Outreach & Public Service
To meet its land-grant university responsibility of contributing to the public good, the University generates dozens of public service and outreach programs that touch the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arkansans every year.
Many traditional agricultural extension programs exist within the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences. In addition, the Agricultural Experiment Station headquartered in Fayetteville provides services to a greater numbers of students and citizens than ever before.
But university outreach is not limited to agricultural extension. In fact, there are nearly 50 distance education and service programs that exist in all of the University’s schools and colleges. For example:
The University of Arkansas Community Design Center has provided design and planning services to dozens of communities and organizations across Arkansas. The UACDC helped to generate almost $70 million in Arkansas economic development over a recent 10-year period. In addition to revitalizing historic downtowns, the UACDC addresses new challenges in affordable housing, urban sprawl, environmental planning and management of regional growth or decline.
The Center for Business and Economic Research in the Sam M. Walton College of Business offers economic, demographic and business data to all citizens in Arkansas who request it. Many of these constituents include new business start-ups and those wishing to expand their business or market area.
The educational data distribution system, a database maintained by the Office for Research, Measurement and Evaluation in the College of Education and Health Professions, offers every school superintendent in Arkansas crucial assistance in accessing, understanding and using the data about their schools.
The Arkansas Leadership Academy, also in the College of Education and Health Professions, has influenced school districts in every county of the state. More than 500 superintendents and 1,700 teachers have participated in team institutes to work on issues facing their schools.
The GENESIS Technology Incubator provides technology-based companies with research and development support by providing access to university labs and facilities, as well as technical support from University of Arkansas researchers. A service of the College of Engineering, GENESIS has been nationally recognized as a model technology business incubator.
The Terrorism Research Center, operated by the department of sociology and criminal justice in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, serves as a clearinghouse for information about terrorist groups, promotes interdisciplinary research on terrorism and provides information to law enforcement officials and attorneys.
The Center for Advanced Spatial Technology of the Fulbright College has provided mapping and geographical information of Washington and Benton counties that allows city and county planners a bird’s eye view of the world.
In the School of Law, a legal clinic assists poverty-level citizens and governmental and nonprofit organizations in both civil and criminal proceedings free of charge.
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