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Curricular Design and Innovation: Preparing for the Future
This track invites presentations that explore innovative approaches to curriculum design aimed at equipping students with the skills and competencies needed for tomorrow's workforce. We welcome proposals that showcase strategies for integrating N.A.C.E. competencies directly into curriculum design to foster career readiness, adaptability, and critical thinking. Presentations may also highlight the use of cutting-edge technology to enhance learning and curriculum delivery, helping students stay competitive in an evolving digital landscape.
Additionally, this track seeks to address the dynamic needs of emerging industries by encouraging adaptive curriculum models that respond to new market demands. We are particularly interested in practices that align academic programs with industry-specific competencies, including projects that support workforce readiness through experiential learning, real-world applications, and partnerships with local businesses and organizations. Join us in sharing best practices, innovative solutions, and actionable strategies that empower students to thrive in the future job market.
Building Sustainable Partnerships with Industry
This track is dedicated to exploring sustainable partnerships between academia and industry that enrich student learning and career readiness while addressing workforce needs. We invite presentation proposals that highlight successful collaborations with local industries, businesses, and organizations that provide students with real-world experiences, internships, and job placement opportunities. This track also welcomes discussions on best practices for initiating and nurturing partnerships that remain adaptable and beneficial over time, particularly those that integrate industry expertise into academic programming and curriculum design.
Presentations may focus on strategies for establishing long-term, mutually beneficial relationships that bridge the gap between classroom learning and practical application, giving students hands-on experience and insights into industry trends. We are also interested in innovative models for industry partnerships that address the unique needs of diverse student populations, support workforce diversity and inclusion, and contribute to regional economic development. Join us in sharing insights, tools, and strategies that can inspire and sustain impactful collaborations between education and industry.
Measuring Impact: Outcomes Assessment for Industry Partnerships and Curriculum Innovation
This track seeks presentation proposals that address the critical role of assessment in evaluating the success and impact of industry partnerships and innovative curriculum designs. We welcome proposals that showcase methods for measuring student outcomes related to workforce readiness, career competencies, and academic achievement in programs designed with industry collaboration or novel curricular approaches.
Presenters are encouraged to share assessment tools, data-driven approaches, and evaluation frameworks that capture the effectiveness of partnerships and curricular innovations in enhancing student learning and career outcomes. This track is particularly interested in case studies, research findings, and strategies that demonstrate how outcomes assessment can inform continuous improvement in curriculum design, support alignment with industry standards, and validate the long-term value of academic-industry partnerships.
Empowering Gen Z: Addressing Essential Needs and Preparing for the Future Workforce
This track focuses on the unique needs of Generation Z, recognizing that their success depends on a combination of innovative curriculum, holistic support, and career-aligned experiences. It emphasizes the importance of addressing essential needs—such as food security, housing stability, mental health, and access to healthcare—while designing forward-thinking, interdisciplinary programs that prepare students for an evolving workforce.
Key topics include meeting essential student needs through institutional support, innovative curriculum for workforce readiness that integrates academic and practical skills, and collaborative industry partnerships to bridge education and career opportunities. The track also highlights data-driven solutions to identify gaps, measure impact, and scale successful initiatives.
By focusing on Gen Z's expectations for purpose-driven education and their desire for meaningful, real-world connections, this track provides actionable strategies for institutions to prepare students for future workforce demands while ensuring their well-being and success.
AI and the 21st Century College Curriculum
This track invites presentation proposals that explore the transformative role of artificial intelligence (AI) in reshaping college curricula and enhancing career readiness. We welcome proposals that showcase how AI-driven tools and methodologies can be integrated into curriculum design to develop students’ workforce-ready skills and align with N.A.C.E. competencies such as critical thinking, digital literacy, and teamwork. Presentations that demonstrate how AI can support the practical needs of both academia and industry, equipping students for future careers, are especially encouraged.
This track also seeks insights into AI applications in career services, such as personalized job placement, career counseling, and skills assessment, that help students connect their educational experiences with career paths. Presenters are encouraged to share examples of AI-enhanced curricula and programs that prepare students for emerging roles and responsibilities in a technology-driven world.
Join us to discuss the cutting-edge applications of AI in academia, explore ways AI bridges the gap between education and industry, and share innovative strategies that use AI to prepare students for success in the evolving job market.
You're invited to explore the LibGuide for BCC's 12th Annual Winter Conference! This site provides relevant resources that supplement this year's conference. Read below to learn more about the conference theme.
This year's theme recognizes the essential role of curriculum innovation and interdisciplinary studies in preparing students for the evolving workforce. It highlights the contributions of faculty in designing forward-thinking courses that bridge the gap between education and real-world applications. Through collaborative partnerships with local industries, this theme encourages conversations at the institutional, programmatic, and classroom levels that support student readiness for future workforce demands by integrating academic rigor with practical, career-aligned experiences.
OPEN Host Kibin Alleyne sits down with the Dean of Workforce Development & Continuing Education of CUNY Bronx Community College, Jessica Seliger, and Founder and Executive Director of Agency, Jourdan Lemieque-Degnan to discuss how the partnership is helping students land internships and jobs, and how their new initiative is giving students the tools to succeed in their career.
For many students, college has been the main goal. But what happens after college graduation? Are students planning and preparing for their transition into the workforce? Dr. Krystal Rawls thinks there’s more that educators can be doing to help students be prepared for their first job.
Dr. Rawls is the designer of the Workforce Integration Program at California State University, Dominguez Hills. Building on a foundation of theoretically sound and data-driven practices, Rawls endeavors to create transparency and equity in workforce development programming to develop a more diverse, digitally competent, and skilled class of worker. Dr. Rawls draws on her transdisciplinary background in Education, Psychology, and Business to inform her innovative approach to empowering students to take their place in the modern workforce. Using labor market information to identify the skills needs of employers and curriculum data to evidence skills developed in the academic experience, Krystal creates community through skill-based language. In her role as an analyst and faculty member, Krystal gets to indulge her passion for building opportunities and relationships that are beneficial to the student, educator/worker, as well as industry and community partners. Dr. Rawls welcomes opportunities to create meaningful workforce partnerships and develop pathways for positive economic outcomes for all.
In this episode, we’re dishing out advice for both students and educators. We talk about the transition into that first “real-world job”, and how educators can use big and small means to get students ready for that next step. If you’re looking for tangible, applicable advice you can start using today, Dr. Rawls delivers.