University of Arkansas 100th Anniversary Commemoration

-3- From its beginning in a reconditioned farm- house with eight students and four [faculty] members including the President, the University and all who have been associated with it have continually worked to live up to these standards. The result has been growth and development in enormous proportion. Today, the University's 14 colleges and schools serve over 17,000 students, and its physical properties total almost $100 million. This growth and development are consistant with the Land Grant concept. Institutions like the University of Arkansas must continue to grow and prosper if the States which they served are to grow and prosper. In this connection, the decade from 1960 to 1970 is particularly significant for it reflects this university's ability to keep pace with a rapidly changing State, a State very much on the move in terms of its culture, economy, and its people. In 1960, the year in which the current President, Dr. David Mullins, assumed office, the enrollment at th