Open Door, Capacity Building at Yavapai College

提案#HRD-0099125机构：亚瓦派学院首席研究员：肯尼斯·阿博特标题：“门户开放项目”亚瓦派学院服务于亚利桑那州亚瓦派县农村和与世隔绝的小城市人口的需求。该学院正在顺利完成其ADA自我评估目标，以消除物理障碍。然而，在适当形式的教学材料的获取、教育技术、替代教学方法以及获取实验室和实地经验方面，尚未作出相应的努力。该项目的目标是增加农村残疾学生成功地从事SMET职业的人数。一个咨询委员会将提供监督和项目指导，以实现以下目标：开发一个示范方案，创造一个响应残疾学生需求的诱人的农村社区大学环境。开放门户项目将：1.指派一名MMET残疾课程协调员，研究、收集和维护一套特定的替代课程材料和战略，用于使用当前最佳实践的适应、适应和辅助技术的所有入门数学和科学课程。2.培训所有MMET课程领域的残疾大师教师，这些教师将在MMET部门一级进行残疾意识和替代战略培训。纳入兼职教员的问题将通过专门的入门培训、访问内联网资源以及从全职SMET教员中指派一名残疾导师来解决。3.通过创造创新的方式，吸收残疾学生参与持续的研究、实地和实验室活动，并促进学生与当地和地区高科技企业中正在工作的MMET专业人员的接触，为学生提供SMET“动手”体验的方法。这项活动将包括为残疾学生建立SMET夏令营。开放门户项目还将努力增加残疾高中生、退伍军人、重新进入劳动力大军的妇女和有SMET职业期望的美洲原住民的数量。这将通过利用现有三人组和过渡计划在全县范围内的推广活动来实现，以鼓励残疾学生对SMET职业生涯的兴趣。此外，这些外展小组、员工发展活动以及参加暑期计划的津贴，将用于提高高中和大学职业顾问和教职员工的认识。这将提高他们满足残疾学生需求的能力，并促进现有的Yavapai学院基金会为残疾学生和SMET学生提供的奖学金以及SMET夏令营。开放能力建设项目将通过创建一个专门为激发他们的想象力并提供与SMET职业或高级学位挂钩的响应性社区大学体验的计划，提高SMET职业生涯的知名度和对残疾学生的吸引力。项目后的长期目标是利用雅瓦派学院独特的场地和校园宿舍能力，为残疾学生创建一所地区性的SMET磁石学校。

Proposal # HRD-0099125Institution: Yavapai CollegePrincipal Investigator: Kenneth AbbottTitle: "The Open Door Project"ABSTRACTYavapai College serves the needs of rural and isolated small urban populations in Yavapai County, Arizona. The college is well underway toward completing its ADA self-evaluation goals for physical barrier removal. A corresponding effort, however, has not taken place to address access to instructional materials in appropriate forms, educational technology, alternative delivery methodologies and access to laboratory and field experiences. The goal of this project is to increase the number of rural disabled students successfully pursuing SMET careers. An advisory committee will provide oversight and project direction to actualize the following objective: To develop a model program that creates an inviting rural community college environment responsive to the needs of students with disabilities. The Open Door Project will: 1. Assign a SMET disabilities curriculum coordinator to research, gather, and maintain a specific set of alternative curricular materials and strategies for all gateway math and science courses that use current best practices of adaptation, accommodation, and assistive technology. 2. Train disabilities Master Teachers in all SMET curricular areas who will conduct disabilities awareness and alternative strategies training at the SMET department level. The problem of adjunct faculty inclusion will be addressed by specific training at orientation, access to intranet resources, and assignment of a disabilities mentor from the full-time SMET faculty. 3. Develop ways for students to have a SMET "hands-on" experience by creating innovative ways to assimilate students with disabilities into ongoing research, field and laboratory activities and to facilitate student interface with working SMET professionals in local and regional high tech businesses. This activity will include development of a SMET Summer Camp for students with disabilities.The Open Door Project will also work to increase the number of disabled high school students, veterans, women re-entering the workforce and Native Americans with SMET career expectations. This will be accomplished by using the countywide outreach activity of existing TRIO and Transition programs to encourage interest in SMET careers among disabled students. In addition, these outreach groups, staff development activities, and stipends for participation in summer programs, will be used to raise the awareness of high school and college career counselors and faculty. This will increase their competency to address the needs of students with disabilities and promote existing Yavapai College Foundation scholarships for disabled and SMET students as well as SMET summer camps.The Open Door Capacity Building Project will raise the visibility and attractiveness of SMET careers for disabled students by creating a program specifically designed to capture their imaginations and provide a responsive community college experience that articulates into a SMET career or advanced degree. The long-range post-project goal is to use Yavapai College's unique field sites and on-campus dorm capacity to create a regional SMET magnet school for students with disabilities.