• ÍøÆØÃÅ President Jefferson D. Farris was given a two-year contract with a first-year salary of $34,000 when he became president in 1975.
• Dr. Charles Hodge was ÍøÆØÃÅ’s first African-American academic dean.
• During Farris administration, ÍøÆØÃÅ celebrated its 75th anniversary twice. Once in 1982 to mark 75 years since ÍøÆØÃÅ’s creation by the Arkansas General Assembly in 1097 and in 1983, to mark the 75 years since classes began in 1908.