Section 6-64-303 - Pine Bluff - Establishment and programs(a) The Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas is authorized to establish and operate, as a part thereof, a campus to be known as the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, consolidating and incorporating therein the facilities of the state institution formerly known as Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical, and Normal College which, together with its board of trustees, was abolished as a separate institution effective July 1, 1972.(b)(1) The board of trustees shall maintain and operate the campus at Pine Bluff as a major campus of the University of Arkansas, offering at that location the highest possible quality of higher educational programs, and shall provide for the sound growth and improvement in the quality of the academic programs.(2) The board shall continue to offer programs providing opportunities for those young people in Arkansas who are culturally, socially, and economically disadvantaged as well as programs attractive to students from other groups, and the composition of the administration, faculty, and staff shall reflect these purposes.(c)(1) The Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas, after seeking prior review by the Legislative Council or, if the General Assembly is in session, the Joint Budget Committee, may approve the employment of scientists with research capabilities to conduct research in the Biomedical Research Center established at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff.(2) The Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas may approve salaries for scientists up to, but not to exceed, one and one-half (11/2) of that portion of the Distinguished Professor line item maximum authorized by the General Assembly to be paid from University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff funds.(d) Any computations made by the Division of Higher Education and the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board in determining the levels of recommended funding for the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff shall include one hundred percent (100%) matching funds for the 1890 Research and Extension Programs in the base.Amended by Act 2023, No. 377,§ 5, eff. 7/1/2023.Acts 1971, No. 512, § 1; A.S.A. 1947, § 80-3201n.