South Arkansas Community College

South Arkansas Community College

South Arkansas Community College (SouthARK) is a public, two-year institution located in El Dorado, Arkansas with an open-door policy, providing educational programs, services, and resources for the residents of Union County and the surrounding area. With a philosophy that affirms the value of education, the importance of academic freedom for students and faculty, the worth and dignity of each individual, and an abiding belief in the ideals of a democratic society, the college encourages innovation, excellence, and leadership in its mission as a comprehensive community college.

South Arkansas Community College was established by a vote of the citizens of Union County on March 31, 1992. Voters approved forming a community college district for the county, merging Oil Belt Technical College and Southern Arkansas University-El Dorado Branch, and approving a tax levy to support the new college. The college is governed by a nine-member Board of Trustees initially appointed by Governor Bill Clinton. The Board of Trustees approved the appointment of a 16-member committee co-chaired by Billy McGehee and Dr. Kermit Parks. It made recommendations to the President and Board of Trustees on administrative structure, policy, and procedures and worked to unify the two institutions into a comprehensive community college. On April 14, 1992, the Board of Trustees elected Charles Thomas to be Board Chairman, appointed Dr. Ben Whitfield as President, and named the new college.

South Arkansas Community College is accredited by the North Central Association of College and Schools. The Higher Learning Commission is part of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. The Association was founded in 1895 as a membership organization for educational institutions. It is committed to developing and maintaining high standards of excellence. The Association is one of six regional institutional accrediting associations in the United States. Through its Commissions it accredits, and thereby grants membership to educational institutions in the nineteen-state North Central region: Arkansas, Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, New Mexico, South Dakota, Wisconsin, West Virginia, and Wyoming.

The institution is approved by the Arkansas State Department of Higher Education and the Veterans Approval Agency of the Arkansas Department of Education. The college also holds institutional membership in the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC), Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT), and the Arkansas Association of Two-Year Colleges (AATYC).

The nursing program is approved by the Arkansas State Board of Nursing. Allied Health programs are accredited by their respective accrediting organizations: The Committee on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs upon recommendation by the National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences for the Medical Laboratory Technology Program; the Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education (ACOTE) of the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA); the Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education (CAPTE); and the Joint Review Committee on Education in Radiologic Technology. The National Institute for Automotive Service Excellence accredits the Automotive Service Technology Program.

300 S. West Ave, El Dorado, AR 71730 | (870) 862-8131, (800) 955-2289 | registrar@southark.edu

History of El Dorado's Two-Year Colleges, circa 2001 Dr. Ben Whitfield, Former Chancellor and President (1975-97)

Communities throughout Arkansas can boast of having or having had a publicly supported two-year college. Some can claim two, but El Dorado can claim four – El Dorado Junior College; Southern Arkansas University - El Dorado Branch; Oil Belt Technical College; and South Arkansas Community College.

El Dorado Junior College

In Arkansas, three two-year colleges were established as extensions of public schools – Little Rock Junior College in 1927 (now the University of Arkansas at Little Rock) and, in 1928, Fort Smith Junior College (Now Westark College) and El Dorado Junior College. The curriculum consisted of those classes usually offered in the freshman and sophomore years of four-year colleges. The new (1925) El Dorado High School science laboratories served both the high school and the college, but the majority of the lecture classes were held in the older (1905) El Dorado School building. El Dorado School Board minutes often refer to the 1905 building as the Junior College Building, though that was never its official name. The high school administrators also served as administrative officers of the college and the El Dorado School Board served as the Board for the college. The majority of the college’s faculty was specifically recruited to teach in the college, but some college and high school faculty members served in both institutions. Apparently, no student enrollment data exist, but recollections of students who attended the college would indicate that the largest enrollment was probably less than 250 students.

The college operated until the beginning of the Second World War. The minutes of the El Dorado School Board do not reflect exactly when the college closed; however, in August, 1942, Superintendent McClerkin’s reporting to the Board that all equipment had been returned from the Junior College to the High School would indicate that the college no longer existed. Modern Community Colleges - In 1965, the modern community college era began in Arkansas. The Arkansas Constitution was amended to allow the establishment of state-supported community or junior colleges. Elections were held in Phillips and Sebastian Counties to establish colleges. The Phillips County election was held a week before the Sebastian County election; however, since the Sebastian County election converted the private Fort Smith Junior College into the state-supported Westark Junior College, the first Junior College classes in the modern era were held in Fort Smith. The 1973 Session of the Arkansas General Assembly liberalized the statutory requirements for establishing community colleges and colleges were established in Blytheville, Forrest City, Harrison, and Hot Springs.

A committee of the El Dorado Chamber of Commerce, with Perrin Jones serving as Chair and LeRoy Beasley as Vice-Chair, started working toward the establishment of a community college in Union County. They completed the state-mandated application process and appeared before the State Board of Higher Education in its fourth quarterly meeting of 1974. The Board approved the application and authorized an election to be held in Union County for the purpose of establishing a community college and providing a millage to construct buildings for the college. The election was not held as anticipated. Since Southern State College (now Southern Arkansas University) had more students from Union County than any county except Columbia, the administration of Southern State College was concerned about a possible loss of students. The State Board of Education operated the Southwest Technical Institute in Camden but a number of people in the Camden area wanted to have more control over the institution. Representative Julian Streett, of Camden, and ten other South Arkansas members of the House of Representatives introduced legislation to transfer the Southwest Technical Institute from the State Board of Education to Southern State College and to establish a “community college branch” of Southern State College in El Dorado. Representative Streett and Representative Auby Rowe of Magnolia handled the bill (H.B. 481) in the House of Representatives and Senator Dooley Womack of Camden handled the bill in the Senate with the assistance of Senator Clarence Bell of Parkin, the legislative “father” of community colleges in Arkansas. The legislation was signed by Governor David Pryor and became Act 171 of 1975.


=Southern State College - El Dorado Branch= Thus, Southern State College - El Dorado Branch came into being on July 1, 1975, with a $121,000 appropriation for operations during its first year and no capital funds for facilities or equipment. Carolyn Langston and Bettie Ann Mahony were actually employed by Southern State College prior to the official establishment of the El Dorado Branch and Mrs. Langston began work with the promise that she would be paid after the college was established. Mrs. Langston was employed as a Business Instructor and advisor, and Mrs. Mahony as an English Instructor. Dr. Ben Whitfield was employed as Chancellor on July 1, 1975, Dr. Kermit Parks was employed as Director of Community Services in August and Mary Jo Thomas (now Williams) was employed in July as secretary for the institution. Four of the five are still employed by the college.

Warner Brown Hospital allowed the college to utilize a portion of the hospital that had been abandoned (and has since been demolished) for classroom and office space, student chairs were borrowed from the hospital’s defunct nursing program, and from discarded furniture at Southern State College. Discarded blackboards were also salvaged from Southern State. The staff of the Area Health Education Center Library of the University of Arkansas’ Medical Sciences Campus allowed the college to use its copier on a limited basis but most instructional materials were prepared on a borrowed typewriter and duplicated on a ditto machine. Business functions of the college were handled by the Southern State College Business Office. The college started classes on August 28, 1975 – 59 days after it came into existence – with 225 credit students enrolled. The Warner Brown facilities were provided without cost to the college. Characteristics of a Community College - A commonly accepted definition of a community college is that it is a low-cost, open-door, locally supported and controlled institution that 1) provides the first two years of a traditional baccalaureate degree or the transfer curriculum, 2) occupational programs of various lengths and levels of difficulty that are designed to prepare students for immediate employment to support local business and industry, 3) non-credit or community service classes which may or may not of collegiate level, and 4) student support services. The open-door admission policy also requires remedial or developmental classes.

The El Dorado Branch was designated in its enabling legislation as a “community college branch”, but when it opened it lacked many of the characteristics of a community college. The tuition, the same as Southern State Colleges’ tuition, was 67% higher than other community colleges in the state, the control was vested in the Board of Trustees of Southern State College, even though there was a local advisory committee with no real authority, the transfer curriculum was very limited, no occupational programs existed, and very limited student services were provided. There had been no local election so no local support had been generated. Transfer Curriculum - The credit curriculum in the Fall of 1975 consisted of first and second year courses that could be taught without instructional or laboratory equipment. The two full-time instructors were supplemented by part-time instructors from Southern State College, local high school teachers, and persons from the Mental Health Center in El Dorado.

The state appropriation for the college was nearly tripled during its second year of operation. Rogers Junior High School moved from its South West Avenue location to its present location in the old Washington High School Building, and the El Dorado School Board leased the old Rogers site to the college for ten dollars per year. New instructors were added during the 1976-77 school year in Mathematics, History, Physical Education, Psychology and Sociology, and Biology. Community Service Classes - In order to develop the community service or non-credit area, Dr. Kermit Parks was employed as Director and a variety of non-credit courses were organized using instructors from the community with expertise in areas such as arts and crafts and business related areas. During the first semester of the college’s existence, 422 people enrolled in non-credit classes. During the Spring Semester in cooperation with the Public Schools of the area, a “Children’s College” program was implemented to provide a variety of enrichment activities for children in elementary school. The Children’s College program still exists.

The addition of these faculty members allowed the college to offer most of the general education courses usually offered in the first two years of a four-year college, thereby fleshing out the transfer function. In the following year a chief academic officer was named. Occupational Programs - In November, 1976, the Board of Trustees of Southern State College, upon the recommendation of Dr. Harold Brinson, the newly named president of Southern State College, and Dr. Ben Whitfield, the Southern State College - El Dorado Branch chancellor, approved a Baccalaureate level program in Nursing for the Magnolia campus and an Associate Degree Nursing Program for the El Dorado Branch. Both would prepare students to take licensure examinations to become Registered Nurses. The Associate Degree Nursing Programs are the most widespread occupational programs in community colleges in Arkansas and throughout the nation. The Magnolia campus, though a four-year institution, operated a two-year Associate Degree Nursing Program that utilized the hospitals in El Dorado for a large portion of the students’ clinical experiences. The nursing faculty in Magnolia opposed the establishment of a nursing program in El Dorado since there would be competition for students to enroll in the programs and for clinical space in the El Dorado hospitals. The Magnolia faculty also opposed the baccalaureate program in Magnolia since they did not hold the credentials to offer an accredited program at the BSN level. With the opposition of the Magnolia faculty, the State Board of Nursing did not approve either program.

Since the El Dorado Branch was denied the most commonly offered and popular occupational program in community colleges and since Oil Belt Vocational School offered a one-year program that led to licensure as a practical nurse, the college was unable to move into the nursing area. A Health Advisory Committee was established and identified the need for dental assistants, radiologic technologists, clinical laboratory technicians, and emergency medical technicians. These health-related programs were started during the 1978-79 school year. All classroom instruction was given on campus and all clinical experience was provided through the cooperation of local hospitals, dental offices, the Associated Pathology Laboratory, the local police and fire departments, and other health related facilities in surrounding communities. All of these programs, except dental assisting, still exist.

In addition to the health-related occupational programs, the college, on the advice of local advisory committees, also established a Law Enforcement Program and a Chemical Technology Program. The college was unable to attract enough students to justify the existence of a Chemical Technology Program so it was later phased out. During this era, the college also offered an Introduction to Computers course and some computer language courses even though the college did not have a single computer. Part-time instructors, whose full-time employment was in the computer departments of Murphy Oil and ConAgra Poultry, taught the computer classes. Field trips to the businesses provided the only opportunity for students to see computers. The instructors ran the student programs on the company’s computers and returned them during the next class period. The college purchased some Radio Shack computers at a later date; however, it had so few that students often had to double up. The college was finally able to enter the computer age in 1985 when it received a $600,000 federal Title III grant. The grant provided hardware and software for instructional programs as well as equipment and hardware to place all financial and student records on the computer. Two student labs were constructed and equipped with the latest models of personal computers.

Student Services Programs - Since a community college is an open-door institution, its students often need a broader array of student support services than in other institutions. In its second year of operation, the college employed a counselor who also served as an advisor on course work, registrar, financial aid officer, veterans’ certification officer, as well as providing other student support services. In later years, a Financial Aid Officer was employed but a Chief Student Life Officer was not employed until 1990. The college sought and received a federal grant which allowed the college to employ a counselor and reading, mathematics, and science tutors. Students participating in this program had to meet certain income guidelines; however, a large portion of the student body qualified and those who did not were assisted by regular college staff members. Remedial or developmental instructors were also employed to help students develop the basic skills necessary to be successful in college work. The Student Support grants have been successfully renewed since their beginning.Other Early Development - The college in 1976 also hired its first Business Manager, a Librarian, and a Counselor. The additional staff plus a person added at mid-term during the first year brought the total full-time instructional/administrative staff to 14 persons for the second year of operation. The college also began its first institutionally supported academic scholarships by making awards to five valedictorians and salutatorians from Union County and to five other outstanding students.

With the broader curriculum, the college’s enrollment increased 42% during the Fall Semester, 1976, over the Fall Semester of 1975, and the number of student semester credit hours produced was nearly twice the previous fall’s production. Federal Financial Aid - The new college needed to immediately become eligible for Federal Student Aid Programs. The U. S. Office of Education allowed it to temporarily use funds allocated for Southern State College but stated that Southern State College - El Dorado Branch must become eligible for Federal Student Aid Programs as a free-standing institution. At that time, a college could do so by having three fully accredited institutions agree to accept transfer work from the institution or by establishing a relationship with the regional accrediting agency, The North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. Three state-supported four-year colleges agreed to accept students’ credits since the college was a state-supported institution. The NCA ruled that the college could not be accredited under the aegis of Southern State College, so it made application to the NCA to begin its accreditation process. A team of three out-of-state NCA examiners came during the spring semester of 1976 and recommended that the college be granted candidacy status. This was granted strictly on the future promise of the institution as indicated by future state support and was not based on what the team observed in work being done at that time or on the basis of the college’s facilities. The Veterans Administration Approval Agency visited the college prior to its opening and granted approval for veterans to enroll and utilize Veterans Administration programs such as the Vietnam era GI Bill. Facilities - The college moved to the South West Avenue site in 1976. Since the El Dorado School District did not plan to use the facilities for instructional purposes after Rogers Junior High moved, it had not kept up day-to-day maintenance. Several temporary self-contained classrooms and a surplus World War II Quonset hut, which contained the school’s Industrial Arts Shop, were placed around the building. A chain link fence intertwined with honeysuckle surrounded the playground on the East side of the facilities and there were 171 broken window panes in the Gym, the JC Building, and the old High School. About one-third of the toilets were non-operable and paint was flaking from the walls and ceilings, especially in the High School Building. The college moved into the facilities in mid-August with classes scheduled to begin in late August. The El Dorado Jaycees volunteered many hours of free labor scraping flaking paint and several of the newly hired faculty members joined in the effort to paint and refurbish the facilities. Classes began as scheduled. The original Community College Act and the 1973 revision required the local community college to provide initial equipment and facilities for the colleges. Since an election was not held in Union County, the State Board of Higher Education felt that the people in Union County were trying to shirk their responsibility for providing facilities and equipment for the college. Even though Representative Jodie K. Mahony and Perrin Jones appeared before the State Board on behalf of the college, the Board would not recommend funding to the General Assembly. In 1980, Representative Mahony arranged for Governor Bill Clinton to visit the campus and review its facilities. He visited on a cold, rainy day that made the facilities look even more dismal and foreboding than usual. He pledged that he would help in the 1981 session of the General Assembly to secure adequate facilities for the college. Frank White was elected governor and did not help during the 1981 session. When it became evident that the college would be in the Rogers facilities for some time, the administration began trying to adapt the facilities for collegiate use. Since the college had no funding source for repairs, the college had to, in essence, rob its budget for instructors, administrators, and support personnel in order to refurbish facilities. A chiller and fan coil units were installed to air condition parts of the High School Building. Three classrooms were built in the old high school recreation room, the lunchroom was converted into a Student Center, several walls were removed in order to combine locker spaces, some classrooms and hallways into an area large enough to house the library. Laboratory furniture and equipment was purchased and installed for Biology and Chemistry. Faculty offices were cramped for space and most were not air-conditioned. A ramp was constructed at the only entrance to the High School that would allow a ramp that met Americans with Disabilities Act standards which provided handicapped access to only three rooms in the High School.

The El Dorado Manufacturing Corporation plant in the Industrial Park closed and through the efforts of Mr. LeRoy Beasley, donated 487 sheets of 4' x 8' x 3/4" particle board to the college. Most pieces had a dark woodgrain plastic veneer on one side. A local trucking company hauled the material to the college at no cost to the institution. This material was used in partitions to construct faculty and administrative offices and to build desks, book shelves, counters, and even file boxes in renovating the first floor of the “Junior College” Building. Wooden battens were used to cover the cracks in the partitions. The tan battens and dark woodgrain particle board gave a dark, monotonous unappealing sameness to the offices. Years later, sheetrock was installed over the particle board and the offices presented a brighter appearance. During each session of the General Assembly, Representative Mahony introduced an appropriation bill to provide for facilities for the college; however, the funding was not placed in a high enough priority to be funded until 1985. The college requested four million dollars, the appropriation was for three million, but only two million dollars were released. The college employed an architectural firm and considered its options – none of which was ideal.

The El Dorado Industrial Corporation owned some 17 acres located by the Oil Belt Vocational School which it had set aside for the eventual use of the college. The two million dollars released would not be sufficient to construct a building to house the functions contained in the old High School Building as well as the “Junior College” Building and the Gymnasium. The architect also estimated that there was not enough money to refurbish the High School Building even if the work could be accomplished while classes were underway in the same building. Financially, the only viable alternative was to build the classroom building on South West Avenue and then demolish the high school building to build a parking lot on the west side of the campus. This approach embroiled the college in controversy. Generations of El Dorado students remembered the high school building with a fond nostalgia. The South Arkansas Historical Foundation and others mounted a campaign, which eventually reached the governor’s office, to save the high school building. The governor wrote the Southern Arkansas University Trustees and requested that the auditorium be left standing for at least one year to allow the South Arkansas Historical Foundation to raise funds to refurbish it. The Board agreed, but the Foundation did not make an effort to raise funds to save the auditorium. The college took its only economically viable path and built the classroom building and demolished the high school building. In March, 1988, the new classroom building was dedicated and the college was finally, in its 13th year of operation, housed in decent facilities designed specifically for collegiate work. It had its first new student tablet arm chairs and “store-bought” faculty desks and bookcases. The era of the raggedy step-child in hand-me-down facilities was finally passing. The college’s facilities were beginning to match the quality of its instructional program. New facilities brought an immediate increase in enrollment.

Oil Belt Technical College

Act 1244 of the 1991 session of the General Assembly allowed the vo-tech schools operated by the Department of Education to choose whether they would become technical colleges and be placed under the State Board of Higher Education or to become technical institutes or life-long learning centers and remain under the Board of Education. The law also provided a procedure by which institutions could be merged. Mr. Billy McGehee, the Director of Oil Belt Vocational-Technical School, chose to become a technical college. So on July 1, the State Board of Higher Education. Even though its name was changed to a technical college, it had not had programs approved by the State Department of Higher Education, was not accredited by the division of North Central Association of Colleges and Schools that deals with higher education, and did not have the general education and library resources that would be required of an accredited technical college. The Governor did not appoint a local board and governance of the institution remained under the Department of Higher Education. From the beginning of OBTC, the leadership of the college expected to merge with SAUEDB to establish a free-standing community college. In order for the institutions to merge, the Board of Trustees of Southern Arkansas University had to agree to release the El Dorado Branch from its control and an election had to be held in Union County to establish the community college district and levy a ½ mill local advolorem tax to support the new college. A committee composed of the administrative heads of the two colleges, Representative Mahony, and a number of interested citizens was formed to collect signatures to authorize the election and to build public support for the passage of the proposal. Mr. Charles Thomas served as Chair of the committee. The voters of Union County, on March 31, 1992, with over 60 percent voting in the affirmative, established SACC to be composed of the former OBTC and SAUEDB. The new college officially came into being on July 1, 1992, thus ending OBTC and SAUEDB. The election in 1992 to establish a community college in Union County was held 18 years after an election was first authorized to establish a community college.

outh Arkansas Community College

All of the elements of a community college were in place when Governor Clinton appointed the original Board for SACC, but the college was far from being a cohesive, fully developed community college. The original Board for SACC was composed of Mr. Charles Thomas who had served as the Chair of the committee to pass the election, Mr. Corbit White, from the original Advisory Committee for SAUEDB and seven other community leaders. Board members drew for terms and elections were to be held at the expiration of each term for future board members of the college. In 1995, the first election was held and Mr. Joffre Long and Mr. Charles Thomas were re-elected and Dr. J. C. Callaway was elected to the Board. This turned out to be the only election ever held for Board members. The 1995 session of the General Assembly changed the state community college law to allow Board members to be appointed by the Governor and approved by the Senate or to be elected. The Board, against the advice of the President of the college, chose to become an appointed , rather than an elected Board. So, subsequently, all Board members were and will be appointed by the Governor and approved by the senate.

After the colleges were merged, the most immediate task was preparing the budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1992. Though SAUEDB and OBTC were both state supported colleges, administrative and faculty salaries were not comparable. Since the merger legislation had built in job protection for five years an administrative structure was fashioned to utilize the skills and competencies of administrators on both campuses. Faculty compensation was a much more complex issue. Since the qualifications of some occupational instructors was based on non-collegiate education, work skills, and experience and the college parallel instructors’ salaries were based more on degrees and experience, a system needed to be devised to equitably compensate faculty members. A faculty salary schedule developed by the State Department of Higher Education for technical colleges, the state classified compensation system which was used by Oil Belt Vocational School prior to its becoming a technical college, the SAUEDB salary schedule, and the salary schedule from Westark Community College in Fort Smith, the flagship community college, were used in the process. The entire faculty of both institutions’ individual faculty members were placed on all four schedules and were given the most advantageous compensation. The following year, all faculty members were again merged into a common salary schedule. Faculty work loads also varied widely and had to be reconciled. Time spent in lecture or carefully structured labs required a great deal more preparation time than time spent in “project” type labs. The biggest problem after the merger, however, was how to ascertain that the college’s programs in the occupational areas were meeting the needs of local businesses and industries. A large overall advisory committee and smaller committees related to health occupations, business occupations, and industrially related occupations, were formed. With the advice of these committees, the college restructured many of its occupational programs to be more responsive to local business and industry. The college also developed cooperative arrangements with Union County Schools to provide occupational or vocational courses for high school credit or for high school and college credit in those cases where the instruction was at collegiate level. The voters of Arkansas approved a bond issue for construction of higher education facilities within the state. For the first time, all institutions, including community colleges, received state funds for construction of physical facilities. The college was again embroiled in controversy concerning its facilities. Some wished to add to the classroom building on South West Avenue, others wished to start building on the East Campus (the former OBTC campus) and others wanted enhanced space for the institution’s library. A school plant building construction consultant was employed and all options were explored. The Board finally approved a plan to construct the library on Summit Street to refurbish the old library space in the classroom building on South West Avenue to house the college’s health occupation programs, and to upgrade laboratory and instructional space on the East Campus. The College Savings Bond Funds were supplemented by the ad volorem taxes paid to support the college from Union County. Governor Mike Huckabee dedicated the new library on September 24, 1996. The college also received funds from state appropriations to build the Computer Technology Building and in one of the last Board meetings before the author’s retirement, an architectural firm was employed to begin planning for the building.

Unfortunately, the funding mechanisms for institutions of higher education in Arkansas do not ensure that all institutions are funded equitably. SAUEDB was always among the institutions with the lowest per student state funds. After the merger, SouthArk Community College, by combining the budgets of both OBTC and SAUEDB, started receiving a higher level of state dollars per student than any other community college, but still lower than the technical colleges. This newly found relative affluence allowed the college to more adequately meet many of its staffing needs. The 1997 session of the General Assembly increased the funding of two-year colleges at the highest percentage of increase ever recorded in the state. Every historical sketch has a beginning and ending time and this sketch ends with the retirement in September, 1997, of the author. It was an ideal time to retire. The institution had recently been reaccredited for the maximum ten year span allowed, money was in the bank for construction and the architects had been employed for the new Computer Technology Building, and the institution had over one million dollars in uncommitted operating funds. Though the era this article ends in 1997, it is the author’s hope that the influence of the people who built this institution will never end.

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