Close alignment of educational pathway design and implementation generally requires strong and ongoing partnership between industry and education at both the secondary and postsecondary levels.
This webinar series consists of four high-level “peer-to-peer” conversations between leaders of education-industry partnerships in advanced manufacturing, segmented into four parts, as follows.
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Vertical Integration in Your Manufacturing Partnership |
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Kate Cundiff - Director of Workforce Solutions, Greater Peoria Economic Development Council Brent Baker – Pathways Co-Director, Greater Peoria Economic Development Council |
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Telling Your Partnership’s Story |
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Susan Koehn - Director of Industry Partnerships, Milwaukee 7 David Palmer – Senior Director for Strategies and Partnerships, Workforce Intelligence Network |
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Managing Your Partnership Tensions |
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Dion Jackson – Program Director, USC Center for Economic Development Susanna Schowen -Director of Workforce Initiatives, Louisiana Economic Development |
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Keeping Your Partners Engaged |
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Irene Sherr – Assistant Deputy Bureau Chief, Bureau of Economic Development at Cook County Pauline Vernon – Interim Executive Director, Greater Memphis Alliance for a Competitive Workforce |
Skills on Purpose is a series of webinars focused on how to put together regional consortia that align education and training programs with the needs of industry in advanced manufacturing. It is an opportunity for useful stories to be told about how to overcome practical obstacles that are commonly faced by various partners in making such consortia effective. This series is about more basic aspects of beginning partnerships; the series described above is more relevant to maintaining ongoing partnerships after they are well established.Skills on Purpose: Creating the Next Generation of Manufacturers
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In this webinar, small- and medium-sized companies shared workforce development strategies that efficiently and effectively engage training and education stakeholders and institutions. Such engagements are critical in assuring the quality and prepardness of incoming talent, and have become an essential part of the growth strategy for many manufacturing firms.
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2:00PM - 3:00 PM EDT
Workforce partnerships are built upon the coordination of efforts between colleges, schools, and employers to assure the skill needs of the workforce. This webinar described ways that state governments can serve the work of local partnerships, helping effective approaches to spread, and magnifying the impact on growth and employment.
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Career pathways are based in the coordination of efforts between colleges, schools, and employers to assure the skill needs of the workforce. By avoiding haphazard approaches, pathway programs put in place a coherent, articulated sequence of rigorous academic and career-technical courses— secondary to postsecondary that support career development for individuals, and fuel the growth of industry. This program highlighted the process of constructing effective career pathway programs in the manufacturing sector.
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2:00PM - 3:00 PM EDT
Firms of all sizes face a similar challenge— to find 'work-ready' employees who need minimal additional training. Some large companies have found ways to attend to the talent "supply chain" challenge by engaging with colleges and schools in creative ways. This program described ways two large companies have found to engage with educators, including the challenges they faced, and possible paths moving forward.
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3:00PM - 4:00 PM EDT
To meet the skill needs of our economy requires we know what those needs are, and what they will be. Traditional data sources are valuable, but only provide a starting point. Developing an effective skill pipeline requires data from many sources. In this program, two national experts shared insight on where to find the data you need— information that can drive public and private investment, drive solutions, and lead to job creation and job matching.
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2:00PM - 3:00 PM EDT
Now that you have a working partnership, how can it be sustained for the long haul? Maturing partnerships may require a shift in strategy to shore up foundations and capture emerging opportunities. This program brought together leading voices that have helped partnerships to build momentum, expand capacities, and embed themselves in each partner-institution.
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Gregory Henschel
Gregory.Henschel@ed.gov