Arkansas Short Takes: Campus Improvements Total $1.3 Billion
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Students and faculty at the University of Arkansas are benefiting from an unprecedented investment of approximately $1.3 billion in new construction, major renovations and facilities enhancements on campus since 2000. This week’s Arkansas Short Takes video “Campus Transformation” gives viewers a glimpse of the ever-evolving campus in about 90 seconds.
The university’s growing enrollment is partially responsible for the surge in construction. Undergraduate enrollment at the university has soared in recent years, increasing by nearly 37 percent since 2007, helping boost the university’s total enrollment to nearly 24,600 this school year. In 2009, the university’s total enrollment was just under 20,000; three years later the undergraduate population alone – 20,433 – is larger than that, in addition to the nearly 4,200 graduate students now enrolled.
See previous Arkansas Short Takes videos.
Contacts
John Diamond, associate vice chancellor
University Relations
479-575-5554,
diamond@uark.edu
Mark Rushing, associate vice chancellor
University Relations
479-575-5555,
markr@uark.edu
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