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Public university
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A public university is a university that is predominantly funded by public means through a national or subnational government, as opposed to private universities. Whether a national university is considered public varies from one country to another, in Egypt, Al-Azhar University opened in 975 AD as the second oldest university in the world. In Nigeria Public Universities can be established by both the Federal Government and by State Governments, students are enrolled after completing the 8-4-4 system of education and attaining a mark of C+ or above. They are also eligible for a low interest loan from the Higher Education Loan Board and they are expected to pay back the loan after completing higher education. South Africa has 23 public tertiary institutions, either categorised as a traditional university or a comprehensive university. Almost entire national universities in Brunei are public universities and these are major universities in Brunei, University of Brunei Darussalam Brunei Technological University Sultan Sharif Ali Islamic University There are 40 public universities in Bangladesh. The University Grant Commission is the body for all the public universities in Bangladesh. The universities do not deal directly with the government, but with the University Grants Commission, recently many private universities are established under the Private University Act of 1992. In mainland China, nearly all universities and research institutions are public and currently, the public universities are usually run by the provincial governments, there are also circumstances where the municipal governments administer the universities. Some public universities are national, which are administered by the central government. Private undergraduate colleges do exist, which are vocational colleges sponsored by private enterprises. The majority of universities are not entitled to award bachelors degrees. Public universities usually enjoy higher reputation domestically, eight institutions are funded by the University Grants Committee. The Academy for Performing Arts also receives funding from the government, the Open University of Hong Kong is also a public university, but it is largely self-financed. The Shue Yan University is the private institution with the status of a university. There are public and private institutes in Indonesia. The government provide public universities, institutes, high schools and academies in each province, the private educational institution usually provided by religious organizations, public organizations, and some big companies. In India, most universities and nearly all research institutions are public, There are some private undergraduate colleges, mostly engineering schools, but a majority of these are affiliated to public universities
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Cairo University, the prime indigenous model for Egyptian state universities
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Old Merensky Library at
University of Pretoria, South Africa
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Sebelas Maret University, one of Indonesia's prominent public universities.
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Chulalongkorn University main auditorium in Thailand
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Little Rock, Arkansas
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Little Rock is the capital and the most populous city of the U. S. state of Arkansas. It is also the county seat of Pulaski County and it was incorporated on November 7,1831, on the south bank of the Arkansas River close to the geographic center of the state. The city derives its name from a rock formation along the river, the capital of the Arkansas Territory was moved to Little Rock from Arkansas Post in 1821. The citys population was 193,524 at the 2010 census, Little Rock is a cultural, economic, government, and transportation center within Arkansas and the South. Little Rocks history is available through history museums, historic districts or neighborhoods like the Quapaw Quarter, the city is the headquarters of Dillards, Windstream Communications, Acxiom, Stephens Inc. University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Heifer International, the Clinton Foundation, other large corporations, such as Dassault Falcon Jet and LM Wind Power have large operations in the city. State government is an employer, with many offices being located in downtown Little Rock. Two Interstate highways, Interstate 30 and Interstate 40, meet in Little Rock, Little Rock derives its name from a small rock formation on the south bank of the Arkansas River called le petit rocher. The little rock was used by river traffic as a landmark. The little rock is across the river from big rock, a bluff at the edge of the river. Archeological artifacts provide evidence of Native Americans inhabiting Central Arkansas for thousands of years before Europeans arrived, the early inhabitants may have been the Folsom people, Bluff Dwellers, and Mississippian culture peoples who built earthwork mounds recorded in 1541 by Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto. Historical tribes of the area were the Caddo, Quapaw, Osage, Choctaw, Little Rock was named for a stone outcropping on the bank of the Arkansas River used by early travelers as a landmark. Le Petit Rocher, named in 1722 by French explorer and trader Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe, Travelers referred to the area as the Little Rock, and the landmark name stuck. Little Rock is located at 34°44′10″N 92°19′52″W, according to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 116.8 square miles, of which,116.2 square miles of it is land and 0.6 square miles of it is water. Little Rock is located on the bank of the Arkansas River in Central Arkansas. Fourche Creek and Rock Creek run through the city, and flow into the river, the western part of the city is located in the foothills of the Ouachita Mountains. Northwest of the city limits are Pinnacle Mountain and Lake Maumelle, the city of North Little Rock is located just across the river from Little Rock, but it is a separate city. North Little Rock was once the 8th ward of Little Rock, an Arkansas Supreme Court decision on February 6,1904, allowed the ward to merge with the neighboring town of North Little Rock
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Clockwise from top: Little Rock skyline,
William J. Clinton Presidential Library,
War Memorial Stadium, the River Market District, and the
Arkansas State Capitol
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Seal
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The skyline of Little Rock, viewed from the north bank of the
Arkansas River
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Astronaut photograph of Little Rock, Arkansas taken from the International Space Station (ISS)
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Arkansas
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Arkansas is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States. Its name is of Siouan derivation from the language of the Osage denoting their related kin, the states diverse geography ranges from the mountainous regions of the Ozark and the Ouachita Mountains, which make up the U. S. Interior Highlands, to the forested land in the south known as the Arkansas Timberlands, to the eastern lowlands along the Mississippi River. Arkansas is the 29th largest by area and the 33rd most populous of the 50 United States, the capital and most populous city is Little Rock, located in the central portion of the state, a hub for transportation, business, culture, and government. The northwestern corner of the state, such as the Fayetteville–Springdale–Rogers Metropolitan Area and Fort Smith metropolitan area, is a population, education, the largest city in the eastern part of the state is Jonesboro. The largest city in the part of the state is Pine Bluff. The Territory of Arkansas was admitted to the Union as the 25th state on June 15,1836, in 1861 Arkansas withdrew from the United States and joined the Confederate States of America during the Civil War. Upon returning to the Union in 1868, the state would continue to suffer due to its reliance on slavery. White rural interests continued to dominate the politics until the Civil Rights Movement. Arkansas began to diversify its economy following World War II and relies on its service industry, aircraft, poultry, steel, tourism, cotton, and rice. The culture of Arkansas is observable in museums, theaters, novels, television shows, restaurants, wright, and physicist William L. McMillan, who was a pioneer in superconductor research, have all lived in Arkansas. The name Arkansas derives from the root as the name for the state of Kansas. The Kansa tribe of Native Americans are closely associated with the Sioux tribes of the Great Plains, the word Arkansas itself is a French pronunciation of a Quapaw word, akakaze, meaning land of downriver people or the Sioux word akakaze meaning people of the south wind. In 2007, the legislature passed a non-binding resolution declaring the possessive form of the states name to be Arkansass which has been followed increasingly by the state government. Arkansas borders Louisiana to the south, Texas to the southwest, Oklahoma to the west, Missouri to the north, as well as Tennessee, the United States Census Bureau classifies Arkansas as a southern state, sub-categorized among the West South Central States. The state line along the Mississippi River is indeterminate along much of the border with Mississippi due to these changes. Arkansas can generally be split into two halves, the highlands in the northwest half and the lowlands of the southeastern half, the highlands are part of the Southern Interior Highlands, including The Ozarks and the Ouachita Mountains. The southern lowlands include the Gulf Coastal Plain and the Arkansas Delta and this dual split can yield to general regions named northwest, southwest, northeast, southeast, or central Arkansas
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View from the
Ozark Highlands Scenic Byway in
Boxley Valley
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The Ozarks: bend in the Buffalo River from an overlook on the Buffalo River Trail near Steel Creek
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The flat terrain and rich soils of the Arkansas Delta near
Arkansas City are in stark contrast to the northwestern part of the state.
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Little Rock Trojans
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The Little Rock Trojans is the name of the athletic teams representing the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. The Trojans are a member of the Sun Belt Conference. The University offers 6 mens and 8 womens varsity sports, for the 2005–06 basketball season, the Trojans moved into the $25 million Jack Stephens Center. This new facility almost doubled the capacity of the old Little Rock gym. On July 1,2015, the Trojans officially announced they would no longer be branded as Arkansas–Little Rock or UALR, however, during the six-year coaching tenure of Mike Newell, the Trojans made a big splash on the national stage. The Trojans lost in the round to North Carolina State,80 to 66 in two overtimes. The 1986 NCAA Tournament success led to appearances for the Trojans in each of the next four seasons. In 1987, Little Rock beat Baylor, Stephen F. Austin, the Trojans lost to both LaSalle and Nebraska to finish fourth. The next season, Little Rock lost to Louisiana Tech in the first round of the NIT, the Trojans returned to the NCAA tournament in 1989 and 1990, losing to Louisville 76–71 in 1989 and to eventual tournament champion UNLV 102–72 the next season. The Trojans played in the 2011 NCAA Tournament after winning the Sun Belt Conference Tournament championship, the womens team has also had its fair share of success since beginning play in 1969 and joining Division I in 1999. Little Rock plays its games in the Jack Stephens Center. Prior to this home, the Trojans played at Alltel Arena in North Little Rock, previous to that, Little Rocks home games were played in Barton Coliseum on the Arkansas State Fairgrounds in Little Rock. Though the football program has long since disbanded, the Trojans were a national powerhouse when the school was known as Little Rock Junior College. Coach Jimmy Karam revived a program in 1947 that hadnt played football since 1933, the team won the 1947 Coffee Bowl 31–7 against Coffeyville Junior College and played in the 1948 Junior Sugar Bowl, losing 18–7 to South Georgia. In 1949, the team went undefeated and won the Junior Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, defeating Santa Ana Junior College 25–19 and earned the junior college national championship. The LRJC team had played their way to the Junior Rose Bowl by winning the Little Rock Shrine Bowl for the right to meet the California junior college champion
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Little Rock Trojans
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NCAA Division I
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Division I is the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association in the United States. This level was called the University Division of the NCAA, in contrast to the lower level College Division. For football only, Division I was further subdivided in 1978 into Division I-A, Division I-AA, in 2006, Division I-A and I-AA were renamed Football Bowl Subdivision and Football Championship Subdivision, respectively. FCS teams are allowed to award scholarships, a practice technically allowed. FBS teams also have to meet attendance requirements, while FCS teams do not need to meet minimum attendance requirements. Another difference is post season play, starting with the 2014 postseason, a four-team playoff called the College Football Playoff, replaced the previous one game championship format. Even so, Division I FBS football is still the only NCAA sport in which a champion is not determined by an NCAA-sanctioned championship event. All D-I schools must field teams in at least seven sports for men and seven for women or six for men and eight for women, with at least two team sports for each gender. Division I schools must meet minimum financial aid awards for their athletics program, Several other NCAA sanctioned minimums and differences that distinguish Division I from Divisions II and III. Each playing season has to be represented by each gender as well, there are contest and participant minimums for each sport, as well as scheduling criteria. Mens and womens teams have to play all but two games against Division I teams, for men, they must play one-third of all their contests in the home arena. The NCAA has limits on the financial aid each Division I member may award in each sport that the school sponsors. Equivalency sports, in which the NCAA limits the total financial aid that a school can offer in a sport to the equivalent of a set number of full scholarships. Roster limitations may or may not apply, depending on the sport, the term counter is also key to this concept. The NCAA defines a counter as an individual who is receiving financial aid that is countable against the aid limitations in a sport. The number of scholarships that Division I members may award in sport is listed below. In this table, scholarship numbers for head-count sports are indicated without a point, for equivalency sports, they are listed with a decimal point. An exception exists for players at non-scholarship FCS programs who receive aid in another sport, participants in basketball are counted in that sport, unless they also play football
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Main logo used by the NCAA in Divisions I, II, and III.
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Sun Belt Conference
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The Sun Belt Conference is a collegiate athletic conference that has been affiliated with the NCAAs Division I since 1976. Originally a non-football conference, the Sun Belt began sponsoring football in 2001 and its football teams participate in the Division I Football Bowl Subdivision. The 12 member institutions of the Sun Belt are distributed primarily across the southern United States, over the next ten years the conference would add Western Kentucky University, Old Dominion University, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and Virginia Commonwealth University. New Orleans was forced out of the league in 1980 due to its small on-campus gymnasium that the Conference did not deem suitable for Conference competition, UNO competed as an independent before joining the newly formed American South Conference in 1987. After the 1990-91 basketball season, all members of the Sun Belt, except Western Kentucky, South Alabama, although the American South was the larger conference, the merged league retained the Sun Belt name. Central Florida left the following the 1991-92 academic year. Lamar, Texas–Pan American, and Jacksonville departed at the end of the 1997-98 academic year, Florida International University joined the Sun Belt in 1998, and the University of Denver was added in 1999. Louisiana Tech departed after the 2000-01 academic year and these new members gave the Sun Belt seven football playing members in their first season, as Arkansas State and Louisiana–Lafayette were already full members which sponsored football. Another Big West school, Utah State University, was added as a member in 2003, then departed in 2005 with Idaho. In 2004, Troy University became a member until the Trojans joined the conference in all sports. In 2005, Florida Atlantic became a member until the Owls joined the conference in all sports. In 2006, Louisiana–Monroe joined the conference as a full member when the Warhawks left their former home. Longtime Sun Belt member Western Kentucky joined the Sun Belts football conference in 2009 after its Board of Regents voted to upgrade the schools program to Division I FBS. On November 11,2009, New Orleans announced they were investigating a move from Division I to the NCAAs Division III, in order to maintain athletic scholarships, UNO instead opted for entry into Division II. On April 20,2011, UNO officially received approval from the NCAA Division II Membership Committee. On April 9,2012, Georgia State, one of the members of the Sun Belt Conference. On May 2,2012, Texas State University announced it would leave the WAC after just one year, at the press conference to announce Texas States addition, Sun Belt Commissioner Karl Benson also hinted that more changes could be on the way for the conference. On May 25,2012, the announced that the University of Texas at Arlington had accepted an invitation to join the conference
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Locations of Sun Belt Conference full member institutions
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Sun Belt Conference (Sun Belt)
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Little Rock School District
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The Little Rock School District is a school district in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States. It is one of three school districts in Pulaski County and encompasses 97.60 square miles of land nearly coterminous with the states capital. As of the 2009-2010 school year, the district includes 50 schools, on January 28,2015 the State Board of Education met for more than five hours before voting 5-4 to immediately take over the Little Rock School District. As part of the takeover, Superintendent Dexter Suggs was allowed to remain in his position on an interim basis, fair High School and McClellan Magnet High School. The State Board of Education made this announcement in July 2014, in October of the same year, the Special Committee on Academic Distress met with the Little Rock School District administration. On January 7,2015 the Little Rock School District administration, on January 8,2015 the State Board of Education voted to hold a special State Board Meeting on January 28. After numerous actions were satisfied, including incorpating those schools within the City of Little Rock boundaries to be unitary with the LRSD and those actions led to the annexation of J. A. Fair High School from PCSSD to LRSD in 1987, in 2007, the courts determined that all actions by LRSD were completed and that court supervision continues until NLRSD and PCSSD actions are completed. The following high schools offer education programs with interscholastic activities. Attendance in zoned schools are based on the residence, while inter-district schools are able to select students from within Pulaski Countys three public school districts. Adult Education Center Accelerated Learning Center Metropolitan Career-Technical Center W. D. Dodd Elementary School Don R. Martin Luther King and it was named to honor Winthrop Rockefeller, Governor of Arkansas from 1967 to 1971. Rockefeller was built to two existing schools. One of them, the Parham School, was in the path of the proposed Interstate 630, so much of the funding for its replacement came from the state highway. The new school was bid at $2.3 million, with the prospect of a beautiful new school, the Little Rock School District decided also to close the Kramer School on Sherman Street. The center, often referred to as The Kramer Project, began in 1969, the decision was made to move the center to the new school. The Rockefeller Early Childhood Program provides educational experiences and child care for aged six weeks to three years. It was developed to determine the effects of a high-quality education coupled with a childcare program on children who were from six months of age through the sixth grade in school. Rockefeller opened to early childhood and intermediate students in August 1979 with an enrollment of 563 and it became a full elementary school and center for early childhood education in 1987
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Little Rock School District Buses outside Central High School
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President
Bill Clinton led celebrations of the 40th anniversary of desegregation at
Little Rock Central High School.
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Dunbar Magnet Middle School
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College and university rankings
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College and university rankings are rankings of institutions in higher education ordered by various combinations of various factors. Rankings have most often conducted by magazines, newspapers, websites, governments. In addition to ranking entire institutions, organizations perform rankings of specific programs, departments, various rankings mostly evaluating on institutional output by research. Some rankings evaluate institutions within a country, while others assess institutions worldwide. The subject has produced much debate about rankings usefulness and accuracy, the expanding diversity in rating methodologies and accompanying criticisms of each indicate the lack of consensus in the field. The variety of academic rankings provide an overview and insightful overlook of different academic institutions on composite capabilities in academia. For rankings of United States universities in particular, see Rankings of universities in the United States, several organizations produce worldwide university rankings, including the following. The ranking is funded by the Chinese government and its purpose was to measure the gap between Chinese and world class universities. In the 2015 Academic Ranking of World Universities there are no Chinese universities in the first 100 of 500 places, ARWU rankings have been cited by The Economist magazine. It has been lauded for being consistent and transparent based on an article, the education ministers of France, Norway and Denmark traveled to China to discuss and find ways to improve their rankings. ARWU does not rely on surveys and school submissions, among other criteria, ARWU includes the number of articles published by Nature or Science and the number of Nobel Prize winners and Fields Medalists. Harvard has topped the ranking for years, one of the primary criticisms of ARWUs methodology is that it is biased towards the natural sciences and English language science journals over other subjects. Along with QS World University Rankings and THE World University Rankings and this Saudi Arabia-based consulting organization has published yearly rankings of world universities since 2012. This university ranking is owned by the French consulting company and rating agency SMBG and it ranks masters and MBA in its 9 geographical regions. G-factor ranks university and college web presence by counting the number of only from other university websites. G-factor is an indicator of the popularity or importance of each universitys website from the perspectives of other institutions. The annual U. S. News Best Global Universities rankings were produced to provide insight into how universities compare globally. The Best Global Universities rankings also provide insight into how U. S. universities – which U. S. News has been ranking separately for more than 30 years – stand globally
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Top 40 "National Universities" according to U.S. News & World Report, 2007
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Washington Monthly
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Washington Monthly is a bimonthly nonprofit magazine of United States politics and government that is based in Washington, D. C. The magazine is known for its ranking of American colleges and universities. The magazines founder is Charles Peters, who started the magazine in 1969, paul Glastris, former speechwriter for Bill Clinton, has been Washington Monthlys editor-in-chief since 2001. In 2008, the magazine switched from a monthly to a publication schedule. Diane Straus Tucker is the current publisher. In 2008, the watchdog and advocacy group Common Cause considered acquiring Washington Monthly. The politics of Washington Monthly are often considered center-left, founder Charles Peters refers to himself as a New Deal Democrat and advocates the use of government to address social problems. His columns also frequently emphasized the importance of a vigilant fourth estate in keeping government honest, in 2008, Steve Benen took over as lead blogger, in 2012, he was succeeded by Ed Kilgore. Kilgore left the magazine in 2015 and it was introduced as an official set of rankings in the September 2006 issue. Its National Universities Rankings, most recently published in 2016, began as a report in 2005. It ranks colleges on numerous metrics revolving around academic quality, faculty, the following are elements in the Washington Monthly rankings. Washington Monthly website Washington Monthly National College Rankings Last Call for the Washington Monthly, New York Review of Magazines, May 2008
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Washington Monthly
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William H. Bowen School of Law
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The William H. Bowen School of Law is a public law school and part of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. UALR Bowen School of Law is both American Bar Association accredited and a member of the Association of American Law Schools, the school distinctly maintains highly competitive admissions standards. The school awards the Juris Doctor degree in its full-time and part-time programs, the school follows a traditional doctrinal curriculum while also blending hands-on practice into the student experience. Bowens legal writing program was ranked as a tie with the University of Michigan, the first law school established in Arkansas was in Little Rock. However, politics caused the faculty to reform themselves as a private law school in the 1910s. Subsequently, the law school in Fayetteville was established. The private law school disbanded in the 1960s, the school resided in various locations, primarily the old Federal Courthouse in downtown Little Rock. The building was adjacent to the Pulaski County Courthouse, which afforded students the chance to see law in action, however, the facility was plagued with poor parking and was insufficient to handle the growing student population. The law schools current campus is located adjacent to MacArthur Park, the historic building was originally built for the medical school of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and was extensively renovated in 1992 for the law school. The law school is named after William H. Bowen, a former dean, and important figure in the administration of former Arkansas Governor and 43rd President of the United States, Bill Clinton. The Bowen School of Law offers the following concentrations, A law firm inside the law school, the Legal Clinic enables students to work with real clients, the community. It is just minutes from Arkansass largest law firms, corporations, state and federal courts, the school is unique in that it is home to the Pulaski County Law Library, making it the only metropolitan law school library that is also the library for a county. The law school is housed separately from the campus of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Part-Time Tuition for residents is $9,674 and non-residents is $19,032, the law school offers scholarships up to full tuition. According to UALRs official 2013 ABA-required disclosures, 51% of the Class of 2013 obtained full-time, long-term, the law school has over forty five student organizations, most of which are very active on campus and within the community. There are plans to new chapters of The Finch Society in other law schools
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William H. Bowen School of Law of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock
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Intramural sports
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Intramural sports or intramurals are recreational sports organized within a particular institution, usually an educational institution, or a set geographic area. The term dates to the 1840s and it is contrasted with extramural, varsity or intercollegiate sports, which are played between teams from different educational institutions. The word intermural, which also correctly means between institutions, is an error for intramural. The first intramural sports departments were established at Ohio State University, mitchell later authored Intramural Athletics, and Intramural Sports. He co-authored Intramural Sports with Pat Mueller, today, intramural tournaments are still organized within a specific community or municipal area, between teams of equivalent age or athletic ability. For example, intramural programs are often organized on college campuses to promote competition and fun among the students. For most schools and campuses, intramural sports are used to promote wellness, the Canadian Intramural Recreation Association organized intramurals within Canada from 1976-2002. CIRA Ontario has been the major organization in the Canadian province of Ontario since 1969. They fulfill their mandate through resources, workshops, conferences, newsletters, awards, and other means
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Elmer D. Mitchell, University of Michigan Director of Intramural Athletics, 1919
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Missouri Valley Conference
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The Missouri Valley Conference is the second-oldest collegiate athletic conference in the United States. Currently, its members are located in the midwestern United States, the conference participates in the NCAAs Division I. The MVC was founded in 1907 as the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association,12 years after the Big Ten, however, some consider the MVC to have been formed from a split of the MVIAA in 1928. Most of the schools formed a conference that retained the MVIAA name. The smaller schools, plus Oklahoma A&M, formed the MVC, during the Big Eights existence, both conferences claimed 1907 as their founding date, as well as the same history through 1927. During the 2006–07 college basketball season, MVC teams held a 74–27 non-conference record, including a record of 44–1 at home. The Valley finished in the top six of the RPI and ahead of a BCS conference for the second year, while also garnering multiple NCAA bids for the ninth straight year. The MVC has not sponsored football since 1985, when it was a hybrid I-A/I-AA, however, five members have football programs in the Missouri Valley Football Conference of Division I FCS, and a sixth competes in another FCS conference, the Pioneer Football League. The Missouri Valley Conference shares its name with the Missouri Valley Football Conference, however, the two are separate administratively. It has been reported that Wichita State will likely be leaving the conference to join the American Athletic Conference as soon as 2017–18 season, Bradley returned to the MVC for non-football sports in the 1955–56 school year, with Drake doing the same a year later. However, Bradley never returned to MVC football, dropping the sport in 1970, note, In the case of spring sports, the year of joining is the calendar year before the start of competition. Notes Notes Full members Assoc. members Assoc. member C. E. McClung Arthur E. Eilers Norvell Neve DeWitt T. Weaver Mickey Holmes David Price Richard D. Martin James A. Haney Doug Elgin The Missouri Valley Conference sponsors championship competition in eight mens, Central Arkansas and SIU Edwardsville are Affiliate members for mens soccer, Dallas Baptist is an Affiliate member for baseball, and Little Rock is an Affiliate member for swimming and diving. * = Baseball associate Dallas Baptist ** = Soccer associates Central Arkansas and SIU Edwardsville *** = Tennis associates Stony Brook, mens varsity sports not sponsored by the Missouri Valley Conference which are played by Valley schools, * = Affiliate Little Rock. † = To be added in 2017–18, NB, Missouri State was known as Southwest Missouri State until August 2005. One member sold out every game for the 2006–07 season. In 2010–11, 2011–12, and 2012–13, the Valley maintained its position as the eighth ranked conference in average attendance. The Valley made history in March 2007 with record attendance for four days at St. Louis Scottrade Center as 85,074 fans turned out to watch the five sessions of the tournament, Missouri Valley Conference Hall of Fame Official website
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Missouri Valley Conference (MVC)
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Democratic Party (United States)
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The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The Democrats dominant worldview was once socially conservative and fiscally classical liberalism, while, especially in the rural South, since Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal coalition in the 1930s, the Democratic Party has also promoted a social-liberal platform, supporting social justice. Today, the House Democratic caucus is composed mostly of progressives and centrists, the partys philosophy of modern liberalism advocates social and economic equality, along with the welfare state. It seeks to provide government intervention and regulation in the economy, the party has united with smaller left-wing regional parties throughout the country, such as the Farmer–Labor Party in Minnesota and the Nonpartisan League in North Dakota. Well into the 20th century, the party had conservative pro-business, the New Deal Coalition of 1932–1964 attracted strong support from voters of recent European extraction—many of whom were Catholics based in the cities. After Franklin D. Roosevelts New Deal of the 1930s, the pro-business wing withered outside the South, after the racial turmoil of the 1960s, most southern whites and many northern Catholics moved into the Republican Party at the presidential level. The once-powerful labor union element became smaller and less supportive after the 1970s, white Evangelicals and Southerners became heavily Republican at the state and local level in the 1990s. However, African Americans became a major Democratic element after 1964, after 2000, Hispanic and Latino Americans, Asian Americans, the LGBT community, single women and professional women moved towards the party as well. The Northeast and the West Coast became Democratic strongholds by 1990 after the Republicans stopped appealing to socially liberal voters there, overall, the Democratic Party has retained a membership lead over its major rival the Republican Party. The most recent was the 44th president Barack Obama, who held the office from 2009 to 2017, in the 115th Congress, following the 2016 elections, Democrats are the opposition party, holding a minority of seats in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. The party also holds a minority of governorships, and state legislatures, though they do control the mayoralty of cities such as New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, and Washington, D. C. The Democratic Party traces its origins to the inspiration of the Democratic-Republican Party, founded by Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and that party also inspired the Whigs and modern Republicans. Organizationally, the modern Democratic Party truly arose in the 1830s, since the nomination of William Jennings Bryan in 1896, the party has generally positioned itself to the left of the Republican Party on economic issues. They have been liberal on civil rights issues since 1948. On foreign policy both parties changed position several times and that party, the Democratic-Republican Party, came to power in the election of 1800. After the War of 1812 the Federalists virtually disappeared and the national political party left was the Democratic-Republicans. The Democratic-Republican party still had its own factions, however. As Norton explains the transformation in 1828, Jacksonians believed the peoples will had finally prevailed, through a lavishly financed coalition of state parties, political leaders, and newspaper editors, a popular movement had elected the president
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Andrew Jackson was the first Democratic
President of the United States
Democratic Party (United States)
Democratic Party (United States)
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The three leaders of the Democratic party during the first half of the 20th century: President
Woodrow Wilson (nominated in 1912 and '16) Sec. of State
William J. Bryan (nominated in 1896, 1900 and 1908),
Josephus Daniels,
Breckinridge Long,
William Phillips, and
Franklin D. Roosevelt (nominated for VP in 1920 and for president in 1932, 36,'40 and 44)
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John F. Kennedy,
35th President of the United States (1961–1963)
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Arkansas House of Representatives
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The Arkansas House of Representatives is the lower house of the Arkansas General Assembly, the state legislature of the US state of Arkansas. The House is composed of 100 members elected from an amount of constituencies across the state. Each district has an population of 29,159 according to the 2010 federal census. Members are elected to terms and, since the 2014 Amendment to the Arkansas Constitution. The Arkansas House of Representatives meets annually, in session in odd number years and for a fiscal session in even number years. The Speaker of the House presides over the body and is elected by the membership every two years, in the Speakers absence, the Speaker Pro Tempore presides. Standing Committee chairmen and vice-chairmen are selected from respective committee rosters by the Speaker, two Select Committees operate exclusively within the House. Members of the committees are appointed by the Speaker, the House Select Committees are the House Committee on Rules and the House Management Committee. The Committee on Rules considers all proposed action touching the House rules, the joint rules, the House Management Committee works with the Speaker of the House to direct and oversee operations of the House of Representatives. Its duties include the hiring and supervision of the House Staff, the development of policies and procedures. Representatives also serve on five committees that operate jointly with the Senate, House members on other Joint Committees are appointed to their positions by the Speaker. John Wilson, the speaker of the Arkansas House of Representatives, the Old State House is said to be haunted to this day. In 1922, Frances Hunt became the first woman elected to a seat in the Arkansas General Assembly when she was elected to a seat in the Arkansas House of Representatives
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Arkansas House of Representatives
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Lonoke, Arkansas
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Lonoke is the second most populous city in Lonoke County, Arkansas, United States, and serves as its county seat. According to 2010 United States Census, the population of the city is 4,245 and it is part of the Little Rock–North Little Rock–Conway Metropolitan Statistical Area. Lonokes history begins with the advance of Union troops through Central Arkansas during the American Civil War, the town of Brownsville was burned to the ground by Union forces after the retreat of Confederate forces westward to Little Rock. After the war, it was decided by the city leaders of Brownsville that a new town should be formed by the railroad so that those who wished to stay could do so. According to local legend, the town was named for a red oak tree that was found while trees were being chopped down in order to build houses. The official name of the city was originally Lone Oak, however, due to a misprint in the Lonoke Democrat newspaper, the towns name was printed as Lonoak. Eventually, this became further misspelled as Lonoke. The town of Lonoke was very slow to grow, Lonoke maintained a sustainable population through the support of its agricultural based economy until World War II. Because of the boom, Lonokes population began to reach higher numbers. Furthermore, Lonoke became a sort of area of Little Rock due to the implementation of the Interstate Highway System. In recent years, the population of Lonoke has remained in the area of about 4,000 people, as the Little Rock metropolitan area continues to grow, Lonokes population is expected to grow as well as Lonoke is becoming more suitable as a suburban area. Lonoke is in central Lonoke County, located at 34°47′3″N 91°54′3″W. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 4.6 square miles. Lonoke is governed by a form of city government, in which a mayor, other city administrators. The city is divided into eight districts, each represented on the council by an alderman, in addition to the mayor, the citys clerk, treasurer, attorney and district judge are also popularly elected. The city of Lonoke lacks post secondary institutions due to its small population, however, Lonoke does feature a public school district that includes a primary, elementary, middle, and. According to the National Institute for Higher Education, Lonoke High School has an average ACT score of 22, however, over 89% of the graduating class of high school from 1987 to 2007 has been accepted to an institution of higher education. Of those 89%, approximately 45% have attended Arkansas State University Beebe, the school has served Lonoke and surrounding areas since 1972, its main campus in downtown Lonoke was built in 1991
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Republican Party (United States)
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The Republican Party, commonly referred to as the GOP, is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, the other being its historic rival, the Democratic Party. The party is named after republicanism, the dominant value during the American Revolution, there have been 19 Republican presidents, the most from any one party. The Republican Partys current ideology is American conservatism, which contrasts with the Democrats more progressive platform, further, its platform involves support for free market capitalism, free enterprise, fiscal conservatism, a strong national defense, deregulation, and restrictions on labor unions. In addition to advocating for economic policies, the Republican Party is socially conservative. As of 2017, the GOP is documented as being at its strongest position politically since 1928, in addition to holding the Presidency, the Republicans control the 115th United States Congress, having majorities in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. The party also holds a majority of governorships and state legislatures, the main cause was opposition to the Kansas–Nebraska Act, which repealed the Missouri Compromise by which slavery was kept out of Kansas. The Northern Republicans saw the expansion of slavery as a great evil, the first public meeting of the general anti-Nebraska movement where the name Republican was suggested for a new anti-slavery party was held on March 20,1854, in a schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin. The name was chosen to pay homage to Thomas Jeffersons Republican Party. The first official party convention was held on July 6,1854, in Jackson and it oversaw the preserving of the union, the end of slavery, and the provision of equal rights to all men in the American Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861–1877. The Republicans initial base was in the Northeast and the upper Midwest, with the realignment of parties and voters in the Third Party System, the strong run of John C. Fremont in the 1856 United States presidential election demonstrated it dominated most northern states, early Republican ideology was reflected in the 1856 slogan free labor, free land, free men, which had been coined by Salmon P. Chase, a Senator from Ohio. Free labor referred to the Republican opposition to labor and belief in independent artisans. Free land referred to Republican opposition to the system whereby slaveowners could buy up all the good farm land. The Party strove to contain the expansion of slavery, which would cause the collapse of the slave power, Lincoln, representing the fast-growing western states, won the Republican nomination in 1860 and subsequently won the presidency. The party took on the mission of preserving the Union, and destroying slavery during the American Civil War, in the election of 1864, it united with War Democrats to nominate Lincoln on the National Union Party ticket. The partys success created factionalism within the party in the 1870s and those who felt that Reconstruction had been accomplished and was continued mostly to promote the large-scale corruption tolerated by President Ulysses S. Grant ran Horace Greeley for the presidency. The Stalwarts defended Grant and the system, the Half-Breeds led by Chester A. Arthur pushed for reform of the civil service in 1883. The Republicans supported the pietistic Protestants who demanded Prohibition, nevertheless, by 1890 the Republicans had agreed to the Sherman Antitrust Act and the Interstate Commerce Commission in response to complaints from owners of small businesses and farmers
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Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican U.S. President (1861–1865).
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Theodore Roosevelt,
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Richard Nixon,
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Justice of the peace
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A justice of the peace is a judicial officer, of a lower or puisne court, elected or appointed by means of a commission to keep the peace. In past centuries the term commissioner of the peace was used with the same meaning. Depending on the jurisdiction, such justices dispense summary justice or merely deal with local administrative applications in common law jurisdictions, some jurisdictions have varying forms of training for JPs. In 1195, Richard I of England and his Minister Hubert Walter commissioned certain knights to preserve the peace in unruly areas and they were responsible to the King for ensuring that the law was upheld and preserving the Kings peace. Therefore, they were known as keepers of the peace, the title justice of the peace derives from 1361, in the reign of Edward III. The peace to be guarded is the sovereigns, the maintenance of which is the duty of the Crown under the royal prerogative, Justices of the peace still use the power conferred or re-conferred on them since 1361 to bind over unruly persons to be of good behaviour. The bind over is not a punishment, but a preventive measure, the justices alternative title of magistrate dates from the 16th century, although the word had been in use centuries earlier to describe some legal officials of Roman times. Being an unpaid office, undertaken voluntarily and sometimes more for the sake of renown or to confirm the justices standing within the community, the justices of the peace conducted arraignments in all criminal cases, and tried misdemeanours and infractions of local ordinances and bylaws. The Municipal Corporations Act 1835 stripped the power to appoint normal JPs from those municipal corporations that had it and this was replaced by the present system, where the Lord Chancellor nominates candidates with local advice, for appointment by the Crown. Until the introduction of elected county councils in the 19th century, JPs, in quarter sessions, also administered the county at a local level. Women were not allowed to become JPs in the United Kingdom until 1919, the first woman being Ada Summers, the Mayor of Stalybridge, emily Murphy of Edmonton, Canada, preceded her by some three and a half years. Now in the UK, 50% of JPs are women, in special circumstances, a justice of the peace can be the highest governmental representative, so in fact gubernatorial, in a colonial entity. This was the case in the Tati Concessions Land, a concession in the Matabele kingdom. Criteria for appointment vary widely, depending on the state, for example, in Queensland, a justice of the peace must complete an exam prior to being eligible for appointment, whereas in Victoria, a person need only prove good character by way of references. Generally speaking, a justice of the peace cannot act in relation to a document which is to be used in a foreign country. One exception to this, however, is that countries in the Commonwealth frequently accept documents so certified, documents which are to be used in a foreign country that does not provide for a foreign JP to witness them should be dealt with by a notary public. This is the same for all countries where the office of justice of the peace exists, notaries public are often solicitors or barristers, and the best way to locate one is to contact your local law society. Some justices are appointed as justice of the peace, usually in remote aboriginal communities, in Queensland, a lawyer may be appointed as a Justice of the Peace without further education or qualification and has the full powers of a JP
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Charlie Daniels (politician)
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Charlie Daniels is an American Democratic Party politician from Arkansas. He was the State Auditor of Arkansas from 2011 to 2015 and previously served as Arkansas Secretary of State, charlie Daniels was born in the Union County, Arkansas community of Parkers Chapel, and grew up in El Dorado, Arkansas. He served in the United States Air Force and the Air Force Reserves, Daniels attended Southern Arkansas University, and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He began his career as a member of the Parkers Chapel school board from 1972 to 1974. From 1974 to 1980, he served as Director of the Arkansas Department of Labor in the Cabinet of Governor David Pryor until 1979 and he served as director of government affairs for the Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation from 1980 to 1984. In 1984, he was elected as Arkansas Commissioner of State Lands, and was subsequently re-elected to four-year terms in 1986,1990,1994, and 1998. He was elected as the 32nd Arkansas Secretary of State in 2002, defeating the Republican Party nominee, Janet Huckabee, the wife of then-Governor Mike Huckabee, in 2010 he ran for State Auditor, opposed only by Green Party candidate Mary Hughes-Willis. He won the election and took office in January 2011, Daniels announced in 2013 that he would not seek re-election in the 2014 elections. Hoping to succeed him were Republican State Representative Andrea Lea, Democrat Regina Stewart Hampton, Lea won the election and took office as the next Auditor in January 2015. A widower, he was married to Patricia Ann Burleson Daniels for 46 years and he has two children, four grandsons, two granddaughters and one great-grandson. Arkansas State Auditor Biography Project Vote Smart Profile
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UAMS Medical Center
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UAMS Medical Center is a teaching hospital and a Level I trauma center located in Little Rock, Arkansas. UAMS Medical Center is affiliated with UAMS College of Medicine, which is part of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, UAMS Medical Center has been ranked as one of Americas Best Hospitals by US News & World Report 13 consecutive times. In 2011, UAMS Medical Center was awarded and named the Top Hospital out of 23 in the Little Rock Metropolitan Area by U. S. News & World Report. It is also recognized as a high performing hospital in the areas of Cancer, Ear, Nose and Throat, Gynecology, the UAMS campus facilities have undergone massive renovations and expansions in the past decades. The campus currently spans a total of 84 acres, covers over 25 buildings, although UAMS Medical Center was founded in 1879, no patients were admitted or treated at the facility until 1892. What started as a free clinic later evolved into an entity known only as City Hospital when UAMS moved their campus just outside downtown Little Rock in 1935 and that facility is now home to the William H. Bowen School of Law. UAMS and the City Hospital remained at location until 1956. That 40 acre site was deeded to the university by the Arkansas State Hospital, the campus saw extensive growth in the early 1960s to the late 1990s. UAMS began another large campus expansion in phases from 2001 to 2011, Arkansas Childrens Hospital John L. McClellan Memorial Veterans Hospital
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Real estate developer
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Real estate developers are the people and companies who coordinate all of these activities, converting ideas from paper to real property. Real estate development is different from construction, although many developers also manage the construction process, developers buy land, finance real estate deals, build or have builders build projects, create, imagine, control and orchestrate the process of development from the beginning to end. Developers usually take the greatest risk in the creation or renovation of real estate—and receive the greatest rewards, sometimes property developers will only undertake part of the process. For example, some developers source a property and get the plans and permits approved before selling the property with the plans and permits to a builder at a premium price. Developers work with different counterparts along each step of this process, including architects, city planners, engineers, surveyors, inspectors, contractors, lawyers, leasing agents. In the Town and Country Planning context in the United Kingdom, development is defined in the Town, there is no specific credential required, nor license necessary, for a person or company to call himself a real estate developer. A real estate developer is not a designation, there are no schools or associations who recognize or protect the term as a trademark. Some real estate developers, often involved in marketing properties through traditional real estate channels. Licensed contractors who follow blueprints designed by licensed architects and licensed engineers and this definition is clarified by the remainder of s55 and the inclusion of the Generally Permitted Development Order 1995 and the Use Classes Order 1987. No single path leads automatically to success in real estate development, developers come from a variety of disciplines— construction, urban planning, lending, architecture, law and accounting, among others. Recent specialized programs that award a Master of Real Estate Development degree are also available, the graduate programs in real estate development are the most comprehensive education in the real estate industry. Other formal education includes a Master of Science in Real Estate, a development team can be put together in one of several ways. At one extreme, a company might include many services. At the other end of the spectrum, a development company might consist of one principal, assembling a team of professionals to address the environmental, economic, private, physical and political issues inherent in a complex development project is critical. A developers success depends on the ability to coordinate and lead the completion of a series of interrelated activities efficiently, the general contractor of the project hires subcontractors to put the architectural plans into action. Purchasing unused land for a development is sometimes called speculative development. Subdivision of land is the mechanism by which communities are developed. Technically, subdivision describes the legal and physical steps a developer must take to convert raw land into developed land, after subdivision is complete, the developer usually markets the land to a home builder or other end user, for such uses as a warehouse or shopping center
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Russellville, Arkansas
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Russellville is the county seat and largest city in Pope County, Arkansas, United States, with a population of 27,920, according to the 2010 Census. It is home to Arkansas Tech University and Arkansas Nuclear One, Russellville borders Lake Dardanelle and the Arkansas River. It is the city of the Russellville Micropolitan Statistical Area. Before the town was named Russellville, it was known as Chactas Prairie, The Prairie, in the early 19th century, Osage from Missouri hunted frequently in the valley where Russellville is located. Between 1818 and 1828, the area was within a Cherokee reservation, but after 1828 the Cherokee were removed to Indian Territory, the first settler in the area was P. C. One year later, Dr. Thomas Russell bought Holledgers house, the first business to be established in the town was owned by Mr. Shinn, who later built a masonry structure to replace his wooden store in 1875. This building still exists today, and is known as the Shinn Building and it was built at the intersection of an east-west road from Little Rock to Fort Smith and a north-south buffalo trail to a ford on the Arkansas River. Early travelers used these trails to pass through the valley. When the towns decided to name the town, it came down to two choices, Shinnville or Russellville, and Russellville won. As with the war with Mexico in the 1840s, many men of Russellville served in the military forces during the American Civil War. Local men served in the forces early in the war. Several local men were formed into at least two pro-Union companies. No great battles occurred in or near Russellville, though actions did take place late in the war at nearby Dardanelle, while the war came to an official end in 1865, peace did not immediately return to the area. Many areas of Pope County were disrupted in the early 1870s by the bloody, the town grew slowly, but during the early 1870s the railroad was built and the town exploded commercially and experienced a boom in population. Russellville’s first newspaper, the Herald was founded in 1870, by 1876, the town boasted a population of approximately 800 serviced by fifteen stores, two cotton gins, and six doctors. On June 7,1870, Russellville became an incorporated city, incorporation prompted a debate on moving the county seat, located in Dover since 1841, to one of the growing business centers adjacent to the new tracks. On March 19,1887, an election was held in which Russellville beat out all competing towns, while formal education came to the Russellville area early with the founding of nearby Dwight Mission in 1820, most early schools were either private or by subscription. The Russellville Public School District was formed in 1870, the year the city was incorporated, by 1876, it had evolved into a nine-month school
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Main Street, Downtown Russellville
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The Shinn Building, built 1875
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Historic downtown Russellville
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Dardanelle Lock and Dam - 1991
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Mike Ross (politician)
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Michael Avery Mike Ross is an American businessman and politician. He is a member of the Democratic Party who was his partys 2014 nominee for governor of Arkansas and he also served as the U. S. Representative for Arkansass 4th congressional district from 2001 to 2013 and he was also a member of the Arkansas Senate from 1991 to 2001, member of the Nevada County Quorum Court from 1983 to 1985, and is a former small business owner. On July 25,2011, Ross announced that he would not seek re-election to the House in 2012 and he instead became the Democratic nominee for governor of Arkansas in the general election scheduled for November 4,2014. He faced the Republican choice, former U. S, Representative Asa Hutchinson of Arkansass 3rd congressional district and the 2006 failed nominee against outgoing Governor Mike Beebe, a Democrat. Ross lost to Hutchinson in the general election, Ross was born in Texarkana, Arkansas. He is a fifth-generation Arkansan, he lived for years in Prescott until relocating in 2013 to the capital city of Little Rock. He is the grandson of farmers and a nurse and the son of two public school educators and he graduated from high school in Hope, Arkansas and earned a bachelors degree from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, working his way through college as a local radio announcer. Together with his wife, Holly, Ross owned and operated a pharmacy in their hometown of Prescott, Arkansas. Mike and Holly Ross have been married for 30 years, and they are members of the Pulaski Heights United Methodist Church in Little Rock, where they now live. By the age of 20, Ross was driving and staffing then former Governor Bill Clinton as he waged his come back campaign for a second term as Governor of Arkansas. Ross previously served on the Nevada County Quorum Court from 1983 to 1985, Ross was a member of the Arkansas State Senate for ten years, before being elected to the U. S. House of Representatives for Arkansass 4th congressional district in 2000. In 1990, Ross was elected to the Arkansas State Senate becoming the legislatures youngest member at that time, during his tenure, Ross worked alongside future Governor Mike Beebe to help pass the Arkansas Academic Challenge scholarship program. Ross served in the State Senate ten years, until his election to the U. S. House of Representatives in 2000, Ross has consistently voted against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, more commonly known as Obamacare. He was one of three Democrats in the U. S. House of Representatives to vote to repeal Obamacare and continued to vote to repeal the law throughout his tenure in Congress. This law was more than 2,000 pages, cut Medicare by half a trillion dollars, placed huge unfunded mandates on our states and authorized the IRS to fine people who cant afford to buy health insurance. However, some of the concessions to Ross set off a revolt among members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, “We do not support this, ” said Representative Lynn Woolsey, Democrat of California, co-chairwoman of the progressive caucus. After Congress August recess, Ross announced that he could not support a bill with a Public Option, however, a Research 2000 poll, commissioned by the left-leaning group Daily Kos, found that a majority of his district actually supported a Public Option
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Vic Snyder
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Victor F. Vic Snyder is an American politician who was the U. S. Representative for Arkansass 2nd congressional district from 1997 to 2011 and he is a member of the Democratic Party. Vic Snyder was born in Medford, Oregon and he is a graduate of Medford High School and attended college at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, where he was a member of Kappa Sigma. In 1967, after two years of college, Snyder volunteered for the United States Marine Corps and he served in Vietnam with Headquarters Company of the US 1st Marine Division during the Vietnam War, attaining the rank of corporal. Snyder earned a degree in Chemistry in 1975 from Willamette and earned his degree from the University of Oregon Health Sciences Center in Portland. Snyder moved to Little Rock, Arkansas and served his residency at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, in 1982 after completing his residency he worked as a family practice physician for 15 years. During this time he travelled overseas to volunteer his services at Cambodian refugee camps in Thailand, Salvadoran refugee camps in Honduras. From 1985 to 1988 Snyder attended the University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law to obtain his law degree while maintaining his medical practice. In 1990 Snyder successfully ran for a seat in the Arkansas legislature, in the Arkansas legislature, Snyder stepped into one of his earliest legislative controversies when he attempted to repeal the states aged Sodomy Laws. Ultimately, however, his efforts failed, and the sodomy laws stayed in effect until the state Supreme Court struck it down in Jegley v. Picado in March 2001 and he has a fairly liberal voting record for being an elected politician from the South and otherwise conservative-leaning Arkansas. In addition, Snyder was one of only two Congressmen to vote against prosecuting Saddam Hussein, on issues of free and expanded trade, Snyder differs with his party, especially his Southern populist colleagues. He has also opposed legislation cracking down on Wal-Mart, which is headquartered in Bentonville, Snyder was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives in 1996 and was reelected in 1998,2000,2002,2004,2006 and 2008. Snyder announced on January 15,2010 that he would retire at the conclusion of his term ends in 2010. A SurveyUSA poll released January 15,2010 showed him trailing his Republican challenger, Tim Griffin, during the 2008 presidential campaign, like most Arkansas Democrats, Snyder endorsed former U. S. Senator and former First Lady of Arkansas Hillary Clinton for President, Snyder, in 2003 married The Reverend Betsy Singleton, then a United Methodist minister at Little Rocks Quapaw Quarter United Methodist Church. They have four children, all boys, named Penn, Aubrey, Wyatt, biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress Profile at Project Vote Smart Financial information at the Federal Election Commission Kappa Sigma Famous Alumni
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Missouri State University
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Missouri State University, formerly Southwest Missouri State University, is a public university located in Springfield, Missouri, United States. Founded in 1905 as the Fourth District Normal School, it is the second largest university. In 2011, students represented 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, the Springfield campus is one of two degree-granting institutions within the Missouri State University System, the other being a two-year campus in West Plains, Missouri. A bachelor of science in business from MSU is offered at the Missouri State University Branch Campus Dalian in the Peoples Republic of China. In addition to its campus, MSU maintains a fruit research station in Mountain Grove. The school is classified by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education as one of six colleges and universities in Missouri. In the 2014 U. S. News and World Report, Missouri State University was formed as the Fourth District Normal School, by legislative action on March 17,1905. Like other normal schools of the day, the primary purpose was the preparation of teachers for the public school system. The university was founded on June 11,1906 with the first class totaling 543 students in an off-campus facility. The first permanent campus building was Academic Hall and its cornerstone was laid on August 10,1907 and construction was completed in January 1909. The building is now known as Carrington Hall, named after William T. Carrington and it serves as the Universitys administrative center. The Fourth District Normal School became Southwest Missouri State Teachers College in 1919 to reflect its regional, throughout the interwar period, the Colleges programs expanded to include liberal arts and sciences in the curriculum, thus facilitating a name change to Southwest Missouri State College in 1945. A burgeoning student population throughout the 1950s and 1960s resulted in the establishment of residence halls and this led to a third name change in 1972, to Southwest Missouri State University. In 1973, enrollment surpassed 10,000 students for the first time, in 1990, enrollment surpassed 20,000 students for the first time, but further attempts to rename the school throughout the 1990s and early 2000s also failed. However, the legislature did grant the university a statewide mission in Public Affairs in 1995. In 2004, with the election of Springfield native Matt Blunt to the governorship and it was opposed by the University of Missouri System, which feared that the name change would lead to duplication of academic programs and ongoing battles for students and state funding. The bill to rename the University finally passed the Missouri Senate, on March 1,2005, after more than seven hours of debate, the bill passed the Missouri House. Governor Blunt signed it into law on March 17, 2005—the centennial anniversary of the University—at the Plaster Student Union where several student leaders, for the 2009 fiscal year the University awarded 4,093 degrees
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Julie Adams
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Julie Adams is an American actress, primarily in television. She starred in a number of films in the 1950s, including Bend of the River and she is also known for her roles as Paula Denning on Capitol and as Eve Simpson on Murder, She Wrote. Julie Adams was born as Betty May Adams on October 17,1926 in Waterloo and her family moved a great deal, the longest she lived in one town was eight years in Blytheville, Arkansas. Adams worked as a secretary and began her film career in B-movie westerns. In 1946, at the age of 19, she was crowned Miss Little Rock and then moved to Hollywood, California to pursue her acting career. She used her name until 1949, when she began working for Universal Pictures. She then became Julia and eventually Julie, in 1954, she explained the latter change, The studio picked Julia, but I never have felt comfortable with it. I just like the name Julie better, and the studio has given me permission to make the change and her first movie role was a minor part in Red, Hot and Blue, followed by a leading role in the Lippert western The Dalton Gang. Adams was featured as the bathing beauty Kay Lawrence in 1954s classic science-fiction film Creature from the Black Lagoon. In 1955, Adams co-starred with Rory Calhoun, subsequently of the CBS western television series, The Texan, in the film The Looters, part of the picture was filmed about Tarryall Creek at what is now Eleven Mile State Park in Park County in central Colorado. The advertising poster reads, Five desperate men, and a girl who didnt care. Trapped on a mountain of gale-lashed rock, Adams also starred in 1957s Four Girls in Town, a romantic comedy about four young women competing for the leading role in a new movie, featuring an international cast. She appeared with Elvis Presley in the musical-comedy Tickle Me in 1965, Adams thought highly of her co-star, noting, Despite his status as a superstar singer and stage performer, Elvis took his acting very seriously. He was always prepared, and did a job in the roles he was given. When he did his musical numbers in Tickle Me, sometimes walking from table to table in a nightclub set, on television in 1962, Adams portrayed Mary Simpson, a county nurse and romantic interest of Sheriff Andy Taylor on The Andy Griffith Show. In 1965, she played the role of defendant Pat Kean in The Case of the Fatal Fortune, Adams appeared on The Rifleman as a dubious vixen and romantic interest of lead character Chuck Connors. She guest-starred in five episodes of 77 Sunset Strip, on Alfred Hitchcock Presents three times, and on Maverick twice. More guest-star roles in popular TV series followed, including McMillan & Wife, Police Woman, The Streets of San Francisco, Cannon, Quincy, M. E. Adams co-starred with James Stewart in The Jimmy Stewart Show on NBC in 1971-1972
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Julie Adams was famously menaced by the Gill-man in the 1954 horror classic Creature from the Black Lagoon
