The Institutional Impact of the Advanced Technology Education Program on Community Colleges

哥伦比亚大学师范学院社区学院研究中心正在对高级技术教育计划资助的四个中心和六个项目进行案例研究，以提出建议，以加强高级技术教育中心和项目以及它们所在的学院。ATE计划鼓励技术人员教育的变革，特别是在两年制大学。要使这种变化持续和复制，它必须延长到赠款期之后，并在社区大学实现制度化。本研究主要采用定性方法，记录了技术培训项目融入社区学院更广泛活动的程度，以及该项目对阻碍旨在改革和改善技术培训的倡议的潜在障碍的影响。要解决的问题包括项目如何影响两年制大学技术人员和其他人员的教学方法；与工业和商业的合作如何影响这些机构与学院之间的关系；这些项目如何影响与四年制学院订立衔接协议及与中学的关系；以及这些项目如何影响该机构技术和学术人员之间的关系。该研究确定了将项目中产生的活动和改进嵌入学校使命的机制，以及它们如何使教师参与专业发展和用于教育学生的活动。

Project SummaryThe Community College Research Center at Teachers College, Columbia University is performing case studies on four centers and six projects funded by the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Program to develop recommendations to strengthen both the ATE centers and projects and the colleges at which they are housed. The ATE program encourages change in the education of technicians particularly at two year colleges. For this change to be sustained and replicated, it must extend beyond the grant period and achieve institutionalization at the community college. Using primarily qualitative methodologies, the study documents the extent to which the ATE projects have become integrated into the broader activities of the community colleges, and the effects of the program on the underlying barriers known to frustrate initiatives aimed at reforming and improving technician education. Questions to be addressed include how the projects affect the pedagogy of technicians and others in the two year college; how the partnerships with industry and business affect the relationship between those institutions and the college; how the projects affect the development of articulation agreements with four year colleges and relations with secondary schools; and how the projects influence the relation between technical and academic faculty at the institution. The study identifies mechanisms by which activities and improvements generated in the projects are embedded in the missions of the schools, and how they engage faculty in professional development and the activities used to educate students.