Open Door, Capacity Building at Yavapai College

亚瓦派学院敞开大门，开展能力建设

• 批准号: 0099125
• 负责人: Kenneth Abbott
• 金额: $ 42.16万
• 依托单位: Yavapai College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-03-01 至 2004-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0099125&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Open; Door; Capacity; Building; Yavapai

Proposal # HRD-0099125Institution: Yavapai CollegePrincipal Investigator: Kenneth AbbottTitle: "The Open Door Project"ABSTRACTYavapai College serves the needs of rural and isolated small urban populations in Yavapai County, Arizona. The college is well underway toward completing its ADA self-evaluation goals for physical barrier removal. A corresponding effort, however, has not taken place to address access to instructional materials in appropriate forms, educational technology, alternative delivery methodologies and access to laboratory and field experiences. The goal of this project is to increase the number of rural disabled students successfully pursuing SMET careers. An advisory committee will provide oversight and project direction to actualize the following objective: To develop a model program that creates an inviting rural community college environment responsive to the needs of students with disabilities. The Open Door Project will: 1. Assign a SMET disabilities curriculum coordinator to research, gather, and maintain a specific set of alternative curricular materials and strategies for all gateway math and science courses that use current best practices of adaptation, accommodation, and assistive technology. 2. Train disabilities Master Teachers in all SMET curricular areas who will conduct disabilities awareness and alternative strategies training at the SMET department level. The problem of adjunct faculty inclusion will be addressed by specific training at orientation, access to intranet resources, and assignment of a disabilities mentor from the full-time SMET faculty. 3. Develop ways for students to have a SMET "hands-on" experience by creating innovative ways to assimilate students with disabilities into ongoing research, field and laboratory activities and to facilitate student interface with working SMET professionals in local and regional high tech businesses. This activity will include development of a SMET Summer Camp for students with disabilities.The Open Door Project will also work to increase the number of disabled high school students, veterans, women re-entering the workforce and Native Americans with SMET career expectations. This will be accomplished by using the countywide outreach activity of existing TRIO and Transition programs to encourage interest in SMET careers among disabled students. In addition, these outreach groups, staff development activities, and stipends for participation in summer programs, will be used to raise the awareness of high school and college career counselors and faculty. This will increase their competency to address the needs of students with disabilities and promote existing Yavapai College Foundation scholarships for disabled and SMET students as well as SMET summer camps.The Open Door Capacity Building Project will raise the visibility and attractiveness of SMET careers for disabled students by creating a program specifically designed to capture their imaginations and provide a responsive community college experience that articulates into a SMET career or advanced degree. The long-range post-project goal is to use Yavapai College's unique field sites and on-campus dorm capacity to create a regional SMET magnet school for students with disabilities.

提案# HRD-0099125机构：亚瓦派学院首席研究员：肯尼思·阿博特标题：“门户开放项目”摘要阿瓦派学院为亚利桑那州亚瓦派县农村和偏远小城市人口的需求提供服务。 该学院正在顺利完成 ADA 消除物理障碍的自我评估目标。然而，尚未采取相应的努力来解决以适当形式获取教学材料、教育技术、替代交付方法以及获得实验室和现场经验的问题。该项目的目标是增加成功从事 SMET 职业的农村残疾学生的数量。 咨询委员会将提供监督和项目指导，以实现以下目标：开发一个模型项目，创建一个有吸引力的农村社区大学环境，满足残疾学生的需求。 门户开放项目将： 1. 指派一名 SMET 残疾课程协调员，负责研究、收集和维护一套特定的替代课程材料和策略，适用于所有使用当前适应、适应和辅助技术最佳实践的入门数学和科学课程。 2. 在所有 SMET 课程领域培训残疾特级教师，他们将在 SMET 系一级开展残疾意识和替代策略培训。 兼职教师的包容性问题将通过特定的入职培训、访问内联网资源以及从全职 SMET 教师中指派一名残疾导师来解决。 3. 通过创造创新方式让残疾学生融入正在进行的研究、实地和实验室活动，并促进学生与当地和区域高科技企业中在职的 SMET 专业人员进行交流，为学生提供 SMET“实践”体验。 这项活动将包括为残疾学生举办 SMET 夏令营。门户开放项目还将努力增加残疾高中生、退伍军人、重新进入劳动力市场的女性以及有 SMET 职业期望的美国原住民的数量。 这将通过利用现有 TRIO 和过渡计划的全县范围外展活动来鼓励残疾学生对 SMET 职业的兴趣来实现。 此外，这些外展小组、员工发展活动以及参加暑期项目的津贴将用于提高高中和大学职业顾问和教师的认识。 这将提高他们满足残疾学生需求的能力，并推广现有的亚瓦派学院基金会为残疾和 SMET 学生提供的奖学金以及 SMET 夏令营。门户开放能力建设项目将通过创建一个专门设计的项目来激发残疾学生的想象力，并提供与 SMET 职业或高级学位相关的响应式社区大学体验，从而提高 SMET 职业对残疾学生的知名度和吸引力。 项目后的长期目标是利用亚瓦派学院独特的场地和校内宿舍容量，为残疾学生创建一所地区性 SMET 磁石学校。