Mentor-Connect: Leadership Development and Outreach for ATE-3

美国国家科学院、工程院和医学院的一份报告《建设美国的熟练技术劳动力》开篇指出：“熟练技术职业是美国经济的关键组成部分，它被定义为需要在技术领域拥有高水平知识，但不需要学士学位的职业。”美国需要一支拥有适当技能组合的劳动力队伍，以保持竞争力，同时促进更大的创新和促进共同繁荣。”先进技术教育（ATE）计划侧重于熟练技术劳动力的教育，并支持两年制高等教育机构（IHEs）担任领导角色，以支持这一劳动力部门。然而，许多两年制的高等教育工作者并没有利用ATE项目。“导师-联系-3”项目传播对潜在受助者有用的战略和成果；提供独特的资源来指导和有效地吸引那些在地理和人口上代表性不足的教师和机构参与ATE计划，以培养STEM/技术教育的未来人才。Mentor-Connect-3 （M-C-3）扩展了由屡获殊荣的IBM全球指导计划所启发的成功模式。指导、技术支持和资源让新的两年制专业技术人员成为ATE的受助人，以改善技术人员教育。为了促进与ATE的长期合作，为寻求第二次更大资助的新受助人提供指导，第二次机会指导鼓励和支持那些第一次或第二次申请被NSF拒绝的弱势社区学院教师。Mentor-Connect技术援助的基于问题的结构嵌入了领导力发展。同侪辅导将促进知识转移，并帮助培养对经济发展和国家安全至关重要的先进技术教育领域的下一代社区大学教师领袖。积极和有针对性的外展吸引了不同的教师和两年制的高等教育学院加入导师连接和ATE计划。佛罗伦斯-达林顿技术学院与美国社区学院协会（AACC）合作，将实施M-C-3，并提供以下成果：(1)通过知识转移和领导力发展扩大ATE项目影响的再生指导系统；(2)在NSF/ATE项目中，来自服务不足的大学和未被充分代表的人群的竞争性第一和第二提案的参与和提交增加；(3)技术援助和在线资源供导师、所有未来和当前的pi和NSF项目官员使用；(4)一支具有领导才能、多元化的ATE首席研究人员队伍；(5)准备充分、成功的ATE pi，担任Mentor-Connect导师；(6)公布对ATE项目、教师和2年制课程的长期和短期影响。学院。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

A report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, "Building America's Skilled Technical Workforce" begins with "Skilled technical occupations - defined as occupations that require a high level of knowledge in a technical domain but do not require a bachelor's degree for entry - are a key component of the U.S. economy. The United States needs a workforce with the right mix of skills to remain competitive while fostering greater innovations and boosting shared prosperity." The Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program focuses on the education of the skilled technical workforce and supports two-year institutions of higher education (IHEs) in leadership roles to support this workforce sector. However, many two-year IHEs have not taken advantage of the ATE program. The Mentor-Connect-3 (M-C-3) project disseminates strategies and results that are useful to prospective grantees; provides unique resources to guide and, effectively engages those faculty and institutions underrepresented geographically and demographically in the ATE Program to develop future talent for STEM/technician education.Mentor-Connect-3 (M-C-3) expands the successful model that was informed by an award-winning IBM global mentoring program. Mentoring, technical support and resources engage new two-year IHEs as ATE grantees for the improvement of technician education. To stimulate longer-term engagement with ATE, mentoring is provided for new grantees seeking a second, larger grant, and second-chance mentoring encourages and supports vulnerable community college faculty for whom a first or second proposal has been declined by NSF. The problem-based construct of Mentor-Connect technical assistance embeds leadership development. Peer mentoring will facilitate knowledge transfer and help prepare the next generation of community college faculty leaders in advanced technological education fields critical to economic development and national security. Proactive and targeted outreach draws diverse faculty and two-year IHEs into Mentor-Connect and the ATE Program. Florence-Darlington Technical College, in partnership with the American Association of Community Colleges(AACC), will implement M-C-3 with the following deliverables:(1) A regenerative mentoring system that broadens the impacts of the ATE Program through knowledge transfer and leadership development;(2) An increase in engagement with and submission of competitive first and second proposals from underserved colleges and underrepresented populations in the NSF/ATE Program; (3) Technical assistance and online resources for use by mentors, all prospective and current PIs, and NSF Program Officers; (4) A cadre of new, diverse ATE Principal Investigators with leadership skills;(5) Well prepared, successful ATE PIs who serve as Mentor-Connect mentors; and, (6) Publication of long and short-term impacts on the ATE Program, faculty, and 2-yr. colleges.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.