Collaborative Research: A Two-Year College/Four-year University Partnership to Transform Chemistry and Biotechnology Curricula using FT-NMR

格伦代尔社区学院（GCC）与亚利桑那州立大学西校区（ASU West）合作，将核磁共振光谱仪和其他仪器的使用与有机化学和生物技术的教学变革相结合。这种结合正在建立一个强大的基础STEM教育计划，提高学生为工业和四年制学位课程做准备的质量。具体而言，目标是：1。通过开设平行仪器、其他实验室技术技能和包括仪器实际使用在内的教学变化的课程，架起化学和生物技术课程的桥梁。2. 通过利用海湾合作委员会与亚利桑那州立大学西部分校的合作伙伴关系，让社区大学生沉浸在大学的研究环境中。这种合作关系为学生进入四年制学位课程提供了明确的途径，并有望增加学生未来在追求和获得高级学位方面的成功。3. 创建一个评估循环，重点关注学生成功与学生接触仪器和修订的教学方法之间的联系。知识价值。由于小班教学和高师生比例，GCC是一个理想的环境，可以最大限度地让学生在学习过程中接触到实际操作，积极参与策略，并评估教学技术。GCC的学生在使用最新教学技术的学术和研究等级仪器方面获得了宝贵而丰富的经验。他们还通过一个独特的项目获得专业发展的机会，该项目将他们暴露在亚利桑那州立大学西部的研究环境、研究传播以及潜在的学术、政府和行业职业生涯中。更广泛的影响。海湾合作委员会是马里科帕县社区学院区（MCCD）的十所社区学院之一，MCCD是世界上最大的社区学院区之一。海湾合作委员会的学生群体非常多样化，33%的学生（其中24.9%是西班牙裔）是STEM领域代表性不足的群体的成员。因此，该项目服务于代表性不足的群体，包括社会经济背景较低的群体和第一代大学生。与西亚利桑那州立大学的联盟正在为GCC学生进入STEM领域创造一个渠道，并为他们攻读学士学位和研究生做好准备。该项目是使用互补工具在社区学院和大学之间发展协同和变革伙伴关系的国家模式。一个严格的评估项目记录了学生对仪器的理解，并结合了实践教学法，以及由于这个项目而产生的态度变化。参与的教员将通过在有关的同行评审期刊上发表出版物和在适当的会议上发表报告来传播该项目的结果。他们还举办研讨会，积极鼓励其他MCCCD学院采用这个项目，特别是那些已经配备了核磁共振仪器的学院。

In collaboration with Arizona State University at the West campus (ASU West), Glendale Community College (GCC) is integrating the use of an NMR spectrometer and other instrumentation with a pedagogical change to hands-on experiences across organic chemistry and biotechnology. This combination is establishing a strong foundational STEM educational program that improves the quality of student preparedness for industry and four-year degree programs. Specifically, the objectives are: 1. To bridge chemistry and biotechnology curricula by creating courses that focus on parallel instrumentation, other laboratory technical skills, and pedagogical changes that include hands-on use of the instrumentation. 2. To immerse community college students in the university research environment by leveraging GCC's partnership with ASU West. This partnership provides students with a clear route for entry into four-year degree programs and is expected to increase the future success of the students in the pursuit and attainment of advanced degrees. 3. To create an assessment loop that focuses on the links between student success and the exposure of students to instrumentation and to revised instructional pedagogy. Intellectual Merit. Because of the small class size and high faculty to student ratio, GCC is an ideal setting in which to maximize student exposure to hands-on, active-participation strategies in the learning process, and to assess pedagogical techniques. GCC students are gaining from valuable and extensive experience on both academic and research grade instrumentation using up-to-date pedagogical techniques. They also are given opportunities for professional development through a unique program that exposes them to the ASU West research environment, research dissemination, and potential academic, government and industry careers. Broader Impacts. GCC is one of ten community colleges in the Maricopa County Community College District (MCCD), one of the largest community college districts in the world. The GCC student population is highly diverse with 33% (of which 24.9% are Hispanic) of the students being members of groups underrepresented in STEM fields. Thus, the project is serving underrepresented groups including those from low socioeconomic backgrounds and first-generation college students. The alliance with ASU West is creating a pipeline for GCC students to enter STEM fields, and is preparing them for baccalaureate and graduate studies. The project serves as a national model of using complementary instruments to develop a synergistic and transformative partnership between a Community College and a University. A rigorous evaluative program is documenting student understanding of instrumentation when integrated with hands-on pedagogy as well as attitude changes as a result of this project. The faculty involved will disseminate the results of the project through publications in relevant peer-reviewed journals and by presentations at appropriate conferences. They also are conducting workshops with the intent of aggressively encouraging adoption of this project at other MCCCD colleges, especially those already equipped with an NMR instrument.