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Dogs With the Dean on Friday, Oct. 8
Classroom and auditorium dedications
Farm Bureau adds scholarship fund to UA campaign
Academic Enhancement Workshops
National science writers to meet at U of A
Scottish professor visits HESC
Sixty-year-old UA faculty member will run in the New York Marathon
Lincoln headlines ‘Year of the Family’ luncheon
Forestry and Wildlife Field Day
Bentonville Garden Club to endow scholarship
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August
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U of A professor co-authors agricultural technology textbook
Field day highlights fertility, other research for rice, soybeans
Statewide farm conference for women only
Cool weather and drift hot topics at SEREC field day
An egg roll for the 21st century
Environmental factors contribute to deer-vehicle collisions
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of Arkansas Division of Agriculture
Dale
Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences
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newsletter for faculty, staff and students
September-October 2004 • Vol. 30, No. 5
Fall Enrollment Most Ever at UA
Enrollment at the University of Arkansas set a new record, with 17,269 students for the fall 2004 semester, a 4.9 percent increase from 16,449 set one year ago, and the first time the U of A has surpassed the 17,000 student mark, according to preliminary reports on 11th day class numbers.
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| Dr. Mary Warnock teaches HESC orientation on the first day of class. |
Enrollment in each College and Department had not been officially released at this posting, but Bumpers College records indicate that undergraduate enrollment in the College increased by at least 7 percent. In that event, the number of undergraduate students will pass the 1,100 mark for the first time since 1983.
Campus wide, the six-year graduation rate, based this year on the matriculation of the 1998 freshman class, reached an all-time high. Through summer 2004, 52.8 percent had graduated, up from 48.1 percent last year.
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| Bumpers College Ambassador Lindsay West helps Terri Tidyman, a freshman psychology student, find her way on the first day of classes. |
The six-year graduation rate for Bumpers College in 2004 has not been officially reported, but it was 58 percent the previous year.
When Chancellor John A. White arrived at the university in 1997, the university's enrollment was 14,740 students and the graduation rate stood at 41.8 percent. Chancellor White has set an enrollment goal of 22,500 by 2010, and a graduation rate of 66 percent.
The 2010 enrollment goal for Bumpers College is 2,000 undergraduate students and 500 graduate students.
Undergraduates made up 13,831 of the campus total.
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| Dr. Mary Savin teaches orientation for the Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences Department in PTSC 7 on the first day of class. |
The freshman class, at 2,501, was the second-largest since the enrollment growth effort began. Last year's class was 2,357; the largest class since 1997 was the freshman class of 1998, at 2,556.