HSCC KickStarter: Providing Hispanic-Serving Community Colleges with Technical Assistance to Improve their Federal Funding Competitiveness

HSCC KickStarter：为西班牙裔社区学院提供技术援助，以提高其联邦资助竞争力

• 批准号: 1450661
• 负责人: Caroline VanIngen-Dunn
• 金额: $ 179.98万
• 依托单位: Science Foundation Arizona
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-10-01 至 2019-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1450661&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: HSCC; KickStarter; Providing; Hispanic; Serving

The HSCC KickStarter project will provide Hispanic-Serving Community Colleges (HSCCs) with technical assistance to improve their readiness and competitiveness for federal grant programs in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. HSCCs have large enrollments of Hispanic and low-income students and are therefore important partners for increasing the participation of diverse individuals in STEM education programs and careers. Many HSCCs have not been successful in securing federal grant projects, which is often attributed to the lack of infrastructure at HSCCs to develop and implement large federal grants. This project will increase the numbers of HSCCs that successfully pursue federal grants, particularly from the National Science Foundation, ultimately increasing recruitment and retention in STEM through enhancements to these institutions' STEM curricula, strengthening ties to industry and community partners, and developing robust articulation pathways to four-year STEM programs. The KickStarter project will provide intensive technical assistance to 10-15 HSCCs. In addition, all community colleges in the country will have an opportunity to benefit from access to the tools, materials, and lessons learned through KickStarter webinars and conference presentations.The KickStarter team will implement an innovative and comprehensive technical assistance model designed to address the issues associated with the HSCCs' low level of success in submitting and securing federal STEM grant proposals. According to the proposers, the issues most often cited in reviews of declined federal proposals include the lack of readiness to conceive, justify, and execute complicated projects. The KickStarter technical assistance model will address these issues by developing a "Readiness Framework" in collaboration with the HSCCs. The framework will be based on institutional self-evaluation of student support services, industry engagement, and technology and curricular alignment. This framework will guide the development of STEM proposals that demonstrate capacity for project implementation and align with the institutional mission and STEM education goals of the HSCC. The KickStarter team has expertise in building community college partnerships with industry and community organizations, and deep knowledge of and experience with federal grant programs and grant management. This project has the potential to become a technical assistance model for other minority-serving community colleges, such as two-year Historically Black Colleges and Tribal Colleges.

HSCC Kickstarter项目将为为拉美裔服务的社区学院(HSCC)提供技术援助，以提高它们为科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)领域的联邦拨款计划做好准备并提高其竞争力。HSCC招收了大量西班牙裔和低收入学生，因此是增加不同个人参与STEM教育方案和职业的重要合作伙伴。许多HSCC没有成功地获得联邦赠款项目，这通常被归因于HSCC缺乏基础设施来制定和实施大量联邦赠款。该项目将增加成功获得联邦资助的HSCC的数量，特别是从国家科学基金会获得的资助，最终通过改进这些机构的STEM课程，加强与行业和社区合作伙伴的联系，并制定强有力的衔接途径，实现四年STEM计划的招聘和留住STEM。Kickstarter项目将向10-15个HSCC提供密集的技术援助。此外，全国所有社区大学将有机会从Kickstarter网络研讨会和会议演示中获得工具、材料和经验教训。Kickstarter团队将实施创新和全面的技术援助模式，以解决与HSCC在提交和获得联邦STEM拨款提案方面成功率较低相关的问题。根据提出者的说法，在审查被拒绝的联邦提案时最常提到的问题包括缺乏准备好构思、证明和执行复杂的项目。Kickstarter技术援助模式将通过与HSCC合作开发一个“准备框架”来解决这些问题。该框架将基于对学生支持服务、行业参与以及技术和课程调整的机构自我评估。这一框架将指导制定STEM提案，以显示项目实施的能力，并与HSCC的机构使命和STEM教育目标保持一致。Kickstarter团队在与行业和社区组织建立社区大学合作伙伴关系方面拥有专业知识，并对联邦拨款计划和拨款管理有深入的了解和经验。该项目有可能成为其他为少数族裔服务的社区学院的技术援助模式，例如历史上两年制的黑人学院和部落学院。