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

国家的两年制学院培养了大量且快速增长的本科生，其中包括相当数量的STEM领域的学生。此外，2YC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。两年制STEM转型本科教育项目(TUESTYC)正在为两年制STEM教师开发和实施一项赠款撰写研讨会和辅导计划。项目组成部分旨在解决2YC教职员工参与TUES计划所面临的障碍。该项目的总体目标是扩大对TUES计划作为2YC资源的认识，并增加向这些机构颁发TUES奖项的数量。该项目通过专门针对生物学、工程学和物理学/天文学等学科的教师，扩展了前两个项目的工作。通过加强目标教师对TUES计划的参与，该项目通过改进课程、教学方法和工具，直接影响到2YC教师和学生。此外，通过将TUES社区扩大到包括以前没有代表的机构，该项目正在寻求进一步促进2YCs和更广泛的本科生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.