WE HAVE SOME very good news to report this month. The U.S. Department of Labor has awarded ACDS funding under their Workforce Opportunity for Rural Communities (WORC 4) Initiative, which provides grants for the Appalachian and Delta regions of the U.S. This three-year grant, with a total value of $1.4 million, will allow us to […]
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TALKING TURKEY Data normal enough to be thankful for IS IT US, or is it really beginning to feel like holiday seasons of old? Maybe it’s just the absence of focus on masks and social distancing, important though they remain; maybe it’s having weathered midterm elections without—so far—the expected national conflagration. Could it be that
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Eric Wall, Chief Information Security Officer, University of Arkansas System WAY BACK IN March of 2019, we at ACDS published our very first newsletter. The interviewee for Volume 1, Number 1 was Eric Wall, then sitting in a windowless basement office at UAMS watching over their internal tech security. In that interview, he talked about
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THE RESULTS ARE IN! We have a lot to celebrate during this National Apprenticeship Week Lonnie Emard, ACDS Apprenticeship Director EVER SINCE THE summer, we’ve been talking in this newsletter about momentum in the growth of Registered IT Apprenticeships in our state, and especially about the acceleration we expected as a result of the National
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LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas – The Arkansas Center for Data Sciences (ACDS) is expanding its proven model utilizing Pre-Apprenticeship Training, Work-Based Learning Internships, and Registered Apprenticeship Programs (RAP) to address IT-related workforce gaps throughout Northwest Arkansas. “The ACDS team will broaden our efforts in Northwest Arkansas to develop new IT talent to meet the needs of
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