Shayna Boyster of Newport has been accepted for admission to Lyon College and has been awarded an Honors Day scholarship.
SEARCY, Ark. — Cindy Evins of Newport is one of more than 200 graduates who will receive diplomas at Harding University commencement exercises Saturday, July 30.
Graduates of the Adult Education program at ASU-Newport celebrated Tuesday evening with a commencement ceremony and reception in their honor in the Center for the Arts. Seventeen of the year’s 40 Arkansas High School Diploma (GED) recipients participated in the ceremony.
When Arkansas State University held its 2011 spring commencement Saturday, May 7, and Dr. G. Daniel Howard, interim chancellor at ASU confered degrees upon 2,000 graduates, a founder of rockabilly music was among them.
Faculty, staff, family, and friends gathered in the Center for the Arts last Friday to celebrate the success of 119 (out of 214 total graduates this year) ASU-Newport students as they crossed the stage to receive their diplomas and certificates. A record number of graduates resulted in standing room only!
You are cordially invited to attend the 2011 commencement ceremony at Arkansas State University-Newport, which will be held Friday, May 6 at 7 p.m. in the Center for the Arts.
Approximately 206 students will be eligible to graduate. That number includes students who completed their coursework in December and those receiving technical certificates.
The guest speakers for the event are ASUN Faculty Senate President Tressa Clark and Student Government Association President Christopher Cross.
The 2010-11 edition of Who’s Who Among Students in American Junior Colleges will include the names of fourteen students from Arkansas State University-Newport who have been selected as national outstanding campus leaders.
The state Odyssey of the Mind competition was held Saturday, April 9, at Arkansas State University at Beebe.
For the past couple of weeks, I have been telling you stories of the ASUN Travel/Study trip to Berlin. I have had the opportunity to talk to several readers who have asked me to share more photographs of the trip and our group, so here are a few for you to enjoy.
ASUN student Christopher Cross was a scholarship recipient who made the journey to Berlin during Spring Break and the eight-hour flight from Memphis to Amsterdam was his very first plane ride.
A very weary group of travelers made their way back to the ASU-Newport campus late Saturday evening with suitcases full of souvenirs, cameras full of pictures and bellies full of yummy German treats!
We arrived in Berlin (via Amsterdam) on Sunday after traveling all night. The weather was great…sunny and a bit warmer than what we left behind in Arkansas.
Spring Break is upon us at ASUN and for some that means catching up on some rest and getting some extra sleep, finishing that dreaded research paper, working extra hours, or for some, traveling to Germany.
In celebration of Black History Month the ASUN Student Government Association took a group of five students to the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis. Two of the students had never been to the museum. Those students who made the trip were Marcus Brooks, Christopher Cross, Taylor Mabin, JaTay Redd, and Robin Rucker. They were accompanied by ASUN Counselor Amber Grady.
Jessica Ardrey of Newport, from the Harding University chapter of Society of Professional Journalists, worked as part of a team of college students who hosted journalism workshops in February for local high school students in Searcy.
The Arkansas Tobacco Settlement Commission (ATSC) is proud to announce the awards for its 2011 Child Wellness Intervention Project(CWIP) Grant Program.
In a ceremony on the Second Floor Rotunda of the Arkansas State Capitol a $13,894.51 grant was awarded to Newport Junior High by Dr. Joe Thompson, Arkansas Surgeon General and Commissioners of the Arkansas Tobacco Settlement Commission.
The National Center for Educational Achievement (NCEA), a department of ACT, released its 2010 NCEA Higher Performing Schools List for Arkansas on its public website (www.nc4ea.org) recently. The list identifies NCEA Higher Performing Schools - those elementary, middle and high schools that have consistently outperformed their peers that serve similar student populations - and recognizes their achievement in bringing more students to college and career readiness than expected.
Dr. Larry Bennett has spent a large portion of his life trying to better the lives of students through education.
The Arkansas State University Board of Trustees will hold their quarterly meeting on the ASU-Newport campus tomorrow…that’s Friday, March 4…at 9am sharp. The board rotates their meetings between all of the ASU System campuses, last meeting in Newport in May 2009. The meetings are open to the public.
University of Arkansas Chancellor G. David Gearhart is proud to announce the names of the undergraduates who earned a place on the chancellor’s list for the fall 2010 semester. Students must earn a 4.0 grade point average in at least 12 hours of classes during a regular term to be named to the chancellor’s list.
“Choosing the Right Path” was the topic presented to ASUN students this week by District Court Judge Barbara Griffin. Judge Griffin spoke to students in a Real Life Workshop, the first of a series presented by the ASUN Counseling Center and Career Pathways.
