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University of Arkansas – Pulaski Technical College

Technical college in North Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S.

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ7259217
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University of Arkansas – Pulaski Technical College (or UA–PTC) is a public technical college in North Little Rock, Arkansas. It is part of the University of Arkansas System and mainly serves the Central Arkansas region, along with Little Rock to the south. The college maintains satellite campuses throughout Pulaski and Saline Counties.

Its main campus is located along a bluff overlooking the Arkansas River in the western part of North Little Rock, northwest of the Eugene J. Towbin Healthcare Center VA facility. The school also maintains a secondary campus on the southwest side of Little Rock along Interstate 30, which includes a separate school focused on the culinary arts and hospitality fields.

It is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. The college merged with the University of Arkansas System on February 1, 2017. Dr. Summer DeProw began serving as Chancellor at the University of Arkansas Pulaski Technical College on Jan. 2, 2023.

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“University of Arkansas – Pulaski Technical College” enters the record as technical college in North Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what University, Arkansas and Pulaski can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from University of Arkansas – Pulaski Technical College” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.