Publisher ranks UAFS ‘military friendly’
The University of Arkansas at Fort Smith recently received the Military Friendly School designation for 2017 from Victory Media, publisher of the G.I. Jobs and Military Spouse magazines.
Institutions earning the designation were evaluated using responses from a survey by Victory Media and various data such as student retention, graduation, job placement, loan repayment, educational persistence and loan default rates.
The university also offers student services such as the Student Veterans Organization and the Student Veteran Resource Center in the Smith-Pendergraft Campus Center to help veterans navigate their college education.
This is the sixth year UAFS has received the designation.
UA offers women’s leadership program
The University of Arkansas Global Campus and Inseitz Group will offer an 11-week certificate program in spring 2017 to help women develop and strengthen skills important to professional and personal success. The spring session begins Jan. 18.
Twelve women from corporations, businesses and nonprofit organizations, including Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Arvest Bank, and First Security Bank, are participating in the fall session of the Women’s Personal Leadership Effectiveness Program, which ends Wednesday.
Becky Paneitz and Pat Bailey, partners at the Inseitz Group, developed the program. Paneitz is president emeritus of Northwest Arkansas Community College, and Bailey is the provost and vice chancellor emeritus for academic and student affairs at Arkansas State University in Mountain Home.
Participants can register online. The cost is $2,999 for the 11-week program set for Wednesdays from 8:30 a.m. to noon from Jan. 18 through April 5. Classes alternate between in-class meetings at the Global Campus in Rogers, 3300 Market St., and online independent study.
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