GSE/EXT: California WomenTech Extension Services Project (CalWomenTech)

GSE/EXT：加州女性科技推广服务项目 (CalWomenTech)

• 批准号: 0533564
• 负责人: Donna Milgram
• 金额: $ 196万
• 依托单位: Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Science
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-04-01 至 2012-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0533564&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: GSE; EXT; California; WomenTech; Extension

The California WomenTech Extension Services (CalWomenTech) is serving the California Community College (CACC) system, to increase the participation of women in technology education programs. Services are provided by the Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Science (IWITTS) in Alameda, California, in collaboration with the City College of San Francisco (CCSF). Intellectual Merit. Emphasis is placed on serving Community Colleges that are also Technology Centers in CA: 1) The California Community College System's Technology Centers; 2) The Engineering Technology Center, a statewide Project of the California Department of Education; and 3) NSF's Advanced Technology Education (ATE) Centers/Projects in California. Eight to ten Technology Centers will form CalWomenTech Leadership teams of approximately 10 members each, a mix of technology and math and science faculty, administrators, counselors and business partners.Activities and products planned for this community are: development of a CalWomenTech website to serve as both a knowledge base of best practices from the national education community and best practices from CalWomenTech Centers as they are implemented; development of template collateral recruitment materials; a 2-day WomenTech training sessions; follow-up consultation and on-site technical assistance to the community colleges to support implementation of Project strategies; periodic trainings on specialty topic areas; and facilitated peer-to-peer mentoring.The Services build on two previous grants to IWITTS: the WomenTech Project, which increased the number of women enrolled and retained in technology education in three national community college demonstration sites and a project that developed a teacher training video Futures: Preparing Young Women for High Skill,High Wage Careers. (IWITTS has sold thousands of copies the latter since 1997.) The PI has extensive experience serving as a consultant and technical assistance provider to the community college system including NSF ATE Centers. The collaborator from City College of San Francisco is a leader in technology education. Evaluation will be conducted by an external consultant from the Center for Research on Women at Wellesley College. Other partners include Dr. Marshall Gartenlaub who leads the Centers of Applied Competitive Technologies (CACT) as California Statewide Director and also chairs the California VTEA Advisory on Industry and Technology and Dr. Scott Griffith, Dean of the Engineering Technology Center, a statewide Project funded by the CA Department of Education - housed in American River College - and PI of the RoboEducators' ATE Project.Broader Impacts. The Extension Service will develop an infrastructure and a knowledge base on best practices to increase the participation of women across the system of California Community Colleges. The model is unique in its connection of a broad menu of best practice strategies to the field, with a feedback loop on implementation experience, and the goal of impacting a statewide system. While many gender best practice strategies exist, little has been done to test wider replication and infusion in a system or even multiple institutions. California's community college system is a good choice for this type of effort, due to the opportunity to impact many community colleges - it has the largest number in the country - and because California collects disaggregated gender data by program in each of its colleges and this information is available on a public database with only a one-year lag time, greatly facilitating evaluation of the success of the Extension Service.

加州女性科技推广服务 (CalWomenTech) 正在为加州社区学院 (CACC) 系统提供服务，以提高女性对技术教育项目的参与度。 服务由位于加利福尼亚州阿拉米达的女性贸易、技术和科学研究所 (IWITTS) 与旧金山城市学院 (CCSF) 合作提供。 智力优点。 重点是为加州的社区学院和技术中心提供服务：1) 加州社区学院系统的技术中心； 2）工程技术中心，加州教育部全州项目； 3) NSF 位于加利福尼亚州的先进技术教育 (ATE) 中心/项目。八到十个技术中心将组建加州女性科技领导团队，每个由大约 10 名成员组成，由技术、数学和科学教师、管理人员、顾问和业务合作伙伴组成。该社区计划的活动和产品包括： 开发加州女性科技网站，作为全国教育界最佳实践和加州女性科技中心实施最佳实践的知识库；开发模板附属招聘材料；为期 2 天的女性科技培训课程；向社区学院提供后续咨询和现场技术援助，支持项目战略的实施；专业主题领域的定期培训；这些服务建立在之前向 IWITTS 提供的两项赠款的基础上：女性科技项目，该项目增加了三个国家社区大学示范点的技术教育注册和保留的女性人数；以及一个开发教师培训视频的项目：未来：为年轻女性做好高技能、高工资职业的准备。 （自 1997 年以来，IWITTS 已售出数千本。）PI 拥有丰富的经验，担任社区大学系统（包括 NSF ATE 中心）的顾问和技术援助提供者。 来自旧金山城市学院的合作者是技术教育领域的领导者。评估将由韦尔斯利学院妇女研究中心的外部顾问进行。 其他合作伙伴包括马歇尔·加滕劳布 (Marshall Gartenlaub) 博士，他担任加州全州主任，负责领导应用竞争技术中心 (CACT)，并担任加州 VTEA 工业和技术咨询委员会主席；斯科特·格里菲斯 (Scott Griffith) 博士，他是工程技术中心的院长，工程技术中心是加州教育部资助的全州项目（位于美国河学院），也是 RoboEducators ATE 项目的 PI。更广泛的影响。 推广服务将开发基础设施和最佳实践知识库，以提高加州社区学院系统中女性的参与度。该模型的独特之处在于它将广泛的最佳实践策略与该领域联系起来，具有实施经验的反馈循环，以及影响全州系统的目标。 尽管存在许多性别最佳实践策略，但几乎没有采取任何措施来测试在一个系统甚至多个机构中更广泛的复制和注入。加州的社区大学系统是此类努力的一个不错的选择，因为它有机会影响许多社区学院（它在全国拥有最多的数量），而且加州按每个学院的课程收集分类的性别数据，并且这些信息可以在公共数据库上获得，只有一年的滞后时间，极大地促进了对推广服务成功与否的评估。