Collaborative Research: EPIIC: Colleges Aligning Resources to Elevate Education and Regional STEM (CAREERS) Workforce

该项目是杰斐逊学院（MO）和奥隆学院（CA）的合作项目。通过提高机构能力，该项目将使社区大学能够扩大其对新兴创新生态系统的研究和合作机会的影响，这已经超出了他们的范围。为了促进研究发展，奥隆学院和杰斐逊学院正在共同努力建立能力基础设施，以帮助他们的机构和其他类似的机构在研究和创新方面支持进一步的参与和获得校外研究资金。由于创新生态系统中教育机构、行业和其他组织之间的合作关系在每个地区都是独特的，因此开发的劳动力模型可以潜在地适用于加强区域创新生态系统的定制合作。这项合作有以下基础设施和能力建设目标：a)建立和加强资助和资助的研究基础设施，包括培训资助探索和发展的教师；b)发展和扩大与行业和教育合作伙伴的关系；c)与四年制学院和大学合作伙伴建立研究途径，以创造跨机构的本科生研究机会。杰斐逊学院的能力建设基础设施将包括实施一个强有力的拨款管理系统，通过商业和行业领导团队（BILT）机制加强行业联系，以及与四年制研究机构开发研究培训途径。对于Ohlone来说，这将包括推广生物技术项目以更好地吸引当地合作伙伴，增加与工业、社区和教育合作伙伴的合作研究能力，以及制定招聘和留住多样化学生群体和未来生物技术劳动力的战略计划。由该项目开发的最佳实践赞助研究工具箱可以作为全州和全国其他社区学院的模板共享。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。

This project is a collaboration between Jefferson College (MO) and Ohlone College (CA). By increasing institutional capacity, this project will allow community colleges to expand their reach to the research and collaborative opportunities of the emerging innovation ecosystem, which has been out of their scope to date. To enable research development, Ohlone College and Jefferson College are working together to create the capacity infrastructure that will help their institutions and other similar institutions to support further engagement and attainment of extramural research funding in research and innovation. Because the partnerships between educational institutions, industry, and other organizations in the innovation ecosystem will be unique for each locale, the developed workforce model can potentially be adapted for customized collaborations that strengthen regional innovation ecosystems. This collaboration has the following infrastructure and capacity building goals: a) building and strengthening a grants and sponsored research infrastructure including training faculty in grant exploration and development, b) developing and expanding relationships with industry and educational partners, and c) establishing research pathways with 4-year college and university partners to create inter-institutional undergraduate research opportunities. The capacity building infrastructure for Jefferson College will include implementing a robust grants management system, bolstering industry connections through business and industry leadership team (BILT) mechanisms, and developing research training pathways with 4-year research institutions. For Ohlone, this will consist of branding the biotech program to better attract local partners, increasing research capacity for partnerships with industry, community, and educational partners, and developing a strategic plan for recruitment and retention of a diverse student body and future biotechnology workforce. The best practice sponsored research toolbox developed by this project could be shared with other community colleges as a template across the state and nationally.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.