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Classroom Takes a Plane Ride
A growing number of American students and their professors understands that learning to operate in different cultures is an essential skill. Study abroad programs can provide that experience.
Learning from a Worldview
Teaching global values and tolerance, along with developing foreign language skills and knowledge of world history, cultures, and geography, is a hot topic in education.
Interconnecting Through Education
While there is national debate among leaders in higher education, government, and economic circles about how best to approach global education, there is growing consensus that the country must ready students for a global society and economy.
Leveling Access to Higher Education
Technology provides a framework for remote students to engage in online and blended-delivery courses. Accessibility extends beyond the classroom to help students and professors find access to research and scholarship from all areas of the world.
Research Connected
Cost-effective travel, technology, and national initiatives have made it relatively easy for scientists in all areas to join together across state and national boundaries.
Sharing The Stage
“There is no other university theater program in the state that has integrated a give-and-take relationship with a professional theater company like we have in Little Rock.” Bob Hupp
Making Music
The bonus for UALR music professors is that they teach and perform in the state’s capital city — home to the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, Ballet Arkansas, Artspree, and Take Five Jazz Series.
Old Fashioned Revival
UALR’s Art Department and Applied Design program lead the central Arkansas charge to promote craft as fine art.
Cross-Pollinating the Arts
Arts institutions may not be as vital to society as food, clothing, and shelter. But they are essential if a community or region is to flourish.
The Dollars and Sense of Culture
While most Americans would agree that the arts enhance our lives, many people still haven’t connected the dots between culture and the pocketbook.