Collaborative Research: EPIIC: EmpowerEd -- Building the Future Workforce Together

合作研究：EPIIC：EmpowerEd——共同打造未来劳动力

• 批准号: 2331560
• 负责人: David Markwardt
• 金额: $ 39.6万
• 依托单位: Ohio Wesleyan University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-10-01 至 2026-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2331560&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; EPIIC; EmpowerEd; Building

This is a collaborative project across the following institutions: Hobart and William Smith College, University of Maine at Farmington, Albany College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences, Montgomery College, Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology, and Ohio Wesleyan University. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, over the next decade, STEM occupations are forecast to grow faster than the total for all occupations, leave a talent shortage for industries to fill nearly 3.5 million STEM jobs by 2029. In addition, there is a growing disconnect between what STEM students learn in college and what employers expect new graduates to be able to do. Some employers find recent graduates lack soft skills like problem solving, critical thinking, and written and oral communication; others find students to be unfamiliar with the practical and technical skills needed for their day-to-day work. This collaborative EPIIC project defines a process to address these issues at the academic institutions participating in this project. Cohort institutions will work together grow industry partnerships, improve alignment of program curricula with industry needs, and enhance faculty skills and knowledge of emerging technologies. Through this EPIIC project, the collaborating institutions will build relationships with industry experts and government agencies to find out what skills and knowledge are needed for STEM jobs in their fields. The cohort will use this information to modify and enhance college courses and curricular structure with industry needs in mind so students are prepared for jobs right out of college. At the same time, skills training for faculty must be provided so instructors are prepared to teach the enhanced course content and multiple degree pathways must be created so students with diverse preparation and life situations will graduate. Project participants will also communicate to students clearly and effectively about how and why their education will prepare them for the STEM careers they want, thus building the workforce this country needs. Each academic institution in the diverse cohort, which includes two small liberal arts colleges, two 2-year technical colleges, a primarily undergraduate state university, and a 4-year college offering specialized undergraduate and graduate degrees, has developed an individualized plan to implement this process. The participating institutions will exchange information and work together as a cohort to enhance each institution's capacity for building external partnerships. This process will position the institutions to further deepen engagement with industry and enhance their contributions to their regional innovation ecosystems.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这是一个在以下机构中的合作项目：霍巴特和威廉·史密斯学院，缅因州法明顿大学，奥尔巴尼药房与健康科学学院，蒙哥马利学院，本杰明·富兰克林·卡明斯技术学院和俄亥俄州卫斯理大学。 根据美国劳工统计局的说法，在接下来的十年中，预测STEM职业的增长速度将比所有职业总数快，到2029年，行业将使工业短缺填补近350万个STEM工作。此外，STEM学生在大学学习与雇主期望新的毕业生有能力做到的东西之间存在越来越多的脱节。一些雇主发现最近的毕业生缺乏诸如解决问题，批判性思维以及书面和口头交流的软技能。其他人则发现学生不熟悉日常工作所需的实际和技术技能。这个协作的EPIIC项目定义了一个过程，以解决参与该项目的学术机构。 队列机构将共同发展行业伙伴关系，改善计划课程与行业需求的一致性，并提高教师技能和新兴技术知识。 通过这个Epiic项目，合作机构将与行业专家和政府机构建立关系，以找出其领域的STEM工作所需的技能和知识。该队列将使用这些信息来修改和增强大学课程和课程结构，并考虑到行业需求，以便学生为从大学毕业的工作做好准备。同时，必须为教师提供技能培训，以便教师准备教授增强的课程内容，并且必须创建多个学位途径，以便有多种准备和生活状况的学生将毕业。项目参与者还将与学生清晰有效地沟通，以了解他们的教育方式以及为什么为他们想要的STEM职业做好准备，从而为该国所需的劳动力建立劳动力。各种队列中的每个学术机构，包括两所小型文科学院，两所2年的技术学院，一所主要是本科州立大学，以及一所4年的大学，提供专门的本科和研究生学士学位，已经制定了一个个性化的计划来实施这一过程。参与的机构将交换信息并共同努力，以增强每个机构建立外部合作伙伴关系的能力。该过程将使机构进一步加深与行业的参与，并提高其对区域创新生态系统的贡献。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛影响的评估审查标准来评估值得支持的。