{"id":1209,"date":"2016-11-03T20:31:12","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T20:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mtwc.engr.wisc.edu\/?page_id=1209"},"modified":"2022-05-26T20:28:56","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T20:28:56","slug":"mtwc-strategic-plan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mtwc.cee.wisc.edu\/index.php\/mtwc-strategic-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"MTWC Strategic Plan 2016-2017"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Our Mission<\/strong>
The MTWC will increase awareness of career opportunities in the transportation industry and promote development of high-skilled, high-demand transportation workers by facilitating partnerships and improving communication and sharing across workforce development organizations.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Strategies, Goals, and Actions<\/h2>\n

Strategy 1: Build and Sustain a Network of Transportation Organizations and People<\/h3>\n
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  • Connect the Midwest transportation community by:\n
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    • Maintaining a database of stakeholders.<\/li>\n
    • Creating email and social media campaigns.<\/li>\n
    • Offering webinars.<\/li>\n
    • Fostering Midwest communities of practice.<\/li>\n
    • Facilitating working groups.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
    • Collaborate with other regional centers to build the National Network for the Transportation Workforce (NNTW) by:\n
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      • Developing content consistent with other centers to build a national database of resources.<\/li>\n
      • Promoting all regional centers activities on the MTWC website.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
      • Work closely with the MTWC Advisory Board to identify new trends, challenges, and initiatives across the region by:\n
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        • Ensuring new development and practices are promoted and shared.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

          Strategy 2: Facilitate Partnerships<\/h3>\n
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          • Provide opportunities for partnership development between workforce stakeholders: public and private industry, educational institutions, K-12 to post-secondary, unions, and professional and student organizations by:\n
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            • Convening meetings with a cross-section of workforce development stakeholders.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
            • Facilitate twenty partnerships by December 2016 by:\n
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              • Meeting with individual organizations to understand common interests and goals.<\/li>\n
              • Tracking partnership development and outcomes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                Strategy 3: Utilize a Data-Driven Approach<\/h3>\n
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                • Understand transportation workforce issues and gaps in the Midwest by:\n
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                  • Utilizing MTWC compiled educational resources to develop career pathways analysis.<\/li>\n
                  • Utilizing new sources of data to develop pipeline statistics.<\/li>\n
                  • Producing demographic projections for the Midwest.<\/li>\n
                  • Producing visualizations of data.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
                  • Understand transportation workforce development stakeholder behavior by:\n
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                    • Producing analytics on Social Media Channels.<\/li>\n
                    • Refining outreach strategies on Social Media Channels.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                      Strategy 4: Promote and Create Workforce Development Initiatives<\/h3>\n
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                      • Promote initiatives that address gaps in information, demographic representation, and underserved populations.<\/li>\n
                      • Advance workforce development movement on MTWC focus areas of career awareness, career pathways, stackable credentials, and promoting and sharing best workforce development practices by:\n
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                        • Implementing a \u201cSuccess Stories\u201d Campaign.<\/li>\n
                        • Pursuing funding to carry out initiatives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                          Strategy 5: Maintain the MTWC Clearinghouse of Transportation Resources<\/h3>\n
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                          • MTWC website will be a first-stop for transportation workforce resources: programs, activities, and best practices in the Midwest by:\n
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                            • Developing processes to collect and update resources.<\/li>\n
                            • Engaging stakeholders to provide resources that may not be on the internet.<\/li>\n
                            • Promoting successful practices as featured content.<\/li>\n
                            • Initiating a Clearinghouse Campaign to review and add more resources to the clearinghouse.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                              Strategy 6: Serve as a Backbone Organization in the Region<\/h3>\n
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                              • Implement a Collective Impact strategy to transportation workforce network building in the Midwest by:\n
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                                • Providing continuous communication to transportation stakeholders.<\/li>\n
                                • Leveraging partnerships for new initiatives.<\/li>\n
                                • Convening meetings.<\/li>\n
                                • Meeting with stakeholders to find common ground.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
                                • Establish a sustainable center that serves all transportation stakeholders by:\n
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                                  • Pursuing funding to meet cost-share and post-FHWA grant funding.<\/li>\n
                                  • Working with MTWC Advisory Board to develop a plan for funding.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                                    Strategy 7: Champion Transportation Workforce Research<\/h3>\n
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                                    • Build the literature of transportation workforce research by:\n
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                                      • Collaborating with the NNTW partners on proposals.<\/li>\n
                                      • Collaborating with TRB, AASHTO, industry and other stakeholders to identify, develop, and draft research needs statements.<\/li>\n
                                      • Undertaking research projects.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n
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                                        Our MissionThe MTWC will increase awareness of career opportunities in the transportation industry and promote development of high-skilled, high-demand transportation workers by facilitating partnerships and improving communication and sharing across workforce development organizations. \u00a0 Strategies, Goals, and Actions Strategy 1: Build and Sustain a Network of Transportation Organizations and People Connect the Midwest transportation community […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1209","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtwc.cee.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtwc.cee.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtwc.cee.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtwc.cee.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtwc.cee.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mtwc.cee.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3755,"href":"https:\/\/mtwc.cee.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1209\/revisions\/3755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtwc.cee.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}