Educational Organizations & Programs

American Association of University Women (AAUW)
With its national headquarters in Washington DC, the American Association of University Women (AAUW) is a nonp...
Arkansas Academy of Science
The Arkansas Academy of Science (AAS) aims for the promotion of knowledge in the fields of science, engineerin...
Arkansas Aerospace Education Center (AEC)
aka: Aerospace Education Center
Located near Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport (Adams Fiel...
Arkansas Art Educators
Arkansas Art Educators (AAE) is a statewide organization of art teachers. The organization’s focus is to adv...
Arkansas Boys State
aka: Boys State
With strong participation numbers and an impressive alumni list, Ar...
Arkansas Community Colleges
Arkansas Community Colleges (ACC) is a nonprofit organization that supports public comprehensive community and...
Arkansas Division of Higher Education
The Arkansas Division of Higher Education is responsible for the regulation of the state’s public two-year a...
Arkansas Education Association
The Arkansas Education Association (AEA) is a group of teachers, administrators, and support staff who promote...
Arkansas Girls State
aka: Girls State
Arkansas Girls State is a summer program of education that has been...
Arkansas Governor’s School (AGS)
Arkansas Governor’s School (AGS) is a four-week summer residential program for gifted and talented students ...
Arkansas Library Association
The Arkansas Library Association (ArLA) is a statewide organization created to further the professional develo...
Arkansas Model United Nations (AMUN)
The Arkansas Model United Nations (AMUN) is a program located on the campus of the University of Central Arkan...
Arkansas Political Science Association
The Arkansas Political Science Association (ArkPSA) is a professional, membership-based organization of colleg...
Arkansas Sheriffs' Youth Ranches
Arkansas Sheriffs’ Boys Ranch, Inc., was founded in 1976 as an exclusively charitable and educational organi...
Arkansas State Teachers Association
The Arkansas State Teachers Association (ASTA) is a professional organization for education professionals that...
Arkansas Teachers Association (ATA)
The Arkansas Teachers Association (ATA) was an organization that strove for racial equality in education for y...
Arkansas' Independent Colleges and Universities
Arkansas’ Independent Colleges and Universities (AICU) represents the state’s eleven accredited private in...
Carnegie Libraries
Four libraries built in Arkansas between 1906 and 1915 using grants from philanthropist Andrew Carnegie carry ...
Central Arkansas Library System
The Central Arkansas Library System (CALS) is the largest library system in Arkansas. Created in 1975, the sys...
Chautauqua
The Chautauqua movement, in the form of traveling “Circuit Chautauquas,” provided self-enrichment and cult...
Craighead County Jonesboro Public Library
The Craighead County Jonesboro Public Library (CCJPL) serves the people of northeastern Arkansas, with a main ...
Delta Symposium
The Delta Symposium is an annual conference sponsored by the Department of English, Philosophy, and World Lang...
Division of Elementary and Secondary Education
Through the Transformation and Efficiencies Act of 2019 (Act 910), the Arkansas Department of Education (origi...
EAST Initiative
The EAST Initiative, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit headquartered in Little Rock (Pulaski County), provides oversight, ...
Economics Arkansas
aka: Arkansas Council on Economic Education (ACEE)
In 1962, Archibald (Arch) Ford, Arkansas education commissioner, an...
El Dorado Promise
The El Dorado Promise is a scholarship program established in January 2007 by Murphy Oil Company. The initiati...
Freedom Centers, Houses, Schools, and Libraries
While operating in Arkansas, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) established numerous Freedom...
Historic Arkansas [Textbook]
Historic Arkansas is a 1966 textbook written by historians John L. Ferguson and J. H. Atkinson and published b...
Instructional Microcomputer Project for Arkansas Classrooms (IMPAC)
The Instructional Microcomputer Project for Arkansas Classrooms (IMPAC) was an innovative program that helped ...
Jeanes Supervising Industrial Teachers
Jeanes Supervising Industrial Teachers were funded by a $1 million endowment from the Jeanes Fund, also known ...
LifeQuest of Arkansas
LifeQuest is a program for active seniors sponsored and supported by twenty Little Rock (Pulaski County) inter...
Mississippi County Community College Solar Power Experiment
In 1976, the Department of Energy and the Solar Energy Research Institute were allotted funds for a Total Ener...