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About University of Arkansas - Fort Smith

The University of Arkansas – Fort Smith, or UA Fort Smith, is a public, co-educational, four-year university located in Fort Smith, which is one of the two county seats of Sebastian County and the 2nd largest city in the US state of Arkansas, having a population estimated at a number of more than 85 000 inhabitants, during the 2009 census. Fort Smith is also the principal city of the Fort Smith, Arkansas-Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area, which contains Crawford, Franklin, and Sebastian counties and the Oklahoma counties Le Flore and Sequoyah, having a number of more than 293 000 people, living within its limits.

US Fort Smith was established in 1928, being originally known as Fort Smith Junior College, which operated within the Fort Smith public school system until 1950, when it was incorporated as a private, nonprofit institution with its own governing board, its current name being adopted in November, 2001, the Institutional Actions Council approved the name changing request submitted to the Higher Learning Commission in the same year, in August.

Today, the University of Arkansas - Fort Smith is the 5th largest university in the state, having an enrollment approximated at a number of more than 7000 (2009), and it is one of the 11 campuses within the University of Arkansas System. Through its 7 colleges, UA Fort Smith offers its students ''certificates of proficiency, technical certificates, associate of arts degrees, associate of general studies, associate of applied science degrees, and bachelor's degrees, as well as work-based learning and community education''.

Athletics

The athletic teams from UA Fort Smith are known as the UA Fort Smith Lions, who compete in various sports, for both men and women, in NCAA Division II, including in baseball, basketball, tennis, golf, cross country and volleyball. The Lions have experienced victory in many of the sports in which they compete, over the years, including in men's basketball, in which they won 2 National Championships, in '81 and 2006, 3 Region II Championships, in 2001, 2002 and 2006, and 6 Bi-State Conference Championships, each year, between 2001 and 2006, including in women's basketball, in which they won one National Championship, in '95, 3 Region II Champions, in 2004, 2005 and 2006, and one Bi-State Conference Championship, in 2003, as well as in women's volleyball, in which they won 4 Region II Championships, in 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2006, and 5 Bi-State Conference Championships, in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006.