NorthWest Arkansas Community College
Northwest Arkansas Healthcare Struggles to Keep Pace with Population Growth
Health care officials say the strain on northwest Arkansas’ workforce is improving, but the area’s continuing growth will keep the demand for medical workers from slowing down any time soon. read more >
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Arkansas Newk’s Serve Up Innovation
Little Rock brothers Todd and Terry White earlier this month opened their sixth Newk’s Eatery, this one in Bentonville, at 1500 SE Eagles Way, across the road from Northwest Arkansas Community College. read more >
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NWA Community College Gifted $425K to Grow Hispanic Enrollment
The money will support the college's LIFE program, which aims to empower Latino youth to pursue higher education and become leaders on campus and in the community. read more >
Community Colleges Deal With Enrollment Declines
School leaders are thrilled to see students in person but mindful of new needs. read more >
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Northwest Arkansas Community College to Start CDL Program
The program will offer 40 hours of classroom instruction beginning in the fall, and on-road training and 160 hours of classroom instruction in the spring. read more >
Upskill NWA to Retrain Workers for Health Care Careers
The Walton Family Foundation and the Excellerate Foundation commit $3 million to start a nonprofit to retrain workers for jobs in high-demand industries, starting with health care. read more >
Walton Family Foundation Gives $1.8M to Brightwater
The Walton Family Foundation gives $1.8 million to Brightwater, the culinary school at Northwest Arkansas Community College in Bentonville. read more >
NWACC Names State Rep An Executive Director
Northwest Arkansas Community College in Bentonville named Grant Hodges, a state representative from Rogers, as the college’s executive director in charge of community, government relations and marketing. read more >
‘We Need Your Nurses’ Is Plea as Northwest Arkansas Builds Talent Pipeline
Northwest Arkansas continues to grow in population while its unemployment rate remains low, leading to a labor crunch among the area’s businesses. read more >
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Northwest Arkansas Robotics Center Trains Future Workers
The Northwest Arkansas Regional Robotics Training Center in Fayetteville is working to create the largest certified robotics-skilled workforce in the state’s history. read more >
Technical Training Provides Pipeline in Northwest Arkansas
Even an environment rich in business executives creates tenfold more blue-collar and trade skill jobs. Studies show that only 20 percent of the jobs created or open in northwest Arkansas require four years of college. read more >
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Tom Freking Steps In at Northwest Arkansas Community College (Movers & Shakers)
Tom Freking has been named executive director of workforce business development at Northwest Arkansas Community College in Bentonville. read more >
Chef Michael Kuefner Finding Groove at The Grove
The Grove Comedy Club is scheduled to reopen next month in a remodeled complex in Lowell. read more >
Steinmetz Takes Seat with APLU Board (NWA Education Movers & Shakers)
Joseph E. Steinmetz, chancellor of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, has been named to the board of directors of the Association of Public & Land-grant Universities as a member at large. read more >
NWACC Builds Toward National Dreams
Northwest Arkansas Community College, now the largest two-year institution in the state after reporting enrollment of 7,761 in 2016, hopes to break ground on an auxiliary campus in Springdale and recently opened Brightwater: A Center for the Study of Food at a renovated Tyson Foods plant on Eighth Street in Bentonville. read more >
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Hospital Boom Creates Development Ripples Across Northwest Arkansas
Development experts say that hospitals are a great magnet for other retail and residential projects, such as restaurants, service companies and apartments. read more >
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Mark Wallenmeyer Named NWACC Dean of Health Professions
Mark Wallenmeyer has been named the new dean of the Health Professions Division at Northwest Arkansas Community College. read more >
Benton County Projects Costly, Unique
The 8W Center was just one of seven multimillion-dollar commercial construction projects in Bentonville in 2016. It ranked as the 17th largest in the state and was fourth among the 30 projects in Washington and Benton counties. read more >
by Marty Cook -
Mentor Programs Looking to Funnel Women Into STEM
STEMconnector, a national association in Washington, made up of corporate, governmental and private groups, is working to encourage and support young girls and women in pursuing STEM studies. read more >
by Marty Cook -
Walton Family Foundation Gives NWACC $2M for Springdale Campus
The Walton Family Foundation has donated $2 million to Northwest Arkansas Community College in Bentonville to help fund the construction of the college’s Springdale campus. read more >
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