The University of Arkansas (U of A, UArk, or UA) is a
public
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land-grant
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research university
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in
Fayetteville, Arkansas. It is the
flagship campus of the
University of Arkansas System
The University of Arkansas System is a state university system in the U.S. state of Arkansas. It comprises six campuses; a medical school; two law schools; a graduate school focused on public service; a historically black college, statewide rese ...
and the largest university in the state. Founded as Arkansas Industrial University in 1871, classes were first held on January 22, 1872, with its present name adopted in 1899. It is noted for its strong programs in
architecture
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,
agriculture
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(particularly animal science and poultry science),
communication disorders, creative writing, history, law (particularly agricultural law), and Middle Eastern studies,
as well as for its
business school, of which the supply chain management program was ranked the best in North America by Gartner in July 2020. In a 2021 study compiled by DegreeChoices and published by Forbes, the University of Arkansas ranked 13th among universities with the most graduates working at top Fortune 500 companies.
The university campus consists of 378 buildings spread across of land in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Some well known architecture on campus includes
Old Main
Old Main is a term often applied to the original building present on college or university campuses in the United States. The building serves today as home to administrative offices, such as the president or provost, but in its early inception may ...
, the first permanent academic building erected. Academic programs are in excess of 200. Enrollment for the fall semester of 2019 was 27,559.
The ratio of students to faculty is approximately 19:1. The university is
classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity" and totaled expenditures of $175.5 million in FY 2018.
UA's athletic teams, the
Arkansas Razorbacks, compete in
NCAA Division I
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as members of the
Southeastern Conference
The Southeastern Conference (SEC) is an American college athletic conference whose member institutions are located primarily in the South Central and Southeastern United States. Its fourteen members include the flagship public universities o ...
(SEC) with eight men's teams and eleven women's teams in thirteen sports. The university is known for its traditions, including
Calling the Hogs
Calling the Hogs is a tradition of University of Arkansas students, alumni, and sports fans. The origin and date of first use are not known, but is said to have started in the 1920s when people attempted to encourage a Razorback football team tha ...
at sports events, and the Senior Walk, more than
of campus sidewalk etched with the names of all UA graduates since 1871. The University of Arkansas is also known for being the home of the founding chapter of
Chi Omega sorority.
History
Early developments
The University of Arkansas was founded in 1871 on the site of a hilltop farm that overlooked the
Ozark Mountains
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, giving it the nickname "The Hill".
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The university was established under the
Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act
The Morrill Land-Grant Acts are United States statutes that allowed for the creation of land-grant colleges in U.S. states using the proceeds from sales of federally-owned land, often obtained from indigenous tribes through treaty, cession, or s ...
of 1862. The university's founding also satisfied the provision in the
Arkansas Constitution of 1868 that the General Assembly was to "establish and maintain a State University."
[Reynolds, ''History of the University of Arkansas'']
Bids from state towns and counties determined the university's location. The citizens of
Fayetteville and
Washington County.
pledged $130,000 toward securing the university, a sum that proved to be more than other offers. This was in response to the competition created by the Arkansas General Assembly's Organic Act of 1871, providing for the "location, organization and maintenance of the Arkansas Industrial University with a normal department
.e., teacher educationtherein." Classes started on January 22, 1872.
Notable landmarks
Completed in 1875,
Old Main
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, a two-towered brick building designed in the Second Empire style, was the primary instructional and administrative building. It is listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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. Its design was based on the plans for the main academic building at the
University of Illinois
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Univer ...
, which has since been demolished.
However, the clock and bell towers were switched at Arkansas. The northern taller tower is the bell tower, and the southern shorter tower is the clock tower. One legend for the tower switch is that the taller tower was put to the north as a reminder of the Union victory during the Civil War.
[Robert A. Leflar, ''The First 100 Years: Centennial History of the University of Arkansas,''(Fayetteville, Arkansas: University of Arkansas Foundation, Inc., 1972)] A second legend is that the contractor accidentally swapped the tower drawings after having had too much to drink. Although the southern tower was designed with clock faces, it did not hold a working clock until October 2005. The bell tower has always had some type of chime, initially a bell that was rung on the hour by student volunteers. Electronic chimes were installed in 1959.
In addition to the regular chimes of the clock, the university's Alma Mater plays at 5 pm every day.
Old Main housed many of the earliest classes at the university, and has served as the offices of every college within the university during its history. Today, in addition to hosting classes, it contains the restored Giffels Auditorium and historic displays, as well as the administrative offices of the
J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences.
The lawn at Old Main serves as an arboretum, with many of the trees native to the state of Arkansas found on the lawn. Sitting at the edge of the lawn is Spoofer's Stone, a place for couples to meet and pass notes. Students play soccer, cricket and touch football on the lawn's open green.
Beginning with the class of 1876, the names of students at University of Arkansas are inscribed in "Senior Walk" and wind across campus for more than four miles.
The sidewalk is one of a kind nationally.
More recently, the names of all the recipients of honorary degrees were also added, including such notables as
J. Edgar Hoover,
Queen Noor, President
Bill Clinton
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, and former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton
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.
One of the more unusual structures at Arkansas is the
Chi Omega Greek Theatre, a gift to the school by the sorority's national headquarters. It marked the first time in the history of Greek letter social organizations that a national sorority had presented a memorial of its foundation to the institution where it was founded.
Chi Omega was organized on April 5, 1895, at the University of Arkansas and is the mother (Psi) chapter of the national organization. The theater has been used for commencements, convocations, concerts, dramas and pep rallies. The largest crowd ever assembled there – upwards of 6,000, according to professor Walter J. Lemke – was for a concert by the Army Air Corps Band during World War II. From 1934 to 1991, the space under the stage was used for a rifle range by the Army ROTC.
African American history and African studies program
The first African American student, James McGahee, attended the University of Arkansas in 1872, following the university's opening in 1871 during the
Reconstruction era, to “prepare for the ministry of the Episcopal Church”. He is noted as having a grade average deemed excellent. Alongside McGahee, two other African American men, Mark W. Alexander and Isom Washington, are noted as having attended Arkansas Industrial College, however no record of their enrollment has been found. Following the end of Reconstruction, the racial dynamic shifted at the university and it is unknown if McGahee was able to continue his education following 1873.
Former state senator and U.S. congressman
John N. Tillman served as president of the University of Arkansas from 1905 to 1912. In the
Arkansas State Senate
The Arkansas State Senate is the upper branch of the Arkansas General Assembly. The Senate consists of 35 members, each representing a district with about 83,000 people. Service in the state legislature is part-time, and many state senators have ...
he proposed the Separate Coach Law of 1891, a
Jim Crow law to segregate African American passengers. The bill became law and was enforced for many decades.
The University of Arkansas admitted
Silas Herbert Hunt of Texarkana, an African American veteran of World War II to the university's School of Law in 1948. Hunt's enrollment was regarded as the first successful school integration below the
Mason–Dixon line
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of that era. While Hunt was admitted into the university, his attendance was not met without controversy. With extremely mixed reviews stating that it was both a good and bad idea for a black student to attend the university. African American students were permitted to attend the university, under the condition that they enroll as graduate or law students, and be taught in segregated classes. Unfortunately, Silas Hunt was only able to complete one year of education. In April 1949, Hunt was admitted to the VA hospital, where he later died of tuberculosis, aggravated by injuries he had sustained in the war.
Roy Wilkins
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, administrator of the NAACP, wrote in 1950 that Arkansas was the "very first of the Southern states to accept the new trend without fighting a delaying action or attempting to... limit, if not nullify, bare compliance." A large part of Hunt's success was due to three advantages found in Arkansas: there were no laws on the books specifically prohibiting mixed education in the state, a supreme court
ruling that stated law students be allowed to study in the state they intended to practice, and the means for admitting African American Student to address legal education being seen as affordable and equitable.
In the fall of 1948 changes were made to the university's segregation policy, which allowed for the admittance of African American students into regular classes. The first to follow Hunt was a law school student by the name of Jackie L. Shropshire, would later go on to become the university's first black graduate in 1951. 1952 University of Arkansas Medical School graduate
Edith Irby Jones
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, who was also admitted to the University of Arkansas in 1948, would be the first African American to be admitted in any Southern school. Several African American students followed in his footsteps, attending various graduate programs at the university. As a result, race relations at the University of Arkansas greatly improved. Arkansas was freely admitting African American students as early as 1957, while many southern states still prohibited black students from attending all white universities. The events in
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at this time did some damage to race relations at the university that would not be fixed for some time.
In 1969, the university created the Black Studies Advisory Committee to facilitate the creation of a
Black Studies program, which began in the fall semester of 1968 with 19 courses offered.
In 1990
Gordon Daniel Morgan, a professor of sociology at the university and an alumnus of its graduate school, wrote ''The Edge of Campus: A Journal of the Black Experience at the University of Arkansas'' with his wife Izola.
In 2004, the university provided resources to help support the program, establishing the John White Scholarship,
Sankofa
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Registered Student Organization, and
Ghana
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study abroad tour. In 2008, The Black Studies program was renamed the African and African American Studies (AAST) program and expanded its course offerings and student enrollment. In 2014, the program moved to a new space in Memorial Hall and was added to the University Core. A year later, an online minor and graduate certificate in African and African American Studies was established. The university hosted its first annual AAST Graduate Fellows search symposium in 2016 and established the Dr.
Roy S. Bryce-Laporte scholarship later in 2018.
In 2019, the University of Arkansas Board of Trustees voted to rename halls B and C of the Northwest Quad in honor of Dr. Gordon Morgan and Dr. Margaret Clark, respectively.
The university has also hosted guest lectures by Dr.
Aldon D. Morris, Dr.
Carol Anderson, and
Nikole Hannah-Jones
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related to African and African American studies.
Notable people in African and African American history at the University
* Darrell Brown – became the first black football player for the University of Arkansas in 1965. Brown grew up in Horatio, AR and became a prominent lawyer after college.
* Dr.
Gordon Daniel Morgan – An alumnus and one of the first Black professors at the University of Arkansas, and was hired to teach sociology
* Dr. Margaret Clark – One of the first Black professors at the University of Arkansas, and was hired to teach world languages
* Gerald Jordan – attended the University of Arkansas School of Journalism and Media, and is the university's current Faculty and Athletics Representative to NCAA and SEC
* Dr. Caree Banton, Dr. Brandon Jackson, Dr. Benjamin Fagan, Dr. Valandra – 1st Cohort of Joint-Appointed faculty to AAST program
* Directors of African and African American Studies Program
** 2004 – 2012 Dr. Charles Robinson
** 2012 – 2015 Dr. Calvin White
** 2015 – 2017 (interim) Dr. Pearl Dowe and Dr. Yvette Murphy-Erby
** 2017 – 2020 Dr. Valandra
** 2020 – Current Dr. Caree Banton
Research
Vitamin E
Vitamin E is a group of eight fat soluble compounds that include four tocopherols and four tocotrienols. Vitamin E deficiency, which is rare and usually due to an underlying problem with digesting dietary fat rather than from a diet low in vi ...
was co-discovered by UA Agricultural Chemistry Professor Barnett Sure (1920–51). Sure, along with fellow professor Marinus C. Kik (1927–67) made major advances in nutrition science during their long tenures at the University of Arkansas. Sure co-discovered vitamin E, and extended knowledge of how vitamin E, amino acids and B-vitamins function on reproduction and lactation. Kik developed the process for parboiling
rice
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(a major agricultural crop in the state) to increase retention of vitamins and shorten cooking time.
He documented benefits of adding fish and chicken to rice and grain diets to provide adequate protein for a growing world population. Sure and Kik were Agricultural Experiment Station scientists and professors in the UA Department of Agricultural Chemistry, which merged in 1964 with Home Economics, now the School of Human Environmental Sciences.
In the 1920s, Loy Barton, an engineering graduate student at the University of Arkansas, set forth the principle of high-level Class B plate modulation for radio transmission and developed the technology that allowed small- and medium-size
AM radio
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stations to flourish across the United States. Barnett later joined RCA and continued research on broadcast technology into the 1960s.
The most widely implemented automated mail sorting equipment in the world–the Wide Area Bar Code Reader–was developed by the
University of Arkansas College of Engineering
The College of Engineering is the University of Arkansas' college for engineering students.
History
The first engineering degree awarded by the university was in civil engineering in 1888. At the time, it was known as Arkansas Industrial Universi ...
. A $50,000 grant from the
United States Postal Service
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(USPS) to Professors Dwight F. Mix and J.E. Bass in 1989 began the research and development effort.
By 1999, more than 15,000 University of Arkansas bar code readers were located in every major USPS facility, increasing the efficiency of processing 20 billion pieces of mail a year at a savings of $200 million. This R&D effort has spawned four additional electronic systems to help the USPS "read the mail."
During the 1980s, Professors Allen Hermann and Zhengzhi Sheng of the Department of Physics were in the vanguard of research in
superconductivity: the phenomenon whereby
Direct Current
Direct current (DC) is one-directional flow of electric charge. An electrochemical cell is a prime example of DC power. Direct current may flow through a conductor such as a wire, but can also flow through semiconductors, insulators, or eve ...
(DC) electricity, once started, can flow essentially forever.
The
Thallium
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-based material they discovered at Arkansas held the world's record for high temperature, 125K, for five years (1988–93) and drew international attention to the university. Their work led to numerous patents and a manufacturing agreement, as well as further advances in high-density electronics.
University of Arkansas plant pathologists George Templeton, Roy Smith (USDA), David TeBeest and graduate student Jim Daniels conducted research in the early 1970s that led to COLLEGO, the first biological herbicide for weed control in a field crop. Other UA scientists and students worked on the project that resulted in EPA registration of COLLEGO by Upjohn in 1982 for control of northern jointvetch in rice and soybeans. The work provided a model used worldwide to develop biological herbicides. Leadership in this area helped the U of A obtain grants from the USDA and others for construction of the Rosen Center for Alternative Pest Control.
Campuses and academic divisions
The University of Arkansas offers more than 200 programs of study leading to bachelors, masters, doctoral, and
law
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degrees. Academic programs are organized into numerous departments and schools based out of the ten primary colleges on the main campus. The following degree-granting academic divisions are located on the Fayetteville campus:
Other divisions
The Honors College and Global Campus do not award degrees but provide degree programs with honors coursework and distance education opportunities, respectively, for the Fayetteville campus:
System facilities
Altogether there are thirteen branches and six other units in the
University of Arkansas System
The University of Arkansas System is a state university system in the U.S. state of Arkansas. It comprises six campuses; a medical school; two law schools; a graduate school focused on public service; a historically black college, statewide rese ...
, including the
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) is a public health sciences university in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is part of the University of Arkansas System and consists of six colleges, seven institutes, several research centers, a s ...
in
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; four-year campuses in Fayetteville,
Fort Smith,
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,
Monticello
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, and
Pine Bluff; and two-year community or technical college campuses in
Batesville,
De Queen,
Helena-West Helena,
Hope,
Mena
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,
North Little Rock, and
Morrilton. Units also under the UA System include the
Clinton School of Public Service, the Criminal Justice Institute, the Arkansas Archeological Survey, the
Division of Agriculture, the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute, and the
Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts
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.
The University of Arkansas was the home for the
Southeastern Conference Academic Consortium, SECAC, where the 14 member schools of the
Southeastern Conference
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pool resources to assist each other academically (the Consortium later relocated to Birmingham, Alabama, where the SEC has its headquarters).
Campus
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The University of Arkansas campus sweeps across hilltops on the western side of
Fayetteville, Arkansas. Among the 378 buildings on the campus, 11 buildings have been added to the
National Register of Historic Places
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individually, with most buildings in the historic core being named as contributing properties to the
University of Arkansas Campus Historic District.
Construction began on Old Main in 1873 and was completed by 1875 in the
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architectural style. Built with local brick and
sandstone
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, Old Main serves as the university's signature building. The building has remained on campus despite its recommended removal in the 1925 master plan from the architects of Jamieson and Spearl. This plan included destruction of all existing campus buildings and reconstruction in the
Collegiate Gothic style. Several buildings were built in this style near the core of campus, including the
Vol Walker Hall,
Engineering Hall
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,
Chemistry Building,
Agriculture Building, and
Home Economics Building. The plan ran out of funds and was never completed, leading to a somewhat haphazard arrangement of buildings after the 1930s.
The university's oldest tradition is Senior Walk, which contains the names of graduates from each class of the university. Beginning at the front steps of Old Main and running along the sidewalks across campus, Senior Walk is adorned with more than 170,000 names of former students. This tradition is unique to American universities.
The Fine Arts Center was designed by
Fayetteville native
Edward Durell Stone, who also designed
Radio City Music Hall and the
Museum of Modern Art
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It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of ...
in New York City and the
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. The buildings are indicative of Stone's idiosyncratic modern style which included patterns of ornament. Stone also designed a fraternity house, now used for academic purposes, and an apartment complex named Carlson Terrace on campus, which has since been demolished.
The east end of the University of Arkansas campus is adjacent to
Dickson Street
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, which is one of the premier entertainment districts in the state. To the south of the university is
Fayetteville High School, which contains nationally recognized academic and athletics programs.
The buildings listed individually or as contributing properties to the
University of Arkansas Campus Historic District on the United States
National Register of Historic Places
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for their architectural or historic significance are:
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Old Main
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Senior Walk
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Agriculture Annex
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Ella Carnall Hall
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Original Chemistry Building
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Peabody Hall
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Women's Gymnasium
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Engineering Hall
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Agriculture building
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Chi Omega Greek Theatre
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Vol Walker Hall
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Chemistry Building
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Gibson Hall
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Gibson Annex
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Former Men's Gymnasium
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Memorial Hall
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Ozark Hall
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Home Economics Building
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Delta Gamma House
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Davis Hall
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Geology Building
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Gregson Hall
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Fine Arts Center
Sustainability
One of the university's stated goals is "promote environmental sustainability", a goal being aggressively pursued through several construction improvement projects on campus in recent years. In 2008, Arkansas adopted a climate action plan, including the goals of reducing
greenhouse gas emissions
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by 50% by 2020 and to become carbon-neutral by 2040. In 2008, the university signed a $22.9 million contract with Energy Systems Group to make energy improvements to 56 buildings, a program named "Razor's EDGE." The program was designed with a payback period of 13 years based upon projected electricity and water savings. The university also completed a study to install a
cogeneration
Cogeneration or combined heat and power (CHP) is the use of a heat engine or power station to generate electricity and useful heat at the same time.
Cogeneration is a more efficient use of fuel or heat, because otherwise- wasted heat from elec ...
unit, which utilizes the heat given off by the
natural gas
Natural gas (also called fossil gas or simply gas) is a naturally occurring mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons consisting primarily of methane in addition to various smaller amounts of other higher alkanes. Low levels of trace gases like carbo ...
power unit to heat the steam that is piped into campus buildings for climate control. This model replaces the current model ("business as usual" alternative), which uses a utility power plant that exhausts heat to the atmosphere and a separate boiler plant to generate the steam, while also increasing efficiency of both processes.
Athletics
The mascot for the University of Arkansas is the Razorback, a type of wild boar, and Arkansas teams are often referred to as the Hogs (shortened version of Razorbacks). The school competes in the
Southeastern Conference
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(SEC) in
Division I of the
NCAA
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. No school in the SEC has won more total national championships than Arkansas; and only 4 schools nationwide (
UCLA
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,
Southern California
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,
Stanford, and
Oklahoma State) have won more national titles than the Razorbacks.
From 1971 through 2007, Arkansas had completely separate men's and women's athletic departments. On January 1, 2008, the two departments merged, leaving fellow SEC school
Tennessee
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as the only remaining NCAA Division I school with separate men's and women's athletic programs.
Football
![Alabama at Arkansas, 2010](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/Alabama_at_Arkansas%2C_2010.jpg)
A football team began representing the University of Arkansas in
1894
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and has since become one of the nation's top 25 programs in terms of all-time wins at the Football Bowl Subdivision level.
The program was a charter member of the
Southwest Conference
The Southwest Conference (SWC) was an NCAA Division I college athletic conference in the United States that existed from 1914 to 1996. Composed primarily of schools from Texas, at various times the conference included schools from Oklahoma ...
(SWC) in 1915 and remained in that conference until departing for the
Southeastern Conference
The Southeastern Conference (SEC) is an American college athletic conference whose member institutions are located primarily in the South Central and Southeastern United States. Its fourteen members include the flagship public universities o ...
in 1991, where Arkansas has remained.
From 1915 to 1991, the Razorbacks won the SWC championship 13 times and the
national championship in the
1964 season, with great success coming under coaches
Frank Broyles
John Franklin Broyles (December 26, 1924 – August 14, 2017) was an American college football player and coach, college athletics administrator, and broadcaster. He served as the head football coach for one season at the University of Missouri ...
,
Lou Holtz and
Ken Hatfield.
Today, the team plays its home games on campus at
Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium, or at
War Memorial Stadium, located in
Little Rock
( The "Little Rock")
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, making the University of Arkansas the only Division I program with two home stadia. Arkansas has also had recent success in the
Bowl Championship Series (BCS) era, obtaining its first BCS berth in the
2011 Sugar Bowl and climbing as high as #3 in the BCS rankings in
2011 under
Bobby Petrino
Robert Patrick Petrino (born March 10, 1961) is an American football coach. He currently serves as the Offensive Coordinator for the Texas A&M Aggies. He is the former head coach for the Missouri State Bears. Previously, he served as the head co ...
.
Basketball
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Men's Basketball: The head coach of the men's
basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...
team is
Eric Musselman
Eric Musselman (born November 19, 1964) is an American college basketball coach who is the current head men's basketball coach at the University of Arkansas. He is the former head coach of the Sacramento Kings and Golden State Warriors of the ...
, who was previously the head coach at the
University of Nevada
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. The Razorbacks play their home games in
Bud Walton Arena
Bud Walton Arena (also known as the Basketball Palace of Mid-America) is the home to the men's and women's basketball teams of the University of Arkansas, known as the Razorbacks. It is located on the campus of the University of Arkansas in Fa ...
on the University of Arkansas campus, one of the largest home arenas in college basketball. The team won the 1994
National Championship
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under coach
Nolan Richardson
Nolan Richardson Jr. (born December 27, 1941) is a former American basketball head coach best known for his tenure at the University of Arkansas, where he won the 1994 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament and led the Razorbacks to three F ...
, and has been to six
Final Fours (1941, 1945, 1978, 1990, 1994, 1995). Arkansas basketball was the winningest program in the Southwest Conference, winning the conference 22 times, the most of any of the SWC schools. This conference dominance led the Hogs to be named the eighth-best program in history by ''
Street and Smith's'' magazine.
Women's Basketball: The Razorback women's basketball team, like the men's basketball team, plays home games in Bud Walton Arena, often referred to as the "Basketball Palace of Mid-America." The building is located on the University of Arkansas campus. The women's basketball team completed its 39th season in 2014–15, and has made 21 post season appearances. The Razorbacks made their first NCAA Women's Final Four appearance in 1998, with the help of team leader
Christy Smith, and made history as the lowest seed (#9) in the west to advance. On March 7, 2020, the team made it to the semifinals in the SEC tournament in Greenville, SC with Coach
Mike Neighbors
Michael Earl Neighbors (born March 29, 1969) is an American college basketball coach. He is currently head coach of the women's basketball team at the University of Arkansas. He moved to Arkansas, his alma mater, in 2017, after four years as hea ...
and were ranked #22 for the 2019–20 season, which has been the team's highest ranking since January 2011. This was also the first time the Lady Razorbacks have been ranked in the top 25 since 2015 and started off the season in the top 25 since 2002.
Baseball and Softball
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Men's Baseball: The Arkansas baseball team has had success both in the Southwest Conference, and in the Southeastern Conference. Between 1979 and 1989, the Diamond Hogs appeared in the
College World Series
The College World Series (CWS), officially the NCAA Men's College World Series (MCWS), is an annual baseball tournament held in June in Omaha, Nebraska. The MCWS is the culmination of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Divisi ...
four times, including a runner-up finish in 1979. Since joining the SEC, former Razorbacks player
Dave van Horn
David Kevin Van Horn (born September 17, 1960) is an American baseball coach and former infielder, who is the current head baseball coach of the Arkansas Razorbacks.
Playing career
Born in Stanton, California, Van Horn graduated from Winneto ...
has coached the team to the
2004,
2009,
2012
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,
2015,
2018,
2019 and
2022 College World Series
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. The team plays home games in
Baum Stadium
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* Bernie Baum (1929–1993), American songwriter
* Carol Baum, American film producer
* Christina Baum (b ...
, recognized in 1998 by
Baseball America
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magazine as being one of the top collegiate ballparks in America, and was #3 in 2009 according to
Rivals.com
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History
Rivals.com was founded in 1998 by Jim Heckma ...
.
The stadium has recently undergone expansion, including 20 new skyboxes (34 in all) and seats behind the bullpen in left field, and further expansion to enclose the park with seating has been included in the Athletic Facilities Master Plan. On April 7, 2009, a stadium record 11,044 fans saw
a 7–3 Razorbacks victory over the #1
Arizona State Sun Devils
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. A weekend series with LSU in 2007 drew 29,931, which is the SEC all-time attendance record for a three-game series.
Women's Softball: The Arkansas Razorback softball team is led by head coach,
Courtney Deifel and plays their home games at
Bogle Park
Bogle Park is a softball
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, located on the University of Arkansas campus. Bogle Park was made possible thanks to the lead gift made by Bob and Marilyn Bogle and the Bogle family, who have also made significant contributions to the university and the Athletics Department over the course of many years. An event celebrating the naming was held Friday, October 26, 2009. The
Lady Razorbacks
The Arkansas Razorbacks, also known as the Hogs, are the intercollegiate athletics teams representing the University of Arkansas, located in Fayetteville. The University of Arkansas student body voted to change the name of the school mascot (ori ...
participate in the Western Division of the Southeastern Conference, also known as the SEC. The team has made NCAA Tournament appearances in:
2000
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,
2002,
2008,
2009,
2010
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,
2012
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,
2013
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,
2017,
2018, and
2019.
Track and Field
Men's Track and Field: The most successful program in NCAA history, the Arkansas men's
track and field
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and
cross country teams, led by head coach Chris Bucknam, sprints coach Doug Case and field coach Travis Geophert, are the most decorated teams in the athletics department. The program has won a total of 41 national titles (19 Indoor Championships, 11 Outdoor Championships, and 11 Cross Country Championships), the last being the 2013 Indoor Track and Field National Championship (the 2004 and 2005 Outdoor Championships were later vacated due to NCAA infractions). One of its most famous stars is graduate
Alistair Cragg
Alistair Ian Cragg (born 13 June 1980 in Johannesburg) is an international track and field athlete.
Born and brought up in South Africa, he has since lived in England and United States where he attended the University of Arkansas. He races for ...
who competed for Ireland at the
2004 Summer Olympics
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in Greece. Other Olympians have included
Michael Conley
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People
* Michael (given name), a given name
* Michael (surname), including a list of people with the surname Michael
Given name "Michael"
* Michael (archangel), ''first'' of God's archangels in the Jewish, Christian and ...
,
Daniel Lincoln
Daniel Lincoln (born October 22, 1980 in Ruston, Louisiana) is a former world-class American track and field athlete and the former American record holder in the 3000 meter steeplechase.
Education
In 1998, Lincoln graduated from the Arkansas S ...
,
Graham Hood
Graham Hood (born April 2, 1972) is a retired track and field athlete from Canada, who competed in the middle distance events.
Early life
Hood was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba to parents Colin and Brenda, but grew up in Burlington, Ontario. His ...
,
Wallace Spearmon
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and
Matt Hemingway. The team has a home indoor track at the
Randal Tyson Track Center
The Randal Tyson Track Center is a 5,500-seat indoor track in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Built in 2000, it is home to the University of Arkansas Razorbacks track and field teams. It was also home for one year to the semi-pro Arkansas Stars. The fa ...
and outdoor field at
John McDonnell Field
John McDonnell Field is the outdoor track facility at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and is home to the Arkansas Razorbacks. The field is named after former head coach John McDonnell, who ended his thirty-six-year collegiat ...
, which hosted the 2009 NCAA Outdoor Track Championships. Current head coach Chris Bucknam, assistant coaches Doug Case and Travis Geopfert have continued to embrace the legacy, winning the 2009, 2010, and 2012 SEC Indoor Track Championships, along with the 2009 and 2011 SEC Outdoor Championships and the 2010, 2011 and 2012 SEC Cross Country Championships. The men's track and field team won the triple crown in 2012.
Women's Track and Field: The women's track and field team won its first national championship at the 2015 NCAA Indoor Championships, held in Fayetteville. Coached by Lance Harter, team members took first place in pole vault, the 3000-meter run and the distance-medley relay. Top competitors include Olympians
Veronica Campbell-Brown
Veronica Campbell-Brown CD ( Campbell; born 15 May 1982) is a retired Jamaican track and field sprinter, who specialized in the 100 and 200 meters. and
Deena Kastor
Deena Michelle Kastor (née Drossin; born February 14, 1973) is an American long-distance runner. She was a holder of American records in the marathon (2006-2022) and numerous road distances. She won the bronze medal in the women's marathon at t ...
, who set the American marathon record at the 2006
London Marathon
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. Since then, the team has won four NCAA Division I championships, two in indoor track and field, and two in outdoor track and field. The team also swept the 2019 calendar, winning the indoor, outdoor and cross country national championships. The athletes have access to indoor training and racing facilities at the
Randal Tyson Track Center
The Randal Tyson Track Center is a 5,500-seat indoor track in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Built in 2000, it is home to the University of Arkansas Razorbacks track and field teams. It was also home for one year to the semi-pro Arkansas Stars. The fa ...
and outdoor facilities at
John McDonnell Field
John McDonnell Field is the outdoor track facility at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and is home to the Arkansas Razorbacks. The field is named after former head coach John McDonnell, who ended his thirty-six-year collegiat ...
located on the University of Arkansas campus.
Women's Athletics
![Deena Kastor at the 2007 Boston Marathon](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/Deena_Kastor_at_the_2007_Boston_Marathon.jpg)
The women teams at the University of Arkansas are also referred to as Razorbacks. There are 11 varsity women sports: basketball, cross country, indoor and outdoor
track,
golf
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.
Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...
,
gymnastics
Gymnastics is a type of sport that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, dedication and endurance. The movements involved in gymnastics contribute to the development of the arms, legs, shou ...
,
soccer
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,
softball
Softball is a game similar to baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Softball is played competitively at club levels, the college level, and the professional level. The game was first created in 1887 in Chicago by George Hanc ...
,
swimming
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&
diving
Diving most often refers to:
* Diving (sport), the sport of jumping into deep water
* Underwater diving, human activity underwater for recreational or occupational purposes
Diving or Dive may also refer to:
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,
tennis
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, and
volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...
. Among the most successful women teams are volleyball with 11 SEC Western Division titles; cross country with more SEC championships than any member institution; basketball with 12 postseason appearances in 30 years, including the 1998 NCAA Final Four; track & field with six SEC titles and the first back-to-back women's SEC triple crowns; and gymnastics, nationally ranked since the start of the program in 2002 with five NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championship appearances. Sprinter
Veronica Campbell
Veronica Campbell-Brown CD ( Campbell; born 15 May 1982) is a retired Jamaican track and field sprinter, who specialized in the 100 and 200 meters. was the first Razorback woman to win a gold medal in the Olympics, with marathoner
Deena Kastor
Deena Michelle Kastor (née Drossin; born February 14, 1973) is an American long-distance runner. She was a holder of American records in the marathon (2006-2022) and numerous road distances. She won the bronze medal in the women's marathon at t ...
, an alumna, bringing home a bronze medal in 2004.
Gymnastics: In 2019,
Jordyn Wieber
Jordyn Marie Wieber (born July 12, 1995) is an American former artistic gymnast turned gymnastics coach. Since April 2019, she has been the head coach of the Arkansas Razorbacks gymnastics team.
Wieber was a member of the gold medal-winning ...
was hired as the University of Arkansas head coach, following the retirement of Mark Cook. Wieber has a very impressive background, as she was one of the "
Fierce Five
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," in the 2012 Summer Olympics. The gymnastics team, referred to as the GymBacks, practice at the Bev Lewis Center for Women's Athletics and compete in
Barnhill Arena
Barnhill Arena is a 10,000-seat multipurpose arena in Fayetteville, Arkansas, now used primarily for volleyball. The arena opened in 1954 and was home to the University of Arkansas Razorbacks (men's) and Ladybacks (women's) basketball teams befo ...
. As for the 2020 season, the team now holds seven beam titles and nine floor titles. The GymBacks started the 2020 season ranked #19 by the Women's Collegiate Gymnastics Association. This is the 14th year in a row the gymnastics team has been ranked in the top 20.
Volleyball: The Razorback volleyball team practices and plays in the legendary
Barnhill Arena
Barnhill Arena is a 10,000-seat multipurpose arena in Fayetteville, Arkansas, now used primarily for volleyball. The arena opened in 1954 and was home to the University of Arkansas Razorbacks (men's) and Ladybacks (women's) basketball teams befo ...
, which used to house the men's and women's basketball teams before moving to
Bud Walton Arena
Bud Walton Arena (also known as the Basketball Palace of Mid-America) is the home to the men's and women's basketball teams of the University of Arkansas, known as the Razorbacks. It is located on the campus of the University of Arkansas in Fa ...
in 1993. The team is currently coached by Jason Watson who was hired in 2016 after Robert Pulliza, one of the nation's top recruiters, resigned from his head coaching position in 2015. Before Pulliza took over for Chris Poole in 2008, Poole's team had won 11 SEC Western Division titles from their inaugural season in 1994. As of 2013, the volleyball team has made 11 NCAA Tournament appearances. In 2015, the Razorbacks were one of just three teams ranked top 10 nationally in both hitting percentage and opponent hitting percentage. In more recent years, four Razorback volleyball players were invited to the US Women's Volleyball tryouts in February 2020.
Swim and Dive: The women's swim and dive team is coached by
Neil Harper, who became head coach in 2016. During Harper's first season with the Razorbacks, the swim and dive team placed 11th at the SEC Conference Championship and during his second season, the team placed 10th. The 2020–21 season was kicked off on November 7, with the team facing the Missouri Tigers. There were fourteen events held that day and the Razorbacks won seven of them. The impressive
Brooke Schultz
Brooke Schultz (born January 20, 1999) is an American diver. She competed in the women's 3 metre springboard event at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships
The 2019 World Aquatics Championships were the 18th FINA World Aquatics Championshi ...
, earned NCAA Zone qualifying scores on the 3-meter and 1-meter springboard events.
Traditions
Senior walk
![Old Main Marker](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Old_Main_Marker.JPG)
The names of University of Arkansas students, starting with the first senior class of 1876, are carved into one of the concrete walkways or sidewalks on campus. This tradition was started by the 1905 graduating class of students, who drew their names into the walkway in front of
Old Main
Old Main is a term often applied to the original building present on college or university campuses in the United States. The building serves today as home to administrative offices, such as the president or provost, but in its early inception may ...
, the oldest building on campus. Following classes added their names for more than a decade and then the university took over responsibility for adding new classes, as well as adding the names of students who graduated prior to 1905. Through most of the 20th century, the names were impressed in wet cement using brass letters. As the campus grew, and the graduating classes got bigger, the operation became unduly time-consuming. In 1986, the university's physical plant developed a special machine called the "Senior Sand Hog" to engrave the thousands of names required each year. In 2013, Facilities Management found an accelerated level of weakening and crumbling of the first 50 years of Senior Walk. In 2020, to preserve the walk, the university replaced the original Senior Walk with high-grade monumental concrete, reinforced with steel bar, and the names were sandblasted in their original handwriting. The original sections of Senior Walk will be placed in Old Main for preservation of history.
Spoofer's Stone
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Sitting at the edge of Old Main lawn is Spoofer's Stone, a large chunk of limestone left behind by a broken oxcart after the completion of the construction of Old Main in 1875.
The large stone quickly became a resting spot for students. At this time, male and female students were not allowed to interact on campus. Female students began leaving letters in the rock for their male friends (or romantic interests). In 1933, the female students at the university noticed the damage done to the stone from regular wear and tear and decided to have the stone mounted in a concrete base. A plaque was added to the stone commemorating the 1932-33 class who raised the money for the repair.
In the years after, Spoofer's Stone became a popular engagement spot for couples who met while attending the University of Arkansas. It became tradition for couples who were engaged there to chip off a small piece of the stone as a memento.
On February 25, 2020, as repairs were being made to Old Main and a section of Senior Walk, a construction vehicle caused significant damage to Spoofer's Stone, breaking it into several pieces. According to an announcement from the university via Facebook, a primary section of the stone, including the plaque, remained intact. Plans were made to repair the stone almost immediately. As of October 26, 2020, Spoofer's Stone had been repaired and returned to its original location at the edge of Old Main lawn, after the completion of reconstruction work done on Old Main and Senior Walk. At that time, the university also announced plans to add a crushed granite border around the stone.
"Calling the Hogs"
Fans of the University of Arkansas have been "Calling the Hogs" since the 1920s. This tradition, which refers to the school's most popular cheer at sporting events, is said to have begun when a group of farmers attending a game began issuing hog calls to encourage a lagging
Razorback football team. The encouragement worked and the attending crowd took notice of the farmers' calling. By the next game, a group of men had organized to cry "Wooo, Pig, Sooie". The call has since become the school's best-known cheer.
Alma mater
The University of Arkansas ''Alma Mater'' was written in 1909 by
Brodie Payne, an alumnus of the University of Arkansas.
He submitted his song to an ongoing competition that was trying to find a song for the university and won first prize.
Henry D. Tovey, who was the director of the Glee Club at that time, set the song to music.
In 1931, the University College Song Association in New York reviewed a collection of 500 college tunes, and the University of Arkansas Alma Mater was judged to be one of the twenty-five best college songs of the United States.
It is a student custom to point towards Old Main at the end of the verse when the words "we sing unto you" are sung.
Fight song
Originally known as the "Field Song", the words and tune of the University of Arkansas Fight Song were written in 1913 by William Edwin Douglas while he was an undergraduate. Music was added by Henry D. Tovey, Douglas's music professor, and the song eventually became adopted as the "Arkansas Fight Song".
School colors and mascot
The school color of
cardinal red
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The first recorded use of ''ca ...
(
Pantone
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#201) was chosen as the official school color by a vote of the student body in 1895. The two color choices were
cardinal and
heliotrope. White was added as a complementary color at a later date.
The University of Arkansas mascot has not always been the Razorbacks. From 1894, when the football program began, until 1910, the official mascot was the Cardinals to complement the school color of cardinal red. In 1909, according to school lore, the head football coach
Hugo Bezdek
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gave a speech to a large group of students at the Fayetteville train station after returning from a victory over
LSU
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in 1909 during an undefeated season. Coach Bezdek informed the crowd that his team had performed "like a wild band of Razorback hogs." Although students had begun referring to the team as the Razorbacks as early as 1907, Bezdek's statement popularized the use of Razorback for the team. The Razorback, which is characterized by a ridged back and tenacious wild fighting ability, had long been associated with the backwoods of Arkansas. The students loved the comparison, and the nickname became increasingly popular. In 1910, the student body voted to change the official university mascot from the Cardinal to the Razorback.
Live hogs were occasionally brought to football games as early as the 1920s, but providing a permanent live mascot dates back to the 1960s and a number of hogs have represented Arkansas since then.
Tusk
Tusks are elongated, continuously growing front teeth that protrude well beyond the mouth of certain mammal species. They are most commonly canine teeth, as with pigs and walruses, or, in the case of elephants, elongated incisors. Tusks share c ...
, a 380-pound Russian boar that closely resembles a wild razorback hog, is the current official live mascot. He resides on a local farm and leaves his home to attend all Arkansas home football games, and other select events.
Additionally, the University of Arkansas has a family of uniformed mascots. "
Big Red", (also known as the "Fighting Razorback"), is the traditional mascot for the university and attends all athletic events. "Sue E" is the female hog and "Pork Chop" is the kid mascot. "Boss Hog" is a nine-foot inflatable mascot that joined the mascot family during the 1998–99 football season.
Razorback Marching Band
The Razorback Marching Band, one of the oldest collegiate bands in the United States, was formed in 1874 as the Cadet Corps Band as part of the military art department.
The band participated in all the formalities of the Military Art Department, as well as playing for football games, pageants, and commencement exercises. In 1947, following a steady post World War II growth, the Cadet Corp Band was divided into the three current bands, a football band, a concert band, and an R.O.T.C. band. In 1956, the band adopted the name "Marching Razorbacks." In 2006, the Razorback Marching Band was awarded the highest honor bestowed upon a collegiate marching band, the
Sudler Trophy
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. The band has also performed at the 2011 Allstate Sugar Bowl, the 2012 AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic, many other bowl games and even at Dallas Cowboys football games. As of 2020, the 350-member Razorback Marching Band, along with the Hogwild Pep Band and four concert bands, make up over two percent of the university's undergraduate population.
Schola Cantorum
The University of Arkansas Schola Cantorum was created in 1957 by founding director Richard Brothers. Since then, Schola Cantorum has proudly represented the University of Arkansas across the country and on various international concert tours. In 1962, Schola Cantorum was the first choir to win The
Guido d'Arezzo
Guido of Arezzo ( it, Guido d'Arezzo; – after 1033) was an Italian music theorist and pedagogue of High medieval music. A Benedictine monk, he is regarded as the inventor—or by some, developer—of the modern staff notation that had a ma ...
Award—at the prestigious International Polyphonic Competition in
Arezzo, Italy
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. In honor of its achievement, Schola Cantorum soon after appeared on NBC TV's "
Today Show
''Today'' (also called ''The Today Show'' or informally, ''NBC News Today'') is an American news and talk morning television show that airs weekdays from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. on NBC. The program debuted on January 14, 1952. It w ...
" and performed for U.S. President
John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK and the nickname Jack, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination ...
in the White House Rose Garden. At every graduation ceremony, Schola Cantorum sings the National Anthem, the alma mater, and an invocation. As of 2012, the choir is under the direction of Dr. Stephen Caldwell. The choir participates at national and global events, as well as a number of events on campus.
Clubs and organizations
There are over 350 registered student organizations on campus including special interest, religious, international and cultural organizations, honorary and professional service groups, and more.
The most recognized student organization on campus is the Associated Student Government, sometimes simply called "ASG." The student government is active in managing student fees, meeting with key university administrators and is actively involved in many important decisions made on the University of Arkansas Campus. Perhaps the most significant program on campus, ASG, along with University Parking &
Razorback Transit, and with the support of the DRJ-III Memorial Foundation, manage the Safe Ride program which gives students a safe ride home from any unsafe or uncomfortable situation.
Arkansas is home of ''The Razorback'', a national award-winning student yearbook, UATV, a student-run television station, and
The Arkansas Traveler, a national-award-winning student newspaper established in 1906. The university is also home to two radio stations:
KUAF
KUAF (91.3 MHz) is a non-commercial FM radio station licensed to Fayetteville, Arkansas, serving Northwest Arkansas. The station is owned by the University of Arkansas, with studios and offices near the school's campus in Downtown Fayettevil ...
, a
public radio
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station and
NPR
National Public Radio (NPR, stylized in all lowercase) is an American privately and state funded nonprofit media organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California. It differs from other ...
affiliate, and
KXUA, an eclectic student-run station.
The University of Arkansas Press is known for publishing works on local and Southern history, as well as its strong poetry series, including books of poetry by former President
Jimmy Carter
James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, he previously served as th ...
and the former national poet laureate
Billy Collins
William James Collins (born March 22, 1941) is an American poet, appointed as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. He is a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York (retired, 2016). Collins ...
.
Distinguished Lecture and Headliner Series
Two of the most visible student-run organizations on campus are the Distinguished Lectures Committee and Headliners Concert Series. Notable speakers and bands to visit the University of Arkansas as a result of these organizations include lectures by
Ehud Barak,
["Newswire]
Former President George H.W. Bush to speak at University of Arkansas
Retrieved October 5, 2010. Benazir Bhutto
Benazir Bhutto ( ur, بینظیر بُھٹو; sd, بينظير ڀُٽو; Urdu ; 21 June 1953 – 27 December 2007) was a Pakistani politician who served as the 11th and 13th prime minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990 and again from 1993 t ...
,
Dave Barry,
["Newswire]
All's Fair: Carville and Matalin to Talk Love, War and Politics
Retrieved October 5, 2010. George H. W. Bush
George Herbert Walker BushSince around 2000, he has been usually called George H. W. Bush, Bush Senior, Bush 41 or Bush the Elder to distinguish him from his eldest son, George W. Bush, who served as the 43rd president from 2001 to 2009; pr ...
,
James Carville
Chester James Carville Jr. (born October 25, 1944) is an American political consultant, author, and occasional actor who has strategized for candidates for public office in the United States and in at least 23 nations abroad. A Democrat, he is an ...
,
Anderson Cooper,
Geraldine Ferraro
Geraldine Anne Ferraro (August 26, 1935 March 26, 2011) was an American politician, diplomat, and attorney. She served in the United States House of Representatives from 1979 to 1985, and was the Democratic Party's vice presidential nominee ...
,
["Newswire]
Ferraro to Give Distinguished Lecture
Retrieved October 5, 2010. Al Franken
Alan Stuart Franken (born May 21, 1951) is an American comedian, politician, media personality, and author who served as a United States senator from Minnesota from 2009 to 2018. He gained fame as a writer and performer on the television comed ...
,
["Newswire]
Olympic Medalist, Best-Selling Author Next Distinguished Lecturers at University of Arkansas
Retrieved October 5, 2010. Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Timothy Gladwell (born 3 September 1963) is an English-born Canadian journalist, author, and public speaker. He has been a staff writer for ''The New Yorker'' since 1996. He has published seven books: '' The Tipping Point: How Little ...
,
Magic Johnson,
["Newswire]
"Magic" Johnson to speak
Retrieved October 5, 2010. James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones (born January 17, 1931) is an American actor. He has been described as "one of America's most distinguished and versatile" actors for his performances in film, television, and theater, and "one of the greatest actors in America ...
,
["Newswire]
Rushdie to Give Distinguished Lecture
Retrieved October 5, 2010. Martin Luther King III
Martin Luther King III (born October 23, 1957) is an American human rights activist, philanthropist and advocate. The oldest son and oldest living child of civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, King served as the 4t ...
,
["Newswire]
Martin Luther King III to Speak at University of Arkansas
Retrieved October 5, 2010. T. Boone Pickens,
["Newswire]
T. Boone Pickens to Bring Energy Independence Message to University of Arkansas
Retrieved October 5, 2010. Mary Matalin
Mary Joe Matalin (born August 19, 1953) is an American political consultant well known for her work with the Republican Party. She has served under President Ronald Reagan, was campaign director for George H. W. Bush, was an assistant to Presid ...
,
Ehud Olmert,
["Newswire]
Former Israeli Prime Minister to Speak at University of Arkansas
Retrieved October 5, 2010. Apolo Ohno,
Robert Redford
Charles Robert Redford Jr. (born August 18, 1936) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is the List of awards and nominations received by Robert Redford, recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Awards, Academy Award from four nomi ...
,
Salman Rushdie
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (; born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British-American novelist. His work often combines magic realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Wes ...
,
Ben Stein,
Joseph Taylor,
["Newswire]
Nobel Physicist Joseph Taylor to Deliver 2009 Maurer Distinguished Lecture
Retrieved October 5, 2010. Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
The 14th Dalai Lama (spiritual name Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, known as Tenzin Gyatso (Tibetan: བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་, Wylie: ''bsTan-'dzin rgya-mtsho''); né Lhamo Thondup), known as ...
.,
["Newswire]
His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Visit the University of Arkansas in May 2011
Retrieved October 5, 2010 Nikki Giovanni
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni Jr. (born June 7, 1943) is an American poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator. One of the world's most well-known African-American poets,Jane M. Barstow, Yolanda Williams Page (eds)"Nikki Giovanni" ''E ...
,
Aron Ralston
Aron Lee Ralston (born October 27, 1975) is an American mountaineer, mechanical engineer, and motivational speaker, known for surviving a canyoneering accident by cutting off part of his right arm.
On April 26, 2003, during a solo descent of Bl ...
,
General Wesley Clark
Wesley Kanne Clark (born December 23, 1944) is a retired United States Army officer. He graduated as valedictorian of the class of 1966 at West Point and was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford, where he obtained a degree ...
,
Elie Wiesel, and
Jane Goodall
Dame Jane Morris Goodall (; born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall on 3 April 1934), formerly Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall, is an English primatologist and anthropologist. Seen as the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, Goodall is best kn ...
. Past concerts were headlined by
Dierks Bentley
Frederick Dierks Bentley (; born November 20, 1975) is an American country music singer and songwriter. In 2003, he signed to Capitol Nashville and released his eponymous debut album. Both it and its follow-up, 2005's '' Modern Day Drifter'', a ...
,
["Calendar]
Dierks Bentley Concert Tickets
Retrieved October 5, 2010. the
Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters are an American rock band formed in Seattle in 1994. Foo Fighters was initially formed as a one-man project by former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl. Following the success of the eponymous debut album, Grohl (lead vocals, guitar) re ...
,
["Newswire]
University of Arkansas Headliner Concerts Committee Brings Third Eye Blind to Barnhill Arena
Retrieved October 5, 2010. John Mayer,
["Newswire]
Hip-Hop Legends, The Roots, to Play at UA
Retrieved October 5, 2010. O.A.R.
O.A.R. (short for Of A Revolution) is an American rock band, founded in 1996 in Rockville, Maryland. The band consists of lead vocalist/guitarist Marc Roberge, drummer Chris Culos, guitarist Richard On, bassist Benj Gershman, saxophonist/guitar ...
,
["Newswire]
University Headliner Concerts Committee Brings O.A.R. to Barnhill Arena on Nov. 10
Retrieved October 5, 2010. The Roots,
T.I.,
Third Eye Blind
Third Eye Blind is an American rock band formed in San Francisco, California, in 1993. After years of lineup changes in the early and mid-1990s, the songwriting duo of Stephan Jenkins and Kevin Cadogan signed the band's first major-label reco ...
,
and
Snoop Dogg
Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr. (born October 20, 1971), known professionally as Snoop Dogg (previously Snoop Doggy Dogg and briefly Snoop Lion), is an American rapper. His fame dates back to 1992 when he featured on Dr. Dre's debut solo single, " ...
.
Greek life
Sororities
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Alpha Chi Omega
Alpha Chi Omega (, also known as Alpha Chi or A Chi O) is a national women's fraternity founded on October 15, 1885.
As of 2018, there are 132 collegiate and 279 alumnae chapters represented across the United States, and the fraternity counts ...
2012
*
Alpha Delta Pi
Alpha Delta Pi (), commonly known as ADPi (pronounced "ay-dee-pye"), is an International Panhellenic sorority founded on May 15, 1851, at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia. It is the oldest secret society for women.
Alpha Delta Pi is a memb ...
1957
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Alpha Kappa Alpha 1976
*
Alpha Omicron Pi
Alpha Omicron Pi (, AOII, Alpha O) is an international women's fraternity founded on January 2, 1897, at Barnard College on the campus of Columbia University in New York City. The main archive URL iThe Baird's Manual Online Archive homepage
"AOI ...
2006
*
Chi Omega 1895
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Delta Delta Delta
Delta Delta Delta (), also known as Tri Delta, is an international women's fraternity founded on November 27, 1888 at Boston University by Sarah Ida Shaw, Eleanor Dorcas Pond, Isabel Morgan Breed, and Florence Isabelle Stewart.
Tri Delta part ...
1913
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Delta Gamma
Delta Gamma (), commonly known as DG, is a women's fraternity in the United States and Canada with over 250,000 initiated members. It has 150 collegiate chapters and more than 200 alumnae groups. The organization's executive office is in Columbus ...
2016
*Delta Sigma Theta 1974
*Kappa Delta 1989
*Kappa Kappa Gamma 1925
*Phi Mu 2012
*Pi Beta Phi 1909
*Sigma Iota Alpha 2011
*Zeta Phi Beta 1978
*Zeta Tau Alpha 1903
Fraternities
*Alpha Gamma Rho 1934
*Alpha Phi Alpha 1975
*Beta Theta Pi 2012
*FarmHouse 1954
*Kappa Alpha Order 1895
*Kappa Alpha Psi 1978
*Kappa Sigma 1890
*Lambda Chi Alpha 1923
*Omega Psi Phi 1974
*Phi Beta Sigma 1978
*Phi Delta Theta 1948
*Phi Gamma Delta 1969
*Phi Iota Alpha 2007
*Pi Kappa Alpha 1904
*Sigma Alpha Epsilon 1894
*Sigma Chi 1905
*Sigma Nu 1904
*Sigma Phi Epsilon 1907
*Sigma Pi 1948
*Theta Chi 2017
Professional and Honorary
*Alpha Chi Sigma 1928 (Alpha Sigma chapter, professional chemistry fraternity)
*Alpha Epsilon Delta (Pre-medical honor society)
*Alpha Gamma Rho 1934 (Social/professional agriculture)
*Alpha Kappa Psi 1928 Beta Zeta Chapter (professional business fraternity)
*Alpha Phi Sigma 2008 Iota Rho Chapter (Criminal Justice Honor Society)
*Alpha Rho Chi (architecture)
*American Marketing Association
*Beta Gamma Sigma 1932 (business honor society)
*Delta Phi Alpha Iota XI Chapter (German honor society)
*Eta Sigma Phi (Classics honor society)
*Kappa Kappa Psi (Lambda chapter, national honorary band fraternity)
*Lambda Pi Eta 1985 (communication studies honor society)
*Phi Alpha Theta 1921 (history honor society)
*Phi Beta Kappa 1932 (liberal arts and sciences honor society)
*Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia 1925 (Alpha Omicron chapter, oldest national music fraternity)
*Sigma Alpha Iota Chapter (professional agriculture sorority)
*Sigma Alpha Iota 1925 (Sigma Omicron chapter of national music sorority)
*Sigma Delta Pi (Spanish honor society)
*Sigma Phi Lambda 2005
*Students of Retailing Excellence 2011
*Tau Beta Sigma 1950 (Psi chapter of national band sorority)
*Theta Tau 1928 (Upsilon chapter, professional engineering)
Notable people
File:Doug McMillon Headshot 2019.jpg, Doug McMillon, President and CEO of Walmart, Walmart Inc.
File:S. Robson Walton by Gage Skidmore.jpg, S. Robson Walton, Former Chairman of Walmart, Walmart Inc.
File:Jim Walton attends shareholders meeting.jpg, Jim Walton, chairman and CEO of Arvest Bank, Arvest Bank Group, Inc.
File:Fulbright.jpg, J. William Fulbright, US Senator of Arkansas and namesake of Fulbright Program
File:Accelerating_Infrastructure_Development_Ricardo_Martinelli_(8410953465).jpg, Ricardo Martinelli, List of heads of state of Panama, 36th President of Panama
File:James O McKinsey.jpg, James O. McKinsey, founder of McKinsey & Company
File:VernClark.jpg, Vern Clark, 27th Chief of Naval Operations
File:Dake TR.jpg, Terrence R. Dake, 27th Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps
File:RichardCHarding.JPG, Richard C. Harding, 15th United States Air Force Judge Advocate General's Corps, Judge Advocate General of the United States Air Force
File:HughOverholt2.jpg, Hugh R. Overholt, 32nd Judge Advocate General of the United States Army
File:MackMclarty.jpg, Mack McLarty, 17th White House Chief of Staff
File:slater rodney.jpg, Rodney E. Slater, 13th United States Secretary of Transportation
File:Jerry Jones (24176024648) (cropped).jpg, Jerry Jones, owner president of Dallas Cowboys
File:John Stallings.jpg, John R. Stallings, mathematician
File:Arnold,morris-portrait.gif, Morris S. Arnold, Judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review
File:Cliff Lee at ESPN Weekend.jpg, Cliff Lee, 4 time Major League Baseball, MLB star
File:2010 Women's British Open – Stacy Lewis (9).jpg, Stacy Lewis, LPGA 2-time major champion
Though neither attended the university, both former President of the United States, president
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson Clinton ( né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He previously served as governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and agai ...
and former United States Secretary of State, secretary of state and presidential nominee
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton ( Rodham; born October 26, 1947) is an American politician, diplomat, and former lawyer who served as the 67th United States Secretary of State for President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013, as a United States sen ...
taught at the university's law school in the early 1970s. Clinton House (Fayetteville, Arkansas), The house where they lived in Fayetteville is now a historic site and museum.
The University of Arkansas Alumni Association operates chapters in 30 states throughout the United States. Throughout the university's history, faculty, alumni, and former students have played prominent roles in many different fields. Among its Distinguished Alumni is Ricardo Martinelli, former president of the Panama, Republic of Panama from 2009 to 2014. Seventeen Arkansas graduates have held the position of governor, including the current Governor of Arkansas Asa Hutchinson. Twenty-six University of Arkansas graduates have also represented the state of Arkansas in the United States House of Representatives, including at least one in every Congress from the start of the 57th Congress in 1901 to 2009. Six Arkansas graduates have also held at least one US Senate seat from Arkansas since 1945. From 1979 to 2003, both seats were held by Arkansas graduates: the late J. William Fulbright and current US Senator John Boozman.
Arkansas alumni have also become prominent in the music world. Singer songwriter Ben Rector graduated from The University of Arkansas in 2009. A notable single of his includes "Brand New", which was featured in the trailer for the Nicholas Sparks film ''The Choice''.
File:Bill Clinton.jpg, Bill Clinton
William Jefferson Clinton ( né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He previously served as governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and agai ...
, 42nd President of the United States
File:Hillary Clinton by Gage Skidmore 4 (cropped).jpg, Hillary Clinton
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton ( Rodham; born October 26, 1947) is an American politician, diplomat, and former lawyer who served as the 67th United States Secretary of State for President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013, as a United States sen ...
, 67th U.S. Secretary of State
File:Friedrich Hayek portrait.jpg, Friedrich Hayek,
Arkansas alumni have made contributions to the business world and academia. These alumni include Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones. Other Arkansas business alumni include executives of major corporations like S. Robson Walton of Wal-Mart, Scott T. Ford of Alltel, and Ed Wilson of Fox Broadcasting Company & Tribune Broadcasting. Other Arkansas alumni have also held Chancellor and President positions at numerous universities including John Tyler Caldwell who served as the Chancellor of North Carolina State University, and Ray Thornton who served as President of Arkansas State University.
Arkansas alumni have also made contributions to professional sports. Arkansas Razorbacks have moved on to play in the National Football League, NFL, National Basketball Association, NBA, Women's National Basketball Association, WNBA, and MLB. Notable alumni in the world of sports include MLB Cy Young Award winning pitcher Cliff Lee and seven-time NBA All Star Game, NBA All Star Joe Johnson (basketball), Joe Johnson. Others former Razorbacks include 10 Olympians who have won 14 Olympic medals including Mike Conley, Sr. who won Olympics medals at the 1984 Summer Olympics, 1984 and 1992 Summer Olympics, 1992 Olympics. Eight Pro Football Hall of Famers including Dan Hampton attended the University of Arkansas.
Pro football hall of fame
NFL. profootballhof.com. Retrieved July 4, 2010.
Gallery
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File:Arkansas Union.jpg,
File:Chi Omega Greek Theater.jpg,
File:David W. Mullins Library.JPG,
File:Fulbright Peace Fountain.JPG,
File:Ozark Hall, University of Arkansas.JPG, Gearhart Hall (formerly Ozark Hall)
File:Spoofer's Stone.JPG,
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File:ClintonSchoolOfPublicServiceBuilding.jpg,
File:Tri Delta Clock.JPG,
File:OldUAfieldhouse.jpg,
File:Old Main Arkansas view.jpg,
File:CarnallHallUA.jpg,
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See also
*List of forestry universities and colleges
*University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Shooting
Notes
References
External links
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University of Arkansas Athletics website
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