Title 6, Education

(a) The ad valorem tax levied by a district, or so much thereof as shall be necessary, shall be a continuing levy until reduced in the manner provided in this subchapter. (b) The tax shall be collected in the manner provided by law for the collection of county general taxes and p…

(a) When it is proposed that a county or city join an existing community college district, an election may be held in the proposed city or county to be added to determine whether the proposed reconstituted district shall be established after a petition requesting that the county …

(a) A community college district may be dissolved or the millage tax voted reduced or repealed, with the exception of the millage required to service any outstanding bonds, upon approval thereof by a majority of the qualified electors of the district voting on the issue at an ele…

(a) The local control of each community college shall be vested in a local board composed of nine (9) members who are residents and qualified electors of the community college district. (b) (1) All members shall be elected for terms of six (6) years by the qualified electors of t…

(1) The powers and duties of the local board shall be as follows:(1) To select its own chair and such other officers as it may deem desirable from among its own membership;(2) To adopt and use a seal;(3) To determine, with the advice of the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating …

(a) Participation of community colleges in intercollegiate athletic programs shall be limited to basketball, volleyball, and spring sports, except as provided in subsection (b) of this section. (b) Community colleges may participate in an intercollegiate football program provided…

(a) Tuition. (1) The intent of this section, §§ 6-61-101 — 6-61-103, §§ 6-61-201 — 6-61-209, §§ 6-61-212 — 6-61-216, §§ 6-61-301 — 6-61-305, § 6-61-401, § 6-61-402, §§ 6-61-501 — 6-61-522, § 6-61-524, and §§ 6-61-601 — 6-61-603 is to make community college programs available to a…

(a) Community colleges established under the authority of Arkansas Constitution, Amendment 52 and the laws enacted pursuant thereto, are authorized, upon application, review, and approval thereof by the State Community College Board, to enter into agreements with any postsecondar…

Upon approval by the appropriate community college or technical college board of trustees, the president or the chancellor of each community college or technical college may receive a housing allowance in an amount not to exceed one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) per mont…

(a) In order to provide the residents of northeastern Arkansas with greater access to higher education opportunities beyond those which can be provided by the Arkansas Northeastern College, there is hereby created the university center at the Arkansas Northeastern College. The pr…

(a) (1) Within sixty (60) days after April 19, 1995, the local board of each community college shall, by resolution, choose:(A) To continue as a board whose members are elected; or(B) To become a newly constituted board whose members are appointed by the Governor under the provis…

(a) If the members of the local board of a community college are elected at large and if the community college district is composed of more than one (1) school district, but not all the school districts in the county, the board may apportion a certain number of positions on the b…

(a) The Arkansas Heavy Equipment Operator Training Academy is established as a satellite center of the University of Arkansas at Monticello. (b) The academy shall be the Arkansas single-source academy offering statewide services and satellite training for the operation of heavy e…

(a) (1) (A) The Director of the Arkansas Heavy Equipment Operator Training Academy shall follow hiring procedures consistent with the policies of the University of Arkansas at Monticello in recommending academy personnel for hire.(B) The Chancellor of the University of Arkansas a…

(a) (1) All legislatively appropriated funds, tuitions, grant moneys, and donations designated for the Arkansas Heavy Equipment Operator Training Academy shall be specifically used for the operation of the academy.(2) If the General Assembly does not provide funding for the acade…

(1) A high priority of the Southeast Arkansas College is to provide:(1) University transfer courses;(2) Industrial training in the work place; and(3) Encouragement for degree acquisition. (1) University transfer courses; (2) Industrial training in the work place; and (3) Encourag…

(a) The Board of Trustees of Southeast Arkansas College may reimburse tuition, fees, and other education-related expenses of current faculty who seek additional education levels that will benefit Southeast Arkansas College in meeting accreditation and professional standards. (b) …

(a) Funds for the general operation of an adequate comprehensive educational program shall be provided by the state. (b) (1) Prior to the beginning of each biennium, the local board of each community college shall develop an estimate of budget requirements for the operation of th…

(a) The local board of a community college may:(1) Spend larger sums of money than the state funds provided for the community college consistent with the state law; and(2) Levy a millage:(A) To provide additional funds to acquire and construct the community college;(B) To retire …

Capital outlay expenses shall be paid from gifts, grants, profits from auxiliary enterprises, tuition, fees, local millages, and other local funds and may be paid from state funds appropriated for such purposes.

(a) (1) The board of directors of each community college may adopt written policies authorizing the community college to purchase commodities and services from members of the board and employees of the community college.(2) The board may restrict the purchases to competitive bids…

(a) In the passage of this subchapter, the General Assembly is cognizant of the fact that the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board, acting under the authority of §§ 6-61-101 — 6-61-103, §§ 6-61-201 — 6-61-209, § 6-61-211 [repealed], §§ 6-61-212 — 6-61-216, §§ 6-61-301 — 6…

(a) Whenever the term “Polk County community college district”, “the Polk County community college”, or “the Polk County community college district board” is used in this subchapter, the term is used solely for the purpose of referring to a community college district to be establ…

Title to the following-described lands in Polk County, State of Arkansas, belonging to the State Board of Career Education and Career Opportunities and used for the operation of the Rich Mountain Vocational-Technical School, is transferred to and shall become the property of the …

This subchapter may be cited as the “Arkansas Research Development Act”.

It is the intent of this subchapter to provide a source of funding to established research groups in publicly supported universities in this state in order to secure long-term benefits for such groups so that they may become recognized as leaders in their fields of endeavor and t…

There is created a program to be known as the “Arkansas Research Development Program”, which shall be administered by the Commissioner of the Division of Higher Education.

Funds may be made available for administration of the Arkansas Research Development Program, for purchasing state-of-the-art equipment, for minor renovation of laboratory space, for publication of findings, for employing scientists or research assistants, and for providing any ot…

(a) Application for the funds provided for the Arkansas Research Development Program may be made by any publicly supported university in the State of Arkansas. (b) (1) The Commissioner of the Division of Higher Education shall review the applications and shall approve application…

In order to enhance the public's access to performance indicators and to better measure the dividends paid on the increasing public investment in Arkansas's institutions of higher education, the General Assembly finds that a separate office of accountability should be established…

(a) There is created the Office of Accountability within the Division of Higher Education. (b) The office is authorized and directed to collect and analyze information that may be required to meet any state or federal requirement. (c) Under the direction of the Commissioner of th…