What’s driving the surge in our steel industry? Arkansas uses four factors to its advantage in attracting steelmakers: incentives, a ready workforce, our prime location and competitive electricity rates. read more >
Arkansas Northeastern College in Blytheville and North Arkansas College in Harrison have signed separate efficiency performance contracts. read more >
Phillip Oldridge also discussed key players in the decision and the company's plans for its new facility. read more >
When Arkansas Northeastern College opened its new Center for Allied Technologies, it consolidated three facilities, enhanced its role as a leader in custom training and education and brought the world to its doorstep. read more >
Southern Bancorp Inc., the Ross Foundation and Murphy Oil Corp. are spending millions on Promise scholarships that sponsors and an administrator say have increased the college-going rate of high school graduates in Arkadelphia and El Dorado. read more >
Big River Steel says operations have begun in its melt shop and hot mill, the next step in a phased start-up of the $1.3 billion plant near Osceola. read more >
The center will be about 85,000 SF and combine three of the school’s existing centers: the Harry L. Crisp Center, the Burdette Center and the Aircraft & Metals Engineering Center. The Crisp Center is for customized industrial training, which provides training for companies. Some of the training is for college credit and some isn’t, Shemwell said. read more >
Four institutions in northeast Arkansas hope their planning will help people in the area land a job on the Big River Steel construction project. read more >
Arkansas Northeastern College has narrowed its search for the school's next president to two finalists. read more >
