Photos of found subject matter (unposed and uncontrolled) documenting your university or college-related events as they occur naturally. Photographs in this category must adhere to accepted photojournalistic standards.
A veteran salutes the TV camera while walking in during commencement. Our school has approximately 1,800 veteran students comprising about 5% of the student body and has been regularly recognized for being a veteran friendly campus, achieving a 70% six-year graduation rate.
The college president addresses the crowd at winter commencement.
A student waits to hear her name read during the Arkansas State University Fall 2025 Morning Commencement Ceremony at First National bank Arena on December 13, 2025.
H = P and D translates to Humor equals Pain and Distance. That's what psychotherapist Elcha Buckman, speaking with students after class, told those gathered in Associate Professor of German Jakub Kazecki's first year seminar on Humor in Literature and Visual Media. Buckman, a guest in the class, discussed her work on humor in couple therapy, and passed around her book “The Handbook of Humor: Clinical Applications in Psychotherapy."
Three students take on a hill, all on one sled.
The college president joined varsity squash student-athletes for the team’s open campus study break. While it technically wasn’t a study break for him, "it was a perfect work break, for me," the president said.
Graduates process into the arena during graduation while captured with a tilt shift lens.
A father and son pause to share a moment in the crowd after commencement
At the end of the first semester, students gather to enjoy hot chocolate, cookies, and the traditional tossing of a sprig of holly into the fire.
Graduates toss their mortarboards in traditional celebration as CO2 cannons are fired during commencement.