BHEF Member Meeting (Winter 2013)

Thursday, February 21, 2013 to Friday, February 22, 2013

Meeting Materials

Advance materials (pdf)
Post-meeting proceedings
 

Record numbers of thought leaders from across the nation came together at BHEF’s 2013 Winter Member Meeting to address the workforce competitiveness challenges confronting the U.S. government and U.S. companies. These challenges are rooted in a significant shortage of highly educated and skilled employees, especially in emerging fields that are critical to innovation. New undergraduate pathways are needed to effectively prepare students with both the expert content knowledge and 21st century workplace competencies needed by business and government to maintain competitiveness and ensure national security. This meeting was structured around sessions designed to mobilize BHEF’s unique membership to address the workforce challenges facing our country.

Goals of the meeting included:

  • Discussing the importance of active, strategic partnerships to turn solutions into results that keep the pipeline of innovation flowing.
  • Identifying real, scalable, higher education-workforce solutions.
  • Incorporating key design principles into undergraduate programs being developed by BHEF business and academic members.
  • Implementing key programmatic milestones and the dissemination of insights.

Discussions highlighted both the emerging fields (such as data science and analytics) that drive innovation and workforce needs, as well as the specific, member-led regional projects created to respond to these needs. Members and guests discussed scaling workforce innovations using strategic business engagement that leads to deep partnerships with higher education, developing new undergraduate pathways that give students expert content knowledge as well as 21st century workplace competencies, and utilizing disruptive technologies to improve learning outcomes. Taken together, these discussions illustrated that BHEF members are uniquely positioned to address the education-workforce misalignment exhibited in many regions across the country.