Strengthening and Supporting the Community College Leadership Role in Advancing STEM Technician Education

加强和支持社区学院在推进 STEM 技术人员教育中的领导作用

• 批准号: 1838419
• 负责人: Ellen Hause
• 金额: $ 500万
• 依托单位: American Association of Community Colleges
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-08-01 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1838419&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Strengthening; Supporting; Community; College; Leadership

The Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program focuses on educating a skilled technical workforce to keep the United States advanced technological industries globally competitive, and has supported this goal for the past 25 years. A critical partner in this effort has been and continues to be the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC), which provides a direct link between the program and US community and technical colleges. The AACC has supported community college leaders to make the connections needed to build and sustain STEM programs. The AACC has also mentored faculty and catalyzed new collaborations that have strengthened technician education programs across the nation. This project will continue this work by supporting the networking and professional enrichment provided by the ATE Principal Investigator (PI) Conferences and the MentorLinks program. It will also create a new program for senior leaders of community and technical colleges, to enhance understanding of advanced technological education and nationally expand its implementation.In this project, the AACC aims to: broaden the impact of community college leadership in advancing STEM technician education; encourage greater numbers of community colleges to develop and/or to strengthen existing ATE-related programs; create and support venues for STEM professional and leadership development; support STEM capacity building through direct engagement with community college presidents and senior administrators; and disseminate the value, resources, and accomplishments of the ATE program. Project activities include organizing four ATE PI Conferences and expanding the AACC's successful MentorLinks program to enable 20 community colleges to develop new or strengthen existing STEM technician education programs. It will also develop and implement an ATE Administrative Leadership Engagement program, designed to provide peer-to-peer professional development for community college presidents and senior administrators, to raise awareness of and support for the implementation of ATE awards and STEM capacity building. This Administrative Leadership Program will offer: (1) ATE Presidents' Breakfast Discussion Roundtables at the AACC's annual convention; (2) A workshop for community college presidents with resulting proceedings report, held in conjunction with the 2020 ATE Conference focused on identifying and sharing promising strategies to support the successful implementation of ATE awards on their campuses; (3) A webinar series targeting topics relevant to administrators, as identified through the workshop and roundtables; The project will also disseminate ATE program resources, information, and opportunities through the project website, feature articles, presentations, conference proceedings, and the use of social media; evaluate project activities including two ATE focus groups designed to strengthen the annual ATE Conference; and publish research findings on AACC's MentorLinks program resulting from a 2018-2019 longitudinal study covering the program's impact over a period of 14 years.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

高级技术教育(ATE)计划专注于培养熟练的技术劳动力，以保持美国先进技术行业的全球竞争力，并在过去25年里一直支持这一目标。这一努力的一个关键合作伙伴一直是并将继续是美国社区学院协会(AACC)，它提供了该项目与美国社区和技术学院之间的直接联系。AACC支持社区大学领导人建立建立和维持STEM项目所需的联系。AACC还指导了教师，并推动了新的合作，加强了全国各地的技术人员教育项目。该项目将通过支持ATE首席调查员会议和MentorLinks方案提供的联网和专业丰富来继续这项工作。它还将为社区和技术学院的高级领导人创建一个新的计划，以增进对先进技术教育的理解，并在全国范围内推广其实施。在这个项目中，AACC旨在：扩大社区大学领导在推进STEM技术员教育方面的影响；鼓励更多的社区学院发展和/或加强现有的ATE相关课程；创建和支持STEM专业和领导力发展的场所；通过与社区大学校长和高级管理人员的直接接触支持STEM能力建设；以及传播ATE计划的价值、资源和成就。项目活动包括组织四次ATE PI会议，并扩大AACC成功的MentorLinks计划，使20所社区大学能够开发新的或加强现有的STEM技术员教育计划。它还将制定和实施ATE行政领导力参与计划，旨在为社区大学校长和高级管理人员提供点对点的专业发展，以提高对ATE奖项和STEM能力建设的认识和支持。这一行政领导能力计划将提供：(1)在AACC年度大会上举行的ATE校长早餐讨论圆桌会议；(2)与2020年ATE会议一起举办的社区大学校长研讨会，以及由此产生的议事报告，重点是确定和分享有希望的战略，以支持ATE奖项在其校园的成功实施；(3)通过研讨会和圆桌会议确定的、针对与管理者相关的主题的网络研讨会系列；该项目还将通过项目网站、专题文章、演讲、会议议程和社交媒体的使用来传播ATE计划的资源、信息和机会；评估项目活动，包括旨在加强年度ATE会议的两个ATE焦点小组；并发布对AACC的MentorLinks计划的研究结果，该研究是2018-2019年对该计划14年期间影响的纵向研究得出的。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。