Statewide Access
Students from participating public and private colleges and universities can access the same reshoring coursework, applied research, and microcredential-style learning online.
Education / Online Learning
Statewide Online Offering.
A shared reshoring course that can run across every participating college and university in a state at the same time, giving students the same applied experience while building real proposals for bringing manufacturing home.
Statewide online model
One course. Many campuses. A statewide reshoring competition.
The West Virginia model is built around a scalable eight-week reshoring course that can reach students across participating colleges and universities. The course combines online delivery, applied research, manufacturer engagement, and an annual public presentation cycle that turns student work into state economic-development intelligence.
Same Educational Experience
Students receive the same core instruction as the in-person model: trade foundations, HTS classification, landed cost, state manufacturing capability, incentives, financing, importer demand, and proposal development.
Campus Teams
When a state activates multiple colleges and universities at once, each institution can establish a reshoring team focused on a real product category, manufacturer capability, or regional opportunity.
Manufacturer Engagement
Connect students with manufacturers, economic developers, workforce partners, industry leaders, advanced manufacturing centers, and manufacturers associations so projects are grounded in real state opportunity.
Student-Led Proposals
Students develop reshoring proposals that identify actionable manufacturing, supplier, workforce, and economic development opportunities for their state.
Finalist Selection
Top student teams are selected as finalists based on the quality of their research, feasibility of the opportunity, implementation plan, and potential value to the state.
Annual State Capitol Presentations
The top 10 teams present at the State Capitol for scholarship recognition before legislators, economic development leaders, higher education officials, manufacturers, and industry stakeholders.
Statewide Momentum
The course becomes a uniting force across higher education by giving students, faculty, manufacturers, economic developers, and policymakers a shared annual project.
Annual cycle
The course becomes a repeatable statewide pipeline.
NRC can help states adapt the West Virginia model into a recurring education and economic-development process: teach the course, generate student research, select finalists, present at the Capitol, and carry the strongest proposals into implementation conversations.
Scale the model
Bring reshoring education to more students across the state.
The online and microcredential pathway helps states extend reshoring education beyond one classroom while keeping the work tied to real manufacturers, real supply chains, and real implementation priorities.
Build the online pathway
NRC can help states organize the course framework, partner roles, student-output expectations, and annual presentation cycle.
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