1. Moving At Roller Coaster Speed
NEWN 10th Annual Conference Mount Wachusett Community College
Friday, October 11, 2019

2. NEWN’s History of Partnerships
10 convenings; 10 strong messages for partnering
Looking at regional solutions
Innovative Business/Higher Ed partnerships built on labor market demands
Engagement with the WIA/AIOA system

3. Why is it so hard for Higher Education to change?
Rooted in quality, standards, accreditation
Some students want a traditional experience
Creating quality curriculum takes time
Most institutions are tuition dependent
Employers have liked our graduates in the past! What has changed?

4. What has changed High School graduates have changed Learning Options
Hiring
The first job out of college has become more critical

5. How Technology is disrupting Education and the workForce
84% of all jobs have a high potential for technology augmentation (Accenture, 2019)
Automation and AI will affect tasks in all occupational groups in the future by the intensity will vary (Brookings, 2019)
Rural areas will be more greatly impacted (Moody, McKinsey)
Men, young workers and underrepresented groups work in more automatable jobs

6. How Technology Can work to improve Higher Education-Retention
In 2018 only 41% of students who enrolled full time graduated in 4 years
Predictive analytics: using past data to forecast future behavior and design interventions
Civitas work with colleges
Proactive advising
Chatbots 24/7
Starfish Retention Services(Trinity), Signal Vine(UTAustin, UNM), Admit-Hub (GSU)

7. How Technology Can Help Higher Education – Time to Degree
Competency Based Education
Developmental Education: 48% of students who are in developmental ed move to credit bearing course (Columbia)
Corequisite Education
Targeted Assessment
Labor market information
Skills cross walks
Work-based learning integration

8. Why Education Has to change
It’s who you are
It’s a business imperative
Unparalleled competition
Our alums are rating and talking about it
Lifelong learning is now a reality
Business will do what they have to do BUT not as well as they could do it with education

9. Proven Partnership Practices
COOP
Apprenticeship
On the Job training with academic engagement
Internships
Embedded credentials
Mentoring
Stackable credentials

10. Leave this conference with a Plan
Do an environmental scan of your partnerships
Do an informal/formal of local businesses to determine in-demand SKILLS
Engage faculty to see where those SKILLS are taught and/or where they can be added
Determine concentrations where embedded credentials exist or could be added
Make students more aware of labor market information
Evaluate your career advisement programs and use your partners
No student should leave your institution with JUST a degree how do you make that happen?

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