PINE BLUFF, Ark. — The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff is marking homecoming week with a milestone announcement: a $5 million gift from the Windgate Foundation, the largest single donation in school history.

The funds will go toward building a new Art Tower addition to the Hathaway-Howard Fine Arts Center, adding more classrooms, studio space, and gallery areas. The new spaces will be designed to be modern, light-filled, and responsive to creative needs. The renovation is intended not just to upgrade infrastructure, but to reshape UAPB’s role as a cultural centerpiece in the Delta region.

Chancellor Anthony Graham welcomed the gift as transformative for students and the campus at large:

“It’s going to be a modernized, technologically advanced facility that allows our students, our

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