Is Arkansas Higher Education Ready for Renewable Energy?

1. Is Arkansas Higher Education Ready for Renewable Energy? • Jim Purcell

2. 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

3. 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 Interestin 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-RegulatoryAdministration

4. Current Programs

5. 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.

6. 2010 Enrollment in Renewable Energy Technology

7. 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

8. Projected Annual Job Growth by Sector Source: IHS Global Insight. March 2010.

9. 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

12. 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?

13. 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.

14. Iowa Lakes Community College

16. 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.

17. Michael Lind, Policy Director of the New America Foundation’s economic-growth program Prediction • 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.

18. Fossil Fuels are Still Needed – Arkansas is also a player 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.

19. 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.

20. 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!

21. 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.

22. Ed Barlow, Futurist: Speed to Market and Close to Customer • Implement a series of initiatives that expedite the number of degrees produced and the speed at which degrees are produced. • Enhance the production of degrees in high –demand programs that are needed for the modern Arkansas economy. • Incentivize students to complete a degree and to work in Arkansas.

23. No state with a low proportion of Bachelor’s degrees has a high per capita income. No state with a high proportion of Bachelor’s degrees has a low per capita income. State Per Capita Personal Income v. Share of Adult Population with Bachelor's Degree or Higher (2008) 2002= 19.7% DC CT NJ MD MA VA 2008= 18.8% NY NH DE RI MN CA AK IL CO WA VT NV WI FL WY MI PA HI ME GA IA OR KS MO AZ IN OH NC NE ND TN TX MT AL SD SC UT KY NM OK AR LA ID WV MS 2008 2007 2006 2005 2002

24. By the end of this decade, more than 60% of jobs will require college education1 What percentage of our young adults have a college degree? (associates or bachelors) Today, 26% of Arkansas’s young adults aged 25-34 have a college degree.2 26% Is 26% enough? 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.html 2 “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

25. 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

26. 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

27. Percent of County Populationthat hold Bachelors & Higher 2000 Benton 20.3% Washington 24.5% Craighead 20.9% Pope 19.0% Faulkner 25.2% Pulaski 28.1% Arkansas ranked 51st (16.7%) Nation-wide in 2000 for Bachelors & Higher Clark 19.8% U.S. Census Bureau Data Set: Census 2000 Summary File 3 (SF 3)

28. Percent of County Population(Associate Degree Holder) 2000 Arkansas ranked 50th (4%) Nation-wide in 2000 for Associate Degree Holders U.S. Census Bureau Data Set: Census 2000 Summary File 3 (SF 3)

29. Where Arkansas Bachelors Degree (and higher) Holders live (2000) Pulaski 23.% Arkansas ranked 51st (16.7%) Nation-wide in 2000 for Bachelors & Higher 60% of all AR college graduates reside in 9 counties U.S. Census Bureau Data Set: Census 2000 Summary File 3 (SF 3)

30. Where Arkansas Associate Degree Holders live(2000) 58% of all associates degree recipients reside in 12 counties Arkansas ranked 50th (4%) Nation-wide in 2000 for Associate Degree Holders U.S. Census Bureau Data Set: Census 2000 Summary File 3 (SF 3)

31. Strengthening the Arkansas Education Pipeline

32. Fall 2000 College Freshmen Percent 96-97 Arkansas 9th Grader’s Progression into High School and College (percent) 100% 71% 28%

33. Fall 2000 College Freshmen 96-97 Arkansas 9th Grader’s Progression into High School and College (number) 100% 71% 28%

34. Unduplicated Remediation Rates by CountyFall 2007 % Needing Remediation First-time entering (full- and part-time) students seeking an associate or baccalaureate degree.

35. Strengthening the Arkansas Education Pipeline • Improving Preparation • Decreasing Remediation • Accessing Financial Aid • Increasing Retention and Graduation • Enhancing Funding and Governance • Addressing Data Needs • Supporting Economic Development • Issues for Further Study

36. 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

37. 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.

38. Jim Purcell Jim.purcell@adhe.edu 501-371-2030