Education

Building the learning system for state-led reshoring.

NRC helps states turn reshoring opportunity into courses, statewide online learning, microcredentials, research, and applied pathways that connect students, manufacturers, workforce partners, and policymakers.

Education landing

Three pathways for building state reshoring capacity.

This page is the Education landing page. From here, visitors can choose the in-person course model, the statewide online offering, or research tied to state-led reshoring.

In-Person Courses + Experiential Learning

Applied course models, plant and partner engagement, manufacturer interviews, student research teams, and proposal development around real state opportunities.

Open Course Page

Statewide Online Offering

A shared reshoring course that can run across participating colleges and universities in a state at the same time, with campus teams developing proposals and competing statewide.

Open Online Offering

Research

Applied student research, state opportunity reports, supplier mapping, RFI responses, policy briefs, and implementation studies that make reshoring teachable and actionable.

Open Research

How NRC supports states

A practical education system for bringing manufacturing home.

NRC helps states create education pathways that are useful to students and useful to the state. The goal is to move from awareness into applied projects, credentials, research, and implementation capacity.

Build the Course

Help states organize higher education partners, manufacturers, workforce systems, and public leaders around an applied reshoring course.

Scale Access

Support statewide online delivery and microcredential pathways that can reach students and working learners across institutions.

Connect to Action

Use research, data, and employer engagement to turn learning into proposals, supplier discovery, and state implementation priorities.