A Planning Initiative for a Gulf Region Technology Education Project for Disaster Preparedness and Recovery

该项目是一项合作规划倡议，涉及密西西比海湾海岸社区学院、琼斯县初级学院、珠江社区学院和密西西比州立大学及其工业合作伙伴，旨在开发一种教育系统模式，为灾害保护和响应（DPR）培养多技能的技术劳动力。规划进程正在使商业、工业、应急管理和教育机构参与各项活动，以加深对适用于灾后恢复的新兴技术和汇合技术所需技能水平的了解；发展和调整课程；并验证DPR所需的基本技术技能、知识和能力。这些努力正集中于一项计划，以技能评估和差距分析为基础建立一个技术劳动力发展系统，该系统与备灾和恢复方面当前的劳动力需求有关。研讨会论坛、行业咨询以及雇主和教育提供者之间的合作，使与DPR相关工作所需技能集相关的技术计划能够得到评估。正在审查的具体技术包括集成系统、互操作性网络和系统、安全、无线、集成移动和固定接入的融合网络系统、互联网协议、使能的多业务网络融合数据传输、语音和视频通信、数据存储和其他使用多协议标签交换技术的服务。外部评估人员正在使用混合方法评估过程来评估计划项目，以满足所述的预期结果。该计划的广泛影响已经超越了社区大学教育合作伙伴，扩展到了K-12教育、大学和工作场所。随着卡特里娜飓风后经济的重建，设计和制定一个计划来重新定位工作场所，以拥抱新兴和融合的技术，这将对地区和国家的劳动力发展产生影响。

The project is a cooperative planning initiative involving Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, Jones County Junior College, Pearl River Community College, and Mississippi State University and their industrial partners to develop a model for an educational system to produce a multi-skill technological workforce for disaster protection and response (DPR). The planning process is engaging business, industry, emergency management and educational institutions in activities to develop an understanding of the needed skill level in emerging and converging technologies applicable to DPR; to develop and realign curriculum; and to validate the essential technology skills, knowledge, and competencies required in DPR. These efforts are converging on a plan to produce a technology workforce development system based on a skills assessment and gap analysis that relates to current workforce needs in disaster preparedness and recovery. Workshop forums, consultation with industry, and collaboration among employers and education providers is enabling the evaluation of the technology programs in relation to skills sets required for DPR related jobs. Specific technologies being examined are integrated systems, interoperability networks and systems, security, wireless, converged network systems with integrated mobile and fixed access, Internet protocol, enabled multi services networks to converge data transport, voice and video communication, data storage, and other services that use multi protocol label switching technology. An external evaluator is assessing the planning project using a mixed method evaluation process in relation to meeting the stated expected outcomes. The broader impacts of the Initiative extend beyond the community college educational partners to K-12 education, universities, and the workplace. With the rebuilding of a post-Katrina economy, designing and developing a plan to reposition the workplace to embrace emerging and converging technologies will have regional and national implications for workforce development.