Academic Planning Summary Sheet – Center for Workforce Development
Evaluator: _Cindy Piercy_________________________________________
Research – Center for Workforce Development
Department
or Center
Center for
Workforce
Development
Impact Item
Reaching out to local and national foundations. Working more closely with the local workforce development system.
Moving from critiquing workforce development to working with the system to systematically analyze and help
develop and more effective system.
Negotiating with local and national foundations. Working with new regional workforce development alliance to
secure funds and data, and talking with local economic development organizations. Received some funding from UW
Extension for specific initiatives.
Difficult to put dollar amounts on this. Negotiating for three years with one foundation and are not at dollar amounts
with two others. Have not gotten specifics with local agencies, but research is now actively on their agendas.
Next five and ten year periods should experience higher levels of funding for research regarding workforce training.
Increasing interest in creating new models of training, work, and skill needs.
Problems in workforce development 5/10 years likely to be very similar because we have such a large pool of undereducated and under-skilled individuals.
Will look at many of the same local and national foundations and agencies charged with addressing this population.
Very difficult to project. Working on creating a higher level of interest based on success on earlier projects.
Undergraduate Programs – Center for Workforce Development
Department or
Center
Center for
Workforce
Development
Impact Item
Next five years will work with Educational Policy and Community Studies to offer a concentration in workforce
development at BA level.
Will increase enrollments in Ed Policy.
Work closely with Urban Planning and Ed Policy on course offerings to recruit students for graduate school.
Modest impact of interdisciplinary program changes on enrollments.
Next ten years must develop a more sophisticated workforce development and education system. Moving from a
35 year period of labor surplus to a multi-decade period of labor shortages. Ed Policy will need further
refinement.
Modest growth over time.
Interdisciplinary program changes would require further development between Ed Policy and Urban Planning.
Modest impact.
Graduate Programs – Center for Workforce Development
Department or
Center
Center for
Workforce
Development
Impact Item
Next five years need for professional training in workforce issues would increase interest in Urban Planning.
Modest increase in Urban Planning
Next ten years workforce development will attract more students to Urban Planning.
Modest growth.
Collaborations – Center for Workforce Development
Department or
Center
Center for Workforce
Development
Department, Center, Discipline, Partner (List Separately) (I = Internal; E = External)
Collaborate with Department of Urban Planning and Education Policy and Community Studies (EPCS).
Work with EPCS to create a bachelor’s concentration in workforce development.
Next 10 years collaborators should remain the same further refining course offerings and research.
Space & Resources – Center for Workforce Development
Department or
Center
Center for
Workforce
Development
Resource Requirement (Indicate timeline)
Projected staffing needs in next five years: A faculty position in Urban Planning committed to workforce and
economic development; faculty position in Ed Policy to ensure curriculum is taught by qualified faculty.
Projected space: Offices for faculty from both departments, classroom space.
Other projected needs: Money or faculty release time for course development.
Projected staffing needs in next ten years: No additional staffing needs if additional faculty are hired during five
year plan.
Projected space: same as above.
Other projected needs: same as above.
Questions for Department or Center – Center for Workforce Development
Department or
Center
Center for
Workforce
Development
Question
Nothing to report.
Other Items of Importance – Center for Workforce Development
Department or
Center
Center for
Workforce
Development
Item
Nothing to report.
Department Codes:
CE: Civil Engineering and Mechanics
CS: Computer Science
EE: Electrical Engineering
IE: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
MT: Materials
ME: Mechanical Engineering
B: Biological Sciences
C: Chemistry
G: Geosciences
M: Mathematical Sciences
P: Physics