Washington County is a regional economic,educational,and cultural hub in the Northwest Arkansas region. Created as Arkansas's 17th county on November 30,1848,Washington County has 13 incorporated municipalities,including Fayetteville,the county seat,and Springdale. The county is also the site of small towns,bedroom communities,and unincorporated places. The county is named for George Washington,the first President of the United States.
Fayetteville is the second-largest city in Arkansas,the county seat of Washington County,and the biggest city in Northwest Arkansas. The city is on the outskirts of the Boston Mountains,deep within the Ozarks. Known as Washington until 1829,the city was named after Fayetteville,Tennessee,from which many of the settlers had come. It was incorporated on November 3,1836,and was rechartered in 1867. The three-county Northwest Arkansas Metropolitan Statistical Area is ranked 105th in terms of population in the United States with 546,725 in 2020 according to the United States Census Bureau. The city had a population of 93,949 at the 2020 Census.
The University of Arkansas is a public land-grant research university in Fayetteville,Arkansas. It is the flagship campus of the University of Arkansas System and the largest university in Arkansas. Founded as Arkansas Industrial University in 1871,classes were first held on January 22,1872,with its present name adopted in 1899. It is noted for its strong programs in architecture,agriculture,communication disorders,creative writing,history,law,and Middle Eastern studies,as well as for its business school,of which the supply chain management program was ranked the best in North America by Gartner in July 2020. In a 2021 study compiled by DegreeChoices and published by Forbes,the University of Arkansas ranked 13th among universities with the most graduates working at top Fortune 500 companies.
Martin Thomas Meehan is an American academic administrator,politician,and attorney. Since July 2015,Meehan has served as the President of the University of Massachusetts after serving as Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Lowell since September 2007.
Lyon College is an private liberal arts college affiliated with the Presbyterian Church and located in Batesville,Arkansas. Founded in 1872 as Arkansas College, it is the oldest independent college in Arkansas.
The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (UAPB) is a public historically black university in Pine Bluff,Arkansas. Founded in 1873,it is the second oldest public college or university in the state of Arkansas. UAPB is part of the University of Arkansas System and Thurgood Marshall College Fund.
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) is a public health sciences university in Little Rock,Arkansas. It is part of the University of Arkansas System and consists of six colleges,seven institutes,several research centers,a statewide network of community education centers,and the UAMS Medical Center.
University of Arkansas –Pulaski Technical College is a public technical college in North Little Rock,Arkansas. It is part of the University of Arkansas System and mainly serves the Central Arkansas region,along with Little Rock to the south. The college maintains satellite campuses throughout Pulaski and Saline Counties.
Arkansas State University–Mountain Home is a public,open access,two-year campus of the Arkansas State University System,primarily serving students of North Central Arkansas and is located in Mountain Home,Arkansas. Among other tracks,the college prepares nurses who may then go on to serve at the health complex and supporting facilities that surround the Baxter Regional Medical Center in Mountain Home. ASUMH serves approximately 1,500 students each year.
The Sam M. Walton College of Business is the business college at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville,Arkansas. Created in 1926,the college is the second-largest college at the University,with over 5,000 undergraduate students as of Fall 2016. Walton College is known nationally for a strong emphasis on retail,finance,information systems,and supply chain management. The college has a close relationship with Walmart Stores,Inc.,based in nearby Bentonville,Arkansas,and related vendor community.
The History of the University of Arkansas began with its establishment in Fayetteville,Arkansas,in 1871 under the Morrill Act,as the Arkansas Industrial College. Over the period of its nearly 140-year history,the school has grown from two small buildings on a hilltop to a university with diverse colleges and prominent graduate programs. Its presidents have included Civil War general Daniel Harvey Hill,John C. Futrall,and J. William Fulbright.
Gearhart Hall at the University of Arkansas is a building on the University's campus in Fayetteville,Arkansas. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
Northwest Arkansas (NWA) is a metropolitan area and region in Arkansas within the Ozark Mountains. It includes four of the ten largest cities in the state:Fayetteville,Springdale,Rogers,and Bentonville,the surrounding towns of Benton and Washington counties,and adjacent rural Madison County,Arkansas. The United States Census Bureau-defined Fayetteville–Springdale–Rogers Metropolitan Statistical Area includes 3,213.01 square miles (8,321.7 km2) and 546,725 residents,ranking NWA as the 105th most-populous metropolitan statistical area in the U.S. and the 13th fastest growing in the United States.
Charlie Collins is a businessman and Republican politician in Arkansas. Collins served four terms in the Arkansas House of Representatives for District 84,which encompasses part of Washington County near Fayetteville. In 2014,Collins briefly sought the Republican nomination for Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas. Following reelection in 2016,Collins sponsored legislation to allow anyone over age 21 to carry guns on college campuses and other public places. Controversial among the University of Arkansas community within District 84,Collins lost his reelection bid in 2018.
Allen Coats Meadors is an American professor and university administrator.
John Austin White Jr is an American academic who was the fourth chancellor of the University of Arkansas. He succeeded Daniel Ferritor in 1997 after previously serving as the dean of Georgia Institute of Technology's College of Engineering. As chancellor,White transformed the University of Arkansas;including the $1 billion "Campaign for the 21st Century" capital campaign,which created the University of Arkansas Honors College,endowed the University of Arkansas Graduate School and UA Libraries,added 132 tenured faculty,1738 scholarships and fellowships,funded millions of dollars of brick and mortar improvements,and grew the university by almost every academic statistic. Since his departure from the chancellor's office in 2008,White has remained at the university,teaching in the industrial engineering department.
Jake C. Files is a Republican politician from Fort Smith,Arkansas. Files represented portions of the Arkansas River Valley in the Arkansas House of Representatives from 1999 to 2003,and in the Arkansas Senate from 2011 to 2018.
Joseph E. Steinmetz was the sixth chancellor of the University of Arkansas. He succeeded G. David Gearhart on Jan. 1,2016,following academic and administrative positions at Stanford University,Indiana University Bloomington,University of Kansas,and Ohio State University.
The 1932 Arkansas gubernatorial election was held on November 8,1932,to elect the Governor of Arkansas,concurrently with the election to Arkansas's Class III U.S. Senate seat,as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.
The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached the U.S. state of Arkansas in March 2020. The first case in Arkansas was reported on March 11,2020,in Pine Bluff,Jefferson County. As of March 2022,there were 819,984 cumulative cases of COVID-19 with a total of 10,524 deaths.
