Bio-Link Next Generation National Advanced Technological Education Center for Biotechnology and Life Sciences

生物技术的快速发展需要技术先进的中等技能劳动力的发展。Bio-Link下一代生物技术和生命科学中心的使命是(1)增加劳动力中受过良好教育的技术人员的数量和多样性；（二）满足不断发展和多样化的工业对受过适当教育的技术人员日益增长的需求；(3)使社区大学的教育实践制度化，使所有学生都能获得生物技术的概念、工具、技能、过程、监管结构和伦理方面的高质量教育和培训。Bio-Link通过其网络内开发的材料和技术，对科学教育产生了普遍的影响。与合作伙伴一起，它鼓励并使工业界能够雇用社区大学毕业生，并为未被充分代表的人群打开了大门。Bio-Link将继续并扩大其尖端资源的广泛传播，以改善教学实践、教育机会和职业探索和机会。虽然Bio-Link位于旧金山湾区，但它的活动涵盖了全国的生物技术教育。Bio-Link的领导团队成员分布在几个州（加利福尼亚州、德克萨斯州、华盛顿州和威斯康星州），来自36个州和地区的100多所社区学院自认为是Bio-Link项目的成员。随着网络的扩大，涵盖了行业的多样性和教育项目的增长，它也在不断深化。Bio-Link的广泛使命——培养技术人员并满足行业需求——保持不变。Bio-Link这一阶段的目标包括：1：利用Bio-Link的信息共享网络，促进实践社区，加强熟练技术人员的准备。深化和多样化行业外展和参与，以确保全国范围内的培训计划响应行业需求。3 .增加获得和使用教育和培训资源的机会，以提高学生的技能素养。Bio-Link的重点是生物技术，这是一个日益重要的跨学科行业，值得高度关注的领域，如生物制药，生物能源，再生医学，生物制造和其他生物领域发展迅速。此外，该行业为技术人员提供了快速晋升到高薪职位的机会。Bio-Link拥有继续和扩大其工作的关键专业知识和能力。Bio-Link的特别目标是发展更多的实践社区，通过让其网络成员围绕重点工作领域建立持续的合作伙伴关系，促进信息和资源的共享，从而利用和扩展最佳实践，开发新的方法来应对培训技术人员所面临的挑战，并更好地满足行业需求。

Rapid advances in biotechnology require development of a technologically advanced, middle-skills workforce. The Bio-Link Next Generation Center for Biotechnology and Life Science's mission is (1) increasing the number and diversity of well-educated technicians in the workforce; (2) meeting the ever-growing needs of a continually evolving and diversifying industry for appropriately educated technicians; and (3) institutionalizing community college educational practices that make high-quality education and training in the concepts, tools, skills, processes, regulatory structure, and ethics of biotechnology available to all students.Bio-Link has influenced science education in general through materials and techniques developed within its network. With its partners, it has encouraged and enabled industry to hire community college graduates and has opened doors for underrepresented populations. Bio-Link is continuing and expanding its broad dissemination of cutting-edge resources to improve teaching practice, educational access, and career exploration and opportunities.Although Bio-Link is situated in the San Francisco Bay Area, its activities embrace biotechnology education throughout the Nation. Members of Bio-Link's leadership team are located in several states (California, Texas, Washington, and Wisconsin), and over 100 community colleges from 36 states and territories self-identify as Bio-Link programs. As the network has broadened to cover the diversity of the industry and growth of educational programs, it has also deepened. Bio-Link's broad mission --to prepare technicians and meet industry needs-- remains the same. Goals for this phase of Bio-Link include the following:1: Utilize Bio-Link's network of information sharing to foster communities of practice that enhance the preparation of skilled technicians.2: Deepen and diversify industry outreach and engagement to ensure that training programs nationwide respond to industry needs.3: Increase access to and use of educational and training resources to improve student skill attainment.Bio-Link's focus is on biotechnology, an increasingly important interdisciplinary industry that warrants significant attention as areas such as biopharmaceuticals, bioenergy, regenerative medicine, biomanufacturing, and other biological fields evolve with great speed. Moreover, the industry provides technicians with opportunities to advance rapidly into high-wage positions. Bio-Link possesses the critical expertise and capacity to continue and expand its work. Bio-Link's particular aim to develop more communities of practice advances the sharing of information and resources by engaging members of its network in sustained partnerships around focused areas of work that result in leveraging and scaling best practices, developing new approaches to challenges faced in educating technicians, and better meeting the needs of industry.