At its recent funding meeting, the Arkansas Natural and Cultural Resources Council (ANCRC) awarded the University of Arkansas at Monticello (UAM) two grants totaling $679,326 for the fiscal year 2023. The grants will fund restoration projects on two UAM-owned properties. (more…)

The University of Arkansas at Monticello (UAM) has announced the appointment of Dr. Steven Harper as dean of the UAM School of Arts and Humanities. (more…)

The University of Arkansas at Monticello (UAM) is set to offer the state of Arkansas’s only online Master of Science in nursing (MSN) degree with an emphasis in public health after the Institutional Actions Council of the Higher Learning Commission recently approved the proposed program. (more…)

Montgomery “Monty” Kilcrease was recently awarded a $1000 scholarship from the National Technical Honor Society (NTHS). (more…)

The University of Arkansas at Monticello’s Zeta Chapter of Alpha Chi National Honor Society inducted seventeen new members during a recognition ceremony on UAM’s campus. (more…)

The University of Arkansas at Monticello (UAM) held its spring commencement exercises on Friday, May 13, in the Steelman Field House. Dr. Peggy Doss, chancellor of UAM, recognized graduates completing associate, baccalaureate and master’s degrees during the ceremony. (more…)

The University of Arkansas at Monticello College of Technology-McGehee held its semi-annual allied health commencement ceremony at the Fine Arts Center on the Monticello campus, recently. (more…)

The University of Arkansas at Monticello (UAM) is pleased to announce that the Windgate Foundation has approved a multi-year grant totaling $205,415 for the university. (more…)

(left to right) UAM School of Business students Hope Wells, Caroline Tedder, Anna Wynn, Hannah Taylor-Gresham and David Hunter Selvey recently won statewide academic awards at the 2022 Arkansas FBLA-Phi Beta Lambda State Leadership Conference.

Five University of Arkansas at Monticello (UAM) School of Business students won academic awards in a statewide FBLA-Phi Beta Lambda competition. The competition was held during the 2022 Arkansas FBLA-Phi Beta Lambda State Leadership Conference from March 31 through April 2 in Little Rock, Arkansas.

All five UAM students who competed won awards in their respective events. The students are all majoring in business administration or accounting at UAM. (more…)

Dr. Clinton D. Young, professor of history at the University of Arkansas at Monticello (UAM), has been named dean of the UAM School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, effective May 1, 2022. He has been serving as the dean in an interim capacity since August 2021. (more…)

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The University of Arkansas at Monticello (UAM) Board of Visitors convened for their annual meeting on April 14. During the meeting, Jeff Weaver, vice chancellor for advancement and chief of staff at UAM, unveiled several components of the university’s current marketing and student communication campaign. (more…)

Joy Stringfellow and Anita Shaw of the UAM School of Nursing are both nominated for Arkansas’ 2022 Outstanding Nurse Educator Award.

UAM School of Nursing faculty members Anita Shaw, MSN, RN, and Joy Stringfellow, MS, RN, have been nominated as two of twenty-five nurse educators statewide for the 2022 Outstanding Nurse Educator Award. (more…)

Last week, the University of Arkansas at Monticello received a $50,000 check from Union Bank & Trust Co. for UAM’s Performance Center Campaign (PCC). John McClendon, chairman of Union Bank, and Dave Dickson, president and CEO of Union Bank, presented the check to Dr. Peggy Doss, chancellor of UAM, Hud Jackson, director of athletics and head football coach at UAM, and Garrett May, director of major gifts and university initiatives at UAM, during a presentation on the university’s Monticello campus. (more…)

Johnny Key, commissioner of the Arkansas Department of Education (ADE) announced in an ADE Commissioner’s Memo that the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) has partnered with six universities in Arkansas, including the University of Arkansas at Monticello (UAM), to offer Special Education Resource Teacher Academies. (more…)

On March 18, 2022, Jeff Weaver (UAM vice chancellor for advancement and chief of staff), Rep. Jeff Wardlaw, Dr. Michael Blazier (dean of the UAM College of Forestry, Agriculture & Natural Resources) and Dr. Peggy Doss, (UAM chancellor), toured the renovations in the UAM Agriculture Building on the Monticello campus.

On Friday, March 18, Rep. Jeff Wardlaw, R-Hermitage, visited the University of Arkansas at Monticello (UAM) campus to view progress on renovations to the Agriculture Building, which began in February 2022. (more…)

The University of Arkansas at Monticello replanted it’s 82 acre harvested area of university-owned forest next to the Drew County Fairgrounds. A crew of 10 planted 36,000 seedlings in less than 2 days.  Forest Manager Bobby Webb said the last hand-planted trees on the UAM forest were in 2011. (more…)

Heidi Hogue, associate professor of nursing at the University of Arkansas at Monticello (UAM), has been selected to serve a two-year term as a state consultant on the board of directors of the Arkansas Nursing Students’ Association (ANSA). (more…)