way to recruit more college students.�� “Handshake is a great tool to streamline the announcement of internships and job openings to current and graduating college students across multiple schools at one time,” Green said.�� The valuable video editing, social media, and marketing skills that Reeves learned have already come in handy.�� “I’m interning at Wildwood Park for the Arts this fall, and I’m doing social media, videography, and photography,” Reeves said. “Working at P. Allen Smith Co. helped me come to Wildwood and think about what kind of videos I can do to promote them on Instagram and Facebook.”

��Vlog��ý Little Rock student Keely Reeves used the university’s Handshake career network program to find work as a video production intern. The ��Vlog��ý Little Rock Career Center offers students free accounts and training on the Handshake job search tool. Photo by Ben Krain.

At ��Vlog��ý Little Rock, 2,645 students have activated their Handshake accounts and can search through jobs posted by the nearly 3,500 employers from across the country that are recruiting ��Vlog��ý Little Rock students. “Handshake is such a great resource to get an internship, but it also has full- and part-time jobs for students,” Henderson-Davis said. “All students need to do is fill out a profile to search for jobs, and they can make their profile public so employers can find them on Handshake.”�� Gaining professional experience during college is becoming important as more employers expect new graduates to have work experience.�� “We want our students to have more experiential learning opportunities in college,” Henderson-Davis said. “Students need real-world work experience to complement their education by the time they graduate.”�� Reeves remains grateful to Handshake for leading her to an internship that will prepare her for her future career.�� “I thought it was cool to get the internship through Handshake,” she said. “I wasn’t having a lot of luck on Indeed.com for things that would actually work for me. I applied for with P. Allen Smith Company, and they were willing to work with my schedule, and it turned out great.”�� Any student who is interested in joining Handshake can sign up.��

��Vlog��ý Little Rock student’s degree is 20 years in the making

Ajani Oyindamola — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 15:12:00 +0000

Most people may remember 1999 for the song (“Party Like It’s 1999”), the Y2K scare, and the excitement of the start of a new millennium.�� For Edna Rodgers, 1999 is the year she first embarked on earning her Master of Arts degree in professional and technical writing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. After nearly 20 years, her hard work and heartaches have come to fruition with her upcoming graduation on Saturday, Dec. 15, at the Jack Stephens Center. “I feel great,” Rodgers, 66, of Little Rock, said. “I just feel like I have run that mile and finished the race. It’s a real good feeling.” Rodgers earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in business administration from Philander Smith College in 1995, but it wasn’t long before she realized she wanted to get a graduate degree to improve her chances at getting a better job. “When I worked at Children International, the former director, Cheryl Chapman, inspired me to pursue a field in technical writing,” she said. “I wanted to improve my writing skills and develop myself further professionally. Later, when I went to work at ��Vlog��ýMS, I had to take a lot of meeting minutes and help with CV revisions for faculty members. I also helped revise the course syllabi and post them online. When you do a lot of writing and editing projects like that, you really need to know how to write and format different documents.��Besides personal development and helping me with my work assignments, I was interested in teaching at a junior college. I always wanted to be a teacher growing up, but I never pursued it. Since I have my degree, I can pursue that now. A lot of people have a second career that they love after they have retired. I am one of those people who would like to obtain a second career as a part-time editor and technical writer.” While working on her master’s degree, Rodgers usually took one course a semester as well as having to balance work and raising two daughters. “Another reason why it took me so long to get my master’s degree was because of a life-threatening illness, a battle that nearly cost my life,” she said. “I thank God each day for restoring my health. There were so many challenges in between that time, which is what took me so long to graduate. All of them were beyond my control. I was determined to finish what I had started because I just wouldn’t feel good about myself if I hadn’t.” After finishing the coursework for her master’s degree, Rodgers began working on her thesis in 2008. After facing a series of life challenges, Rodgers got back to her research and successfully defended her thesis this month, a project in which she researched methods designed to teach senior citizens computer literacy skills. “I remember when I first started out using a computer, I was actually intimidated by it,” she said. “I didn’t know how to use it, and I faced a lot of anxiety using the computer until I was given more assignments to use the computer instead of a typewriter. That is the main reason I wanted to do that topic.” She is thankful to her thesis advisor, Dr. Karen Kuralt, and her thesis committee, Dr. Allison Holland and Dr. Earnest Cox, for helping her complete this monumental achievement. After graduation, Rodgers wants to use the training manual she created as part of her thesis project to teach older adults at Dunbar Community Center in Little Rock. “A lot of the adults I surveyed mentioned wanting to learn computer technology to pay their bills, keep in touch with their family and friends, and wanted to get better job opportunities,” she said. Now that her school work is finished, Rodgers plans to spend time with her family before embarking on the search for a new job. “I got laid off from ��Vlog��ýMS in February, but it worked out for my good because I was able to go ahead and complete my thesis. I looked at it as a positive,” she said. “I feel like now that I have my master’s degree, I am hoping it will open doors for me to obtain a technical writer or an editor position. Now that my school work and thesis defense is completed, I am planning on relaxing for a little while and enjoying my only granddaughter, Jasmine, who is 2. I spend a lot of time with her. Eventually, I will start looking for an editor or technical writer position.” In the upper right photo,��Vlog��ý Little Rock graduate student Edna Rodgers is surrounded by master’s degree thesis project papers dating back to 1999, the year she started working toward her own master’s degree. Photo by Benjamin Krain.

��Vlog��ý Little Rock ranked top college for affordable online journalism education

Ajani Oyindamola — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 17:29:27 +0000

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock has been ranked among the most affordable colleges in the country offering online degrees in the journalism field.�� ranked ��Vlog��ý Little Rock seventh on its list of the “30 Most Affordable Online Colleges Offering Degrees for Journalism Jobs 2018.” For an affordable $280 per credit hour, hopeful journalists can earn a Bachelor of Arts in applied communication online, which consists of 120 credit hours and teaches students how to analyze messages, develop messages, anticipate communication barriers, accomplish communicative goals, embrace difference, and influence discourse. Students can also complete this degree in an accelerated format with eight-week courses. Another journalism-related option, the Bachelor of Arts in professional and technical writing offers a curriculum that provides practical writing, editing, and document design skills. The program has two concentrations: nonfiction and technical writing. This online bachelor’s degree can earn graduates positions as grant writers, freelance writers, teachers, nonfiction writers, ghostwriters, web developers, and editors. Students also have the option to continue their studies with online master’s degree programs like the Master of Arts in mass communication, which offers a media research option and professional mass media option, or the Master of Arts in professional and technical writing. According to the , the outlook for reporters, correspondents and broadcast news analysts is dim with a 10 percent decline from 2016 to 2026 with almost 5,000 fewer jobs in the market. On the other hand, employment of general media and communication occupations is projected to grow 6 percent during those 10 years, which is about the average growth for all occupations and will result in about 45,300 new jobs. The BLS states, “Demand for media and communication occupations is expected to arise from the need to create, edit, translate, and disseminate information through a variety of different platforms.” The rankings were based on information from the National Center for Education Statistics’ College Navigator Database, the individual school’s website, and additional college resource websites.

- University News Archive - ����Vlog��ý Little Rock

Handcock Wins Phi Kappa Phi Essay Contest

Graduating Student Finds New Career, Love of Writing at ����Vlog��ý Little Rock

����Vlog��ý Little Rock Student Writes Grant to Help Fund Suicide Prevention Programs in Arkansas Jails

Jones to Receive National LULAC Award

����Vlog��ý Little Rock Alum Fulfills Lifelong Dream of Becoming a Writer

First-Generation Student Spotlight: Casey Williams

����Vlog��ý Little Rock student discovers passion for bookbinding

����Vlog��ý Little Rock student learns valuable skills on summer internship found through Handshake

����Vlog��ý Little Rock student’s degree is 20 years in the making

����Vlog��ý Little Rock ranked top college for affordable online journalism education