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Office of Skills Development Helps UA-PTC Develop Leaders

new program offered by
University of Arkansas-Pulaski
A Technical College is helping
to grow future Arkansas business
leaders. The Emerging Leaders
Development Program is a 36-week
course which teaches leadership
and management skills to current
employees of local companies.
Completion of this course makes
the participants more qualified to fill
advanced positions that may open
up within their company. Arkansas
Department of Career Education's
Office of Skills Development (OSD)
helped fund this course with their
Skills Development Grants.
"This is a perfect example of
what these grants are intended to
do," said OSD Director Cody Waits.
"These grant dollars are meant to
help keep Arkansas businesses and The inaugural class of the Emerging Leaders Development Program at the University of
their employees well-trained, current, Arkansas-Pulaski Tech graduated on Dec. 13.
and competitive. We are proud to
support this innovative program as
it clearly shows a true partnership part were both large and small and ereves@uaptc.edu. Companies
between business and industry, higher included manufacturing, technology, wanting to know more about Skills
education, and the State of Arkansas." insurance and metal service. The Development Grants can visit http://
Five central Arkansas businesses second cohort is now being planned. ARCareerEd.org/about/skills-
took part in the inaugural class of Any companies wanting to know development/skills-development-
this program. The companies taking more about this program can contact grants.
Elizabeth Reeves at UA-PTC at

Arkansas Helps Lead National Talk On Federal and State Audits

rkansas Department of District, Barbara Goldsby with
Career Education’s Chief the Colorado Department of
AFinancial Officer Lorna Education, and Penni Haberly
Claudio was recently invited to with the Technical College Lorna Claudio
take part in a panel discussion System of Georgia.
on audits at the Brustein & “I was honored to be a part
Manasevit Fall Forum, which of this panel,” Claudio said.
is a national conference on “While other panelists shared since we don’t have any federal
federal grant funds. In addition their audit findings and the audit issues.”
to Claudio, the expert panelists corrective action that they did, The event organizers said
included Hector Arancibia with I discussed a more proactive this panel was the most highly-
the Los Angeles Unified School approach to avoid audit findings rated session of the conference.

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