Smart Partnerships: Challenges, Best Practices, and Opportunities

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Smart PartnershipsChallenges, Best Practices,
and Opportunities

• Presented by
• Cathy S. Fore, Director
• HBCU/MEI Partnership Development
• Oak Ridge Associated Universities
• ASME Pre-College TEEM-UP Workshop
• March 5, 2004

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Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) Is . . .
. . . a university consortium focused on
advancing scientific research and education
through partnerships
ORAU Member Institutions
. . . a partner with UT-Battelle helping expand
university partnerships with Oak Ridge National
Laboratory
. . . and a DOE contractor managing the Oak Ridge
Institute for Science and Education
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ORAU HBCU/MEI Council Serves as a Catalyst for
Smart Partnership Initiatives

• Mission
• Cultivate long-term, mutually beneficial
  strategic partnerships that result in
  collaborative research, educational, and economic
  ventures
• Ensure that all HBCUs/MEIs are fully represented
  in federal research and science education
  programs.

ORAU HBCU/MEI Council

• Alabama AM University
• Clark Atlanta University
• Fisk University
• Florida International University
• Howard University
• Jackson State University
• Johnson C. Smith University
• Meharry Medical College
• Morehouse College
• New Mexico State University
• North Carolina AT State University
• Tennessee State University
• Tuskegee University
• University of Miami
• University of New Mexico
• University of Puerto Rico
• Virginia State University

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Preparing Science and Engineering Leaders for the
Future

• Managing scholarship, fellowship, internship,
• and research participation programs
• Process 10,000 applications each year
• 3,900 participants from 700 colleges
• and universities
• 63 million in payments to participants
• Recruiting a diverse group of participants
• Women represent 49.4 of
• undergraduate students and 53.4 of
• graduate students
• 27 of undergraduates are from
• underrepresented racial or ethnic groups
• 82 minority-serving institutions
• represented
• Using Web-based electronic applications
• Facilitating Interagency Cooperation

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National Laboratories, Federal Research Centers,
and Academic Institutions Support Appointments
Program Sponsors Include
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease
Registry Centers for Disease Control Department
of Commerce Department of Defense Department of
Energy Department of Homeland
Security Environmental Protection
Agency Federal Bureau of Investigation Food and
Drug Administration National Library of
Medicine National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration National Science
Foundation Nuclear Regulatory Commission
More than 200 Federal Research Centers See Value
in Our Science Education Mechanisms
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We Set Challenging Goals for Minority
Representation in Science and Engineering
Education Programs
Minority Representation Greatly Exceeds that of
Target Populations
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Smart Partnership FrameworkGoal

• Create a collaboratory infrastructure that will
  effectively support a diverse science,
  technology, engineering, and mathematics trained
  workforce for the nation
• and
• provide opportunities for advanced RD and
  commercialization

Collaborate to Innovate
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Smart Partnership Framework
Collaboratories Working Together
Apart William Wulf National Science Foundation
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Recipe for a Smart Partnership

• Mutually beneficial
• Have the right partners
• Common objectives
• Measurable results
• Sustainable
• Understanding the rules
• Model for others
• Creates opportunities
• Benefits all stakeholders
• Requires work
• Its a contact sport

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Strategy for Smart Partnerships
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Tri-Lateral Alliance 2004-2006 Strategic
Plan Working Together, the Possibilities are
Infinite!
U.S. Department of Energy Oak Ridge Operations
National Nuclear Security Administration Y-12
Site Office
National Aeronautics and Space Administration Mars
hall Space Flight Center
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Education Initiative
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Workforce Aging Management Initiative University
Partners
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Workforce Aging Management Initiative Community
College Partners
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Workforce Aging Management Initiative Technology
Center Partners
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Proposed Strategic RoadmapCollaboration Targets

• Inward-focused collaborations
• Address specific skill sets
• Leverage mutual interests and needs
• Team with businesses, community colleges, and
  technology centers in the region
• Outward-focused collaborations
• Engage Tennessee Valley Corridor universities,
  community colleges and technology centers as
  partners
• Develop new pathways to support
  scholarships/fellowships
• Focus on specific common education and training
  initiatives

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Opportunities and Outcomes
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SYNTHESIS
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SYNTHESIS (contd.)
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Objective Create a Seamless Pool of Qualified
Workers

• Goal 1 Translate skills and employment needs to
  education community
• Goal 2 Establish systemic education reform
  partnerships that strengthen the workforce
  pipeline
• Goal 3 Demonstrate effective use of STEM
  professionals as mentors and coaches
• Goal 4 Increase involvement of students and
  educators in mission activities

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Smart Partnership FrameworkStrategic
Objectives

• Leverage the intellectual assets
• Integrate/bridge business and technology
  curricula
• Increase the pipeline of minority students
• Compete successfully for science and technology
  funding opportunities
• Foster an entrepreneurial environment
• Influence policy changes
• Develop a best practices framework

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Smart Partnership FrameworkChallenges

• Physical infrastructure for RD
• Administrative structure
• Institutional focus
• Overcommitted faculty and staff
• Corporate culture differences
• Compliance and experience submitting winning
  proposals
• Lack of value-added relationships
• Historical traditions
• Capabilities awareness
• Domino effect of HBCU/MEI past experiences
• Entrepreneurial skills and business partnerships
• Lack of political constituency needed to support
  national policy change

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Smart Partnership FrameworkCurrent Practices
and Opportunities

• Strategic planning vision for growth
• Staying current on federal agencies technology
  thrust areas
• Pursuing new opportunities that crosscut
  departments and disciplines
• Integrate business and technology curricula
• Build research bridges ? Centers of Excellence
• Building long-term partnerships with the private
  sector
• Promote technological growth and business
  development
• Enhance competitiveness in the global marketplace
• Graduate students with critical skills

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Best Practices

• Create research projects that focus on emerging
  trends in technology or address societal needs
• Seek out partnerships/alliances based on a shared
  vision and mutually beneficial opportunities
• Assemble a strong, multidisciplinary team
• Offset the decline in revenue sources through
  complementary RD
• Invest in appropriate technology
• Engage in alliances that leverage the
  institutions core competencies

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Best Practices (contd.)

• Focus on strategies that facilitate rapid
  transfer of research, knowledge, and technology
  laboratory ? market
• Establish programs that integrate the institution
  and the community with Corporate America,
  government research laboratories, and industry
  technologies
• Promote excellence in research through innovation
  creativity through interdisciplinary
  communication, cooperation collaboration

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Whos Responsible? We All Are!
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Whos Responsible? We All Are! (contd)
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Shared Benefits of Smart Partnerships
Need to take a systems integration approach in
preparing tomorrows workforce.
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Mutually Beneficial Opportunities
Stakeholders
Key Benefits
Scholarships/fellowships, research appointments,
real-world experience, mentor relationships Coll
aborative RD, recognition, peer
relationships Enhanced curriculum, recognition,
capacity building, student/faculty
entrepreneurship opportunities
Students
Faculty
Institutions
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Mutually Beneficial Opportunities
Stakeholders
Key Benefits
Influence curricula, expanded technology base,
job-ready diverse talent, recognition,
collaborative RD, leveraging of resources, cost
efficiencies Recognition, job-ready diverse
talent, strategic technology transfer, leveraging
of resources, improved ability to meet stated
missions, increased confidence in technology
investments Economic growth, recognition,
expanded pipeline and through-put
Industry
Government
Society
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