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Vision, Mission and Goals
 
Vision
Our vision is to flourish as NASA's most comprehensive higher education investment in Connecticut. By building an educational infrastructure that enables us to fully participate in NASA's national mission, we will consolidate a leadership position. The Connecticut Space Grant College Consortium is an investment in Connecticut's future. Our philosophy is to foster an educated citizenry capable of participation in the most significant outcomes for this state of NASA research and development: job creation and economic growth.
 
Mission Statement
The mission of the Connecticut Space Grant College Consortium is to pursue five interactive themes which enable us to promote competency and relevancy in aeronautic and space-related research and training activities through the year 2000:

Cooperation - To stimulate activities to facilitate cooperation between private, academic, and governmental centers.

Research - To foster research among the participating members to support the mission of NASA while developing and enhancing the scientific/industrial base of Connecticut.

Education - To focus on educational outcomes that are process as well as product oriented. Through curriculum innovations to provide interactions with the broader research community, increasing faculty with broad knowledge of the NASA community, and exciting students at all levels stimulating creative problem solving.

Human Resources - To extend opportunities and benefits to a non- traditional target audience which includes women, minorities, and people with disabilities. In response to a target audience in transition, facilitating the re-training of defense workers is a concern.

Public Awareness - To increase public awareness of aerospace education and research and the benefits to our society so that a more active support of NASA's mission is possible.
 

Goals
In support of this mission, the Connecticut Space Grant College Consortium should investigate how to redirect and focus academic research to applications which will support Connecticut business and industry.

  • Goal 1 - To create synergistic collaborations between private, academic and governmental sectors on technical problems of mutual interest.
  • Goal 2 - To develop a research agenda which will result in a center of excellence in one or several fields.
  • Goal 3 - To establish more opportunities for information exchange between students and faculty with the Connecticut Space Grant Consortium, between other Consortia, and with personnel at NASA centers.
  • Goal 4 - To be supportive of the objectives or Workforce 2000 which addresses the human resource opportunities and barriers of various target audiences.
  • Goal 5 - To target specific decision makers to inform them of the Connecticut Space Grant Consortium's role in the Connecticut education community.
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