School briefs
Lecture series highlights Raptor Rehab center
The National Park College First Friday Lunch and Lecture Series will feature Rodney Paul, director of Raptor Rehab of Central Arkansas, Friday at noon in Room 118 of the Lab Sciences building.
The event is open to the public and community members are invited to attend. The series is sponsored by the Math and Sciences Division and Frito Lay.
Paul will have live birds to illustrate his discussion about treating and releasing injured birds of prey. He works with the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission recovering various birds of prey. RRCA has successfully released more than 1,200 birds of prey back to their natural habitat.
RRCA began in 2003 to provide quality care and rehabilitation for ill, injured or orphaned birds of prey to release back into the wild.
The organization holds a raptor rehabilitation and education license from the United States Fish and Wildlife Services. The facility includes more than 3,000 square feet of flight pens built to strict specifications.
History Club sponsors HSU presentation in Garrison
ARKADELPHIA — Aaron Hyams, a visiting assistant professor of history at Sam Houston State University, will speak at Henderson State University Monday about the struggles of native peoples during the nation’s reconstruction era.
The presentation is sponsored by Henderson’s History Club. Hyams will begin at 7 p.m. in the Martin B. Garrison Activity and Conference Center Lecture Hall.
His presentation is entitled “Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men, and Dispossessed Indians: Native Peoples and the Fuller Ramifications of the Republican Vision.”
Hyams’ teaching and research interests include 19th and 20th Century Native Americans, Trans-Missouri American West, American far-left political traditions and American social and cultural movements.
“Reconstruction attempted to radically reshape American notions of citizenship and challenged the construction of the United States as an Anglo-American ethno-state,” Hyams said.
“Yet, as the freemen expressed their franchise for the first time in the late 1860s, in Indian Country death and destruction prevailed from Apacheria to the Powder River.”
U of A law school among best values
FAYETTEVILLE — The National Jurist and preLaw magazines recently ranked the University of Arkansas School of Law the nation’s seventh “Best Value in Legal Education,” marking the school’s seventh consecutive year in the list’s top 20 and the fifth consecutive year in the top 10.
According to the National Jurist’s Fall 2017 issue, “The Best Value Schools ranking is designed to recognize schools where graduates have excellent chances of passing the bar and getting a legal job without taking on a ton of debt.”
“The University of Arkansas School of Law’s Best Value ranking is one that we anticipate each year because it reflects so many of our priorities,” said Stacy Leeds, dean of the school.
“We are committed first to providing an excellent legal education, and we want to do that while also making sure we pay attention to students’ overall cost, bar passage, job placement and debt load. Our consistent rankings among the nation’s ‘Best Values in Legal Education’ confirms that we’re meeting these goals and performing well relative to our peer institutions.”
The annual study uses information from the American Bar Association and U.S. News and World Report to rank schools.