Constitution Day – Government, Public Service, and International Studies /politicalscience UCA Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:51:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.1 UCA Students Commemorate 2025 Constitution Day /politicalscience/2025/09/17/uca-students-commemorate-2025-constitution-day/ /politicalscience/2025/09/17/uca-students-commemorate-2025-constitution-day/#respond Wed, 17 Sep 2025 19:08:23 +0000 /politicalscience/?p=42413 As part of UCA’s commemoration of Constitution Day, students in U.S. Government & Politics courses taught by Dr. Mark Elrod and Dr. Aaron Sparks recited the U.S. Constitution in Griffin Planetarium on Tuesday evening, September 16, 2025.  Dr. Elrod is a lecturer and Dr. Sparks is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Government, Public Service, and International Studies.  The U.S. Constitution was signed by 38 delegates representing the 13 original U.S. states in Philadelphia on September 17, 1787.  The U.S. Constitution officially entered into force on June 21, 1788.

Dr. Elrod pictures leading students in a reading of the U.S. constitution in the Planetarium

]]> /politicalscience/2025/09/17/uca-students-commemorate-2025-constitution-day/feed/ 0 UCA Students Commemorate 2024 Constitution Day /politicalscience/2024/09/21/uca-students-commemorate-2024-constitution-day/ /politicalscience/2024/09/21/uca-students-commemorate-2024-constitution-day/#respond Sat, 21 Sep 2024 18:55:52 +0000 /politicalscience/?p=40808 As part of UCA’s commemoration of Constitution Day, more than 25 students in U.S. Government & Politics courses taught by Dr. Mark Elrod recited the U.S. Constitution in Griffin Planetarium on Tuesday evening, September 17, 2024.  Dr. Elrod is a lecturer in the Department of Government, Public Service, and International Studies.  The U.S. Constitution was signed by 38 delegates representing the 13 original U.S. states in Philadelphia on September 17, 1787.  The U.S. Constitution officially entered into force on June 21, 1788.

]]> /politicalscience/2024/09/21/uca-students-commemorate-2024-constitution-day/feed/ 0 UCA students commemorate 2023 Constitution Day /politicalscience/2023/09/25/uca-students-commemorate-constitution-day/ /politicalscience/2023/09/25/uca-students-commemorate-constitution-day/#respond Mon, 25 Sep 2023 00:59:07 +0000 /politicalscience/?p=37315 As part of UCA’s commemoration of Constitution Day, some 33 students in U.S. Government & Politics courses taught by Dr. Mark Elrod recited the U.S. Constitution in Baridon Residential Hall on Wednesday evening, September 20, 2023.  Dr. Elrod is a lecturer in the Department of Government, Public Service, and International Studies.  The U.S. Constitution was signed by 38 delegates representing the 13 original U.S. states in Philadelphia on September 17, 1787.  The U.S. Constitution officially entered into force on June 21, 1788.

]]> /politicalscience/2023/09/25/uca-students-commemorate-constitution-day/feed/ 0 Department hosts 2017 Constitution Day events at UCA /politicalscience/2017/11/06/department-of-political-science-hold-constitution-day-events-at-uca/ /politicalscience/2017/11/06/department-of-political-science-hold-constitution-day-events-at-uca/#respond Mon, 06 Nov 2017 01:19:37 +0000 /politicalscience/?p=20834 The Department of Political Science hosted two “Constitution Day” events at UCA on September 19-20, 2017.

(1) The Constitution & the Courts” by The Honorable Troy Braswell, Twentieth Judicial Circuit Judge and UCA graduate
Tuesday, September 19th, 1:40pm to 2:30pm
Irby Hall, Room #215

(2) Public Recitation of the Constitution of the United States of America
Wednesday, September 20th, 5:30pm
State Residential Hall, Lobby

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