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		<title>UALR Places in Microsoft Software Design Competition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (May 6, 2009) – A team of UALR graduate business students won second runner-up in the national Microsoft Corp. Imagine Cup Software Design Initiative competition at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Mass. 
UALR’s finish was a stunning accomplishment, considering it was the first year the University competed in the worldwide [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arkapu.org/2009/05/06/ualr-places-in-microsoft-software-design-competition/</link>
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		<title>AAPU Executive Director to Speak at UAFS Commencement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Tim Wooldridge, executive director of the Arkansas Association of Public Universities, will be guest speaker for the May 9 commencement exercises at the University of Arkansas - Fort Smith.
The ceremony will be held at 2 p.m. in Stubblefield Center, Kinkead Ave. and Waldron Rd., and will include the awarding of 704 degrees and certificates.
Wooldridge [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arkapu.org/2009/04/16/aapu-executive-director-to-speak-at-uafs-commencement/</link>
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		<title>State Colleges and Universities Applaud Signing of Transfer Policy Act</title>
		<description><![CDATA[North Little Rock – Members of the Arkansas Association of Public Universities and the Arkansas Association of Two Year Colleges applauded as Governor Mike Beebe recently signed The Roger Phillips Transfer Policy Act. Rep. Mike Burris introduced HB 1357, which will make transferring credits between state colleges and universities easier. Burris invited the daughters and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arkapu.org/2009/02/23/state-colleges-and-universities-applaud-signing-of-transfer-policy-act/</link>
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		<title>AAPU endorse Beebe&#8217;s tobacco tax for healthcare</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Arkansas Association of Public Universities (AAPU) today announced its endorsement of Governor Mike Beebe&#8217;s tobacco tax proposal to fund a statewide trauma system and other health programs.
The presidents and chancellors of AAPU institutions voted unanimously at a recent meeting to support the plan. AAPU institutions, particularly the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arkapu.org/2009/02/04/aapu-endorse-beebes-tobacco-tax-for-healthcare/</link>
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		<title>Four-year universities create opportunities with ARE-ON</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All of Arkansas’s four-year public universities will soon be connected to ARE-ON, the high-speed fiber based optical communications network that will expand research, academic, healthcare and emergency preparedness capabilities throughout the state.
ARE-ON (Arkansas Research and Education Optical Network) provides access to national/international high speed infrastructure such as the National LambdaRail, an ultra-fast national Internet infrastructure [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arkapu.org/2009/02/04/four-year-universities-create-opportunities-with-are-on/</link>
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		<title>College degree vital, top educators say</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Greg Toppo, USA TODAY
A group of college presidents and other top education officials says the USA&#8217;s &#8220;economic, democratic and social health&#8221; could worsen over the next several decades if more Americans don&#8217;t earn a college degree. The group is pushing to increase the percentage of young people who earn a degree from 40% to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arkapu.org/2008/12/18/college-degree-vital-top-educators-say/</link>
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		<title>Supreme Court rules no-bid contracts legal at state level</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
The Arkansas Supreme Court ruled Thursday morning that a state law allowing no-bid contracts on some state construction projects is constitutional.
The court affirmed a Pulaski County circuit court ruling that the 2001 law applying to contracts of $5 million or more does not violate the state constitution.
The circuit court ruled against a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arkapu.org/2008/12/11/supreme-court-rules-no-bid-contracts-legal-at-state-level/</link>
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		<title>While Public Colleges Feel Pain, For-Profits See Gains</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Jack Stripling (Insidehighered.com)
WASHINGTON — State support of public colleges is shrinking.
Endowment values are plummeting.
Tuition is increasing, and threatening college affordability.
Sounds pretty bleak, right? Not if you run a for-profit college.
“In my opinion, all of that is good news for career colleges,” Rene Champagne, chairman of the Career College Association, told fellow leaders of for-profit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arkapu.org/2008/12/10/while-public-colleges-feel-pain-for-profits-see-gains/</link>
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		<title>More Funding Needed for Higher Education</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Ed H. Moore 
November 29, 2008
 
(South Florida Sun-Sentinal)

&#8220;You produce good jobs by having great education.&#8221; 
With these words, Gov. Charlie Crist endorsed a bold package of changes in both public tuition structure and governance.
Florida has 28 private, not for profit, colleges and universities and 11 public colleges and universities. They are laboratories for innovation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arkapu.org/2008/12/04/more-funding-needed-for-higher-education/</link>
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		<title>Christmas Wins Another Round</title>
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There may be a war against Christmas, but the holiday is holding its own at public universities. On Wednesday, facing widespread criticism, the president of Florida Gulf Coast University reversed a ban on religious holiday decorations on the campus. This is the second year in a row that a public university has initially called off [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arkapu.org/2008/12/01/christmas-wins-another-round/</link>
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