March 2023

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas – Arkansas’s leadership in expanding successful apprenticeship programs was recognized at the 2023 Apprenticeships: Closing the Skills Gap Grantee Convening, March 14-16, in Washington, D.C. hosted by the U.S. Department of Labor (U.S. DOL). ACDS Executive Director Bill Yoder and Apprenticeship Director Lonnie Emard were invited to share Arkansas Center for Data […]

THE POWER OF STORY Some thoughts on newsletters at our four-year mark James Morgan, Editor, ACDS Newsletter EDITORS, BY DEFINITION, should remain in the background, but this month’s newsletter is a milestone. We published the first ACDS newsletter four years ago this month—49 consecutive editions—and I wanted to acknowledge a few people and tell you

A TALE OF DATA AND HUMANITY In which writer and subject are one and the same OpenAI Chatbot Editor’s Note: Amid the industry furor over the abilities of new and competing chatbots, we asked OpenAI’s “Playground” bot to tell us a relevant tale about technology and humans. Here, completed in under two minutes, is its

LAST WEEK, THE U.S. Department of Labor hosted its “Closing the Skills Gap” (CSG) conference in Washington, D.C., bringing together recipients of four-year DOL grants for Registered Apprenticeship development from all over the country. One-hundred-fifty people attended, including 24 grantees, many of them bringing four or five team members. The presentations and panel discussions covered

Casey Kinsey, CEO, Lofty IF YOU WERE ever fortunate enough to benefit from the kind guidance of a mentor, you’ll be interested in hearing the story of this month’s interviewee. Casey Kinsey, founder and CEO of Fayetteville’s Lofty, has made his philosophy of mentorship an integral part of his company’s talent development policy. We sat