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: 1929686
• 负责人: Caroline VanIngen-Dunn
• 金额: $ 64.02万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-08-24 至 2020-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1929686&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项目将为西班牙裔服务社区学院（HSCC）提供技术援助，以提高其在科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）领域的联邦资助计划的准备和竞争力。HSCC有大量的西班牙裔和低收入学生入学，因此是增加不同个人参与STEM教育计划和职业的重要合作伙伴。许多HSCC在获得联邦赠款项目方面并不成功，这通常归因于HSCC缺乏基础设施来开发和实施大型联邦赠款。该项目将增加成功获得联邦赠款的HSCC的数量，特别是来自国家科学基金会的拨款，最终通过增强这些机构的STEM课程，加强与行业和社区合作伙伴的联系，并为四年制STEM课程开发强大的衔接途径，从而增加STEM的招聘和保留。KickStarter项目将向10-15个HSCC提供密集的技术援助。此外，全国所有社区学院都将有机会通过KickStarter网络研讨会和会议演示获得工具、材料和经验教训。KickStarter团队将实施一种创新的综合技术援助模式，旨在解决HSCC在提交和获得联邦STEM拨款申请方面的低成功率相关问题。根据提案者的说法，在对被拒绝的联邦提案的审查中，最常提到的问题包括缺乏构思、论证和执行复杂项目的准备。KickStarter技术援助模式将通过与HSCC合作制定“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。该框架将指导STEM提案的制定，这些提案将展示项目实施能力，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，并对联邦赠款计划和赠款管理有着深入的了解和经验。该项目有可能成为其他少数民族服务社区学院的技术援助模式，如两年制历史上的黑人学院和部落学院。