Pomfret Hall is the home to the University of Arkansas Honors College. Having recently received a generous donation from the Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation, the university intends to create the most renowned honors college in the nation with regard to function and resources.

The renovation of Pomfret Honors Quarters will support this endeavor by offering a more modern, attractive, and functional living/learning community to enhance the ability to attract honors students to campus. The renovation will upgrade all building systems including elevators, modify shared bathrooms to increase privacy, improve living and sleeping space by replacing built-ins with new furniture, and provide the honors program with more functional support spaces.

Phased over several years, this project will be fully commissioned and constructed to achieve Two Green Globes (LEED Silver equivalent).

Originally built in 1968, Pomfret Hall is the largest residence hall on the University of Arkansas campus. It currently houses approximately 800 students in one eight story wing and two low-rise wings. Executive architect, WD&D Architects, and design architect, Treanor Architects are currently in the design development phase of this project.

Pomfret Honors Quarters should convey the message to prospective students that this is an academic learning environment, focused on student achievement. The facility will be a vehicle for recruitment of the best and brightest students, retain upper level honors students as mentors for younger and improve the building functionally, environmentally and aesthetically.