U of A Hope-Texarkana

Believe it or not, the school year will be coming to a close before you know it and that means that spring graduations will be here soon!

The 2020 U of A Hope-Texarkana Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year, Melanie Dillard, was recently recognized at the annual Arkansas Community College’s Conference. Dillard has been employed at the College for twelve years and currently serves as an Academic Skills and Math Instructor and as the Distance Learning Coordinator.

U of A Hope- Texarkana has a new interim chancellor. University of Arkansas System President Dr. Donald R. Bobbitt has named Laura Clark interim chancellor of the University of Arkansas Hope-Texarkana (UAHT). Clark, currently the vice chancellor for academic affairs at UAHT, will take over for departing current Chancellor Chris Thomason on July 6.

Attention future 11th and 12th graders in the Texarkana Arkansas area, the University of Arkansas Hope-Texarkana Secondary Career & Technical Education Center offers free college credit to several area high schools in Arkansas in Texarkana and surrounding areas.

The University of Arkansas at Hope-Texarkana announced five Honors Scholarships yesterday. These recipients are graduates from Texas High School and Hope High School, Fouke High School and two from Spring Hill High School.

May is just around the corner, we all know that graduation season should be near, unfortunately with the COVID-19 plans have to be postponed.  The University of Arkansas Hope-Texarkana is trying its best to make sure that this year's graduates will have an official graduation ceremony to go to and walk across the stage to receive their diplomas.

With all the news about COVID-19 it's nice to see some good news. Congratulations to these students for receiving scholarships to the University of Arkansas at Hope-Texarkana.

The University of Arkansas Hope-Texarkana student government association officers have been elected.