Behind every great Harps Food location is a skilled meat cutter ensuring quality, safety, and value for customers. More than just preparing cuts, meat cutters bring expertise, precision, and craftsmanship to one of the store’s most essential departments—helping customers get exactly what they need while reducing waste and maximizing value. If you’re seeking a hands-on, […]
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A very short history of some very long strides With commentary by Lonnie Emard IT’S BEEN LESS than 40 years since the concept of Registered Apprenticeships was first entered into Arkansas law, and just over a decade since apprenticeships beyond the trades began actually taking shape in the state. And yet today Arkansas ranks second
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115 years of workforce in progress  FOR MORE THAN a century, apprenticeships have helped U.S. workers build careers and live fulfilling lives. For this special issue of the Apprenticely newsletter, we commissioned ChatGPT to produce a timeline showing how the concept of Registered Apprenticeships (RA) grew from a trade-focused training method into a broadly
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On an innovation campus, apprenticeships and internships are just some of the benefits  Stephen Addison IN THE FALL semester of 2026, the University of Central Arkansas (UCA) will open an innovation campus. What is an innovation campus? It’s a shared environment in which students and faculty collaborate on projects and work opportunities with industrial
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The Director’s Chair IN LATE 2018 WHEN the nonprofit now known as Apprenticely was formed as the Arkansas Center for Data Sciences (ACDS), most people thought that apprenticeships were a quaint remnant of the Industrial Revolution, if not Europe’s Middle Ages, relevant now mostly to the trades and construction. Eight years later, apprenticeships are fully
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MEET CLAIRE OLIVERAge: 30Hometown: Jacksonville, FL/Bentonville, ARApprenticeship: Rocket Software, NextGen Academy MY BACK STORYI say that my hometown is split right down the middle between Jacksonville, Florida, and Bentonville, Arkansas—but I was born in Philadelphia. When I was growing up, we moved pretty frequently: Philadelphia; Dusseldorf, Germany; Jacksonville; Northwest Arkansas. My dad was a sales
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By the numbers: U.S. apprenticeships expanded by 77 percent in the past decade…Separating signal from noise in A.I….Unscripted peril—a video game in which A.I. does the talking. Check it all out right here. Ready or Not? Here Apprenticeships Come – National Association of Scholars Want to improve AI? Look for the helpful data hidden