March 2021

IF YOU’VE BEEN a regular reader of this column, you know that from the moment of our founding in late 2018, ACDS has made it a priority to build up the number of registered IT apprenticeships in Arkansas. The U.S. Department of Labor invests in these programs across the country, and we quickly learned that

Amy L. Hester, Ph.D., RN, BC Chairwoman and Chief Executive Officer HD Nursing, LLC WE ALL KNOW that technology can help transform healthcare, but we sometimes forget that no change happens without a large dose of human passion behind it. In observance of national Patient Safety Awareness Week (March 14-21), we sat down with former

SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT POWER GRIDS After cold weather messed with Texas, how worried should we be? Philip Dale Huff, Ph.D.,Assistant Professor, Emerging Analytics CenterUA Little Rock BEFORE I WAS asked to come develop a cybersecurity degree program at UA Little Rock, I worked in the power industry for 15 years, starting as a programmer right

MEET KELSEY HEDRICK Age: 43 Hometown: Tucson, AZ Apprenticeship: ACDS MY BACK STORY I was born in Tucson, but my father and both grandfathers were miners at the San Manuel copper mine about 30 miles from Tucson, so my first home was a little house in the San Manuel copper mining community. It was just