The College's Centre for Community Responsibility encourages and strengthens these connections, providing resources to support this work. Furthermore the college has developed innovative programme Best to the Industry in collaboration with industry to provide work-based learning opportunities for ICT students, one example is the programme on viticulture which supports the local wine industry. The Tel Hai Academic College stands out among the HEIs in Galilee for its deliberate efforts to integrate regional engagement with its core mission. The programme combines both academic and practical field experience to increase the opportunities for employment. In response to needs of regional employers, the college has proposed to develop a new school of management with departments of management and economics. With support of the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, the college is sponsoring, beginning in the 2009-10 academic year, 20 Jewish and Arab women from the Western Galilee region to study for an interdisciplinary bachelor's degree in economics and business administration.