Collaborative Research: EPIIC: Generating Regional Innovative Partnerships (GRIP)

合作研究：EPIIC：建立区域创新伙伴关系（GRIP）

• 批准号: 2331584
• 负责人: Charles Havens
• 金额: $ 40万
• 依托单位: Washburn University of Topeka
• 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=2331584&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; EPIIC; Generating; Regional

The collaborative project aims to broaden the participation of two-year institutions of higher education in emerging technology programs by increasing the capacity and infrastructure to grow and sustain strong regional partnerships at the following institutions: William Rainey Harper College (IL), Ivy Tech Community College (IN), Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College (MS), Washburn University Institute of Technology (KS), and WSU Tech (KS). Over its three-year duration, this project will fund the development, implementation, and evaluation of each institution’s new capacity to meaningfully engage in cross-sector partnerships to advance efforts in workforce development. The collaborating institutions (the cohort) will engage employers in ways that have not been done before at their institutions by implementing the Business and Industry Leadership Team (BILT) advisory council model. This model is substantially different from the traditional advisory committees currently used at the colleges that generally meet twice per year, lack employer involvement, and are not considering future labor market needs. In the BILT, regional employers have co-leadership roles and collaborate with faculty to develop and update course content by sharing the knowledge and skills needed for the workforce 12 to 36 months into the future. This deeper level of engagement will significantly impact the quality and relevancy of academic programs and will make students better prepared for the workforce. Building relationships with regional business leaders will ensure classroom content is current and create opportunities for student internships, apprenticeships, mentorship, and guest speakers. Institutions will implement the BILT process using publicly available BILT resources and a BILT consultant for the regional-specific industry partnerships being targeted. The colleges will share lessons learned, best practices, progress on individual institutional plans, and solutions to barriers to implementing college-wide change.The overall objective of this project is to build institutional capacity to grow external partnerships for workforce development programs to make them more responsive to regional workforce needs. Goals include developing, implementing, and evaluating an institution-specific, replicable, scalable plan to transform the current traditional advisory committee process into the BILT model to create meaningful engagement with industry partners and identifying recruitment and outreach strategies that focus on ensuring representation of underrepresented individuals and businesses on the BILT teams. Institutional activities vary by institution; however, shared activities include implementing the BILT advisory council model for at least one academic program, using publicly available BILT resources and a BILT consultant for targeting specific regional industries and employers, and developing and implementing institution-specific strategic plans to build capacity for growing and sustaining regional partnerships within its respective regional innovation ecosystem. Collaborative activities include creating a framework for implementing BILT at community and technical colleges that is replicable and scalable; educating faculty and employers on the value of the BILT for students, programs, and the regional economy; establishing a schedule of virtual monthly meetings; creating a community of practice to share best practices, progress on individual institutional plans, challenges faced, and solutions designed to address barriers to implementing institutional change; creating a collaboration platform for discussions and document storage; convening an Administrators Working Group comprised of PIs and co-PIs to communicate the status of cohort progress and ensure all deliverables are on target; and planning an annual in-person cohort workshop adjacent to the annual Workforce Development Institute conference hosted by the American Association of Community Colleges. A third-party evaluator will assess the outcomes and impacts of the cohort’s project. The broader impacts of this project will be increasing partnerships between academia, industry, and others through the BILT which will lead to strengthening and deepening employer engagement and enabling community and technical colleges to contribute to and become equitable partners in the regional innovation ecosystem.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.

该合作项目旨在通过增加以下机构的能力和基础设施来扩大两年制高等教育机构对新兴技术项目的参与：威廉·雷尼·哈珀学院（IL）、常春藤技术社区学院（in）、密西西比海湾沿岸社区学院（MS）、沃什伯恩大学理工学院（KS）和华盛顿州立大学理工学院（KS）。该项目为期三年，将资助各机构开发、实施和评估其新能力，以有意义地参与跨部门伙伴关系，推进劳动力发展工作。合作机构（队列）将通过实施商业和工业领导团队（BILT）咨询委员会模式，以其机构以前从未做过的方式与雇主接触。这种模式与目前高校使用的传统咨询委员会有本质上的不同，传统咨询委员会通常每年开两次会，缺乏雇主的参与，也不考虑未来劳动力市场的需求。在BILT中，地区雇主扮演共同领导角色，并与教师合作，通过分享未来12至36个月劳动力所需的知识和技能来开发和更新课程内容。这种更深层次的参与将显著影响学术课程的质量和相关性，并使学生为就业做好更好的准备。与地区商业领袖建立关系将确保课堂内容是最新的，并为学生实习、学徒、指导和演讲嘉宾创造机会。各机构将利用可公开获得的BILT资源和针对特定区域行业伙伴关系的BILT顾问来实施BILT进程。这些学院将分享经验教训、最佳实践、个别机构计划的进展，以及解决实施全校范围变革的障碍。该项目的总体目标是建立机构能力，发展劳动力发展项目的外部伙伴关系，使其更能满足区域劳动力需求。目标包括制定、实施和评估一个特定机构的、可复制的、可扩展的计划，将目前传统的咨询委员会流程转变为BILT模式，与行业合作伙伴建立有意义的接触，并确定招聘和推广策略，重点是确保BILT团队中代表性不足的个人和企业的代表性。机构活动因机构而异；然而，共同的活动包括为至少一个学术项目实施BILT咨询委员会模式，利用公开的BILT资源和针对特定区域行业和雇主的BILT顾问，以及制定和实施针对机构的战略计划，以建立在各自区域创新生态系统中发展和维持区域伙伴关系的能力。合作活动包括创建一个可复制和可扩展的框架，以便在社区和技术学院实施BILT；向教师和雇主宣传BILT考试对学生、项目和地区经济的价值；制定每月虚拟会议的时间表；创建一个实践社区，分享最佳实践、个别制度计划的进展、面临的挑战以及旨在解决实施制度变革障碍的解决方案；为讨论和文档存储创建协作平台；召集由项目负责人和共同项目负责人组成的管理人员工作组，沟通队列进展状况，确保所有可交付成果达到目标；并计划在美国社区学院协会主办的年度劳动力发展研究所会议旁边举办一次年度面对面的队列研讨会。第三方评估人员将评估该队列项目的结果和影响。该项目的更广泛影响将是通过BILT增加学术界、工业界和其他方面之间的伙伴关系，这将加强和深化雇主的参与，使社区和技术学院能够为区域创新生态系统做出贡献，并成为公平的合作伙伴。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。