Leading Community Engagement at the UW
PAST and PRESENT Community INDUSTRY & Academia Partnership
Projects
deliverING actionable insights…
GeneratING New Ideas…
Solving Big Problems…
Work-based learning and Community/Industry & Academia Partnership Projects are central to the Milgard Center for Business Analytics (CBA). This makes it no surprise that the CBA is a leader in community engagement projects in UW Tacoma. In less than 7 years, the CBA has co-created value with:
Projects
Students
Industries
Organizations
Partnering with the community
The CBA has led nearly 85 Community/Industry & Academia Partnership Projects in the last 7 years. The CBA’s MSBA program alone has conducted 85 projects (MSBA Applied Projects) in partnership with 355 MSBA students. Here is an overview of MSBA projects, both past and present:
Academic Year 2024-25
One cohort of 44 MSBA student consultants are currently working on 10 community engagement projects with the following organizations:
- Communities in Schools of Tacoma
- Currie & Brown
- MulitCare Health System
- Radius Recycling
- UW Tacoma
- Sound Credit Union
- Toysmith
- Virginia Mason Franciscan Health (2 projects)
- Westwood Shipping Lines
- Schnitzer Steel
Academic Year 2023-24
One cohort of 44 MSBA student consultants are currently working on 10 community engagement projects with the following organizations:
- Communities in Schools of Tacoma
- Currie & Brown
- MulitCare Health System
- Radius Recycling
- UW Tacoma
- Sound Credit Union
- Toysmith
- Virginia Mason Franciscan Health (2 projects)
- Westwood Shipping Lines
- Schnitzer Steel
Academic Year 2022-23
One cohort of 52 MSBA student consultants are currently working on 11 community engagement projects with the following organizations:
- Virginia Mason Franciscan Health
- HeyKiddo
- UW Tacoma
- Sound Credit Union
- CommonSpirit Health
- MultiCare Health System
- PropertyScout.io
- Schnitzer Steel
- South Sound Military Communities Partnerships (SSMCP)
- Tacoma Power
- Westwood Shipping Lines
Academic Year 2021-22
One cohort of 37 MSBA student consultants are currently working on 8 community engagement projects with the following organizations:
- Virginia Mason Franciscan Health (2 projects)
- City of Puyallup
- Give InKind
- HeyKiddo
- UW Tacoma
- Sound Credit Union
- CommonSpirit Health
Academic Year 2020-21
Two cohorts of 73 MSBA student consultants worked on 14 community engagement projects with the following organizations:
- CHI Franciscan
- Greentrike
- City of Lynnwood
- City of Tacoma
- Washington State Department of Natural Resources
- Sound Credit Union
- Metropolitan Appliance
- City of Tacoma Fire Department
- Schnitzer
- South Tacoma Auto
- University of Washington Tacoma
- Communities in Schools of Tacoma
- City of Puyallup
- Korean Women’s Association
Academic Year 2019-20
- CHI Franciscan
- Communities in Schools of Tacoma
- Costco Whole Sale
- Delta Air Lines INC.
- Harbor Wholesale Foods, Inc.
- IBM
- Metropolitan Appliance
- MultiCare Health System
- Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division
- Keyport
- Point Defiance Zoo
- Providence St. Joseph Health
- Sound Credit Union
- South Sound Military & Communities Partnership
- Stellar Industrial Supply
- Tacoma Power
- Tacoma Public Schools
- TCS World Travel
- Washington State Department of Natural Resources
- Hyundai Capital of America
Academic Year 2018-19
- CHI Franciscan
- City of Tacoma
- Columbia Bank
- Harbor Wholesale Foods, Inc.
- Metro Parks Tacoma
- Microsoft
Academic Year 2017-18
- Metro Parks of Tacoma
- Data Central
- Delta Analytics
- CHI Franciscan Health
- Stellar Industrial
- SSMCP
- Turnover Intelligence
- Boeing
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Let’s become partners and co-create value together!
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