Razorbug
Celebrating Online Graduates in Arkansas
The University of Arkansas is passionate about our land-grant mission to serve our home state and its people. Different students have different needs. Offering online degree programs opens educational access to people who cannot come to the Fayetteville campus. Online students can remain in their hometowns, keep their jobs, and support their families and communities while earning U of A degrees.
To showcase online student success, the Razorbug Diploma Tour was launched in the summer of 2022. Over the past five years, the tour honored 57 graduates with celebrations in their hometowns. The tour took the Razorbug - one of the university's most visible symbols – across thousands of miles to more than 35 cities and towns in Arkansas to honor graduates where they lived. Faculty, dressed in colorful regalia, presented framed diplomas to online graduates in front of friends, family, local dignitaries and the Razorbug.
So far, the U of A Global Campus has hosted the tour for five years in a row to capture these inspiring stories. The Global Campus supports academic colleges in the development, delivery and promotion of online programs.
About the Razorbug
What is it?
The Razorbug is a conversion car, starting with a red Volkswagen Beetle and adding a Razorback's snout, tail and razor-edged spine to the original body.
Purpose: Recruiting students and celebrating events
What's it like to drive the Razorbug?
Fun! It is like traveling with a celebrity. People love to have their photos taken with this red-hot, four-wheeled mascot.
