Multi-State Advanced Manufacturing Consortium (M-SAMC) Final Evaluation Report

Corporation for a Skilled Workforce (CSW) and New Growth Planners present this final evaluation report covering the evaluation work completed over the life of the Multi-State Advanced Manufacturing Consortium grant. The format largely follows the recommended elements of the Executive Summary provided by the Department of Labor in its August 2016 guidance. Each section, in addition to discussing the consortium’s efforts as a whole, gives specific examples of how individual colleges were successful in implementing a specific deliverable. These examples do not necessarily represent implementation at all colleges. CSW and New Growth comprise the evaluation team for the Multi-State Advanced Manufacturing Consortium (M-SAMC). CSW was responsible for the implementation evaluation, and New Growth Planners oversaw the outcomes and impact evaluation. Throughout, CSW and New Growth have collaborated closely with each other, with the consortium staff, and with the thirteen member colleges to assess progress against the grant expectations, as drawn from the funded project proposal and design, and to document examples of how the activities of individual colleges (or groups of colleges not constituting the total population) have advanced competency-based education.