The Business-Education Collaboratives Department develops and manages partnerships, fosters educational reform initiatives, and develops and manages community-based programs. It provides educational opportunities and services to the community and its stakeholders.
The Partnership for Preparing a Regional Workforce
The Partnership for Preparing a Regional Workforce (The Partnership) is a consortium of businesses, schools and community organizations led by the College. It includes more than 400 businesses, 10 colleges and universities in southwest Tennessee, three public K-12 systems serving more than 160,000 students (Memphis City Schools, Shelby County Schools, and Fayette County Schools), seven private K-12 schools, and 44 community-based organizations.
The Partnership strives to develop collaborative, public-private, business-driven partnerships around targeted career clusters and industry economies that (1) create educational opportunities that value the needs of all students and adult learners in the workplace; (2) prepare all students and adult learners with both high academic and technical levels of achievement and performance; and (3) help all citizens to secure meaningful lifelong career opportunities.
The Partnership supports five major initiatives:
For additional information on The Partnership, call (901) 333-4214 or email rchumbley@southwest.tn.edu.
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