building connections: universities, governments, commerce gregory b. fairchild e. thayer bigelow...
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Building Connections: Universities,
Governments, Commerce
Gregory B. FairchildE. Thayer Bigelow ProfessorUniversity of Virginia, Darden
Collaborationson behalf of students
Learning and Working
• Collaborative curriculum development
• Integrated learning exercises
• Internships and cooperative Ed
• Research centers
• Incubated businesses
The Wake-Up Call for the US
1994 School to Work Opportunities Act
Four collaborative models
Cooperative Education
Integrated Exercises
ApprenticeshipInternship
Certificate Programs
Research Centers
Collaborative Research Projects
Learn and Stay
SchoolBased
Learn and Go
Employer
Based
Evolutionary Human Capital
Investment in the whole person
The firm perspective: Why Invest?
•Gary Becker: General versus Specific Human Capital
Philanthropy/Altruism
Firm Self-Interest
Collective Self-Interest
The Academy perspective: Why Invest?
•Natural tension between relevance and critique
Relevance to employers
Relevance to Academy
•Utility for employment
•Recognized partner
•Can enhance Capacity
•Who owns content?
•Generalizability of Theory
•New models/conceptions
•Role as Critics
•Is Education for Career?
The student perspective: Why Invest?
•Portable versus local investments
•Distinctions between learning and career
•School-based enterprises can seem temporal
•Investment-to-Utility mindset
•Pay me now or pay me later
Four Exemplars
Learn and Stay
SchoolBased
Learn and Go
Employer
Based
Barriers
•Clarity of Objectives
•Difference in Language
•Student demand, Program Supply
•Parental, familial, cultural support
Recommendations
• Convert existing low-skill jobs into Learn and Go Work-Based Learning
• Create more firm-based Learn and Stay Work Based Learning in industries that demand high skills
• Expand in school Work Based Learning through School-based enterprises
Questions?