Entries from September 2008

September 21, 2008

Harding University enrollment up for 22nd year.

Enrollment at Harding University has topped 6,500. At 6,510, the total figure is at a record level for the 22nd consecutive year and is a 2.8 percent increase over last year’s total of 6,332.
Bolstered by a 6.6 percent growth in graduate enrollment, the 2008 total is also reinforced by a strong retention rate of 82 [...]

September 17, 2008

Play it Again, Sam to be presented Sept. 26-28 at ASU-Beebe

Tuesday, September 16, 2008 7:45 PM CDT
BEEBE – The Arkansas State University-Beebe Department of Theatre and Speech presents Woody Allen’s romantic comedy, Play it Again, Sam, Sept.26-28.
Poor Allan Felix. His wife has just left him, his shrink is out of town, and the ghost of Humphrey Bogart gives him advice he can’t take.
What’s a neurotic [...]

September 17, 2008

Harding announces first speaker in 2008-09 ASI lecture series.

SEARCY — Dinesh D’Souza, best-selling author and fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, opens the 2008-09 American Studies Institute Distinguished Lecture Series Sept. 23 at Harding University.
Investor’s Business Daily has called D’Souza one of the “top young public policy-makers in the country.” The New York Times Magazine named him one of America’s most [...]

September 14, 2008

Encouraging day at Harding

Idea created at Harding University spreads nationwide
By Theresa Komor -The Daily Citizen
The National Day of Encouragement at was a day of giving for Harding University students while they enjoyed Friday’s mild weather, fun and games, as well as lunch outside on the lawn. Volunteers were selling T-shirts, orange wrist bands and “Ned ,” a monkey [...]

September 9, 2008

Friday, September 12 – National Day of Encouragement

The National Day of Encouragement was the idea of a few high school students attending the National Leadership Forum in Searcy, Ark., in June of 2007. The students were challenged to come up with what they believe to be the biggest problem in their school. They decided that at the root of most problems, [...]

September 6, 2008

Theater workshop for children open

Land O’Frost KidStage to hold registration
Searcy’s Center on the Square and their partner in the arts, Land O’Frost, announce registration for the fall session of Land O’Frost KidStage, a theater workshop for children in second through 12th grade.
Registration is being taken through Sept. 9, the first day of workshops. Classes run through Nov. 15. Workshop [...]