Education + Industry
Working Partners is a research project funded through NSF's Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program. Working Partners seeks to discover, document, and disseminate the key factors and core practices associated with industry/college partnerships within the ATE community. The project began September 1, 2015 and will run through August 31, 2020.
Outcomes of this research will include:
- A fully articulated set of ATE/industry models
- A deeper understanding of the impacts of ATE as a whole in regards to industry partnerships
- Dissemination deliverables designed to push out the data and deliverables collected in a very usable formats
- A body of data and knowledge on which to build future research
- More robust industry partnerships at multiple institutions nationwide, informed by WP research, which potentially lead to better student outcomes
Interested in learning more? Willing to share your education+industry stories? Get in touch with us at info@workingpartnersproject.org
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The Working Partners team is based at Bellevue College and the Internet Scout Research Group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with support from an advisory committee made up of education, industry, and professional association experts. The project is funded by the National Science Foundation's Advanced Technological Education program, under DUE 1501176. The material on this site and any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
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