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Developing High Impact Academia Partnerships
DEFINE WHERE YOU ARE GOING AS A LEARNING ORGANIZATION AND HOW YOUR TALENT DEVELOPMENT TEAM WILL SUPPORT THIS DIRECTION.
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ring up the subject of partnerships between corporations and academic institutions in a learning community discussion and there is a good chance the discussion will quickly move to tuition reimbursement programs or some form of specially designed academic degree-granting programs. While these are not unimportant, they miss out on the potential strategic benefits a well-structured corporate-academia partnership can provide both the organization and the institution. The focus on tuition reimbursement and degree granting
programs is also somewhat academia-centric, not that there is anything specifically “wrong” with that (in the spirit of full disclosure, one of the co-authors of this article is on the Advisory Boards of two academic institutions). In addition, some “traditional” universities have tended to shun discussions with corporations outside of their degree programs for fear of tarnishing their academic reputations, and as a result both the organization and the institution miss out on the benefits a well-designed corporate-academia partnership can provide.
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