Transcript Is Arkansas Higher Education Ready for Renewable Energy?

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:
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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 Programs
Renewab
En Eff
Transp
En Eff
Gr const
En Trad
ANC
ANC
ASUN
ASUN
ATU/O ATU/O ATU/O ATU/O
CCCU
A
EACC
EACC EACC
MSCC MSCC
MSCC
NAC
NAC
OTC
NAC
PCCUA
RVT
RVT
UAFS
8
6
4
RDC
ATU/O
Agri
ATU/O
EACC EACC
MSCC
NPCC
NAC
NAC
PCCUA
PCCUA
/D
PTC
RVT
UAFS
11
Env Pr
Mft
Recyc
Regul
ANC
PCCUA
PTC
Total #
Current
Programs
CC&S
UAFS
0
1
6
4
ATU/O
NAC
EACC EACC
MSCC
NPCC NPCC
NAC NAC
PCCUA
PCCUA
/D
PTC
PTC
PTC
RVT
RVT
RVT
UAFS UAFS UAFS
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
degree
School
award
_code
ANC
3150
AAS
ASUN
2150
TC
EACC
2150
TC
EACC
3150
AAS
MSCC
1150
MSCC
MSCC
Summer II Fall Spring
2009
2009 2010
7
29
25
4
10
1
17
28
CP
2
2
2150
TC
2
2
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 Sector
Health care & social assistance
Professional, scientific & technical
Construction
Transportation & warehousing
Accomodation & food services
State & local
Transportation equipment
Machinery
Wood products
Real estate, rental & leasing
Motor vehicles & parts
Computers & electronics
Primary metals
Arts, entertainment & recreation
Furniture & related goods
Food
Finance & insurance
Electrical equipment & appliances
Paper & paper products
Chemicals
Logging
Petroleum & coal products
Beverages & tobacco
Food & beverage stores
Publishing
Apparel
Utilities
Educational services
Printing & related support
Mining
Management of companies
Gasoline
Federal
-150,000
Source: IHS Global Insight.
March 2010.
150,000
450,000
750,000
1,050,000
Current Approach:
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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
Billions
100
90
Green Subsidies. A dramatic boost for
high tech.
Renewable energy
generation, $27
80
70
60
Energy efficiency,
$20
50
40
Mass transit, $18
30
Grid
modernization, $11
20
Advanced vehicles
and fuels, $6
10
Other, $9
0
G.W. Bush's 2005 energy bill $14
billion
Obama's green stimulus spending
$90 billion
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ed Barlow, Futurist:
Speed to Market and Close to Customer
1.
2.
3.
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.
State Per Capita Personal Income v. Share of Adult
Population with Bachelor's Degree or Higher (2008)
2002= 19.7%
No state with a low
proportion of Bachelor’s
degrees has a high per
capita income.
$38,000
$36,000
$34,000
CT
NJ
Per Capita Income
$32,000
$30,000
MD
VA
2008= 18.8%
DE
AK
$26,000
NV
CA
IL
RI
MN
WA
VT
CO
No state with a high
proportion of Bachelor’s
degrees has a low per
capita income.
WI FL
MI
PA
HI
ME GA
IA
OR KS
MO
AZ
OH
NC
NE
ND
TX
MT
SD
SC
UT
NM
WY
$24,000
IN
TN
AL
$22,000
KY
WV
AR
MA
NY NH
$28,000
$20,000
DC
LA
OK
ID
$18,000
MS
$16,000
15%
2008
2007
20% 2005
2006
2002
25%
30%
35%
40%
45%
50%
Percentage of Adult Population with a Bachelor's Degree or Higher
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2006
23
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
Current percentage of young adults
(25-34) with a college degree3
39%
36%
36%
50%
48%
36%
44%46%
34%
40%
44%
43%
46%
44%
28%
48%
36%
34%
36%
38%
43%
36%
53%
46%43%
46%
45%36%
36%
28%
41%
41%
42%
37%
32%
36%
31%
30%
31%
26%
29%
34%
32%
31%
32%
34%
28%
35%
30%
41%
45% - 53%
39% - 44%
33% - 38%
26% - 32%
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
Arkansas
Louisiana
Nevada
West Virginia
New Mexico
Alaska
Oklahoma
Arizona
Tennessee
Texas
Alabama
Kentucky
Mississippi
Georgia
Idaho
South Carolina
Wyoming
Florida
California
Delaware
Indiana
Maine
Michigan
Montana
North Carolina
Ohio
Oregon
Missouri
Utah
Washington
Wisconsin
Colorado
Hawaii
Kansas
Virginia
Illinois
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Nebraska
South Dakota
Vermont
Maryland
Connecticut
Iowa
New Hampshire
New Jersey
Minnesota
New York
North Dakota
Massachusetts
Current percentage of young adults
(25-34) with a college degree3
55%
30%
3
53%
50%
45%
40%
35%
26%
25%
20%
15%
10%
“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
Percent of County Population
that hold Bachelors & Higher 2000
Benton
Benton
20.3%
20.3%
Carroll
13.8%
Washington
Washington
24.5%
24.5%
Crawford
9.7%
Sebastian
8.4%
Polk
10.9%
Newton
11.8%
Johnson
13.1%
Stone
9.8%
Van Buren
11.5%
Pope
Conway
11.5%
Yell
10.9%
Montgomery
8.8%
Pike
Howard 10.1%
Sevier 11.6%
16.6%
Little River
9.9%
Searcy
8.4%
Pope
19.0%
19.0%
Logan
9.4%
Scott
16.4%
Fulton
10.5%
Baxter
12.8%
Marion
10.4%
Sharp
9.2%
White
15.5%
Grant
11.0%
Hot Spring
11.2%
Clark
Clark
19.8%
19.8%
Ouachita
12.7%
Columbia
16.8%
Pulaski
Pulaski
28.1%
28.1%
Saline
9.6%
Garland
18.0%
Dallas
9.6%
Calhoun
7.3%
Union
14.9%
Craighead
Craighead
20.9%
20.9%
Jackson
10.3%
Woodruff
8.0%
Mississippi
11.3%
Poinsett
6.3%
Cross
9.9%
Crittenden
12.8%
St. Francis
10.3%
Perry
11.1%
Hempstead
Nevada
11.0%
10.7%
Miller
12.5% Lafayette
9.5%
Cleburne
13.9%
Greene
10.9%
Lawrence
8.5%
Independence
13.7%
Faulkner
Faulkner
25.2%
25.2%
Clay
7.4%
Randolph
10.6%
Izard
11.7%
Madison
10.1%
Franklin
11.0%
Boone
12.7%
Lonoke
14.6%
Prairie
9.0%
Monroe
8.4%
Lee
7.3%
Phillips
12.4%
Jefferson
15.7%
Cleveland
10.0%
Arkansas
12.2%
Lincoln
7.6%
Desha
11.1%
Drew
17.3%
18.1% - 28.1%
Bradley
11.9%
Ashley
10.1%
U.S. Census Bureau
Data Set: Census 2000 Summary File 3 (SF 3)
Arkansas ranked 51st (16.7%)
Nation-wide in 2000 for
Bachelors & Higher
Chicot
11.7%
12.0% - 18.0%
6.3% - 11.9%
Percent of County Population
(Associate Degree Holder) 2000
Benton
4.60%
Carroll
3.82%
Crawford
5.40%
Franklin
4.55%
Sebastian
3.69%
Polk
3.95%
Newton
3.35%
Stone
2.50%
Van Buren
3.15%
Conway
2.92%
Sharp
3.75%
Yell
1.80%
Montgomery
4.04%
Grant
2.95%
Hot Spring
4.00%
Clark
3.23%
Ouachita
4.91%
Columbia
2.86%
Pulaski
4.69%
Saline
4.56%
Garland
4.45%
Dallas
2.99%
Calhoun
3.48%
Union
4.18%
Craighead
3.53%
Jackson
3.07%
Woodruff
2.01%
Mississippi
4.00%
Poinsett
2.20%
Cross
3.17%
Crittenden
3.20%
St. Francis
3.76%
Perry
2.71%
Hempstead
Nevada
3.24%
2.42%
Miller
3.99% Lafayette
3.23%
White
3.97%
Greene
2.86%
Lawrence
2.66%
Independence
2.90%
Faulkner
4.15%
Clay
2.55%
Randolph
3.20%
Cleburne
3.97%
Pope
3.45%
Pike
Howard 2.42%
Sevier 3.35%
6.37%
Little River
3.63%
Searcy
3.58%
Johnson
1.97%
Logan
4.02%
Scott
5.07%
Fulton
2.77%
Baxter
4.69%
Marion
4.69%
Izard
4.29%
Madison
2.49%
Washington
3.51%
Boone
5.18%
Lonoke
5.30%
Prairie
3.16%
Monroe
3.23%
Lee
4.30%
Phillips
4.90%
Jefferson
3.27%
Cleveland
3.43%
Arkansas
3.16%
Lincoln
3.34%
Desha
2.13%
Drew
2.84%
4.19% - 6.37%
Bradley
2.32%
Ashley
2.83%
U.S. Census Bureau
Data Set: Census 2000 Summary File 3 (SF 3)
Arkansas ranked 50th (4%)
Nation-wide in 2000 for
Associate Degree Holders
Chicot
2.47%
3.00% - 4.18%
1.80% - 2.99%
Where Arkansas Bachelors Degree
(and higher) Holders live
(2000)
Benton
7.0%
Carroll
0.8%
Crawford
1.1%
Franklin
0.4%
Sebastian
4.3%
Polk
0.5%
Searcy
0.2%
Stone
0.3%
Van Buren
0.5%
Conway
0.5%
Sharp
0.4%
Yell
0.5%
Montgomery
0.2%
Pike
0.3%
Grant
0.4%
Hot Spring
0.8%
Clark
0.9%
Dallas
0.2%
Ouachita
0.8%
Columbia
0.9%
Pulaski
23.0%
23.%
Saline
3.2%
Garland
3.9%
Calhoun
0.1%
Union
1.5%
Craighead
3.7%
Jackson
0.4%
Woodruff
0.2%
Mississippi
1.2%
Poinsett
0.4%
Cross
0.4%
Crittenden
1.3%
St. Francis
0.6%
Perry
0.3%
Hempstead
Nevada
0.6%
0.2%
Miller
1.1% Lafayette
0.2%
White
2.3%
Greene
0.9%
Lawrence
0.3%
Independence
1.1%
Faulkner
4.4%
Clay
0.3%
Randolph
0.4%
Cleburne
0.8%
Pope
2.3%
Logan
0.5%
Howard
Sevier 0.4%
0.3%
Little River
0.3%
Newton
0.2%
Johnson
0.7%
Scott
0.2%
Fulton
0.3%
Baxter
1.3%
Marion
0.4%
Izard
0.4%
Madison
0.3%
Washington
8.0%
Boone
1.0%
Lonoke
1.7%
Prairie
0.2%
Monroe
0.2%
Lee
0.2%
Phillips
0.7%
Arkansas
0.6%
Jefferson
2.9%
Cleveland
0.2%
Lincoln
0.3%
Desha
0.4%
Drew
0.7%
Arkansas ranked 51st (16.7%)
Nation-wide in 2000 for
Bachelors & Higher
60% of all AR college
graduates reside in 9
counties
23.00%
Bradley
0.3%
2.31% - 8.00%
Ashley
0.5%
U.S. Census Bureau
Data Set: Census 2000 Summary File 3 (SF 3)
Chicot
0.4%
0.10% - 2.30%
Where Arkansas Associate Degree
Holders live
(2000)
Benton
6.58%
Carroll
0.95%
Crawford
2.62%
Franklin
0.76%
Sebastian
0.31%
Polk
0.77%
Newton
0.28%
Stone
0.29%
Van Buren
0.53%
Conway
0.56%
Sharp
0.53%
Yell
0.35%
Montgomery
0.38%
Grant
0.46%
Hot Spring
1.17%
Clark
0.64%
Ouachita
1.34%
Columbia
0.66%
Pulaski
15.90%
Saline
1.19%
Garland
4.01%
Dallas
0.26%
Calhoun
0.20%
Union
1.80%
Craighead
2.58%
Jackson
0.54%
Woodruff
0.17%
Mississippi
1.82%
Poinsett
0.53%
Cross
0.56%
Crittenden
1.39%
St. Francis
0.66%
Perry
0.27%
Hempstead
Nevada
0.69%
0.23%
Miller
1.48% Lafayette
0.26%
White
2.41%
Greene
1.01%
Lawrence
0.45%
Independence
0.95%
Faulkner
3.03%
Clay
0.45%
Randolph
0.56%
Cleburne
0.99%
Pope
1.70%
Pike
Howard 0.27%
Sevier 0.45%
6.83%
Little River
0.47%
Searcy
0.37%
Johnson
0.42%
Logan
0.87%
Scott
4.07%
Fulton
0.33%
Baxter
1.95%
Marion
0.78%
Izard
0.59%
Madison
0.33%
Washington
4.74%
Boone
1.72%
Lonoke
2.55%
Prairie
0.30%
Monroe
0.31%
Lee
0.49%
Phillips
1.09%
Jefferson
2.49%
Cleveland
0.28%
Arkansas
0.63%
Lincoln
0.46%
Desha
0.29%
Drew
0.47%
U.S. Census Bureau
Data Set: Census 2000 Summary File 3 (SF 3)
Associate Degree Holders
15.90%
Bradley
0.28%
Ashley
0.64%
58% of all associates
degree
recipients
Arkansas ranked 50th (4%)
reside inin12
counties
Nation-wide
2000
for
Chicot
0.32%
1.96% - 6.83%
0.17% - 1.95%
• Strengthening the
Arkansas Education
Pipeline
Percent 96-97 Arkansas 9th Grader’s Progression
into High School and College (percent)
100
74
Fall 2000 College Freshmen
46
41
100%
29
71%
12
16
4
28%
9th Grade
Enrollm ent
High School
Grads
Enrolled
Directly into
College
First-tim e
Full-tim e
Degree
Seeking
Cohort
Retained
After 1 Year
Graduated
Within 6
Years
With
Associate
Degree
With
Bachelor
Degree
96-97 Arkansas 9th Grader’s Progression into
High School and College (number)
37,160
Fall 2000 College Freshmen
27,335
17,116
15,172
100%
10,701
71%
9th Grade
Enrollm ent
High School
Grads
Enrolled
Directly into
College
First-tim e
Full-tim e
Degree
Seeking
Cohort
Retained
After 1 Year
5,817
1,493
Graduated
Within 6
Years
With
Associate
Degree
4,324
28%
With
Bachelor
Degree
Unduplicated Remediation Rates by County
Fall 2007
%Arkansas_cnty.shp
Needing Remediation
First-time entering (full- and part-time) students seeking an
associate or baccalaureate degree.
33 - 49
50 - 74
75 - 93
1. Strengthening the Arkansas Education
Pipeline
2. Improving Preparation
3. Decreasing Remediation
4. Accessing Financial Aid
5. Increasing Retention and Graduation
6. Enhancing Funding and Governance
7. Addressing Data Needs
8. 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.
Jim Purcell
[email protected]
501-371-2030