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Innovation Hub Director Chris Jones Steps Down

Send Chris Jones, Ph.D., announced late Thursday that he is stepping down as executive director of the Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub in North Little Rock after three years at the post. Deputy Director Errin Stanger, who has been with the Hub since it was established in 2014, will serve as the nonprofit’s acting executive director. “It has been an outstanding journey, full of rewarding projects and wonderful people. Now it is time for me to start out on a new adventure, a new season,” Jones wrote in an email to Hub patrons, who he thanked. Because of you, the Innovation Hub has been an amazing combination of entrepreneurship, education, technology, and community development.

Business Innovations Clinic Helps Entrepreneurs, Law Students

Kim Vu-Dinh The University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s Business Innovations Clinic provides free legal services to entrepreneurs while helping law students learn the ropes before graduation.  The clinic is finishing its fourth year, but “it still feels new,” Director Kim Vu-Dinh told Arkansas Business. She is also an assistant professor at the William H. Bowen School of Law, which received a $1 million grant from the Arkansas attorney general’s office in 2016 to create the clinic. “It is a legal clinic where students work directly with entrepreneurs who are starting or trying to build capacity in a small business. And so my students specifically provide transactional legal services,” she said. “So everything from filing/registering trademarks and copyright to drafting agreements, to helping them figure out what kind of notifications they need on their websites. So it runs the gamut, but essentially we try to serve as many small businesse

Turmoil in Rearview, Arkansas PBS Foundation Adds 3 Members

Send The Arkansas PBS Foundation has a new name, a new board president and new board members as it supports a bigger role than ever for Arkansas PBS, formerly the Arkansas Educational Television Network. The Conway-based network proved “just how essential and valuable the network is to the citizens of Arkansas” through a pandemic year of educational services, including curriculums for students learning at home and development programs for readjusting teachers. The foundation has a relatively new executive director, Marge Betley, after it healed a rift with its parent network that widened over the firing of longtime foundation COO Mona Dixon in 2019.

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