Addressing Information Technology Workforce Needs in an Urban Setting

满足城市环境中的信息技术劳动力需求

• 批准号: 1204807
• 负责人: Mayfield Fayose
• 金额: $ 20万
• 依托单位: Inver Hills Community College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-05-15 至 2015-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1204807&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Addressing; Information; Technology; Workforce; Needs

This project is designed to address significant information technology (IT) workforce needs by determining why so few underrepresented students are enrolling in IT career programs at the college; to create, adapt, and deploy tools to recruit a more diverse IT student body, and to retain and support those students. It also provides teacher training and curriculum revisions and leverages industry partnerships to create new opportunities for students. The student body at the college is very diverse, being composed of 86% underrepresented students. Conversely, IT programs at the college are much less diverse than the general student population, in fact the programs are remarkable for their lack of diversity in terms of ethnicity and gender. Because the college has a history of recruiting, supporting, and graduating students from underrepresented groups, once it is determined why so few students are entering IT career programs, outreach efforts are being modified to recruit underrepresented students into IT programs, and additional support mechanisms are being developed to improve the chances of students of successfully completing their program. Intellectual Merit: A hallmark of this project is the degree to which it builds on existing initiatives and partnerships. From design to implementation, from evaluation to dissemination, this project builds on the work of other ATE projects and centers. Significant support from business and secondary school partners is creating a collaborative project team. Industry partners are committed to providing resources to facilitate effective and cost efficient communication; to sponsor and participate in career awareness events; to provide access to modern instrumentation and new technologies presently unavailable to many students; to help integrate current industry standards and 21st century workplace competencies into the curriculum; to provide speakers and facilitate information sessions designed to engage underrepresented students; and to facilitate field trips and industry tours. This project is improving student learning by providing secondary school teacher training; leveraging business partnerships to provide students with 21st century workplace experiences and cutting-edge instrumentation; and by aligning curricula with industry standards. This project is designed to be institutionalized upon completion of the proposed activities. Broader Impacts: At the core of this project is the promotion of a diverse technical workforce capable of addressing significant IT workforce needs. This project fosters and builds upon collaborative relationships to achieve the goal of diversity, and the results of the project are likely to be widely adaptable at other institutions. The project results are being disseminated using a digital project portfolio that is accessible on the World Wide Web.

该项目旨在通过确定为什么如此少的代表性不足的学生在大学报名参加IT职业计划来解决重要的信息技术（IT）劳动力需求;创建，调整和部署工具来招募更多样化的IT学生团体，并保留和支持这些学生。它还提供教师培训和课程修订，并利用行业合作伙伴关系为学生创造新的机会。 学院的学生群体非常多样化，由86%的代表性不足的学生组成。相反，该学院的IT项目远不如一般学生群体多样化，事实上，这些项目在种族和性别方面缺乏多样性。由于学院有招募，支持和毕业的学生从代表性不足的群体的历史，一旦确定为什么这么少的学生进入IT职业计划，外展工作正在修改，以招募代表性不足的学生进入IT计划，并正在开发额外的支持机制，以提高学生成功完成计划的机会。知识价值：该项目的一个特点是它在多大程度上建立在现有的倡议和伙伴关系的基础上。从设计到实施，从评估到传播，该项目建立在其他ATE项目和中心的工作基础上。来自企业和中学合作伙伴的重大支持正在创建一个合作项目团队。行业合作伙伴致力于提供资源，以促进有效和具有成本效益的沟通;赞助和参加职业意识活动;为许多学生提供目前无法获得的现代仪器和新技术;帮助将当前的行业标准和21世纪世纪工作场所能力纳入课程;提供演讲者并促进旨在吸引代表性不足的学生的信息会议;并促进实地考察和行业图尔斯参观。该项目通过提供中学教师培训、利用商业伙伴关系为学生提供21世纪世纪工作场所经验和尖端仪器以及使课程与行业标准相一致来改善学生的学习。这一项目的目的是在拟议活动完成后实现制度化。更广泛的影响：该项目的核心是促进能够满足重大IT劳动力需求的多样化技术劳动力。该项目促进和建立合作关系，以实现多样性的目标，该项目的结果很可能在其他机构广泛适用。目前正在利用可在万维网上查阅的数字项目组合传播项目成果。