Grantham The university started as Grantham Radio License School, a private school founded in 1951, in
Los Angeles. Its founder, Donald Grantham, was an engineer and
World War II veteran who offered
Federal Communications Commission License certification courses to other World War II veterans after returning from the war. Through the 1950s and 1960s additional campuses were opened in Washington, D.C.; Hollywood, California; Seattle, Washington; and Kansas City, Missouri. In 1961, the university received formal recognition by the
U.S. Department of Education., when the Grantham School of Electronics (GSE) became accredited by the
Distance Education Accrediting Commission. In 1968, the GSE was renamed the Grantham College of Engineering (GCE). A second Los Angeles campus was established in 1974. In subsequent years, GCE moved all of its operations to the Los Angeles location and offered distance learning programs exclusively. In 1990, GCE obtained approval to operate in Louisiana and relocated to Slidell. It was licensed by the
Louisiana Board of Regents in 1993. In 2005,
Hurricane Katrina hit Grantham's main campus in
Slidell, Louisiana, destroying approximately eighty percent of their facilities. Days later, more than 140 employees had the university up and running again in temporary offices in Kansas City, Missouri. The school decided to relocate to Kansas City and secured a certificate to operate from the Missouri Department of Higher Education. In June 2006, Grantham signed
articulation agreements with
Bellevue University and
Central Wyoming College. In January 2007, Grantham signed a memorandum of understanding with the
Defense Acquisition University (DAU) to accept educational credit earned through successful completion of DAU courses and programs as transfer or elective credit at Grantham. In November 2021, Grantham joined the
University of Arkansas System to officially become University of Arkansas Grantham. By summer 2022, the system's original online college initiative, eVersity, merged with UA Grantham to form one institution.
eVersity eVersity is University of Arkansas's original online university, launched in 2014. Unlike the main university, eVersity was entirely online, with no physical classes. At some point during the summer of 2022, eVersity was merged with Grantham, Arkansas having bought them out November 2021 to officially become University of Arkansas Grantham. The online college aspect of eVersity was retained following the merger. ==Academics==