This document discusses strategies for funding Professional Science Master's (PSM) programs. It provides an overview of a workshop on PSM funding that included presentations from program directors and university representatives. They discussed challenges with attracting students, gaining industry recognition, and measuring program success. The document also discusses how large companies like IBM can partner with universities through research funding, skills training, recruiting, services, social responsibility programs, and supporting regional innovation ecosystems.
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Reference content from this presentation as: Spohrer, JC (2012) Strategies for PSM Funding. NPSMA Workshop Teleconference. Nov 9th, 2012.
 NPSMA 3rd NATIONAL CONFERENCE 10:30-11:15 (MDT) Workshop Session 5 (Crystal I)
Professional Science Master's Degrees Recognizing that traditional graduate-level science training may not be suitable for non-academic careers, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation , in 1997, began to support masterâs-level degree programs designed to provide science, technology, engineering, and mathematics ("STEM") students with a pathway into science-based careers [1] . These Professional Science Masterâs degrees combine a science or mathematics curriculum with a professional component designed to provide graduates with the necessary skills for a career in business, government, or nonprofit agencies. [2] Originally funding fourteen campuses, the Sloan Foundation expanded its support directly or indirectly to over fifty institutions, collectively offering over 100 different PSM programs.[1]. In 2005, the Foundation funded the Council of Graduate Schools to be an âinstitutional base for PSM growth, with the goal of making the degree a normal, recognized, widely accepted academic offeringâ[1]. In furtherance of this objective, the Sloan Foundation also provided support to found the National Professional Science Masterâs Association, a professional organization of PSM directors and alumni intended to âprovide a collective voice for PSM degree programsâ.[3] In 2007, Congress passed the America COMPETES Act which placed special emphasis on improving Americaâs economic competitiveness by strengthening STEM education. The COMPETES Act specifically mentioned the importance of the PSM degree to the nationâs overall competitiveness.[4]. Additionally, a 2008 report issued by the National Research Council of the National Academies urged the continued expansion of the PSM degree. In 2009, the National Science Foundation, under the auspices of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, facilitated funding of twenty-two different PSM programs by appropriating funds for a Science Masterâs program. Information from the KGI Web site. The Sloan Foundation and CGS have worked together since 2006 to institutionalize and promote the PSM degree, an innovative graduate degree designed to allow students to pursue advanced training in science or mathematics, while simultaneously developing workplace skills highly valued by employers. Over the past decade, the PSM has been embraced enthusiastically by the graduate education community in a strong effort to produce the kinds of science and engineering professionals needed to keep the U.S. globally competitive. In only five years since 2006, the PSM has expanded from about 80 programs to 245 at about 115 institutions. By fall 2011 new PSM enrollments in PSM programs around the country had increased to 1,700 and total PSM enrollments to about 5,500. [For more details, see www.sciencemasters.com]
IBM gathers statistics related to the five 6 Râs on 5000 universities world wide⊠The best relations between IBM and universities involve what we call the five Râs â Research (or open collaborative research with a focus on grand challenge problems for business and society), Readiness (or skills), Recruiting (or jobs working on teams to building a smarter planet), Revenue (which is more and more about public-private partnerships that connect great universities and great cities), Responsibility (where IBM employees share their expertise, time, and resources with universities â including IBM guest lecturing in courses or judging student competitions), and Regions â newest and most important working with regional innovation ecosystems, in conjunction with our IBM Global Entrepreneurs program and SmartCampsâŠ. About 15-20% of awards are in the analytics areas, and we see that growing to 25-33% this coming year and the futureâŠ. For more information: http://www.ibm.com/university Bay Area numbers⊠300 fulltime hires in last five years 400 interns and co-ops students over 1000 employees who are alumni, between 2-10% executives over $3M in research and matching grant awards, over five times that in matching from government good customers of IBM
GCG: Wang Ho for Victor Kuo (since 2010) IBM University Programs (IBM UP) has identified 30 major cities/universities around the world to be our focus in 2010. Of course, we work with over 5000 universities world wide, but nevertheless the focus on 30 cities and universities is important to create some exemplar programs and modelsâŠ. By 2011 another 30 focus cities/universities will be added, and by 2012 we hope to have as many as 300 cities/universities that are partnering in the area of urban sustainable innovation or âSmarter Citiesâ âŠ. Primary: US: Boston, New York, Los Angeles, Bay Area/SF-SJ, Atlanta, Miami, Pittsburg, DC-Metro-Baltimore, Houston, Phoenix DV: Dublin, Toronto, London, Karlsruhe, Helsinki, Rome, Dubai, Singapore, Seoul, Tokyo, Melbourne, Porto Portugal EM: Mexico City, Rio De Janerio, Cairo, Duodomo/Dar Saleem, Istanbul, Moscow, India, Beijing, Manila, Bangkok Secondary: US: Detroit-AnnArbor, Philadelphia, Seattle, Denver, Cincinatti, Minneapolis, Chicago,Dallas, Rochester, Raleigh DV: Zurich, Calgary, Manchester-Cambridge, Madrid, Sydney, Paris, Johannesburg, Oslo, Riyadh, HongKong, Osaka EM: Saint Petersburg, Mumbai, Ho Chi Minh City, Buenos Aires, Sao Paolo, Quongzhou, Jordan, Shanghai, Bangalore, Lima Tertiary: US: DV: EM: Girija Cheruvu Texas Italy India Lilian NYC, Texas Japan, S. Korea China Dianne Fodell North Carolina (Raleigh), Boston, Pittsburg London, Helsinki Poland, Mexico, Croatia, Central America Transition 11/2010 Charles Rattan Kumar (ASEAN -> Analytics) -> Fionnie HM Goh (Singapore -> ASEAN)
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T-shaped people are ready for Teamwork â they are excellent communicators, with real world experience, and deep (or specialized) in at least one culture, one discipline and one systems area, but with good team work skills interacting with others who are deep in other cultures, disciplines and systems areas. Also, T-shaped professionals also make excellent entrepreneurs, able to innovate with others to create new technology, business, and societal innovations. T-shaped people are adaptive innovators, and well prepared for life-long learning in case they need to become deep in some new area⊠they are better prepared than I-shaped people, who lack the breadth. Therefore, IBM and other public and private organizations are looking to hire more of this new kind of skills and experience profile â one that is both broad and deep.. These organizations have been collaborating with universities around the world to establish a new area of study known as service science, management, engineering, and design (SSMED) â to prepare computer scientists, MBAs, industrial engineers, operations research, management of information systems, systems engineers, and students of many other discipline areas â to understand better how to work on multidisciplinary teams and attack the grand challenge problems associated with improving service systemsâŠ
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What are the largest and smallest service system entities that have the problem of interconnected systems? Holistic Service Systems like nations, states, cities, and universities â are all system of systems dealing with flows, development, and governance. =============\\ Nations (~100) States/Provinces (~1000) Cities/Regions (~10,000) Educational Institutions (~100,000) Healthcare Institutions (~100,000) Other Enterprises (~10,000,000) Largest 2000 >50% GDP WW Families/Households (~1B) Persons (~10B) Balance/Improve Quality of Life, generation after generation GDP/Capita Quality of Service Customer Experience Quality of Jobs Employee Experience Quality of Investment-Opportunities Owner Experience Entrepreneurial Experience Sustainability GDP/Energy-Unit % Fossil % Renewable GDP/Mass-Unit % New Inputs % Recycled Inputs