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Article: 2-year colleges key to economic growth.(Economic Development)
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- Arkansas Business
- Article date:
- August 27, 2007
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ARKANSAS TWO-YEAR COLLEGES HOLD the key to economic development in the state, and they're mobilizing their resources to meet the work force needs of business and industry.
That's according to several leaders in the trenches, who are working to ensure that if large companies come knocking, Arkansas will have workers waiting at the door.
"Community colleges are the greatest economic development engines ever invented by a democratic society," said Glen Fenter, president of Mid-South Community College in West Memphis. "They invest in the most important resource that any economic development engine will require, and that is human capital."
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