| |
|
|
|
|
CONTENTS Table of Graduate Degree Programs and Degrees Colleges, Schools, Departments, Certificates and Degree Programs The Graduate School: Objectives, Regulations, Degrees The Graduate School of Business The Graduate School of Business: Departments and Course Descriptions The Graduate School: Departments and Course Descriptions Academic Resources and Research Units
|
2003-2004 Graduate School CatalogA Message from the ChancellorI invite you to share in our vision for the University of Arkansas as we work to emerge as a nationally competitive, student-centered research university serving Arkansas and the world. It's a vision that comes closer to realization with each passing year, thanks to an enormously talented faculty, bright and hard-working students, a dedicated staff, and a network of enthusiastic alumni and devoted friends across the state, nation and world. It's a vision that's contingent upon making rapid progress toward five institutional goals:
· Strengthening academic quality and reputation by enhancing and developing programs of excellence in teaching, research and outreach; · Increasing the size and quality of our student body; · Enhancing diversity among our faculty, students, and staff; · Increasing public financial support, particularly that provided by the state and federal government; · Increasing private gift support from alumni, friends, corporations, foundations and other organizations.
To be sure, the University of Arkansas already is one of the nation's great public research universities. It has a proud legacy of internationally significant scientific and intellectual achievements in many academic fields. It also enjoys a reputation of being a great teaching university and has produced over 120,567 graduates over its 132-year history who have provided leadership in their professions. In addition, the University creatively harnesses its intellectual capital to reach out to Arkansans and others through myriad outreach and public service programs, making life better for everyone. The year 2002 marked a great inflection point in the University's history. Thanks to the generosity of the Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation, the University of Arkansas received a $300 million gift the largest in the history of American public higher education. We are using $200 million to establish and endow what we believe will become the nation's finest undergraduate public honors college. The remaining $100 million is being used to endow the University of Arkansas Graduate School. These two initiatives will fuel a rapid rise in academic quality and reputation, which in turn will allow us to fulfill our potential for serving as a powerful engine of economic development and cultural change. I invite you to use this catalog of the University Arkansas and become better acquainted with who we are and where we're going. On behalf of the University of Arkansas community, I also invite your support and involvement as we create a better future for the people we serve.
Sincerely,
John A. White
|
|
|
The University of Arkansas is a nationally competitive, student-centered research university serving Arkansas and the world. [XpressMail] [Phone and E-Mail Directories] [Search] [Contact Us] University
of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701 http://www.uark.edu/ |
||
