Higher education notebook

UAPB founder due for honors in Ohio

The founder of the institution that became the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff will be inducted into the Ohio Civil Rights Hall of Fame in October.

Joseph Carter Corbin, principal of Branch Normal College, is on the 2018 list of inductees. The posthumous honor will be received on Corbin’s behalf by clinician and author Gladys Turner Finney, his nominator and an alumna of the college.

Corbin, who was born in 1833 in Chillicothe, Ohio, and died in 1911, also served as the state superintendent of public education in Arkansas, then as president of the board of trustees of Arkansas Industrial University, now the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.

Food-science lab part of SAU project

The Southern Arkansas University department of agriculture is constructing a new building that will expand its academic offerings.

The 6,250-square-foot metal shop building is expected to be finished by the end of the fall semester.

The facility will incorporate a food-science lab, which will be used in a curriculum that will prepare students to teach food science at a high school level, department Chairman Jeffry Miller said in a news release.

“Food is the ultimate endpoint for agriculture products and has become a priority in high school agricultural science,” Miller said.

Lyon College starts Diversity Lunches

Lyon College has started a series of events and activities geared toward creating a more inclusive community.

The initiative is called Diversity Recognizes Everyone’s Actions in the Movement, or DREAM, and comes out of the Batesville school’s student life office.

One of DREAM’s events is a Diversity Lunch and Learn series. The number of seats per event was raised from 24 to 60, and all spots have been filled.