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

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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