Project TUESTYC: A Workshop and Mentoring Program for Two-Year College Faculty

国家的两年制学院（2 YCs）教育了大量且快速增长的本科生，包括大量STEM领域的学生。 此外，由2 YCs服务的学生的种族，民族和地理多样性使这些机构成为STEM领域的关键切入点，为历史上代表性不足的学生提供服务。两年制学院（TUESTYC）项目的STEM本科教育转型正在为2 YCs的STEM教师开发和实施资助写作研讨会和指导计划。 项目组成部分旨在解决2 YC教师参与TUES计划所面临的障碍。 该项目的总体目标是扩大人们对TUES计划作为2 YC资源的认识，并增加这些机构的TUES奖励数量。 该项目是通过专门针对生物学，工程学和物理学/天文学学科的教师来扩展前两个项目的工作。 通过加强目标教师在TUES计划的参与，该项目是通过改进课程，教学法和仪器直接影响2 YC教师和学生。 此外，通过扩大TUES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2 YCs和更广泛的本科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. The Transforming Undergraduate Education in STEM of Two-Year Colleges (TUESTYC) 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 TUES program faced by 2YC faculty. The overall goals of the project are to broaden awareness of the TUES program as a resource for 2YCs and to increase the number of TUES awards to these institutions. This project is extending the work of two previous projects by specifically targeting faculty from the disciplines of biology, engineering, and physics/astronomy. By enhancing participation of target faculty in the TUES program, the project is directly impacting 2YC faculty and students through improved curricula, pedagogy, and instrumentation. Furthermore, by broadening the TUES community to include institutions not previously represented, the project is seeking to further facilitate collaboration between 2YCs and the broader undergraduate STEM community.