Encouragement From Campus-U of Arkansas Launches a Book Drive to Benefit Local School

The Arkansas Reads program, organized through the office of enrollment services at the University of Arkansas, is launching a drive to collect children's books for students K-5 at Hughes Elementary School in Hughes, in St. Francis County. The university is partnering again this year with Fayetteville High School and the effort is informally known as the "Hawgs and Dawgs program."


This is the second year for the program. A thousand books were collected last year and given to Marvell Elementary in Marvell, in Phillips County.

"The program last year was a wonderful success. The students at Marvell were very excited about the new books. The faculty and the staff there were incredibly supportive, and it was a good experience for everyone — the children who received the books as well as the students here who worked to collect them,” said Chancellor G. David Gearhart. “Sharing an enthusiasm for reading is important to the development of young people everywhere. We want to support the efforts of the teachers and counselors at Hughes by bringing in books that they do not have.   These students are Arkansas’ future, and we want to do everything we can to encourage their love for learning.”

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