Solutions for Maryland’s Future: A Partnership for Workforce Development and Maryland Higher Educa

Solutions for Maryland’s Future: A Partnership for Workforce Development and Maryland Higher Education, a statewide listening tour

Event Date: 10/30/06
Event Time: 2:00 PM

Event Location: College of Southern Maryland, LaPlata, MD in Building BI, Room 113/113E

The tour will make nine stops across the state during the next several weeks. We invite you to participate in the tour stop scheduled for Monday, October 30, 2006 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. (networking begins at 1:30 p.m.) at the College of Southern Maryland, LaPlata, MD in Building BI, Room 113/113E.

Come share your concerns and recommendations about Maryland higher education’s role inworkforce and economic development. You will have the opportunity to:

Offer suggestions directly to presidents of colleges and universities in your region aswell as statewide higher education leaders;

Help develop concrete recommendations and action items to strengthen thepartnership between our colleges and universities and the business community in meeting workforce and related needs; and

Share ideas about how to improve higher education’s response to your region’sworkforce and economic development needs.

This listening tour is a major component of the statewide Solutions for Maryland’s Future initiative. Through this initiative, all sectors of Maryland higher education are working together to emphasize higher education’s role in advancing the quality of life for all of society, not only the individuals in the classrooms. A major focus is to listen to, learn from, and act based on how you and others view our state’s colleges and universities.