Broadening Participation in CCLI: a Workshop and Mentoring Program for Two-Year College Faculty, July 2010, Reno, Nevada

美国的两年制大学（2YCs）培养了大量且快速增长的本科生，其中包括大量STEM领域的学生。此外，2YCs服务的学生的种族、民族和地理多样性使这些机构成为历史上代表性不足的学生进入STEM领域的关键切入点。虽然2YCs为大量STEM学生提供服务，但来自这些机构的NSF课程，课程和实验室改进（CCLI）提案和奖励的数量仍然低得不成比例。该项目正在为2YCs的STEM教师开发和实施赠款写作研讨会和指导计划。项目组成部分旨在解决2YC教师参与CCLI所面临的障碍，并解决这些机构获得的CCLI奖项数量过少的问题。该项目的总体目标是扩大CCLI项目作为2YCs资源的认识，并增加CCLI对这些机构的奖励。该项目的一个特别重点是来自农村的2YCs的教师，他们以前没有得到过NSF的资助。通过提高目标教师在CCLI项目中的参与度，该项目通过改进课程、教学方法和工具，直接影响了2YC的教师和学生。此外，通过扩大CCLI社区，包括以前没有代表的机构，该项目正在寻求进一步促进2YCs与更广泛的本科STEM社区之间的合作。

The Nation's two-year colleges (2YCs) educate a substantial and rapidly growing number of undergraduate students, including a significant number of students in STEM fields. Furthermore, the racial, ethnic, and geographic diversity of students served by 2YCs make these institutions key entry points to STEM fields for students who have been historically underrepresented. While 2YCs serve large numbers of STEM students, the number of NSF Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) proposals from and awards to these institutions remains disproportionately low.This project is developing and implementing a grant writing workshop and mentoring program for STEM faculty from 2YCs. Project components are designed to address the barriers to participation in CCLI faced by 2YC faculty and, as such, to address the disproportionately small number of CCLI awards made to these institutions. The overall goals of the project are to broaden awareness of the CCLI program as a resource for 2YCs and to increase the number of CCLI awards to these institutions. A specific focus of the project is on faculty from rural 2YCs that have not had previous NSF funding. By enhancing participation of target faculty in the CCLI program, the project is directly impacting 2YC faculty and students through improved curricula, pedagogy, and instrumentation. Furthermore, by broadening the CCLI community to include institutions not previously represented, the project is seeking to further facilitate collaboration between 2YCs and the broader undergraduate STEM community.