Tag: education

New Dean Sees Balance In UA?s Business School

A look at the Sam M. Walton College of Business examines whether the current curriculum in all business schools is preparing graduates for business in the real world.

Companies Saddle Up For Training Stampede

Organizational development trainers are readying future CEOs for managing hurdles.

Bentonville Schools Could Go Paperless

Superintendent Gary Compton has a plan that could save the Bentonville School District millions of dollars a year and help the environment.

Fayetteville Private School Offers New Chinese Classes

After requests from parents, The New School in Fayetteville has added Mandarin Chinese as an after-school class to first-graders on up.

NWACC Supplies Suppliers With Continuing Education

A NorthWest Arkansas Community College program prepares students for the vendor world.

Learning Centers Serve Individual Child?s Needs

Northwest Arkansas has seen a growing trend of learning centers popping up in the area.

Program Helps Start Students on Early Career Path

Western Arkansas Technical Center helps students explore certain careers, and for those who know exactly what they want to do with their life, it helps them start earning college credit.

The Region’s Schools

The Business Journal’s annual lists of the regions’s public, private and charter schools and colleges and universities.

The State’s Highest Paid State Employees

University of Arkansas football coach Houston Nutt is the state’s highest paid employee, according to the Business Journal’s annual list.

Skilled-Labor Funding Dipped Again in 2004

Apprenticing tradesmen have produced $14.1 million in state tax revenue since 2000, according to the Arkansas Department of Labor.

Fayetteville Firm Gets Grant Money

Virtual Incubation Corp. client SFC Fluidics LLC of Fayetteville has received a $100,000 Small Business Technology Transfer award from the Department of Defense.

Conference To Teach Techies Business Sense

The 4th annual Technology Conference, which focuses on the movement of technology from concepts to commercialization, will be held Oct. 6 in Fayetteville.

UA Researchers Garner DNA Grants

Three University of Arkansas engineering professors landed two grants worth a combined $510,000 this summer to further their research with DNA.

Hispanic School Enrollment Jumps 64.5 Percent

If Northwest Arkansas’ unemployment rate and housing costs continue to stay below the national average, the area will continue to see increases in population.

Dixie Digs Deeper For Deal Potential

At Dixie Development Inc., it’s all about the numbers. The $30 million company analyzes about 100 properties per quarter and wades through spreadsheets of probable scenarios to determine a projects’ viability.

Strategic Networking Starts By Tapping Into Connectors

The business world is numb with numbers, analysis ad nauseam and jargony gibberish. But executives say one tangible that accounts for the majority of their business can’t be crammed into a spreadsheet ? the ability to network.

Northwest Arkansas Business Journal 2005 40 Under 40

The Northwest Arkansas Business Journal’s 2005 40 Under 40 list of the region’s most influential business and political leaders.

There?s Nothing Soft About Great Leaders (Goldberg On Leadership)

If you have been talking about level-five leadership, flywheel effects and hedgehog-like focus to put ?Good to Great? to work at your company, you might want to read ?Primal Leadership? and work on the emotional intelligence of your leadership team.

Athletic World Advertising Plans Apparel Business

Sports schedule poster publisher Athletic World Advertising plans to leverage its 4,600 high school accounts in November with the launch of a new apparel business.

Wal-Mart Vendors Golf for Scholarships

More than 30 vendors to Wal-Mart Stores Inc. raised $15,000 at the ninth annual Vendors FORE Education Golf Tournament on July 15.

Walmart leaders note company history, push AI adoption

ArcBest raises its guidance for the second quarter

Walton-led entity buys 900,000 square feet of former Walmart Home Office for $73 million

Gladner to retire from Arkansas Broadcasters Association later this year