National Park College

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For the now-closed National Park College (Maryland), see National Park Seminary.
National Park College
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NPC logo
Former names
 Garland County Community College, Quapaw Technical Institute
Motto Find Your Path
Type Community college
Established 2003
President Dr. John Hogan[1]
Academic staff
 98
Students 3,000
Location
Hot Springs
,
Arkansas
,
United States

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Website http://www.np.edu

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National Park College is a two-year institution of higher learning located in Hot Springs, Arkansas. NPC was founded in 2003 as a result of a merger between fully accredited Garland County Community College and Quapaw Technical Institute, which had been established in 1973 and 1969, respectively.[2] It is now one of the state's largest community colleges, enrolling 3,000 students annually in credit programs and an additional 3,800 students in non-credit programs. The name of the college is derived from its location adjacent to Hot Springs National Park.

In 2006, as part of its initial capital campaign, the college received a donation of 1.5 million dollars from Frederick M. Dierks of Hot Springs, who had been associated with a business and owned timberland and produced pulp and paper, and that was sold to Weyerhaeuser in 1969.[3][4] This was the largest cash donation in the history of Arkansas community colleges.[3] These funds were purposed for a new nursing and health sciences facility. By December 2007, the college had raised an additional $900,000 for the campaign and initiated a joint program in early-childhood and middle-school teaching with Henderson State University.[5]

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Aerial view of the campus

After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, NPC assisted students displaced from their home colleges by either enrolling in its college programs or finding colleges for them to enroll in.[6]

In 1994, when it was known as Garland County Community College, the college was censured by the American Association of University Professors for failure to abide by the 1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure and 1958 Statement on Procedural Standards in Faculty Dismissal Proceedings.[7] As of September 2015 the censure remains in place.[8]

References

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  4. ↑ Fred and Louise Dierks’ $1.5 Million Gift Allows Integration of Research Laboratories Into New Psychiatry Center, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences press release, July 28, 2004
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