Historical Sketch Of Academy Of Arkansas Fort Smith

The Fort Smith Times Record published a historical sketch of what is instantly the University of Arkansas Fort Smith on Dec 24, 2017, "UAFS has decades of history, stories to tell."  The article past times Thomas Saccente is business office of a serial of articles coinciding amongst the bicentennial of the founding of Fort Smith. 

Saccente included comments past times Billy Higgins co-author of an institutional history, along amongst Stephen Husarik as well as Henry Rinne, of The First 85 Years 1928-2012.  UAFS was founded inwards 1928 every moment Fort Smith Junior College.  It became Westark Junior College inwards 1966. The refer changed to Westark Community College inwards 1972 as well as to Westark College inwards 1998. Westark was thus absorbed past times University of Arkansas arrangement as well as known every moment University of Arkansas at Fort Smith inwards 2002.