STEMconnector’s STEM Higher Education Council recently released Advancing a Jobs-Driven Economy, a book that explores partnerships between educational institutions, businesses, and non-profits.
The book highlights UMBC’s partnerships with corporations, government agencies and laboratories, and other colleges and universities as ways to support student learning and enrich the academic environment. It also praises UMBC’s innovations in course redesign, including more group learning and hands-on work to address real-world problems as evidence-based ways to encourage student success.
In the preface of the book, President Hrabowski states, “We must ensure that we are effectively connecting students with internships, jobs, and careers… We argue that quality is not measured by how many students you weed out, but by setting a high standard and then supporting your students so they can attain and surpass that standard.”
Click here to read more about Advancing a Jobs-Driven Economy.
