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: 2331583
• 负责人: John Poelma
• 金额: $ 39.97万
• 依托单位: Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College
• 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=2331583&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提高能力和基础设施来扩大两年制高等教育机构在新兴技术项目中的参与，以发展和维持以下机构的强大区域合作伙伴关系：William Rainey哈珀College（IL），Ivy Tech Community College（IN），密西西比墨西哥湾沿岸社区学院（MS），Washburn University Institute of Technology（KS）和WSU Tech（KS）。该项目为期三年，将为每个机构的新能力的发展、实施和评估提供资金，以有意义地参与跨部门伙伴关系，推动劳动力发展。合作机构（队列）将通过实施商业和工业领导团队（BILT）咨询理事会模式，以前所未有的方式与雇主接触。这种模式与目前在大学使用的传统咨询委员会有很大的不同，传统咨询委员会通常每年召开两次会议，缺乏雇主的参与，也不考虑未来劳动力市场的需求。在BILT中，区域雇主具有共同领导作用，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着影响学术课程的质量和相关性，并将使学生更好地为劳动力做好准备。与区域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，导师和嘉宾演讲创造机会。各机构将利用公开的BILT资源和针对特定区域的行业伙伴关系的BILT顾问实施BILT进程。学院将分享经验教训，最佳实践，个人机构计划的进展，以及实施学院范围内变革的障碍的解决方案。该项目的总体目标是建立机构能力，以发展劳动力发展计划的外部合作伙伴关系，使其更能满足地区劳动力需求。目标包括制定、实施和评估一项针对具体机构的、可复制的、可扩展的计划，将当前传统的咨询委员会流程转变为BILT模式，以与行业合作伙伴建立有意义的互动，并确定招聘和外联战略，重点确保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，共同的活动包括实施BILT咨询理事会模型至少一个学术课程，使用公开的BILT资源和BILT顾问针对特定的区域行业和雇主，并制定和实施机构特定的战略计划，以建立在各自的区域创新生态系统内发展和维持区域合作伙伴关系的能力。合作活动包括创建一个框架，在社区和技术学院实施BILT是可复制和可扩展的;教育教师和雇主的BILT对学生，计划和区域经济的价值;建立虚拟每月会议的时间表;建立一个实践社区，以分享最佳做法、个别体制计划的进展、面临的挑战，和解决方案，旨在消除实施机构变革的障碍;创建一个讨论和文件存储的协作平台;召集一个由主要研究者和共同主要研究者组成的管理员工作组，以传达队列进展情况，并确保所有交付成果都符合目标;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附近举办年度面对面的队列研讨会。第三方评估人员将评估同期项目的成果和影响。该项目的更广泛影响将是增加学术界、工业界、通过BILT，这将导致加强和深化雇主参与，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NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。