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Administrators Explaining Fees

Campus administrators began explaining their student fees to SGA this week. SGA has scheduled a series of meetings with the heads of the 17 departments on campus that charge student fees. Each administrator must explain what the fees are used for and why they are necessary. SGA has the right to ask the Board of [...]

Diversity Committee Completed

The Student Government Association (SGA) announced the six non-SGA members that will be a part of its new Diversity Committee during its weekly meeting last night. The new members complete the committee’s membership. Last April, SGA voted unanimously to create the committee because of concerns that student government wasn’t meeting the needs of nontradition, international and transfer [...]

Remembering Our Slain Students

We will remember the two UCA students killed in a campus shooting three years ago with a candlelight vigil in their honor at 7 p.m. today in the memorial garden outside Arkansas Hall. Ryan Henderson, 18, a freshman from Little Rock, and Chavares Block, 19, a sophomore pre-engineering major from Dermott, were shot to death [...]

SGA: We Want Courtway

The Student Government Association (SGA) voted unanimously yesterday to approve a resolution supporting interim president Tom Courtway as the next president of the university. SGA joined the staff senate and the faculty senate in passing resolutions supporting Courtway as president. Courtway has said that he would consider accepting the job if he had the support of SGA and both senates [...]

Courtway Answers Questions

Interim president Tom Courtway addressed mostly faculty and staff members who packed the Student Center Ballroom at his first monthly “Campus Talk” session yesterday. They questioned him about enrollment, finances, the university’s public image, the search for a new president and the university’s marketing plan. The meeting was open to everyone but only three or [...]

SGA: Justify Student Fees

The Student Government Association (SGA) is asking every department responsible for collecting a student fee to meet with the Student Fee Advisory Committee to explain their fees as part of SGA’s effort to “ensure openness and transparancy in the distribution and spending of student fees by university officials.” Representatives for the departments are to schedule [...]

Who Makes What at UCA?

Ever wonder what that person standing in front of the class is being paid to lecture you? How about the guy who runs this place? We found the answers in the UCA 2009-10 Budget Book in Torreyson Library. The people in Human Resources tell us it is the most current and reliable source of this [...]