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BHEF's Strategic Business Engagement Model moves business and higher education from transactional relationships to strategic partnerships to meet workforce needs.
The Business-Higher Education Forum
BHEF's Strategic Business Engagement Model serves as the foundation for building successful partnerships between business and higher education. This model moves the two sectors from transactional relationships to strategic partnerships through five strategies:
Drake University offers undergraduate major and minor programs in data analytics, combining coursework and experiential learning, with classes ranging from algorithmic analysis of data and statistical modeling to ethics and communication. Drake shared the draft curricula with the greater Des Moines business community to solicit feedback and potential funding, and the university realized its goal of engaging corporations in central Iowa to sponsor the start-up costs for the program. Learn more.
BHEF and the Business Roundtable launched the Financial Services Industry Workforce Project to help prepare a diverse workforce well trained in cybersecurity, data science and analytics, risk management, and social and mobile technologies demanded by the financial services industry. Learn more.
To meet the demand for cyber-enabled workers in Maryland, BHEF members Northrup Grumman Corporation and the University of Maryland, College Park worked together to create the nation's first undergraduate residential honors program in cybersecurity. Learn more.
BHEF's Strategic Business Engagement Model moves business and higher education from transactional relationships to strategic partnerships to meet workforce needs.
BHEF focuses on evidenced-based practices and uses a rigorous methodology to strengthen our members' efforts to develop highly skilled, engaged professionals.
Trend analysis informs our methodology to assess and map skills needs, align higher education with workforce, and position our members' organizations for success.