Stories by Tracie Dungan

  • UA graduation rate falls to 60.1%

    The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville’s latest sixyear graduation rate is 60.1 percent, slightly down from last fall’s record 60.4 percent rate but still …

  • Healing Marine shares challenges

    In the eight years since Cpl. Aaron Mankin lost his face in a roadside-bomb explosion, he’s undergone more than 60 surgeries and hundreds of procedures. But it…

  • UA chooses a new dean of students

    The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville named a new dean of students, in a move that separates the position from its vice provost for student affairs post, …

  • Walton charge dropped

    The closed case file of billionaire Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton’s DWI arrest two years ago in her home state of Texas includes letters from two doctors conte…

  • UA says women, foreign pupils up

    Fall enrollment at the University of Arkansas includes a smaller freshman class than last fall and fewer Arkansans overall, but the Fayetteville campus made ga…

  • UA swaps retiree health-care plan

    The University of Arkansas System is changing the health plan it offers its retired, Medicare-eligible faculty and staff Jan. 1, saying it is trying to avert w…

  • 1,100 lace shoes to fight disease

    Titia Grimsley was among the daughters and granddaughters who honored the memory of Jerry Stark during Saturday’s Walk to End Alzheimer’s at Arvest Ballpark, a…

  • UA: New job to aid response to audit

    The duties of the new in-house financial planner hired at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville will go hand in hand with what the campus plans to do in r…

  • 6 UA projects gain approval of trustees

    The University of Arkansas System’s board of trustees gave its Fayetteville campus the go-ahead Friday on construction-related decisions involving six projects.

  • Fraud line a privacy threat, suspend it, UA auditor says

    The chief auditor for the University of Arkansas System asked the system’s trustees Thursday to consider temporarily suspending the system’s 24-hour Fraud Hotl…

  • UA-unit auditors: Review 3 items

    Legislative auditors have referred three items they found while investigating University of Arkansas at Fayetteville finances to the Washington County prosecut…

  • UA trustees say they need time to digest audit

    A legislative audit concerning deficit spending at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville raises serious concerns, UA trustees and other leaders said Tuesd…

  • Divisions help pay UA unit’s salaries

    The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville’s chief fundraising arm was able to get a half-million dollars’ worth of help with its $13.3 million budget for the …

  • UA sees need for financial planner

    The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville has created a new position for an in-house financial planner to help it proactively prevent the kind of budget crisi…

  • UA chief denies no-talk directive

    The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville’s fired chief spokesman, John Diamond, recalls a day last winter when Chancellor G. David Gearhart summoned him to a…

  • Rues remarks, learned lesson, Wyrick says

    University of Arkansas chief fundraiser Chris Wyrick expressed regrets this week about remarks he made that a fired university spokesman found offensive, and b…

  • UA spokesman fired; boss cites irreparable rift

    The chief spokesman for the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville will lose his job next month, apparently over differences with other administrators regardin…

  • Football players aid cooling research

    Robert Huggins has spent this week suiting up high school football players in Northwest Arkansas with a body-cooling device and GPS monitors as part of his doc…

  • Franklin County shuts down bridge

    Officials in Franklin County shut down their side of the Silver Bridge on Saturday evening because of floodwaters, dispatchers said.

  • India festival breeds cultural unity

    India’s Independence Day drew hundreds of people of Indian descent to a celebration rich in tradition and cultural heritage on Saturday, five days before the o…

  • Lottery scholarships boost UA enrollment

    The first three years of lottery-funded scholarships have helped the growth-driven University of Arkansas expand its undergraduate enrollment, particularly fre…

  • UA taps transfers for math, tech

    After years of emphasis on increasing graduates in science, technology, engineering and math fields, or STEM, the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville is loo…

  • Late UA alumnus’ kin give $1 million

    The family of a Texas alumnus who died in December 2011 is honoring him with a $1 million planned gift to the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, the schoo…

  • Hospital Added To Trauma System

    On its second try, Northwest Medical Center in Springdale passed a site evaluation by state health officials and will join Arkansas’ trauma system as a Level I…

  • UA unit’s budget set at ’13’s outlays

    Administrators at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville said Thursday they’ve balanced the fiscal 2013 budget for the deficit-troubled Advancement Divisio…

  • Budget For UA Division Not Final

    More than three weeks into the new fiscal year, administrators at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville contend they are unable to produce official budget…

  • Ex-fundraiser, UA both waive any right to sue

    Two days after the university announced his successor in February, the former chief fundraiser for the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville agreed not to sue…

  • New chief upends troubled UA unit

    The new chief of the University of Arkansas’ Advancement Division described a staff restructuring for the new fiscal year as something he would have done even …

  • Officials hope rate will lessen

    Officials who work with college students in Arkansas who depend on subsidized Stafford loans said they hope the doubling of the loans’ interest rate last Monda…

  • Health agencies working to train enrollment aids

    As Arkansas begins readying a work force of 537 people to provide one-on-one customer service for residents who will enroll for insurance under the federal hea…

  • Controlled fires help trees thrive

    The science behind the prescribed burning of forestland has advanced significantly in the past decade, forest managers said Saturday afternoon.

  • UA deficit audit nears finish

    Legislative auditors have completed much of the field work on a review of deficit finances at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville’s Division of Advancem…

  • UAFS to increase nursing professors

    A $1 million gift pledge will help the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith tackle a nursing shortage by increasing its nursing professors, officials there ann…

  • Court Decision On Admissions Draws UA’s Eye

    Monday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling regarding affirmative action in university admissions won’t have an immediate effect at the University of Arkansas at Fayett…

  • UAFS pushes plan for master’s degree

    The University of Arkansas at Fort Smith plans to seek permission from the state this week to begin offering its first-ever master’s degree.

  • UA puts parking in hands of group

    The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville will outsource the management of game-day parking in the coming year, but those who attend sporting events on campus…

  • UA officials paying visit to Panama

    A delegation from the University of Arkansas is in Panama this week to strengthen existing academic and cultural exchanges and recruit students.

  • College’s dean exit said tied to raises

    The disagreement between some faculty members and the Fulbright College dean at the University of Arkansas that prompted the dean’s resignation this week cente…

  • Arts, Sciences Dean At UA To Step Down

    The dean of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville’s arts and sciences college tendered her resignation notice Monday, citing a stalemate with leaders of t…

  • UA Arts & Sciences dean resigning

    The dean of the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville’s arts and sciences college plans to resign later this summer, the provost confirmed Monday.

  • Food-allergy syndrome losing some of its mystery

    In his first year of life, Zachariah Summers has spent his share of time in emergency rooms, because of a rare food-allergy disease that is becoming more wellk…

  • Board picks chief for nature center

    A children’s nature center that canceled its summer camps this year because of financial problems will welcome a new leader before its regular program year beg…

  • New survey chief plans on growth

    The next director of the Arkansas Archeological Survey envisions expanding its offerings for amateur archaeologists and public schools, as well as its online c…

  • UA pupils fast-track required course work

    Lauren Taylor spent the last half of May knocking out an elective course in her major, which she needs for her anticipated December graduation from the Univers…

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