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New student housing coming to Arkansas State University

Johnathan Reaves

  Arkansas State University will enter into a lease agreement with Zimmer Development to build new student housing in Jonesboro.

During ASU Board of Trustees meeting in Little Rock, the resolution passed which will allow land to be turned into new graduate and undergraduate housing for students. 

The agreement would allow the housing to be built, possibly in two phases. 

The first phase of undergraduate and graduate housing is expected to be complete by 2017. 

Under the agreement, Arkansas State University would receive $200,000 for 35 years for the undergraduate housing and $105,000 for the graduate housing. 

If the second phase is agreed upon at a later date, more undergraduate and graduate housing would be added.  That means Arkansas State would receive an additional $100,000 for the second phase of undergraduate housing and $80,000 for the second phase of graduate housing.

Dr. Rick Stripling from Arkansas State University tells KASU news that 350 undergraduate beds will be located south of Arkansas Hall and 165 graduate beds would be located west of the Military Science Building. 

Arkansas State will be in charge of the assignments of where students will be placed.  It is described as a public-private partnership.  

Arkansas State University-Jonesboro and ASU-Beebe will raise room and board rates starting in the fall semester. 

The Board of Trustees also approved a name change to the Department of Art in Jonesboro to the Department of Art and Design. 

The Board of Trustees also approved offering a Master of Science Degree in Media Management, a Graduate Certificate in Play Therapy, an emphasis in Global Studies, an Associate of Applied Science in Paramedic and a technical certificate in paramedic, as well as an emphasis in Emergency Medical Technician-Basic and a Certificate of Proficiency in Emergency Medical Technician-Basic.

Johnathan Reaves is the News Director for KASU Public Radio. As part of an Air Force Family, he moved to Arkansas from Minot, North Dakota in 1986. He was first bitten by the radio bug after he graduated from Gosnell High School in 1992. While working on his undergraduate degree, he worked at KOSE, a small 1,000 watt AM commercial station in Osceola, Arkansas. Upon graduation from Arkansas State University in 1996 with a degree in Radio-Television Broadcast News, he decided that he wanted to stay in radio news. He moved to Stuttgart, Arkansas and worked for East Arkansas Broadcasters as news director and was there for 16 years.