ABSTRACT

Purpose – To understand the experience of community college career and technical education (CTE) industry advisory committee members.Methodology – Using the qualitative research tradition phenomenology, participants included advisory committee chairs and institutional programme department chairs to help create a composite description of their lived experience.Findings – Themes inlcuded, effectiveness is not about complacent governance, board members are not given adequate time to review material before a meeting, board recommendations are not being implemented, and members feel that they are not truly integrated into the academic culture.Research Implications – Community colleges could use the data to revise their advisory committee policies and meeting governance. Another implication of the research is that appropriate and effective industry advisory partnerships strengthen the institution’s position in the community and career and technical programming.Practical Implications – not intergrating meaninful industry partnerships into developing abd facilitating CTE programming will result in outdated curriculum and graduates who hold competencies and skills that do not align with industry needs.Originality and Value – This paper contributes to the literature about the value of community college CTE programmes in society and the importance of industry – institutional partnerships regarding technical curriculum development.

摘要

目的——了解社区大学职业和技术教育 (CTE) 行业咨询委员会成员的经验。方法论——使用定性研究传统现象学，参与者包括咨询委员会主席和机构项目部门主席，以帮助创建对他们生活经历的综合描述。调查结果——包括主题，有效性与自满的治理无关，董事会成员没有足够的时间在会议前审查材料，董事会的建议没有得到实施，成员认为他们没有真正融入学术文化。研究意义– 社区学院可以使用这些数据来修改他们的咨询委员会政策和会议管理。该研究的另一个含义是适当和有效的行业咨询合作伙伴关系加强了该机构在社区以及职业和技术规划中的地位。实际意义——如果不将有意义的行业合作伙伴关系整合到促进 CTE 编程的 abd 中，将导致过时的课程和拥有不符合行业需求的能力和技能的毕业生。原创性和价值——本文为有关社区大学 CTE 课程在社会中的价值以及行业与技术课程开发机构合作的重要性的文献做出了贡献。