ROBERT STEINBUCH: Arkansas first, again!

The Arkansas Colleges of Health Education is a private not-for-profit medical school located in Fort Smith.

06.09.2025 3

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ROBERT STEINBUCH: Free speech, again

Steven Melton is an Arkansas pro-life evangelical Christian--in other words, an average Arky.

30.08.2025 3

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ROBERT STEINBUCH: New math

This paper reported on the University of Arkansas-Little Rock William H.

23.08.2025 4

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ROBERT STEINBUCH: Just showing up

Two weeks ago, Ryan Anderson wrote about the University of Arkansas-Little Rock William H.

16.08.2025 2

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ROBERT STEINBUCH: Ersatz education

Conservatives eschew drastic shifts and change for change's sake for good reason.

09.08.2025 3

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Something in the water

You will recall my previous columns about Central Arkansas Water Authority in which I critiqued: 1.

02.08.2025 3

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ROBERT STEINBUCH: With enemies like this… .

I was interested to read a recent letter to this paper from Guy Lancaster, the editor of Central Arkansas Library System's Encyclopedia of Arkansas,...

26.07.2025 6

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ROBERT STEINBUCH: Old school, baby

My colleague Gwen Faulkenberry wrote a fine column last week about how to handle artificial intelligence in the classroom.

19.07.2025 2

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ROBERT STEINBUCH: Arkansas first

Last week, I was delighted to read on these pages that roughly three-quarters of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences' students are from...

12.07.2025 4

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ROBERT STEINBUCH: Republican poll tax

Filing fees for political offices across the country typically are set by statute and collected by state government. In Arkansas, however, political...

05.07.2025 5

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ROBERT STEINBUCH: Judging books by their covers

An article titled "Central Arkansas Library System unveils new 5-year strategic plan: Library system to continue minority community focus" ran on...

28.06.2025 8

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ROBERT STEINBUCH: News that fits

As you know, I often cover the improper use of race and gender (pigment and plumbing) in higher education and elsewhere.

21.06.2025 3

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ROBERT STEINBUCH: Wheels of justice

In the federal court system, parties can litigate in up to three separate courts of increasing authority.

14.06.2025 4

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ROBERT STEINBUCH: Not a technicality

You might recall my recent reporting of the events surrounding the car accident of Richard Womack Jr.,

07.06.2025 3

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ROBERT STEINBUCH: A DEI manifesto

The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville has a student-government group called the Graduate-Professional Student Congress, which "advocates on...

31.05.2025 4

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ROBERT STEINBUCH: Animal Farm

David McAvoy, the chair of the Democratic Party of Craighead County, recently critiqued my should-be-trademarked "pigment and plumbing" descriptor...

24.05.2025 2

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ROBERT STEINBUCH: Out of the shadows

Recently, I reported on various ways in which Arkansas has led in protecting free speech in academia, including University of Arkansas-Fayetteville...

17.05.2025 2

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ROBERT STEINBUCH: Unlikely change

Last Friday, my fellow columnist Dana Kelley wrote: "For Democrats and their ilk to continue repeating the same things that lost them the White House...

10.05.2025 5

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ROBERT STEINBUCH: Root and all

The White House webpage soundly states: "President Trump is restoring fairness and accountability in federal hiring, and terminating DEI across the...

03.05.2025 3

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Our state’s stand on antisemitism

In 2019, President Trump issued an executive order stating his commitment "to combating the rise of anti-Semitism and anti-Semitic incidents in the...

26.04.2025 3

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ROBERT STEINBUCH: Free speech and inquiry II

Last week I reported on various ways in which Arkansas has led in protecting free speech in academia.

19.04.2025 3

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ROBERT STEINBUCH: Free speech and inquiry

Robert Maranto, the Twenty-First Century Chair in Leadership at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's Department of Education Reform, co-edited a...

12.04.2025 3

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ROBERT STEINBUCH: Imprudent policing

Arkansas has an anti-speed-trap law.

05.04.2025 4

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ROBERT STEINBUCH: Follow the money

Call me a wide-eyed idealist, but I believe that public utilities operating under a government monopoly with regulatory oversight should be subject...

29.03.2025 5