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MCCETI Summit
Partnership: The Key to Success
Roundtable Discussions

Upton F-103
Attracting and Leveraging Support for the New Science and Technology: Financial, Human and Organizational


1. Your group has a new science and technology issue to address. Please spend time defining the issue by identifying elements that help understand it. (10 min)

Elements:

  • Getting money to qualified people
  • Facilities
  • Partnership
  • K-12 (where will students come from)
  • 2+2 system with high school
  • philanthropic resources

Where will dollars come from:

  • New resources
  • Recycle existing

Identify:

  • Federal National Science Foundation
  • Centers regionally
  • Foundation
  • Gates Foundation

Where do people come from?

  • New?
  • Certification (young people/business respond to different pitches)

Retain?
Excite
New?
What about those who won't?

Organizational structure:

  • Reward system
  • Change way of thinking
  • Aligned now to draw resources from community, state
  • We are good at responding to immediate needs. How to sell a need that will not exist for a few years?

Teach Partners:

  • Before we ask for money

How to justify need:

  • For infrastructure investment

Common language:

  • Community colleges become catalyst
  • Define where we are going
  • Work with local business
  • Assess -- GAP Analysis to find what we need to fill in
  • Moving forward to know where the end point is
  • Internal organizational
  • Need to be comfortable with this
  • Need to dynamically revise plans
  • Studies of how best to deliver technology
  • Plan-design-build


2. What information/research related to this new science and technology issue will be helpful and where might this be found? (8 min)

Automation Alley

  • History projections of job creation
  • Examples to inform the Board in 5 minutes or less
  • How to sell based on ideas of incubation/new technology when institution uses old metro

Use existing systems or work around them

  • Stealth technology?
  • Technology problem versus curriculum problem
  • What can we change/do?
  • How do we deal with unprepared students?
  • Is it transfer or occupational program?

Make non-traditional retraining of labor force a priority

Informational Research (institutional) -
Look at past enrollments, etc. -

  • Need people looking forward into emerging technology
  • Find out how nanotech can fit into existing curriculum
  • Find modular units of skills
  • What level is nanotech?
  • BS, MS, AS

3. Identify challenges & opportunities related to this new science and technology issue. (10 min)

Challenges   Opportunities

Restructure old science and apply new technologies

Revise curriculum

  • Curriculum sold across Internet
  • Ultimately, your reputation is on the line
  • How do you assess it?
  • Competition for limited resources
  • What is ahead of us to get our fair share of these resources
  
  • Project employees
  • Retired Boomers
  • Hire them as researcher
  • How do we deal with students expecting to work 40 years plus retire?
  • Gen X does not think this way.
  • Could be opportunity to break out of model
  • Schools compete instead of cooperate
  • Opportunity to help others move forward
  • Opportunity with nanotech to push basic science and math
  • How to justify with cost/benefit analysis
  • Collaboration among community colleges
  • Collaboration is the best opportunity to accomplish this/leverage resources
  • 60% of first time students >20 years old


4. Based upon what you know, brainstorm strategies to address the challenges and take advantage of the opportunities related to this new science and technology issue. (15 min)

Use MCCVLC as model for developing ideas

  • Lobby state government. How can they fill gap?
  • Salvage students who do not graduate
  • Teach science/mathematics in context
  • Develop partnerships with four-year institutions
  • Access equipment at four-year schools
  • Piggyback with four-year schools:
    • University of Michigan
    • Michigan State
    • Wayne State University
    • Western Michigan University
    • Central Michigan University

Partnerships with business

Talk about "demand occupation" (include nanotechnology) with State
Michigan Works researches this
Accelerate training in developing files
Areas specified by Auto Alley mean more to people than nanotechnology
Nanotechnology is not a field - it is a technology used by many fields

How to obtain buy in from four-year colleges and universities to partner with us?

We are thinking about advanced technical skills

Retool existing Ph.D.s in a technical area

We can do it better/faster
Strategies to make institutional structure nimble and responsive

How do we make this happen?


5. Select the 3 more important strategies. (5 min)

Internal/External
Partnerships with business
Difficult to sell
Create partnerships and all its components
Use MCCVLC as model for development ideas
Formulate partnerships with Michigan Works, State, and other community colleges
Form strategic alliances with stakeholders to form the new future


6. Select the most important strategy for immediate action. (1 min)

7. It is the year 2010. Each participant in your group receives a "hot-off-the-press" edition of World Today. The headline is a success story related to the new science and technology issue. Write the headline below. (2 min)

HUMONGO TECHNOLOGY MAKES NANOTECH OBSOLETE
Michigan Emerges As World Tech
Strategic Alliances Catapult To Michigan
World Nanotech Lead


8. Identify ways that this new science and technology issue discussion and recommended strategies can be pursued, continued and the volunteers who are willing to assist. (5min)

Website
Track trends in emerging technologies

 

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