This project has enlisted an academic and business consortium, including thirty community colleges and directed by the Business/CIS Education Statewide Advisory Committee (BESAC), has formed a Discipline/Industry Collaborative for Business Education that is serving Business/Computer Information Science (CIS) educators and their students statewide. The project is expanding and implementing the “Blueprint for Success” developed by the 2001-2002 Industry Collaborative under BESAC leadership.

Project activities have focused on updating and introducing new curriculum needed for the ten clusters representing the seventy-two TOPs codes in the Business/CIS discipline. Faculty workshops and conferences have and will continue to help colleges implement the new and expanded curriculum. A major focus of the project is statewide improvement in the VTEA Core Indicators of student performance. Business partnerships are significantly aiding this effort. Improved student service structures and activities are being piloted.
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