Title 6 — Education

(1) As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Branch campus of the community college” means an institution with facilities located apart from the community college campus but within the community college district;(2) (A) “Capital outlay expense” means th…

(a) The procedures and deadlines established in this chapter shall, for the purposes of this chapter, be in lieu of and supersede those set forth in existing laws of this state with respect to the establishment, organization, and administration of vocational-technical postseconda…

(1) The Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board may approve the withdrawal or withholding of state financial and administrative support of any institution in the system under the following conditions:(1) If an institution fails or refuses to maintain prescribed standards of …

(a) Section 22-3-1301 et seq. grants preference to trained blind individuals in the operation of vending facilities on certain state-owned or leased property. Further, such vending facilities provide productive employment to qualified blind persons resulting in earned income whic…

(a) All employees who are employed by state-supported postsecondary vocational-technical schools converting to an institution under the technical and community college system or those employees of a two-year branch campus of a four-year institution converting to a technical or co…

All two-year institutions and their courses and programs within the jurisdiction of the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall be identified and administered as the Arkansas Technical and Community College System.

A.C.A. § 6-53-202Current 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) In order to promote a coordinated system of two-year postsecondary education in Arkansas, to provide an effective delivery system for adult education programs, and to assure an orderly and effective development of a system of publicly and locally supported institutions, the A…

A.C.A. § 6-53-204Current 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 Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall develop a plan to maximize transfer credits of students from institutions within the Arkansas Technical and Community College system, including the development of a core transfer program for students desiring to obtain a …

The Division of Higher Education, in coordination with the institutions, shall develop an effective means of pooling surplus equipment for redistribution to other institutions. Such equipment pool arrangement may include the crediting of equipment values to the institution for eq…

(a) Unless exempted under the provisions of § 19-4-513, any expenditure of State Treasury funds for capital outlay expenses or construction costs, as set forth in § 19-4-515, of an institution within the Arkansas Technical and Community College System shall be subject to the prio…

A.C.A. § 6-53-208Current 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 Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board may act as the legal entity, governing board, and receiver of all property for any institution not accredited by an accrediting agency recognized by the United States Department of Education and seeking merger or consolidation …

(a) Following July 1, 1991, any existing postsecondary vocational-technical school transferring to the Arkansas Technical and Community College System shall do so only upon approval by the General Assembly and the recommendation of the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board…

(a) (1) The Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall designate the following institutions as technical colleges which shall become part of the Arkansas Technical and Community College System under the coordination of the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board:(A) …

(a) Each technical college established or operated under this chapter shall be governed by a local board of trustees consisting of seven (7) members who shall be appointed by the Governor and subject to the confirmation of the Senate. (b) The term of office of local board members…

(a) The president of the technical or community college shall serve at the pleasure of the local board. (b) A person currently appointed and serving as a president of existing community colleges or a chancellor of a two-year branch of a four-year institution which might transfer …

(a) The intent of this chapter is to make technical and community college programs available to as many citizens of Arkansas as possible. To this end, tuition and fees should be maintained at a reasonable level so as not to exclude citizens because of cost. (b) The local board sh…

A technical or community college may establish and operate a transportation system for students within the service area of the institution assigned by the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board.

Upon the approval of the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board, the local board may contract with the Division of Career and Technical Education, a nonprofit organization, or a local school district board of directors within its service area to offer secondary-level vocati…

(a) (1) Any county quorum court may designate all or any portion of any undedicated county sales or use tax to be used for capital improvements to or the maintenance and operation of any technical college, two-year college, community college, or satellite campus of a community co…

(a) The local board of a community college may contract with a municipality for:(1) The transfer of real property, including any buildings or structures thereon from the college to the municipality;(2) Any or all of the following:(A) The construction, repair, and renovation of bu…

(1) A merger or consolidation of a state-supported postsecondary vocational-technical institution with an existing community college, with a branch campus of a four-year institution, or with a four-year institution, is subject to the approval of the:(1) Board of directors or boar…

(a) A board of trustees of a four-year institution may, by resolution or when requested, petition the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board to accept a two-year branch campus to be a technical college under the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board's jurisdiction. (…

(a) (1) The procedures for the conversion of a technical college or a two-year branch campus of a four-year institution to a community college shall, except as set forth herein, be the same as those in § 6-61-101 et seq. concerning formation of a community college district, and t…

(a) A board of trustees of a community college may, by resolution or when requested, petition the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board to accept a technical college located in the same service area to be a branch campus of the community college. (b) All records, personnel…

(a) (1) As provided in this chapter or upon approval of the Career Education and Workforce Development Board, the board of trustees of the receiving institution, the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board, and an accrediting agency recognized by the United States Department…

(1) As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Articulation agreement” means a commitment to a program designed to provide students with a nonduplicative sequence of progressive achievement leading to competencies in a tech-prep education program or in…

A.C.A. § 6-53-502Current 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) Each consortium that desires to receive a grant under this subchapter shall submit an application to the director or the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board, as appropriate, at such time and in such manner as the board shall prescribe through rule. (b) Each applicati…

(a) The Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board and the Career Education and Workforce Development Board shall approve applications based on their potential to create an effective tech-prep education program as provided in this subchapter. (b) The two (2) boards shall give s…

The Career Education and Workforce Development Board is hereby designated as the agency to receive the funds allocated to the state pursuant to the provisions of 20 U.S.C. § 2351 et seq.

It is the intent and purpose of this subchapter to authorize the formation of technical college districts and the levy of ad valorem taxes in such districts not to exceed ten (10) mills on each dollar of assessed value of the taxable real and personal property of a district, with…

(a) (1) Upon request of the local board of a technical college or the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board acting as a local board of a technical college, the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall determine whether formation of a proposed technical college di…

(a) (1) A tax levied under this subchapter shall be a continuing levy unless otherwise provided by law.(2) A tax levy may be reduced or repealed, with the exception of the amount of tax required to service an outstanding bond, or the tax may be increased upon approval thereof by …

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

If a technical college for which a tax is levied thereafter becomes a branch of an existing institution of higher education, the tax levied under this subchapter shall continue to be levied and collected for the use and benefit of the branch unless reduced or repealed as authoriz…

(a) The Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall designate Arkansas State University Three Rivers as a technical college, which shall become part of the Arkansas Technical and Community College System under the coordination of the board. (b) Arkansas State University Th…

The procedures and deadlines established in this chapter shall, for the purpose of this chapter, be in lieu of and supersede the procedures and deadlines under the existing laws of this state with respect to the establishment, organization, and administration of Arkansas State Un…

(a) Arkansas State University Three Rivers established under this chapter shall be subject to the same restrictions and enjoy the same privileges as any other technical college created under the chapter establishing the Arkansas Technical and Community College System, § 6-53-201 …

(a) Unless Arkansas State University Three Rivers elects to become a community college, Arkansas State University Three Rivers shall be known as a technical college. (b) Arkansas State University Three Rivers shall maintain higher education institutional accreditation from an acc…

A.C.A. § 6-54-105Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as “The Arkansas Construction Industry Craft Training Act”.

(a) The General Assembly recognizes that at any given time the level of activity in our national construction industry is the primary yardstick for measuring the overall economic health of this country and that the success and stability of the building business of this state are …

There is created the Arkansas Construction Industry Craft Training Program, which shall be incorporated into the curricula of existing state vocational schools, technical institutions, and two-year colleges. The program shall not cause the creation of any new schools or facilitie…

(a) In order to provide for an efficient, competent, and resourceful construction industry training program that will enhance the development of a quality labor pool to support the building industry of this state, there is established the Arkansas Construction Industry Craft Trai…

(1) In addition to the duties of the Office of Skills Development under § 6-52-305, the office is authorized to develop a plan for the Arkansas Construction Industry Craft Training Program, including without limitation the following:(1) Formulas and administrative procedures to b…

(a) (1) A surcharge in the amount of fifty cents (50¢) per each one thousand dollars ($1,000) of construction authorized on any nonresidential construction permit issued by any political subdivision of this state is imposed to financially support the Arkansas Construction Industr…

(a) The net proceeds received pursuant to § 6-55-106 shall be deposited into a special trust account in the State Treasury known as the “Arkansas Construction Industry Craft Training Trust Fund”. (b) Programs established or funded by the fund shall be consistent with the eight (8…