Build Partnerships
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
As part of the Business-Higher Education Forum’s (BHEF) National Science Foundation (NSF) USI2 Consortium grant, BHEF partnered with Northeastern University and NORC at the University of Chicago on a work-based learning (WBL) research project. This project sought to better understand how organizations are approaching WBL experiences as they pertain to talent identification—recruiting, training, and connecting work and learning. The outcomes from this project are summarized in this report, which contains WBL insights, a roadmap for employers and CHROs, key recommendations, and even diagnostic questions for CHROs when considering WBL.
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.