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What will you see in four years?

1. An IT lifelong learning continuum within and between HS, CC and university partners, enabling students to efficiently progress through new and emerging career pathways. This continuum will be achieved through a collaborative partnership design that promotes common course development and articulations across institutions, and focuses on factors that will increase diversity and enhance student success and retention.

2. A "go to" source for industry to meet its needs for skilled employees. BATEC will rapidly provide programs on a "just in time" basis that will produce skilled workers the IT industry needs. This will be accomplished through the use of applied methodologies and performance-based assessments that reflect a high-degree of industry input and validation coupled with a higher level of student competence and experience through internships and community service learning opportunities.

3. Access and implementation connection for faculty development and training. In order for BATEC partner school faculty to remain current with the ever-changing high tech workplace, BATEC and its partner schools will provide timely and relevant IT professional development through summer institutes and winter academies, facilitate faculty externships and company rotations, and offer pedagogical training for IT professionals who are interested in serving as adjunct faculty.

4. Recognized resource for quality curriculum materials. Curriculum materials such as lesson plans developed by BATEC partner faculty, and reusable learning objects developed at Middlesex Community College, will be shared through a virtual Curriculum Repository with the BATEC partnership as a whole, thereby increasing the gains for each institution.

5. Community service learning and/or internships as an integral part of a student's program of study. Service Learning projects provide another approach for equipping students with valuable workplace skills by providing an opportunity for students to use skills and knowledge in real-life situations; extending learning beyond the classroom and into the community; and fostering a sense of caring for others. Service learning is not only a powerful tool to actively engage students in the technologies, it also allows them to contribute in a positive way to their community while providing them much needed experience for their resume.

6. A working model for ongoing collaboration between academia, industry, and community. BATEC and its partners will develop, put in place, and jumpstart processes and collaborative models that connect all stakeholders and deliver clear, demonstrable benefits to ensure continued support and collaboration into the future. In addition, BATEC will develop and use an agreed-upon self-evaluation framework to provide evidence of business and social value delivered to its industry and community partners that ensures their support.