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Inventing the Future of Technology Education: An Experiment in Collaborative Planning

Presenter(s): John Burk, DLR Group
Convener: Maurice N. Finegold, Finegold Alexander + Associates Inc

As Midlands Technical College, a community college with 10,000 credit students, looked toward the future, it formulated plans to construct a Center of Excellence for Technology Training. With the vision to invent a new context for technology education, the college conducted site visits of existing facilities and initiated in a nationwide search for architects and technology consultants to become partners in the progressive project. The process combined higher education curriculum and facilities planning, government incentives for economic development, board of trustee involvement, research park partnership, and specialized technology planning expertise.

This knowledge resource from SCUP is a concurrent session presented at the Society's thirty-seventh annual, international conference and Expo, SCUP–37, in San Diego, CA (USA), in July of 2002.

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