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.

先进技术教育 (ATE) 计划的重点是培养熟练的技术劳动力，以保持美国先进技术产业的全球竞争力，并在过去 25 年里一直支持这一目标。美国社区学院协会 (AACC) 一直是这项工作的重要合作伙伴，并将继续成为该计划与美国社区和技术学院之间的直接联系。 AACC 支持社区大学领导建立建立和维持 STEM 项目所需的联系。 AACC 还为教师提供指导并促进新的合作，从而加强了全国范围内的技术人员教育项目。该项目将通过支持 ATE 首席研究员 (PI) 会议和 MentorLinks 计划提供的网络和专业拓展来继续这项工作。 它还将为社区和技术学院的高级领导创建一个新计划，以增强对先进技术教育的理解并在全国范围内扩大其实施范围。在该项目中，AACC 的目标是： 扩大社区学院领导力在推进 STEM 技术人员教育方面的影响；鼓励更多的社区大学开发和/或加强现有的 ATE 相关项目；创建并支持 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直接接触，支持 STEM 能力建设；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，并扩展 AACC 成功的 MentorLinks 计划，使 20 所社区学院能够开发新的或加强现有的 STEM 技术人员教育计划。 它还将制定和实施 ATE 行政领导参与计划，旨在为社区大学校长和高级管理人员提供同行专业发展，以提高对 ATE 奖项和 STEM 能力建设实施的认识和支持。 该行政领导计划将提供： (1) AACC 年会上的 ATE 主席早餐讨论圆桌会议； (2) 与 2020 年 ATE 会议同时举行的社区大学校长研讨会及其会议记录报告，重点是确定和分享有前途的策略，以支持 ATE 奖项在其校园的成功实施； (3) 针对通过研讨会和圆桌会议确定的与管理员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、演示文稿、会议记录和社交媒体的使用来传播 ATE 项目资源、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 AACC MentorLinks 项目的研究结果，该项目是 2018-2019 年纵向研究的成果，涵盖了该项目在 14 年期间的影响。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。