Industry Action Team is comprised of business leaders and human resource professionals who posses an understanding of the particular skills and competencies needed for  industry careers and professional mobility. This team is actively engaged with the Centers and provides guidance and feedback on curriculum. The Industry Action team meets monthly or less to support the centers. 

Industry Leadership Team is comprised of executive level business, industry association, and labor union leaders who discuss the changing workforce needs of the industry an identify education and workforce training challenges and solutions. The team demonstrates a commitment to the states’s workforce needs. The industry Leadership Team meets quarterly. 

A Pathway Connection refers to the linkage between stages, steps, or elements within an education and workforce training pathway that connects from one education sector to another to ensure a seamless transition from high school (career awareness and dual enrollment) to community college (credit and non-credit), apprenticeship, prior-learning assessments of non-credit to credit, between community colleges, to experiential learning opportunities, to community-based training, to adult learning and literacy, to four-year colleges and universities, to faculty/instructor professional development, and to student pilots of career awareness workshops, apprenticeships, dual enrollment, credentials and degree programs, as well as workforce training. These connections provide continuity as individuals progress through their educational and career journeys.