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Is Arkansas Higher Education Ready for Renewable Energy?
Jim Purcell
Is Arkansas Higher Education Ready?• Yes• Responding with courses, new majors,
research, and industrial support• Community Colleges • Universities
Historically, higher education’s response to new economies has been haphazard. --False starts--Unsteady funding--Fluctuating Enrollment
Listed below are the 12 Green Occupations Categories determined by O*NET to illustrate jobs in the green economy. After reading each, please indicate if your College has Current, Planned, or Interest in instructional/training programs for any
or each of these categories:• Renewable Energy Generation• Transportation• Energy Efficiency• Green Construction • Energy Trading• Energy and Carbon Capture and Storage • Research, Design, Consulting • Environment Protection • Agriculture-Forestry • Manufacturing • Recycling and Waste Reduction • Governmental-Regulatory Administration
Current ProgramsRenewab En Eff Transp En Eff Gr const En Trad CC&S RDC Env Pr Agri Mft Recyc Regul
ANC ANC ANCASUN ASUN ATU/O ATU/O ATU/O ATU/O ATU/O ATU/O ATU/O
CCCU
A EACC EACC EACC EACC EACC EACC EACC MSCC MSCC MSCC MSCC MSCC
NPCC NPCC NPCCNAC NAC NAC NAC NAC NAC NAC NAC
OTC PCCUA PCCUA PCCUA PCCUA
PCCUA
/D PCCUA
/D PTC PTC PTC PTC PTC
RVT RVT RVT RVT RVT RVT UAFS UAFS UAFS UAFS UAFS UAFS
Total # Current Programs 8 6 4 11 0 1 6 4 3 9 6 2
HART Consortium• AATYC Heart of Arkansas Regional Training (HART)
Consortium (NEW-2009)• Two-year colleges with central Arkansas service area
counties and manufacturing technology skills training have organized to provide new “green” industry training and to inject “green” methods/concepts into existing technical programs.
• Consortium includes Pulaski Technical College, Arkansas State University-Beebe, Ouachita Technical College, UA Community College at Morrilton, National Park Community College, and Southeast Arkansas College.
2010 Enrollment in Renewable Energy Technology
Schooldegree_code
awardSummer II
2009Fall 2009
Spring 2010
ANC 3150 AAS 7 29 25ASUN 2150 TC 4 10EACC 2150 TC 1EACC 3150 AAS 17 28MSCC 1150 CP 2 2MSCC 2150 TC 2 2MSCC 3150 AAS 40 51
DOL Grant for Green Tech • Office of Energy Management
– ARRA Stimulus -2 centers of Excellence • NWACC and PTC (1 million each)
– Develop curriculum for colleges:» Energy Auditors » Green Construction
– DWS – apply for grants to provide short term training in non credit modules. --3.3 million
– Biofuels Energy technology - PCCUA
Projected Annual Job Growth by SectorHealth care &
social assistanceProfessional, sci-entific & technicalConstructionTransportation &
warehousingAccomodation & food servicesState & localTransportation
equipmentMachineryWood productsReal estate, rental
& leasingMotor vehicles & partsComputers &
electronicsPrimary metalsArts, entertain-ment & recreationFurniture & re-
lated goodsFoodFinance & in-suranceElectrical equip-
ment & appliancesPaper & paper productsChemicals
LoggingPetroleum & coal productsBeverages &
tobaccoFood & beverage storesPublishing
ApparelUtilitiesEducational
servicesPrinting & related supportMiningManagement of
companiesGasolineFederal
-150,000 150,000 450,000 750,000 1,050,000
Source: IHS Global Insight.March 2010.
Current Approach:• Embedded in current curriculum • Short-term training – fastest• Responding to emerging needs• When price for gas and electric rise there will
be more enthusiasm • We must be ready
Wind energy has become an important component of Arkansas's economic growth
Mitsubishi is coming to Ft. Smith $100 million investment in the wind-energy
components industry. 400 full-time employees
The fifth wind-energy industry supplier to come to Arkansas.$350 million invested/2,200 jobs
Why does a potentially $60 billion industry like Arkansas?
Why Arkansas? Surrounded by six of the top
wind states.
Passed legislation that awards an income-tax exemption to companies that make blades and parts.
The Arkansas Energy Office made available $1.78 million in rebates to Arkansans who installed renewable energy systems in their homes
State facility renovations
The future of energy in the country is invested in the transition from fossil fuels toward clean, renewable sources.
Iowa Lakes Community College
G.W. Bush's 2005 energy bill $14 billion
Obama's green stimulus spending $90 billion
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Advanced vehicles and fuels $6,100,000,000
Grid modernization $10,500,000,000
Mass transit $18,100,000,000
Energy efficiency $19,900,000,000
Renewable energy generation $26,600,000,000
Green Subsidies. A dramatic boost for high tech.
Michael Lind, Policy Director of the New America Foundation’s economic-growth program
• Stasis is most evident in an area where we assume we are way ahead of our predecessors: technology. – The gadgets of the information age have had nothing like the
transformative effects on life and industry that indoor electric lighting, refrigerators, electric and natural gas ovens and indoor plumbing produced in the early to mid-20th century.
– The gasoline-powered car was invented in the 1880s, but mass automobile use had to wait until the 1920s.
– Global jet transportation relies on the gas turbine, which was developed in the 1930s, and global shipping uses the diesel engine, invented in the 1890s.
– Most electricity today is generated by a variant of the steam turbine that has been around since the 1880s.
• The 21st century is likely to be the second age of the automobile. Today there are nearly 668 million cars in the world; by 2050 there may be 3 billion.
• Many cars, perhaps most, will be powered by energy sources other than gasoline.
• Most energy will still be derived from fossil fuels, and nuclear power will account for an increasing share of global electricity production, while wind and solar power will still be negligible.
Michael Lind, Policy Director of the New America Foundation’s economic-growth program
Prediction
Time Magazine, March 2010
• The international Energy Agency estimates that $11.7 trillion in new investments in oil and gas supplies will be needed between now and 2030 to meet global energy demand. And with oil, natural gas and coal projected to meet nearly 80% of global demand over this same period, the need to find new sources of hydrocarbons – efficiently and sustainably – has never been more important.
Fossil Fuels are Still Needed – Arkansas is also a player
Luddites• A social movement of British textile artisans in
the nineteenth century who protested—often by destroying mechanized looms—against the changes produced by the Industrial Revolution, which they felt were leaving them without work and changing their entire way of life.
A Little History of the World E. H. Gombrich
• However, other machines changed the world even more profoundly. These were the machines which made use of the forces of nature instead of manpower. Take spinning and weaving, for example – work that had always been done by artisans.
• All of these developments produced a tremendous upheaval in people’s lives. Everything was turned upside-down and hardly anything stayed where it had been. Think for a moment how secure and orderly everything had been in the guilds of the medieval cities!
A Little History of the World E. H. Gombrich
• Anyone who owned a mechanical loom could, with the help of one or two assistants – perhaps his wife and children – do more work than a hundred trained weavers.
• So whatever became of all the weavers in a town into which a mechanical loom was introduced? . . . they woke up one day to discover that they weren’t needed any more. Everything it had taken them years to learn, first as apprentices and then as journeymen, was useless.
Speed to Market and Close to Customer
Ed Barlow, Futurist:
1. Implement a series of initiatives that expedite the number of degrees produced and the speed at which degrees are produced.
2. Enhance the production of degrees in high –demand programs that are needed for the modern Arkansas economy.
3. Incentivize students to complete a degree and to work in Arkansas.
State Per Capita Personal Income v. Share of AdultPopulation with Bachelor's Degree or Higher (2008)
$16,000
$18,000
$20,000
$22,000
$24,000
$26,000
$28,000
$30,000
$32,000
$34,000
$36,000
$38,000
15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45% 50%
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No state with a low proportion of Bachelor’s degrees has a high per
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No state with a high proportion of Bachelor’s
degrees has a low per capita income.
2008= 18.8%
2002= 19.7%
2006 2005 200220072008
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By the end of this decade, more than 60% of jobs will require college education1
26%Today, 26% of Arkansas’s young adults aged 25-34 have a college degree.2
1 Carnevale, T., Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2009. High-growth fields based on national projections of total new and replacement jobs. http://cew.georgetown.edu/research/jobs/79012.html2 “College degree” means an associate degree, bachelor’s degree, or higher. National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS), 2008 (from U.S. Census Bureau, 2008 American Community Survey Public Use Microdata Sample File.) http://www.higheredinfo.org
Is 26% enough?
What percentage of our young adults have a college degree? (associates or bachelors)
Current percentage of young adults (25-34) with a college degree3
3 “College degree” means an associate degree, bachelor’s degree, or higher. National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS), 2008 (from U.S. Census Bureau, 2008 American Community Survey Public Use Microdata Sample File.) http://www.higheredinfo.org
45% - 53%
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46%
46%
41%
36%
43%
Current percentage of young adults (25-34) with a college degree3
3 “College degree” means an associate degree, bachelor’s degree, or higher. National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS), 2008 (from U.S. Census Bureau, 2008 American Community Survey Public Use Microdata Sample File.) http://www.higheredinfo.org
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U.S. Census BureauData Set: Census 2000 Summary File 3 (SF 3)
18.1% - 28.1%
12.0% - 18.0%
6.3% - 11.9%
White15.5%
Union14.9%
Yell10.9%
Scott16.4%
Clark19.8%
Ashley10.1%
Polk10.9%
Pope19.0%
Drew17.3%
Clay7.4%
Benton20.3%
Desha11.1%
Lee7.3%
Logan9.4%
Saline9.6%
Pulaski28.1%
Arkansas12.2%
Newton11.8%
Lonoke14.6%
Cross9.9%
Chicot11.7%
Dallas9.6%
Stone9.8%
Prairie9.0%
Sharp9.2%
Phillips12.4%
Grant11.0%
Madison10.1%
Fulton10.5%Carroll
13.8%
Jefferson15.7%
Miller12.5%
Searcy8.4%
Pike10.1%
Izard11.7%
Marion10.4%
Poinsett6.3%
Boone12.7%
Baxter12.8%
Garland18.0%
Perry11.1%
Sevier16.6%
Mississippi11.3%
Bradley11.9%
Washington24.5%
Monroe8.4%
Johnson13.1%
Ouachita12.7%
Lincoln7.6%
Columbia16.8%
Nevada10.7%
Greene10.9%
Jackson10.3%Franklin
11.0%
Faulkner25.2%
Calhoun7.3%
Conway11.5%
Van Buren11.5%
Craighead20.9%
Randolph10.6%
Crawford9.7%
Woodruff8.0%
Cleburne13.9%
Montgomery8.8%
Lawrence8.5%
Crittenden12.8%
St. Francis10.3%
Cleveland10.0%
Hot Spring11.2%
Sebastian8.4%
Little River9.9%
Howard11.6%
Hempstead11.0%
Lafayette9.5%
Independence13.7%
Arkansas ranked 51st (16.7%) Nation-wide in 2000 for Bachelors & Higher
Percent of County Populationthat hold Bachelors & Higher 2000
Pope 19.0%
Washington 24.5%
Pulaski 28.1%
Clark 19.8%
Benton 20.3%
Faulkner 25.2%
Craighead 20.9%
Percent of County Population(Associate Degree Holder) 2000
U.S. Census BureauData Set: Census 2000 Summary File 3 (SF 3)
4.19% - 6.37%
3.00% - 4.18%
1.80% - 2.99%
White3.97%
Union4.18%
Yell1.80%
Scott5.07%
Clark3.23%
Ashley2.83%
Polk3.95%
Pope3.45%
Drew2.84%
Benton4.60%
Desha2.13%
Logan4.02%
Saline4.56%
Pulaski4.69%
Arkansas3.16%
Newton3.35%
Lonoke5.30%
Chicot2.47%
Prairie3.16%
Dallas2.99%
Clay2.55%
Phillips4.90%
Madison2.49%
Fulton2.77%Carroll
3.82%
Grant2.95%
Jefferson3.27%
Miller3.99%
Cross3.17%
Lee4.30%
Stone2.50%
Searcy3.58%
Sharp3.75%
Pike2.42%
Marion4.69%
Poinsett2.20%
Boone5.18%
Izard4.29%
Baxter4.69%
Garland4.45%
Sevier6.37%
Perry2.71%
Mississippi4.00%
Bradley2.32%
Washington3.51%
Monroe3.23%
Johnson1.97%
Ouachita4.91%
Lincoln3.34%
Columbia2.86%
Nevada2.42%
Greene2.86%
Jackson3.07%Franklin
4.55%
Faulkner4.15%
Calhoun3.48%
Conway2.92%
Van Buren3.15%
Craighead3.53%
Randolph3.20%
Crawford5.40%
Woodruff2.01%
Cleburne3.97%
Montgomery4.04%
Lawrence2.66%
Crittenden3.20%
St. Francis3.76%
Cleveland3.43%
Hot Spring4.00%
Sebastian3.69%
Little River3.63%
Howard3.35%
Hempstead3.24%
Lafayette3.23%
Independence2.90%
Arkansas ranked 50th (4%) Nation-wide in 2000 for Associate Degree Holders
Where Arkansas Bachelors Degree (and higher) Holders live
(2000)
U.S. Census BureauData Set: Census 2000 Summary File 3 (SF 3)
23.00%
2.31% - 8.00%
0.10% - 2.30%
Yell0.5%
White2.3%
Union1.5%
Scott0.2%
Polk0.5%
Clark0.9%
Pope2.3%
Drew0.7%
Ashley0.5%
Clay0.3%
Benton7.0%
Desha0.4%
Lee0.2%
Pike0.3%
Logan0.5%
Miller1.1%
Saline3.2%
Izard0.4%
Grant0.4%
Pulaski23.0%
Arkansas0.6%
Newton0.2%
Lonoke1.7%
Cross0.4%
Chicot0.4%
Dallas0.2%
Stone0.3%
Perry0.3%
Prairie0.2%
Sharp0.4%
Phillips0.7%
Fulton0.3%
Madison0.3%
Carroll0.8%
Jefferson2.9%
Searcy0.2%
Marion0.4%
Poinsett0.4%
Boone1.0%
Baxter1.3%
Garland3.9%
Sevier0.3%
Mississippi1.2%
Bradley0.3%
Washington8.0%
Monroe0.2%
Johnson0.7%
Ouachita0.8%
Lincoln0.3%
Columbia0.9%
Nevada0.2%
Greene0.9%
Jackson0.4%Franklin
0.4%
Faulkner4.4%
Howard0.4%
Calhoun0.1%
Conway0.5%
Van Buren0.5%
Craighead3.7%
Randolph0.4%
Crawford1.1%
Woodruff0.2%
Cleburne0.8%
Montgomery0.2%
Lawrence0.3%
Crittenden1.3%
St. Francis0.6%
Cleveland0.2%
Hot Spring0.8%
Sebastian4.3%
Little River0.3%
Hempstead0.6%
Lafayette0.2%
Independence1.1%
Arkansas ranked 51st (16.7%) Nation-wide in 2000 for Bachelors & Higher
60% of all AR college graduates reside in 9 counties
Pulaski 23.%
Where Arkansas Associate Degree Holders live
(2000)
U.S. Census BureauData Set: Census 2000 Summary File 3 (SF 3)
15.90%
1.96% - 6.83%
0.17% - 1.95%
White2.41%
Union1.80%
Yell0.35%
Scott4.07%
Clark0.64%
Ashley0.64%
Polk0.77%
Pope1.70%
Drew0.47%
Benton6.58%
Desha0.29%
Logan0.87%
Saline1.19%
Arkansas0.63%
Newton0.28%
Lonoke2.55%
Chicot0.32%
Pulaski15.90%
Prairie0.30%
Dallas0.26%
Clay0.45%
Phillips1.09%
Madison0.33%
Fulton0.33%Carroll
0.95%
Grant0.46%
Jefferson2.49%
Miller1.48%
Cross0.56%
Lee0.49%
Stone0.29%
Searcy0.37%
Sharp0.53%
Pike0.27%
Marion0.78%
Poinsett0.53%
Boone1.72%
Izard0.59%
Baxter1.95%
Garland4.01%
Sevier6.83%
Perry0.27%
Mississippi1.82%
Bradley0.28%
Washington4.74%
Monroe0.31%
Johnson0.42%
Ouachita1.34%
Lincoln0.46%
Columbia0.66%
Nevada0.23%
Greene1.01%
Jackson0.54%Franklin
0.76%
Faulkner3.03%
Calhoun0.20%
Conway0.56%
Van Buren0.53%
Craighead2.58%
Randolph0.56%
Crawford2.62%
Woodruff0.17%
Cleburne0.99%
Montgomery0.38%
Lawrence0.45%
Crittenden1.39%
St. Francis0.66%
Cleveland0.28%
Hot Spring1.17%
Sebastian0.31%
Little River0.47%
Howard0.45%
Hempstead0.69%
Lafayette0.26%
Independence0.95%
Arkansas ranked 50th (4%) Nation-wide in 2000 for Associate Degree Holders
58% of all associates degree recipients reside in 12 counties
• Strengthening the Arkansas Education Pipeline
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9th GradeEnrollment
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First-timeFull-timeDegreeSeekingCohort
RetainedAfter 1 Year
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WithAssociate
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WithBachelorDegree
Percent 96-97 Arkansas 9th Grader’s Progression into High School and College (percent)
100%
71%
28%
Fall 2000 College Freshmen
96-97 Arkansas 9th Grader’s Progression into High School and College (number)
17,11615,172
10,701
5,817
37,160
1,4934,324
27,335
9th GradeEnrollment
High SchoolGrads
EnrolledDirectly into
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First-timeFull-timeDegreeSeekingCohort
RetainedAfter 1 Year
GraduatedWithin 6Years
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Fall 2000 College Freshmen
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% Needing Remediation
Unduplicated Remediation Rates by CountyFall 2007
First-time entering (full- and part-time) students seeking an associate or baccalaureate degree.
1. Strengthening the Arkansas Education Pipeline
2. Improving Preparation 3. Decreasing Remediation 4. Accessing Financial Aid5. Increasing Retention and Graduation6. Enhancing Funding and Governance 7. Addressing Data Needs8. Supporting Economic Development 9. Issues for Further Study
Companies hope for boon in energy efficiency stimulus• By Laurie Whalen , April 4• LITTLE ROCK -- Energy conservation and efficiency block
grants. A $5 million grant program funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 will create work for Arkansas businesses and laborers specializing in energy conservation and efficiency services. Grants of $5,000 to $750,000 to help small cities and counties increase energy savings will be announced by summer.
Call to ‘Buy American’ stirs clean-energy row Apri1 19, BY KIM CHIPMAN BLOOMBERG NEWS
At the end of WWII, the U.S made a bold decision to invest in the future of its economy by providing $1.9 billion annually to the education of returning veterans of the war. This commitment to human capital helped enable the WWII generation to become the “greatest generation.”
Possibly, Arkansas’s greatest generation is at the schoolhouse door waiting for the opportunity to propel Arkansas into the global economy.
