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University of Arkansas at Little Rock

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UA Little Rock) is a public research university in Little Rock, Arkansas. Established as Little Rock Junior College by the Little Rock School District in 1927, the institution became a private four-year university under the name Little Rock University in 1957. It returned to public status in 1969 when it merged with the University of Arkansas System under its present name. The former campus of Little Rock Junior College is now (2019) the campus of Philander Smith University.

Former name

Little Rock Junior College (1927–1957)
Little Rock University (1957–1969)[1]

Cultus, Veritas, Scientia

Culture, Truth, Knowledge

1927 (1927)[2]

$80 million (2019)

Christina Drale

Donald R. Bobbitt

471 (full-time)

1,852 (1,465 full-time)

8,197 (Fall 2022)[3]

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United States

Urban

Maroon and silver[4]
   

At 250 acres (100 ha), the UA Little Rock campus encompasses more than 56 buildings, including the Center for Nanotechnology Integrative Sciences, the Emerging Analytics Center, the Sequoyah Research Center, and the Ottenheimer Library[5] Additionally, UA Little Rock houses special learning facilities that include a learning resource center, art galleries, KUAR public radio station,[6] University Television, and a campus-wide wireless network. It is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity".[7]

College of Business, Health, and Human Services

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College of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences, and Education

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Donaghey College of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics

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William H. Bowen School of Law

The university features more than 100 undergraduate degrees[11] and 60 graduate degrees,[12] including graduate certificates, master's degrees, and doctorates, through both traditional and online courses.[13] Students attend classes in one of the university's three new colleges and a law school:[14]

Center for Arkansas History and Culture

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Ottenheimer Library

Center for Arkansas History and Culture

Sequoyah National Research Center

On July 1, 2014, the UA Little Rock Collections and Archives division was created. The division encompasses:

Weekend programs[edit]

The Japanese School of Little Rock (リトルロック日本語補習校 Ritoru Rokku Nihongo Hoshūkō), a weekend Japanese education program, holds its classes at the University Plaza.[23]

(1946) – Actress (film & television)

Julie Adams

also known as "Metal Mike" (B.S. in Accounting) – accountant, singer of the Californian punk band Angry Samoans, and rock critic who is credited with coining the music genre label "heavy metal"

Mike Saunders (musician)

(2017) - Drag Performer & Model (winner of Rupaul's Drag Race Season 13)

Symone

– psychologist

Robert Bradley

Spanish-Venezuelan-American computer engineer, researcher, designer, educator, and pioneer of virtual reality (VR) who is known for inventing the cave automatic virtual environment (CAVE)

Carolina Cruz-Neira

pediatrician, vice admiral in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, and public health administrator who was the second woman, second person of color, and first African American to serve as Surgeon General of the United States (1993–1994)

Joycelyn Elders

civil rights activist

Sara Alderman Murphy

– professor of English literature

Daniel R. Schwarz

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