ASU Educational Training Services: Empowering Growth and Development
The Office of Workforce & Community Development at ASU-Beebe is a leading provider of corporate training and consulting services dedicated to enhancing the lives of current and future employees within our communities. By offering world-class workforce training through a variety of non-credit classes designed to meet the evolving needs of businesses and industries, both now and in the future, ASU-Beebe stands as a top choice for corporate training and professional development.
Customized Training Solutions
ASU-Beebe delivers high-quality, customized training designed to enhance the performance and efficiency of your company. A dedicated workforce staff collaborates with businesses to develop training programs tailored to the specific needs of your industry. These training programs can be conducted at any of the convenient campus locations-Beebe, Heber Springs, Little Rock Air Force Base, and Searcy-or directly at your place of business, based on your requirements and schedule.
Participants in workforce education classes can earn Continuing Education Units (CEUs), with one CEU representing ten contact hours of participation under qualified instruction. A transcript of completed coursework will be permanently filed at ASU-Beebe and is readily available for reference.
Comprehensive Program Areas
ASU-Beebe offers training programs across various domains, including:
- Business & Management: These programs are designed to help prepare and advance the managerial, leadership, and basic business-related technical skills of the talent local business and industry partners possess.
- Health & Safety: These programs are designed to provide formal training for a broad range of workplace requirements. A hands-on, direct engagement approach ensures satisfaction that the topic is covered thoroughly to improve worker safety. Standard instructional formats currently include classroom lectures, audio-visual presentations, simulations, and practical assessments when applicable.
- Industrial & Technical: ASU-Beebe is committed to developing and organizing training events relevant to the current business and industry climate. They continuously strive to understand what training is necessary for businesses and individuals in the area to be efficient, effective, and successful.
Workforce Training Grants
If you are a business or industry partner, some types of training may qualify for a grant funded by the Office of Skills Development. If you're not familiar with the available Workforce Training Grants, ASU-Beebe can assist you in locating the application and even submit it on your behalf to help supplement the cost of training your employees.
Read also: Career Paths at West Shore Educational Service District
Arkansas Workforce Challenge Scholarship
The Arkansas Workforce Challenge Scholarship is available for select non-credit workforce programs at ASU-Beebe. Participants only need to complete a short workforce data form and pay for the course through the cashier's office. Data forms must be submitted at least five (5) business days before the start of a workforce course and payment must be received at least three (3) business days prior to the start of the course.
ASU-Beebe Locations
Our short-term workforce training courses are tailored to boost personal and professional growth, providing flexible learning options. Whether you're looking to learn new skills or strengthen existing ones, our classes are available during the day, at night, on weekends, or even online. We offer courses across all four ASU-Beebe campuses: Beebe, Heber Springs, Little Rock Air Force Base, and Searcy.
ASU System and Partnerships
Arkansas State University Mid-South (ASU Mid-South) provides high quality and affordable higher education to empower lives and strengthen communities throughout Eastern Arkansas, and the Mid-South region. Centrally located on the Arkansas side of the Mississippi River, ASU Mid-South welcomes students from Southwest Tennessee, Northwest Mississippi, and of course, from the Arkansas Delta. ASU Mid-South provides accessible, employment-relevant, world-class education.
In conjunction with state and federal programs such as Arkansas Delta Training and Education Consortium (ADTEC), and Advancing Delta Talent, ASU Mid-South has established a “career pathways” model that offers a series of logical employment “stop-out points” along a comprehensive training continuum. Whether you’re pursuing higher education after high school or returning to college as a professional learning a new skill, you can choose your own path at ASU Mid-South. You can earn a certificate quickly, pursue a two-year degree, obtain in-demand job training, or take core general education classes that transfer to a four-year university.
ASU Mid-South facilities are among the best in the region. The Marion Berry Renewable Energy Center on the North Campus provides unparalleled opportunities to affect positive change for the region. Recent expansion of the FedEx Aviation Technology Center, originally opened in fall 2017, provides much needed space to expand this high-demand program to interested students. Our “real-world” Welding Center offers critical hands-on experience to students exposing them to the practical skills needed for success on a variety of welding jobs.
Read also: Blue Sea Consulting Services
In late 1978, at the request of Arkansas State Representative Lloyd McCuiston and State Senator W.K. “Bill” Ingram, a delegation of local legislators and citizens, chaired by Alex Coulter, publisher of the Evening Times, was organized to lay a cornerstone of plans for development of a vocational-technical school in Crittenden County. Highway 70, just off Airport Road, for construction of the facility. President Bill Clinton, then Gov. The school opened on March 2, 1982, with two buildings housing nine classrooms. The vo-tech offered eleven-month courses in the areas of accounting, secretarial work, clerk/typing, licensed practical nursing, welding and diesel truck mechanics.
MSVT operated for a decade before more legislation, again co-sponsored by McCuiston, allowed it to upgrade to a technical college. Three years later the Arkansas Legislature passed Act 1244 of 1991, known as the “Two-Year Postsecondary Education Reorganization Act,” in an effort to enact many of the foundation’s recommendations. The legislation focused on converting or “upgrading” the state’s vocational-technical schools into technical colleges or branches of four-year institutions. Lawmakers selected Mid-South Vocational Technical School for “conversion,” and upon transfer from the State Board of Education to the State Board of Higher Education on July 1, 1991, the institution became Mid-South Technical College.
In April 1992, the Mid-South Board of Trustees hired Dr. Glen F. Fenter as the College’s first chief executive officer. Later that year, the Board and College administration determined that the future viability of the institution would hinge upon conversion to a community college, as provided for in Section 22 of Act 1244, and made plans to seek local millage to provide the necessary funding. A representative, county-wide Steering Committee began to investigate local funding options and reached the conclusion that a four-mill levy would be needed to establish the college.
The campaign worked to near perfection as the success of the millage referendum surprised even the most vigorous proponents of the community college. By a margin of 2,884 to 1,137 (three to one), voters agreed to pay one of the highest millages in the state to create a community college district in Crittenden County. On January 9, 2015, the Boards of Trustees of Mid-South Community College and Arkansas State University unanimously approved a merger agreement, bringing Mid-South under the ASU System of colleges. On July 1, 2015, the Mid-South Community College officially became Arkansas State University Mid-South, and Dr.
The ethnicity profile of ASU Mid-South closely mirrors the population of Crittenden County: 57% African-American, 34% Caucasian, and 4% Hispanic. Nearly 90% of the students call Arkansas home, and Shelby County, Tenn., and DeSoto County, Miss., accounting for almost 8% of the remaining students.
Read also: Shaping the Future of Translation
ASU Mid-South students enjoy a wide array of opportunities for growth academically, socially and professionally. To support student success, Mid-South offers tutoring, academic support, and encouragement through two TRiO programs (Student Support Services and the Educational Opportunity Center) and a Title III Predominantly Black Institution program. The Career Services department assists students with employability skills, and offers paid internships to eligible students through an Ascendium Project Success grant. Career Pathways, a state educational and financial assistance program, offers funds for childcare, transportation, tuition and books to students who qualify. The Barbara C.
ASU Mid-South is committed to the economic development of the Arkansas Delta by helping ensure a world-class workforce and targeting new industry to the region. One initiative, the Arkansas Delta Training & Education Consortium (ADTEC), established in late 2005, provides for a coordinated, regional response to workforce development in the Arkansas Delta. ADTEC is a unique partnership in that all participating community colleges collaborate to share curriculum, support strategies, and a wide range of industry input regarding training needs while pursuing the ultimate goal of growing jobs and economic opportunity in the region. ADTEC is able to provide a broad range of training services at a lower overall cost.
Business partnerships support a variety of continuing education opportunities for personal, professional, and workforce development through open-enrollment credit courses, specialized programs, non-credit online courses, and contract offerings customized to meet specific business or industry needs. Customized training for employers can be developed to meet an endless variety of training needs and can be offered during regular class hours or through creative scheduling arrangements.
ASU Enterprise Partners
ASU Enterprise Partners is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide an ecosystem of services to create solutions and generate resources to extend Arizona State University’s reach and advance its charter. If you’re ready to change the future of higher education, let’s connect.
University Realty receives, cultivates, advances and monetizes real estate to support the mission of Arizona State University. ASU Outreach Hub is a nonprofit organization that supports the outreach and transactional needs of the ASU public enterprise through marketing and engagement solutions that advance the university and strengthen its brand.
NEWSWELL is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting and strengthening local news outlets. NEWSWELL is part of the ASU Media Enterprise at ASU. The team is made up of dedicated, mission-driven professionals with a variety of background and experiences.
tags: #ASU #Educational #Training #Services #company #overview
