February 2021

I ENCOURAGE EVERYONE to read Jim Morgan’s piece announcing the new publication ITARKANSAS, a magazine for younger Arkansans who might be interested in an IT career. The magazine is aimed at high school students, their guidance counselors, and their parents. It will also be distributed to college campuses throughout the state. ACDS has been, and […]

WELCOME TO ITARKANSASIntroducing a tech careers magazine for the Natural State James Morgan,Senior Consulting Editor, ACDS IT WAS WAY back in December 2019 that we first started talking about a magazine about tech careers in Arkansas. Some people from Arkansas Times were on the list to receive the ACDS newsletter, and that sparked the idea

Stephen Addison, Ph.D.Professor of Physics Dean, College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics University of Central Arkansas ALMOST A YEAR ago, Steve Addison wrote the very first COVID-related Guest Column that this newsletter published, about the UCA faculty having to switch to total remote learning over a single weekend. Now that the vaccine is slowly making

Lonnie Emard, Apprenticeship Director ACDS IS IN the business of developing tech talent and matching it to the job requirements of Arkansas employers. We work with people who’ve finished four years of college, two years of college, and no years of college. But no matter who we’re presenting to employers, the one thing those employers