Please Answer The Following Questions: 1. What industry/career field was your first job in? 2. Are you working in the same field presently? 3. Did you know someone working in the field you got your first job in or at your present workplace?

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Please Answer The Following Questions1. What
industry/career field was your first job in?2.
Are you working in the same field presently?3.
Did you know someone working in the field you got
your first job in or at your present workplace?
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A Leg Up On All The Rest!Connecting Students
With Industry PartnersNCPN- October 12, 2007
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Program Outline

• How Tech Prep Connect Got Started
• How We Got Business/Industry Involved
• Program Outcomes and Assessment

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Program Start-Up

• What is Tech Prep Connect?
• FIPSE Grant- Fund for the Improvement of
  Post-Secondary Education
• Beginning to formally recognize what we were
  already doing

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Getting Business/Industry Involved

• Planned a breakfast
• Described Tech Prep Connect programs in detail
• Introduction of students
• Memorandum Of Understanding
• Website design

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Program Outcomes Assessment

• Successful activities- Problem-Based Learning,
  Lunch With the Leaders, Site Visits
• Not-so-successful activities- Externships,
  E-Mentoring
• Program Concerns-
• Continued funding?
• Advisory Board Membership
• Teacher Investment

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Program Concerns Cont

• Grant funds are diminishing!
• Advisory Board attendance was very good last May,
  but will we be able to find partners who have a
  desire to work directly with students?
• Teacher investment has gotten better. They went
  out this past summer to recruit partners for
  various activities.

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Future?

• Ohio- HEI- Higher Education Index/ Contacting
  Tech Prep alumni
• Other grant opportunities or Advisory Board
  donations
• Senior surveys

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Questions/Comments/Concerns?

For more information, contact Dave
Janik djanik_at_bgsu.edu