It's about Partnerships, Man,the Partnerships

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"It's about Partnerships, Man, the Partnerships"

• Mon-Dak Partners
• and Williston State College
• Have Teamed Up to Tackle
• RCCI Initiatives

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Introductions

• Jennie Granrud
• Joe McCann

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Partnerships

• A relationship between individuals or groups that
  is characterized by mutual cooperation and
  responsibility, as for the achievement of a
  specific goal
• Example in a Newspaper Story
• Community Groups Partner in Healthy Williston,
  Healthy Youth Project

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Who and Where We Are

• Williston State College is a public community
  college in northwest North Dakota
• 990 credit students - fall of 2005
• Work force training served 170 employers in 04 -
  05, training 1700 employees
• 34 Academic Transfer and 47 Career/Technical
• Mon-Dak region of 13 counties with 55,000 people

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Who and Where We Are

• Work Force training area of 10 counties
• Economic sectors - Agriculture, Oil, Tourism
• Less that four people per square mile
• 11 Institution North Dakota University System
  Governed by the State Board of Higher Education
• North Dakota has a population of a medium sized
  city (with long streets)
• 99-00 Legislative Roundtable on Higher Ed
• and WSC became a Autonomous Community
  College

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NeighBORs

• Neighbors
• Building
• Our
• Region

Building Our Region, One Dream at a Time
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NeighBORS Areas of Work

• Oilfield Training
• Value-Added Agriculture
• Entrepreneurship (including tourism)
• Quality of Life
• Out-migration of Youth
• Rural Development Center

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NeighBORs Partners

• Education
• Petroleum Production
• Agriculture
• Government
• Business
• Private Industry
• Non-Profit Organizations
• WSC

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Partnerships

• Petroleum Production
• Originally safety training
• NeighBORS subgroup of extended team in fall of
  2003
• A few more oil patch partners joined in summer
  and fall 2004 joined
• 2005 mini-boom in oil well drilling intensifies

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Partnerships

• Petroleum Production
• Over 2,000,000 being invested in WSC Petroleum
  Safety and Technology Center by nine companies,
  Star Fund, WSC Foundation, and the ND
  Legislatures Centers of Excellence for Economic
  Development
• Oil well training site under construction, truck
  driver training, oil field fire fighting
• Now have 23 company partners
• 500 oil patch employees were trained in 2005

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Partnerships

• Agriculture
• Mon-Dak region produces pulse crops, irrigation,
  export, food production (over 25 crops produced)
• Value-Added AG partnership forming NDSU, and
  NDSU/ MSU, joint ag research center, Economic
  Developers, Federal ARS
• Revitalizing credit Ag program
• Hiring a farm and ranch management faculty member
• Currently planning a Center of Excellence
  application

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Partnerships

• Education
• Great Western Ed Consortium 15 school districts
  in 5 counties
• Minot Tech Center
• Joint Dakota Nursing program with three other CCs
  cover ND Border to Border
• Four other joint programs
• Seeking resources for regional career counseling
• Distance ed high school electronics program

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Partnerships

• Entrepreneurship
• Online entrepreneurship
• Expanding K-14 career pathway
• SBDC most productive office in North Dakota
• Plan to collaborate with Dickinson State
  University

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Partnership

• Out Migration of Youth/ Quality of Life
• Little Teton Daycare
• Increased role as a cultural focus for the
  Mon-Dak region
• Youth Forum
• Williston Area Chamber of Commerce now has a
  student member from WSC and Williston High School
  

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Partnerships

• Out Migration of Youth/ Quality of Life
• Healthy Williston Healthy Youth
• WSC bookstore coffee shop
• Increased role as a cultural focus for the
  Mon-Dak region
• Youth Forum

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Lessons from the Canada Goose
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Lessons Learned

• Appreciative Inquiry
• Champion Emergence
• Rural Youth Forum Input
• Power of Partnerships
• Partnership Building and Nurturing
• Drucker the social dimension is the survival
  dimension

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Questions

• What U.S. state did the Lewis Clark Corps of
  Discovery spend the most time in?
• What U.S. state is the top durum producing state?
• In what state did Meriwether Lewis get shot in
  the posterior?

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Questions

• What is the only state that has a state
  government-owned bank?
• In what state did the Lewis Clark Corps of
  Discovery encounter the most grizzly bears?

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Summary

• Q A

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Thank You

• www.wsc.nodak.edu/RCCI
• jennie.granrud_at_wsc.nodak.edu
• joe.mccann_at_wsc.nodak.edu