by - November 14, 2024 2:28 pm
Gov. Sarah Sanders, Secretary Hugh McDonald, Chief Workforce Officer Mike Rogers, and Arkansas Workforce Connections Director Cody Waits on Thursday (Nov. 14) awarded $48 million in training grants to support…
by - August 25, 2021 11:12 am
Business and Industry Training (BIT), a workforce training nonprofit with locations in Springdale and Gentry, will use a $50,000 grant from Arconic Foundation to purchase additional equipment to expand its…
by - November 8, 2016 7:02 am
Northwest Arkansas is one of the fastest growing metro areas in the nation but a lack of skilled labor necessary for a modern and evolving economy could stunt that growth….
by - March 15, 2016 5:49 pm
The old ways of getting students interested in a career are dying and partnerships with local business and industry are the new, more effective path, according to a panel discussion…
by - March 8, 2016 2:49 pm
A State Chamber of Commerce-led public-private partnership unveiled a new workforce initiative Tuesday with the help of Gov. Asa Hutchinson that is aimed at shrinking the “skills gap” that exists…
by - February 25, 2016 2:58 pm
Arkansas State University Vice President for University Relations Shane Broadway said Thursday (Feb. 25) that a meeting of educators and economic development was about one key goal. “It is about…
by - November 30, 2015 5:57 pm
Editor’s note: Jacob Bundrick is a research associate with the Arkansas Center for Research in Economics (ACRE) at the University of Central Arkansas. Opinions, commentary and other essays posted in…
by - November 17, 2015 8:04 pm
Business and education leaders need to work together to ensure Northwest Arkansas and the state at large has a trained workforce, according to multiple discussions throughout the Northwest Arkansas Workforce…
by - October 21, 2015 6:16 pm
Higher education should ditch credit hours in favor of measuring learning, and the federal government should combine three agencies into a Department of Talent, an author said at the Clinton…
by - October 7, 2015 6:41 pm
Two workforce development grants totaling more than $110,000 from the Governor’s Workforce Cabinet to the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith are to fund programs designed to create career paths…
by - October 6, 2015 1:41 pm
The Arkansas Department of Workforce Services on Tuesday (Oct. 6) announced it has awarded Arkansas Community Colleges (formerly Arkansas Association of Two-Year Colleges) more than $4 million as part of…
by - October 6, 2015 11:02 am
The Arkansas Department of Workforce Services on Tuesday (Oct. 6) announced it has awarded Arkansas Community Colleges (formerly Arkansas Association of Two-Year Colleges) more than $4 million as part of…
by - August 6, 2015 9:48 pm
As Arkansas’ Department of Workforce Services Director, Daryl Bassett leads one of the state’s largest agencies with an annual budget of $1.7 billion – a significant portion coming from federal…
by - July 6, 2015 5:18 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Monday (July 6) announced the members of the Career Education and Workforce Development Board, which replaced the State Board of Career Education at the Department of…
by - June 19, 2015 1:51 pm
The Arkansas Department of Workforce Services will receive $6.362 million from the U.S. Department of Labor to support Arkansas’ efforts to improve reemployment services and to develop innovative job-training programs….
by - April 6, 2015 8:22 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson signed three bills into law Monday (April 6) that he said represent a fundamental shift in the state’s workforce development efforts. “This I see is foundational,” he…
by - March 17, 2015 4:26 pm
Keeping with his campaign rhetoric, Gov. Asa Hutchinson met with reporters on Tuesday to tout three measures designed to realign workforce education efforts in Arkansas. He also talked about a…
by - March 10, 2015 6:56 pm
Northwest Arkansas’ economy continues to grow jobs, population and generate a robust gross domestic product, but when drilling down in the weeds, there is a looming workforce shortage reported across…
by - December 3, 2014 8:29 pm
The University of Arkansas at Fort Smith will graduate nearly 350 bachelor degreed students next weekend, but Associate Vice Chancellor for Workforce Development at UAFS Dr. Ken Warden said the…
by - November 18, 2014 8:14 pm
The Springdale Chamber of Commerce highlights a menu of 10 suggested actions to create a seamless workforce training system that upgrades workplace skills faster and more efficiently. The plan, a…
