Conversations with the President: Workforce Development with Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt

Описание: President Joe Harroz is joined by the 28th governor of the state of Oklahoma, Kevin Stitt. Stitt has served that position since 2019 and was re-elected to a second term in 2022. President Harroz and Governor Stitt discuss a variety of topics centered around the growth of the state of Oklahoma and the University of Oklahoma’s role in that growth.
(0:00 – 1:52) Harroz introduces Governor Stitt and provides background
(1:53) Stitt and Harroz discuss Stitt’s recent re-election and reminisce about his first four years
(5:10) The university’s role in helping realize Stitt’s desire of making Oklahoma a top 10 state
(10:45) The last two years of workforce development and moving forward
(11:38) Stitt remembers the need for more nurses in the state and what the OU Health Sciences Center was able to do to meet the need
(16:19) Harroz and Stitt remember traveling to Indiana to recruit a company to the state before realizing the need for a polytechnical institute as well as recruiting Tomás Díaz de la Rubia
(21:30) Stitt recounts the three-city tour during his re-election innaugration
(25:40) Harroz signs off
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