Title 6 — Education

No person shall be prohibited from teaching in state institutions of higher education for the reason that the person wears the clothing of any established and recognized religion while teaching.

For the purpose of payment of group insurance policy premiums, upon the execution by any teacher or other school employee of an appropriate form of authorization and delivery thereof to the fiscal officer of the state college or university wherein that person is employed, the fis…

A.C.A. § 6-63-103Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved

(a) (1) The president and chancellor of each state-supported institution of higher education in Arkansas shall work with the campus faculties to develop a framework to review faculty performance, including post-tenure review.(2) (A) The framework should be used to develop process…

(a) This section shall be known and may be cited as the “Highly Qualified Professor and Teacher Act”. (b) A university professor or an assistant professor may receive a teaching license issued by the State Board of Education upon performing application requirements under § 6-17-4…

This subchapter shall be cited and referred to as the “Higher Education Expenditure Restriction Act”.

The provisions of this subchapter shall be applicable to all publicly supported institutions of higher education in this state and shall not supersede the provisions of the General Accounting and Budgetary Procedures Law, § 19-4-101 et seq., the Uniform Classification and Compens…

(a) (1) The maximum annual salary established for any position established as a nine-month educational and general academic position in the regular salaries section of the biennial operations appropriation act of any institution of higher education is declared to be the maximum a…

(a) (1) (A) The governing board for each institution of higher education may permit deductions from the payrolls of the institution's employees for contributions to the various institutional fundraising, foundations, and capital campaigns of the institutions and its entities when…

(a) (1) In the event that additional federal funds, grants, gifts, or collections become available that were not authorized or contemplated at the time of the passage of the fiscal year appropriation act for operations for each institution enumerated in subsection (b) of this sec…

The state-supported institutions of higher education may pay additional compensation to employees for the performance of additional duties assigned to them at non-job-related institution-sanctioned events, provided that those additional duties are performed at times other than no…

(a) An employee drawing a salary or other form of compensation from an institution of higher education shall not be paid an additional salary or receive additional compensation other than reimbursement for actual expenses from that institution or from any other agency or institut…

(a) (1) The institutions of higher education are authorized to pay overtime, in critical circumstances, to those employees with job responsibilities subject to the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, 29 U.S.C. § 201 et seq., as existing on January 1, 2023.(2) The payment of overtim…

(a) In order that exceptionally well-qualified academic personnel may be recruited and retained, each state-supported institution of higher education may exceed the maximum salary levels by no more than twenty-five percent (25%) for no more than ten percent (10%) of the positions…

A.C.A. § 6-63-310Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved

(a) The Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas and the Board of Trustees of the Arkansas State University system, after seeking the advice of the Legislative Council, may make a special allowance available, in such amounts as the boards may determine are justified and eq…

(a) Upon approval by the Division of Higher Education and the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State, institutions of higher education may transfer appropriation from the cash contingency appropriation to any other appropriation made to the institution from cash funds and institutions…

A.C.A. § 6-63-313Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved

No employee of an institution of higher education who is employed as extra help may be employed for a period of time to exceed one thousand five hundred (1,500) hours per fiscal year.

Institutions of higher education shall be exempt from the provisions of § 19-4-1707 [repealed] to the extent that they shall be allowed to hire adjunct professors and visiting professors who are currently providing professional and consulting services to the State of Arkansas, pr…

(a) As used in this section, “administrator” means an employee included as executive, administrative, or managerial on the IPEDS/EEO-6 reports. (b) (1) A state-supported institution of higher education shall submit a report listing each administrator at the state-supported instit…

(a) Arkansas Constitution, Article 16, § 4, provides: “the General Assembly shall fix the salaries and fees of all officers in the State; and no greater salary or fee than that fixed by law shall be paid to any officer, employee, or other person, or at any rate other than par val…

(a) A position authorized as extra help in an institution of higher education shall be assigned a title authorized by an institution's operative appropriation act, and any person hired in an extra help position shall meet the minimum qualifications for the position. (b) Extra hel…

(a) (1) The Division of Higher Education shall establish and maintain a central pool of four hundred (400) positions to be used to establish additional positions in an institution of higher education when an institution does not have sufficient positions available to meet unantic…

(a) (1) (A) A nonfaculty member of an institution of higher education shall become eligible for annual career service recognition payments upon completion of ten (10) or more years of service in either an elected position or a classified or nonclassified position with a state age…

(a) All positions employed to provide or support patient care at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences are eligible for overtime at the rate of one and one-half (1 1/2) times their regular hourly rate. (b) In addition to overtime, direct and indirect patient care employ…

(a) The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences may provide on-call duty compensation or standby duty differential compensation for a classified or nonclassified patient care employee whose job requires him or her to provide patient care when there is no regularly scheduled s…

A.C.A. § 6-63-501Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved

(a) All public school districts shall assist through participation in the Education Faculty Involvement Program when requested. (b) (1) Any certified person employed by a school district who has credentials acceptable to a publicly supported institution of higher education may se…

(1) As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Catastrophic illness” means a medical condition, as certified by a physician, of an employee or of the spouse or parent of the employee or of a child of the employee who may be claimed as a dependent under…

(a) (1) The Department of Shared Administrative Services shall have administrative responsibility for developing, implementing, and maintaining a catastrophic leave bank program for nonfaculty benefits-eligible, full-time employees of the state institutions of higher education.(2…