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nical certificates and certificates of proficiency.In addition to providing high-quality educationto promote student learning, the college alsoworks to support the economic development ofthe state by providing programs and servicesthat respond to the needs of the CentralArkansas business community.The college’s Business and Industry Center, locatedon the campus of the Aerospace EducationCenter in Little Rock, works directly withthe region’s employers to ensure that their employeesremain skilled and competitive. Withinthe past year, more than 12,000 employees havebenefited from customized training services andacquired new skills that have improved their productivityand helped the region’s economy grow.The college’s main campus is located at 3000West Scenic Drive in North Little Rock. InAugust 2008, the college opened its new LittleRock-South site in the former Little Rock ExpoCenter along Interstate 30. The curriculum includesgeneral education and developmental educationcourse offerings as well as career-orientedprograms offered through the TransportationTechnology Center and the Pulaski TechnicalCollege Arkansas Culinary School. In addition,Pulaski Tech operates the Saline County CareerCenter at Bauxite, a Little Rock site on KanisRoad, the Saline County Adult EducationCenter in Benton and the Aerospace TechnologyCenter at the North Little Rock Airport.Remington CollegeAt every Remington College campus, trainingis provided with an emphasis on teaching thespecific job-related skills that employers lookfor when making hiring decisions. Students atRemington College learn not just by readingtextbooks and other study materials, or just bylistening to instructors lecture, but also by “doing.”This combination of traditional teachingmethods and practical classroom experienceprovides an opportunity for students to gain amuch more personal understanding of theirarea of study because it’s not just theory —it is also a real-world application.This fundamental philosophy toward learningcan be summarized by Remington College’smotto, “Real Skills for the Real World,” becausethat’s what the students have the opportunityto learn. Remington College’s programs are designedto be academically sound and relevantto the needs of both students and employers.Programs of study are developed only in areasthat are expected to have a high demand forskilled workers in the coming years.Remington College’s Little Rock campus at 19Remington Drive offers Associate of AppliedScience degrees in computer networking technologyand criminal justice. Diploma-leveltraining is offered in electronics technology,UALR’s Donaghey College of Engineering and Information Technology recruits top scholars.medical assisting, medical insurance and codingand as a pharmacy technician.University of Arkansas SystemThe University of Arkansas System is a comprehensive,multi-campus, publicly aided institutiondedicated to the improvement of the mindand spirit through the development and disseminationof knowledge.Embracing and expanding the historic trust inherentin the land-grant philosophy, the Universityof Arkansas provides communities inArkansas with access to academic and professionalopportunities, develops intellectual growthand cultural awareness in its students, and appliesknowledge and research skills to an everchanginghuman condition.Providing the state’s only legal, medical and architecturaleducation, as well as the primary engineeringeducation in the state, the Universityof Arkansas also offers 188 graduate programsin 24 academic areas including teaching, business,engineering, medicine, law and agriculture.As the sole source of comprehensive agriculturalresearch and extension services, the universityconducts most of the state’s federallyfunded research. With over 42,000 studentsand 13,700 employees, the University of ArkansasSystem has an aggregate annual budgetof more than $1.1 billion.EDUCATIONUniversity of Arkansasat Little RockA powerhouse university in Arkansas’s capitalcity, the University of Arkansas at Little Rockplays an integral role in the economic developmentof Central Arkansas by preparing wellrounded,technologically astute students to meetthe needs of a vibrant and growing community.UALR combines traditional classroom methodswith hands-on, real-world experience thatbenefits more than 12,000 students — as well asthe community — by adding value to CentralArkansas’s businesses, governments, non-profitorganizations, schools and citizens throughservice learning.UALR’s mission guides faculty, staff and studentsas they create partnerships with community organizationsto find solutions for communitychallenges. For example, UALR works with St.Vincent Health System to develop new programsthat are drawing more students into the nursingprofession through scholarships, on-site clinicalclasses and classes at the UALR Benton campus.When the region’s telecommunications and informationtechnology industries saw the needfor highly qualified graduates in computer science,information technology and systems engineering,they turned to UALR to create theworld-class Donaghey College of Engineeringand Information Technology (EIT) and recruitinternationally known scholars from top engineeringschools like MIT and Rensselaer PolytechnicInstitute. Now, UALR is producingtop-notch graduates and cutting-edge researchto help those same industries advance. A fundingpartnership with the Trinity Foundationhas expanded UALR’s engineering programsto include mechanical and electrical systemsengineering as the foundation to increase thepower of Central Arkansas’s economic engine.Now, UALR is helping Arkansas advance intoLIFESTYLELittle Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce 2009 Business Guide 35