Students
Public Interest Partners recognizes the value of student participation in academic-industry projects designed to advance social entrepreneurship. A team of information technology students at San Jose State University is using the technical skills and project management principles they are learning in class to support the mission.
Their collective expertise will greatly assist in the development of Workforce News Network, which will inform the processes and illuminate the outcomes and impact of the public workforce system. Focus will be placed on the vital roles that workforce development boards, community colleges and libraries play in academic-industry partnerships that operate at the state and local levels. The objective is to provide education, skills development, job and career advancement opportunities to all individuals through an enterprise that unleashes the raw and latent talent of the intended beneficiaries of the public workforce system.
Our plan is informed by six prior student collaboration initiatives and is built around three reinforcing elements developed within the framework of the AI Collab Program of the International Society of Service Innovation Professionals
1) Student CEOs and Nonprofit Executive Directors – students are positioned not only as project contributors, but as founders of startup concepts aimed at improving academic–industry collaboration among the nonprofit, philanthropic corporate and public sectors.
2) AI Digital Workers – multiple generative AI systems used daily by each student CEO to accelerate research, synthesis, design, and experimentation.
3) Industry Mentors and their AI Digital Twins – industry leaders who mentor student teams while progressively building AI-based digital representations of their expertise to scale their impact.
We welcome discussions and collaborations with endowed institutions, community reinvestment leaders, donor-advised funds, foundations and members of the transforming philanthropic ecosystem.
