Building is named for Harding’s Burks
SEARCY - Harding University, the state’s largest private university, is naming a building after President David B. Burks.
The University’s American Heritage Center will be named the “David B.
Burks American Heritage Building,” said John O.
Simmons, a Columbia, Tenn., physician and chairman of the Harding University board of trustees.
Burks, the fourth president in Harding’s 89-year history, became president in 1987. He told the board in October 2011 of his intentions to leave the presidency at the end of the 2012-13 school year. At the request of the board, Burks, 70, will become chancellor of the university June 1.
Bruce McLarty, 56, the university’s vice president for spiritual life since 2005 and a 1978 graduate of Harding, will replace Burks as president.
The American Heritage Building is one of the largest buildings on Harding’s campus, housing the university’s dining facilities, a campus hotel, Cone Chapel, a conference center and administrative offices for the president, executive vice president, admissions, financial aid, advancement, public relations, alumni relations and public safety.
HSU’s trustees OK jump in tuition, fee
ARKADELPHIA - Students at Henderson State University will pay more in tuition and mandatory fees for the 2013-14 academic year, beginning with the fall semester.
The hourly rate for an undergraduate course for an Arkansas resident had been $196 per credit hour, which included a $13 per hour athletic fee.
In preparing the budget for the new academic year, HSU officials set the hourly rate of $183 to $191. The athletic fee increased to $15 per hour. HSU’s board of trustees approved the new rates at its May 10 meeting.
Pentagon partners
with UAM for test
MONTICELLO - The University of Arkansas at Monticello has become a partner with the Little Rock Military Entrance Processing Station to begin administering the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery.
Anyone who wants to enlist in the military will be able to take the onlineversion of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery offered through the Department of Defense Internet Computer Adaptive Testing system. UAM is the first educational institution in Arkansas to become a Department of Defense Internet Computer Adaptive Testing system site.
Testing should begin in June with exams offered twice a month, according to Laura Hughes, director of counseling, testing and career services at the school.
The test is part of the application process for the military. The Internet Computer Adaptive Testing system offers applicants who live far from Little Rock the opportunity to take the test closer to their homes.
More information is available from Hughes at (870) 460-1454 or by e-mail at hughesl@uamont.
edu
Northwest Arkansas, Pages 17 on 05/19/2013