CENTER FOR OCCUPATIONAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

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A method for handling and organizing collaboration between business and industry leaders and administrators, faculty, and staff of community colleges, technical colleges, and other institutions of higher education that emphasizes and enhances leadership and guidance from business and industry leaders with regard to job skills and knowledge that are taught as part of the educational curriculum; a method of enhancing collaboration between local business and industrial leaders and administrators, faculty, and staff at community colleges, technical colleges, and other institutions of higher education in order to ensure that educational curriculum and coursework that is taught to students is aligned with currently needed job skills and currently relevant industrial knowledge so that graduates have relevant knowledge, skills, and abilities that will help them obtain employment when they graduate or obtain a relevant certification; a method for enhancing and increasing collaboration between business leaders and educators intended to give business leaders significant input and oversight with regard to the knowledge, skills, and abilities that are taught as part of the curriculum and educational process in community colleges, technical colleges, and other institutions of higher education so that students who graduate or receive certifications will have relevant, sought-after knowledge, skills, and abilities that make them highly employable;