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 …
Did Big Tech set up the world for AI bias?…The difference between data science and machine learning/AI…Should CEOs be replaced by AI? Check it all out right here.
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 …
IN SOME AREAS of the country, they call this time of year “the dog days of winter.” But looking around in Arkansas right now, the jonquils are ready to bloom, and it’s 70 degrees outside. The forecast is just as nice in this month’s newsletter. All around this great state, there are a number of …
Jon Chadwell, Executive Director, Newport Economic Development Commission Newport, AR A KEY WATCHWORD at ACDS is diversity. So when we heard about the Newport Economic Development Commission’s bold new plan to train long-untapped segments of their Northeast Arkansas population for careers, including in IT, we just had to sit down with Executive Director Jon Chadwell …
A SKILLS STRATEGY FOR ALL TIMES 6 ways IT apprenticeships are the right idea for today’s economic climate Lonnie Emard, ACDS Apprenticeship Director IN RECESSIONARY PERIODS, company leaders often react quickly to cut costs in labor and training. When businesses need to do more with less is when IT apprenticeships become all the more attractive …
MAGIC HAPPENED The improbable story of how Arkansas became a global capital of FinTech John Chamberlin Past President, Arkansas Academy of Computing BEFORE WE CALLED them memes, there was a computing cartoon that showed several people looking at a blackboard covered with a complex flowchart. The many boxes and decision points funneled down to one …
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ACDS is supported by the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) of the United States Department of Labor (DOL) as part of a four-year grant award (Closing the Skills Gap) totaling $2,000,000 with 20% funded by DOL and $8,000,000 (80%) financed from non-Federal sources – including funding support from our partnership with the Arkansas Office of Skills Development and private donors.
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