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Title: It's about Partnerships, Man,the Partnerships


1
"It's about Partnerships, Man, the Partnerships"
  • Mon-Dak Partners
  • and Williston State College
  • Have Teamed Up to Tackle
  • RCCI Initiatives

2
Introductions
  • Jennie Granrud
  • Joe McCann

3
Partnerships
  • A relationship between individuals or groups that
    is characterized by mutual cooperation and
    responsibility, as for the achievement of a
    specific goal
  • Example in a Newspaper Story
  • Community Groups Partner in Healthy Williston,
    Healthy Youth Project

4
Who and Where We Are
  • Williston State College is a public community
    college in northwest North Dakota
  • 990 credit students - fall of 2005
  • Work force training served 170 employers in 04 -
    05, training 1700 employees
  • 34 Academic Transfer and 47 Career/Technical
  • Mon-Dak region of 13 counties with 55,000 people

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6
Who and Where We Are
  • Work Force training area of 10 counties
  • Economic sectors - Agriculture, Oil, Tourism
  • Less that four people per square mile
  • 11 Institution North Dakota University System
    Governed by the State Board of Higher Education
  • North Dakota has a population of a medium sized
    city (with long streets)
  • 99-00 Legislative Roundtable on Higher Ed
  • and WSC became a Autonomous Community
    College

7
NeighBORs
  • Neighbors
  • Building
  • Our
  • Region

Building Our Region, One Dream at a Time
8
NeighBORS Areas of Work
  • Oilfield Training
  • Value-Added Agriculture
  • Entrepreneurship (including tourism)
  • Quality of Life
  • Out-migration of Youth
  • Rural Development Center

9
NeighBORs Partners
  • Education
  • Petroleum Production
  • Agriculture
  • Government
  • Business
  • Private Industry
  • Non-Profit Organizations
  • WSC

10
Partnerships
  • Petroleum Production
  • Originally safety training
  • NeighBORS subgroup of extended team in fall of
    2003
  • A few more oil patch partners joined in summer
    and fall 2004 joined
  • 2005 mini-boom in oil well drilling intensifies

11
Partnerships
  • Petroleum Production
  • Over 2,000,000 being invested in WSC Petroleum
    Safety and Technology Center by nine companies,
    Star Fund, WSC Foundation, and the ND
    Legislatures Centers of Excellence for Economic
    Development
  • Oil well training site under construction, truck
    driver training, oil field fire fighting
  • Now have 23 company partners
  • 500 oil patch employees were trained in 2005

12
Partnerships
  • Agriculture
  • Mon-Dak region produces pulse crops, irrigation,
    export, food production (over 25 crops produced)
  • Value-Added AG partnership forming NDSU, and
    NDSU/ MSU, joint ag research center, Economic
    Developers, Federal ARS
  • Revitalizing credit Ag program
  • Hiring a farm and ranch management faculty member
  • Currently planning a Center of Excellence
    application

13
Partnerships
  • Education
  • Great Western Ed Consortium 15 school districts
    in 5 counties
  • Minot Tech Center
  • Joint Dakota Nursing program with three other CCs
    cover ND Border to Border
  • Four other joint programs
  • Seeking resources for regional career counseling
  • Distance ed high school electronics program

14
Partnerships
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Online entrepreneurship
  • Expanding K-14 career pathway
  • SBDC most productive office in North Dakota
  • Plan to collaborate with Dickinson State
    University

15
Partnership
  • Out Migration of Youth/ Quality of Life
  • Little Teton Daycare
  • Increased role as a cultural focus for the
    Mon-Dak region
  • Youth Forum
  • Williston Area Chamber of Commerce now has a
    student member from WSC and Williston High School

16
Partnerships
  • Out Migration of Youth/ Quality of Life
  • Healthy Williston Healthy Youth
  • WSC bookstore coffee shop
  • Increased role as a cultural focus for the
    Mon-Dak region
  • Youth Forum

17
Lessons from the Canada Goose
18
Lessons Learned
  • Appreciative Inquiry
  • Champion Emergence
  • Rural Youth Forum Input
  • Power of Partnerships
  • Partnership Building and Nurturing
  • Drucker the social dimension is the survival
    dimension

19
Questions
  • What U.S. state did the Lewis Clark Corps of
    Discovery spend the most time in?
  • What U.S. state is the top durum producing state?
  • In what state did Meriwether Lewis get shot in
    the posterior?

20
Questions
  • What is the only state that has a state
    government-owned bank?
  • In what state did the Lewis Clark Corps of
    Discovery encounter the most grizzly bears?

21
Summary
  • Q A

22
Thank You
  • www.wsc.nodak.edu/RCCI
  • jennie.granrud_at_wsc.nodak.edu
  • joe.mccann_at_wsc.nodak.edu
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