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The Commission on Accreditation (COA) has granted Arkansas State University's master of social work (MSW) program, which has been a candidate for accreditation by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), initial accreditation from the academic...

For the third straight year, Arkansas State University has been awarded the designation of Military Friendly School. G.I. Jobs, the premier magazine for military personnel transitioning into civilian life, made the 2012 designation. The 2012 Military...

Arkansas State University will celebrate the 10-year anniversary of its Heritage Studies Ph.D. program with an anniversary symposium on Friday, Oct. 7, at 12:30 p.m. The symposium will be held in the Mockingbird Room of ASU's Carl R. Reng Student...

Arkansas State's University Police Chief Randy Martin and his University Police Department marked National Campus Safety Awareness Week with several different events for the campus community Monday-Friday, Sept. 12-16. The common denominator for...

Arkansas State University today announced an unofficial fall semester enrollment of 13,920 students at the Jonesboro campus (that are countable by the Arkansas Department of Higher Education-ADHE) plus 300 full-time international students enrolled...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently announced funding for the Experiential Learning Fellowships (ELF) Program in the College of Sciences and Mathematics at Arkansas State University. This five-year, $567,000 project will provide 16 undergraduate...

On Thursday, Aug. 4, Arkansas State University's Convocation Center was the scene of a sold-out concert-the first-ever Johnny Cash Music Festival. More than 7,000 tickets were sold, yielding $310,000, with every penny earmarked for the restoration...

Performing artist Kris Kristofferson (pictured) arrived in Jonesboro Wednesday morning and immediately went to the Convocation Center to begin preparation for the inaugural Johnny Cash Music Festival.

Performing artists John Carter Cash, Rodney Crowell, and Kris Kristofferson spoke today at a press conference at Arkansas State University's Convocation Center, 217 Olympic Drive, Jonesboro. The artists, along with others, will perform tomorrow,...

The premiere of a new documentary, Hattie Caraway: The Silent Woman, will be held in the Arkansas State University Student Union Auditorium, 101 N. Caraway Road, on Tuesday, July 19, from 7-9 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. After...