GOAL 2: ENHANCE WORKFORCE CONNECTIONS
Enhance workforce connections by ensuring our students are career ready.
The institution will prioritize experiential learning to foster learning through action.
- Coordinate and develop immersive and experiential learning opportunities through the
institutional experiential learning committee.
- Partner with employers, stakeholders, career services, and alumni to connect students
to the workforce through increased availability of engaged learning opportunities.
- Develop and maintain a dynamic website dedicated to Experiential Learning.
- Secure funding to develop the Experiential Learning Institute.
Programs will identify, develop and sustain relationships with external partners relevant to their discipline or program offerings.
- Expand micro-credential and badge offerings that provide our workforce the opportunity
to upskill while earning stackable credentials.
- Utilize advisory boards to facilitate relationships with workforce partners.
- Engage external stakeholders in promoting educational opportunities and the value
of higher education.
Produce workforce-ready graduates.
- Align academic and co-curricular programming with current workforce demands.
- Strengthen online education offerings and use digital tools to improve student success
and augment the traditional learning experience.
- Develop, promote and advertise well-defined career pathways for students.
- Increase recognition of the prior learning, skills, and knowledge that students possess
by awarding appropriate college credit.
Create an institutional infrastructure to support workforce development, connections, and increased enrollment.
- Map workforce development roles and processes (workforce gap analysis) to facilitate
efficiencies.
- Connect continuing education, professional development, and for credit workforce initiatives
to drive enrollment.
- Communicate the workforce development plan to all NSU employees.
