June 2022

THE DATA IS IN Twenty-nine months after launching our Registered Apprenticeship Program, we now have substantial data on completers. It’s good news all around Lonnie Emard, Apprenticeship Director, ACDS ON DECEMBER 12, 2019, the very first Arkansas cohort of apprentices began their formal journey toward careers in the burgeoning field of Information Technology. There were […]

As in all healthy relationships, communication is key. Clint Hankinson, Director of Marketing, ACDS AS TECHNOLOGY ADVANCES exponentially and the needs of industry broaden and become more specialized, the relationship between industry and higher education is more important than ever. Industry requires skilled workers to maintain and increase their speed of growth, and higher education

THOSE WHO KNOW me well know that I follow most sports. I also follow, and root for, a few individual athletes in several different sports. I like to know what spurs them to overachieve, what reservoir of discipline they call upon to bring their “A game” when everything is on the line. In other words,

BUILDING THE CYBERSECURITY PIPELINE It all starts with awareness Sandra Leiterman Managing Director, Trojan Cyber Arena, U.A. Little Rock IF YOU’RE IN my field, your required reading will include a website called The Cybersecurity Supply and Demand Heat Map. It’s an up-to-date color-coded interactive map of the United States showing that there are currently 1,053,468