Best Practices: Alabama changing the game in workforce development
Jeff Lynn, vice chancellor of workforce and economic development, Alabama Community College System, speaks with an enthusiasm that’s contagious. He’s talking about the dynamic...
Kudos: Hands on and real world
As a mother and a businesswoman, Terri Seese took a good look at education, and saw a gap. A few years later, she’s working...
Workforce and Education: states, schools and industry collaborate to build automotive careers
To meet the need for skilled workers original equipment manufacturers and parts manufacturers turn to universities, community colleges and technical schools to provide hands-on...
Spotlight: Building a ready workforce
Southern states offer some of the top workforce development programs in the country. Many of the programs provide workers for the automakers and parts...
Executive Q&A: Kia’s Stuart Countess on responsibility and the future
Hot on the heels of the announcement that Kia Motors Manufacturing Georgia would be the home for the South Korean automaker’s big new SUV,...
SAC2018 Recap: International interest shows a world of possibilities
The 2018 Southern Automotive Conference provided a showcase for the innovative ideas, products, manufacturing and technology that are driving the auto industry. Of the...
The first delegation from the United Kingdom arrives at SAC 2018
The United Kingdom was represented by a 20-member delegation at the 11th annual Southern Automotive Conference, marking the first time the nation officially participated...
Spotlight: Southern Automotive Conference 2018 Highlights
The 2018 Southern Automotive Conference provided a showcase for the innovative ideas, products, manufacturing and technology that are driving the auto industry.
More than 1,200...
Vintage: Marathon Motors
If someone were to ask you which cars have been built in Nashville, Tennessee, you might be forgiven for responding with the names of...
Vision: Ride of a Lifetime
In his 2015 self-published memoir, I Hear My Angel Sing, Sean Suggs, president of Toyota Motor Manufacturing Mississippi (TMMM), describes his early childhood experiences,...