Educational Institutions working with UBEC and the Network include:

The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) has, for more than 80 years, been the leading proponent and the national "voice for community colleges." Today, AACC's membership represents close to 95 percent of all accredited U.S. two-year community, junior and technical colleges and their 11.5 million students. The colleges are the largest and fastest-growing sector of U.S. higher education, enrolling close to half of all U.S. undergraduates. AACC supports and promotes its member colleges through policy initiatives, innovative programs, research and information and strategic outreach to business and industry and the national news media.

The John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development, located at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, is one of the few University-based research centers in the nation devoted to workforce training and career education issues. The Heldrich Center's professional staff and faculty have successfully undertaken more than 50 major workforce development research projects for government agencies, corporations, foundations and other non-profit organizations. Founded in 1997, the Heldrich Center has worked closely on workforce development projects with the New Jersey Utilities Association, and its member companies, including PSE&G and New Jersey Natural Gas Company. Working with member companies of the New Jersey Utilities Association, the Center has developed a proven methodology for conducting industry-based workforce supply and demand analysis. Recent projects include groundbreaking research on the emerging employer skill needs in New Jersey's utility sector. In early 2004, the Heldrich Center released reports for the State of New Jersey on the skill and education requirements of eight key industries, including Understanding Skill and Occupational Demand in New Jersey's Utilities Industry.

The Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), the nation's first interstate education compact, was founded in 1948 to help states share information and resources and multiply benefits. SREB's High Schools That Work and Making Middle Grades Work models are the nation's most successful secondary school improvement initiatives. They have successfully helped educators in 40 states and more than 1,600 schools analyze disaggregated data to effect improvement in student learning in subsequent school years. SREB has established 12 goals that focus state educational reform on helping students make smooth transitions from grade level to grade level; on closing gaps in the performance of ethnically diverse groups of youth; and, on creating a seamless K-14/16 education system that works to achieve higher levels of student performance and increase vocational and employability skills among youth.