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The Fort Smith Chamber of Commerce has announced that Charolette Tidwell is the recipient of this year s Jack White Community Leadership Award, according to a news release. Tidwell will be presented the award at the Leadership Fort Smith commencement event on Thursday, July 15, at the Doubletree Hotel.
The Jack White Award was created as a tribute to the contributions Jack White made to the Fort Smith community and to acknowledge the remarkable impact of the current leaders in the region. For more than 30 years, the Leadership Fort Smith program has honored community leaders who have gone above and beyond to impact our region in a positive way.
Five Auburn University graduates, all highly accomplished in their fields, have been selected to receive the highest honor given by the Auburn Alumni Association at Auburn’s 2021 Lifetime Achievement Awards
Fort Smith Times Record
The University of Arkansas – Fort Smith on Saturday completed a series of socially distanced commencement ceremonies to honor the 2021 graduates following last week s event for the class of 2020.
Due to COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, in-person commencement ceremonies were not held in December for the class of 2020. While close to 200 students walked the stage on May 1, there were 810 graduates in the class of 2020 who earned bachelor s degrees; 247 who earned associate degrees; 119 who earned technical certificates; and 12 who earned master s degrees.
The 2021 candidates who walked May 7-9 included those graduating in the spring and summer 2021 semesters and comprised 542 bachelor s degree candidates; 172 associate degree candidates; 75 technical certificate candidates; and eight master s degree candidates, including the five students who are the first to graduate from the university s Master of Education program.