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Summer Member Meeting ® Creating Solutions. Inspiring Action. SUMMER MEMBER MEETING June 28-29, 2017 The Ritz-Carlton, Tysons Corner McLean, Virginia agenda June 28, 2017 The Ritz-Carlton, Tysons Corner McLean, Virginia 3:00 p.m. Opening Plenary Developing a Diverse Regional Aerospace Talent Ecosystem: The Boeing-Washington University in St. Louis Partnership Salon I, 5th Floor Welcome Peter A. Weinberg, Founding Partner, Perella Weinberg Partners Opening Remarks Joan Ferrini-Mundy, Acting COO, National Science Foundation Moderator Daniel Greenstein, Director of Education, Postsecondary Success, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Panel I Discussants • Thomas George, Chancellor, University of Missouri-St. Louis • Shelley Lavender, President, Boeing Military Aircraft and St. Louis Senior Executive, Boeing Defense, Space & Security • Jeffrey Pittman, Chancellor, St. Louis Community College • Joseph F. Reagan, President and CEO, St. Louis Regional Chamber • Mark Wrighton, Chancellor, Washington University in St. Louis Panel II Discussants • Matt Daniels, Senior Manager, Education Relations, The Boeing Company • Jody O’Sullivan, Dean, Joint Undergraduate Engineering Program, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis 6:00 p.m. Opening Reception Old Dominion, 4th Floor 7:00 p.m. Dinner Old Dominion, 4th Floor © BHEF 2017 2 agenda June 29, 2017 The Ritz-Carlton, Tysons Corner McLean, Virginia 8:00 a.m. Breakfast Plaza Room, 6th Floor 8:30 a.m. Business Meeting Plaza Room, 6th Floor 9:15 a.m. Welcome Salon I, 5th Floor 9:30 a.m. Learning Session How Artificial Intelligence is Reshaping Business Models, Regional Workforce, and Talent Needs. How Must Higher Education Respond? Salon I, 5th Floor Facilitator Ryan Oakes, Managing Director, Health and Human Services, Accenture North America Presenters • Paul Daugherty, Chief Technology and Innovation Officer, Accenture (invited) • Guy Ernest, Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services • Chalapathy Neti, VP, Development and Offering Management, IBM (invited) 10:30 a.m. Break Salon I Foyer, 5th Floor 10:45 a.m. Artificial Intelligence Implications for Business and Higher Education Salon I, 5th Floor Presenter Ryan Oakes, Managing Director, Health and Human Services, Accenture North America 11:15 a.m. BHEF’s Rapid Response Model Salon I, 5th Floor Presenter Brian K. Fitzgerald, CEO, Business-Higher Education Forum © BHEF 2017 3 agenda June 29, 2017 The Ritz-Carlton, Tysons Corner McLean, Virginia 11:30 a.m. Discussion with Members and Guests Salon I, 5th Floor Facilitator Ryan Oakes, Managing Director, Health and Human Services, Accenture North America 12:45 p.m. Closing Remarks Plaza Room, 6th Floor 1:00 p.m. Lunch Plaza Room, 6th Floor 1:45 p.m. Adjourn © BHEF 2017 4 CEO WELCOME 2017 Welcome to the Business-Higher Education Forum’s Summer 2017 Member Meeting. This meeting will focus on insights from BHEF member-led projects and conversations W around BHEF’s next emerging field: artificial intelligence, or AI. We will begin on Thursday by learning about the Joint Engineering Leadership Development Program (JELDP)—a collaboration that provides pathways for underserved students and directly benefits the St. Louis region’s economic development. This program, which is funded in part by BHEF’s National Science Foundation grant, is led by Washington University in St. Louis (Washington University) and includes The Boeing Company (Boeing), the University of Missouri—St Louis (UMSL), and St. Louis Community College. JELDP provides an engineering pathway for underserved students through a local community college or UMSL and Washington University into highly competitive engineering jobs at companies like Boeing. Senior leaders from each partner organization will share insights and successes to date, and we hope this program and its outcomes resonate with you and your organization’s needs and future planning. On Friday, we will focus on the growing influence of AI and, specifically, its impact in business and how professionals can augment their skills with AI and cognitive computing to make better decisions, optimize operational processes, and respond to customer needs. We will explore how AI creates and captures value for business, higher education, and the workforce. We will also discuss its possible influence on higher education and the incumbent workforce, with a particular focus on the roles BHEF members can play in creating the talent pipeline for human-only jobs and capturing AI’s potential to the benefit of their organizations. We will have a special session where AI experts from Accenture, Amazon Web Services, and IBM will present AI’s current and future potential applications in a TED-Talk format. The following pages provide background on each session of the meeting. My staff and I hope you will dive in, discuss, and depart more engaged and positioned to participate in activities that reflect BHEF’s value proposition: action-oriented peer relationships, actionable insights, and creative workforce solutions. Regards, Brian K. Fitzgerald, Ed.D. CEO, Business-Higher Education Forum 5 © BHEF 2017 BHEF SUMMER 2017 MEMBER MEETING PROGRAM ® OVERVIEW Developing a Diverse Regional Aerospace Talent Ecosystem: The Boeing- Washington University in St. Louis Partnership BHEF’s 2005 STEM Initiative made significant contributions to understanding the complex nature of the U.S. STEM talent shortfall, as well as the most impactful solutions in P-12 and higher education. These contributions included developing the STEM Education Model, the first system dynamics simulation model of P-16 STEM (developed in partnership with the Raytheon Company and support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation), as well as a subsequent simulation model, the STEM Undergraduate Model, funded by the Department of the Navy’s Office of Naval Research (ONR). The ONR-funded project also resulted in areport on high-impact practices in STEM undergraduate education. BHEF’s modeling identified one of the most significant barriers to increasing the number and diversity of STEM graduates: high attrition in the first two years of undergraduate education. This attrition is most severe on the most diverse campuses, especially community colleges. A 2009 Department of Education study determined that only 7.3 percent of students who began their STEM coursework at community colleges had attained a bachelor’s degree six years later. Improving persistence and transfer rates among STEM undergraduates at community colleges through the use of evidence-based, high-impact practices must be a critical component of a larger STEM talent strategy. A grant from the National Science Foundation in 2015 permitted BHEF to put the insights from modeling and business-higher education partnerships into action. BHEF catalyzed five partnerships focused on improving persistence and transfer of community college students by engaging business in the development of innovative new STEM undergraduate pathways. This meeting’s opening plenary session focuses on one of these partnerships—between Boeing and Washington University. Washington University and the UMSL partnered to form the Joint Undergraduate Engineering Program, which provides accredited engineering education to nontraditional students. The program offers bachelor of science degrees in civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering. A major objective of this program is to build a pipeline of diverse, highly skilled engineering talent for the St. Louis region. Many students begin the program by completing introductory material and scientific foundational coursework at either UMSL or a local community college before transitioning to Washington University, where the upper-division traditional engineering courses are offered. Students originate © BHEF 2017 6 PROGRAM OVERVIEW 2017 primarily from seven community colleges: Jefferson College, Southwestern Illinois College, St. Charles Community College, and St. Louis Community College’s four campuses, including Florissant Valley, Forest Park, Meramec, and Wildwood. The most difficult transition for students in the program, and for many students nationwide, is from the community college to the upper- division level. In partnership with Boeing, Washington University created the JELDP in 2015. This program provides an array of enriched learning opportunities to a special cohort of students to help them persist with their bachelor’s degree and develop career readiness in engineering for highly competitive companies such as Boeing. The program offers a pathway into engineering education and careers to students who would have limited or no access to such opportunities, especially women, veterans, and underrepresented minorities. JELDP consists of the following focus areas: • Part-time intern program • Capstone projects • Mentoring • Scholarships • Ethics and leadership development JELDP features a required one-credit seminar that serves as a first-year experience for students beginning their engineering coursework on the Washington University campus to accommodate the different rates at which students might enter the program. The seminar consists of modules that feature topics such as ethics, leadership, and diversity, and it allows students to engage with a practicing engineer (either the course lecturer or a visiting expert) on those topics. This interaction helps students connect traditional coursework with the real world, developing a professional identity and an understanding of business, ethics, and society through engagement with industry leaders
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