Uniting academia and industry to bridge the skills gap: Incorporating industry advisory councils in Curriculum-to-Careers Programmatic Mapping in undergraduate environmental science programs
Jacquelyn Kelly, Dianna Gielstra, Tomáš J Oberding, Jim Bruno, Susan Hadley
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Abstract
Industry has coped with a consistent pace of employee attrition for over a decade with employee loss and labor turnover increasing with the global pandemic of 2020. As all sectors experience workforce attrition termed the “Great Resignation”, industry is pressed to fill these gaps and seek career-ready students as new hires. One institution of higher education worked closely with an Industry Advisory Council (IAC) to address the academia-to-industry skills gaps using Curriculum-to-Careers (C–to-C) programmatic mapping that synthesized both foundational curricular content knowledge and employer-sought skills. Mapping involved development of program student learning outcomes (PSLOs) and course student learning outcomes (CSLOs) that were aligned with career skills. Preliminary implementation of the C-to-C programmatic mapping yielded components that allowed the deconstruction of every course in the program. Traditional knowledge in the scholarly community was integrated with practitioner knowledge in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) workforce and deployed in the revised classroom instructional practices. Using the industry perspective and guided by the developed philosophical instructional framework, the curriculum was deconstructed at both the course and program levels to synthesize a programmatic map the informed program development to close the skills gap by uniting academia and industry.
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Industry and Higher Education focuses on the multifaceted and complex relationships between higher education institutions and business and industry. It looks in detail at the processes and enactments of academia-business cooperation as well as examining the significance of that cooperation in wider contexts, such as regional development, entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystems. While emphasizing the practical aspects of academia-business cooperation, IHE also locates practice in theoretical and research contexts, questioning received opinion and developing our understanding of what constitutes truly effective cooperation. Selected key topics Knowledge transfer - processes, mechanisms, successes and failures Research commercialization - from conception to product ''Graduate employability'' - definition, needs and methods Education for entrepreneurship - techniques, measurement and impact The role of the university in economic and social development The third mission and the entrepreneurial university Skills needs and the role of higher education Business-education partnerships for social and economic progress University-industry training and consultancy programmes Innovation networks and their role in furthering university-industry engagement