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

一个由经验丰富的ATE首席调查员(PI)组成的团队，与ATE中心和项目PI以及美国社区学院协会合作，正在启动一个用于领导力发展和知识转移的再生指导系统，以扩大ATE计划的影响。有针对性的外展活动正在促进来自服务不足群体和社区大学的技术人员教育工作者的参与，这些社区大学要么没有成功，要么从未收到国家科学基金会的资助。同伴辅导正在促进知识转移，并帮助培养对经济发展和国家安全至关重要的高级技术教育领域的下一代社区大学教职员工。该项目建立在三个成功的试点项目的基础上，这些项目吸引了新的机构参与ATE计划的工作，并改善了ATE项目和ATE中心的成果。Mentor-Connect已经让ATE PI、NSF计划官员、当前受赠者、潜在受赠者、美国国家工程院和IBM公司参与了项目规划。该项目正在交付：*一个以IBM全球指导计划为基准的系统，具有多种创新的指导战略和技术的有效使用；*增加与NSF/ATE计划中代表性较低的大学和人群的接触和竞争性提案；*供导师、未来和现有的PI以及NSF计划官员使用的在线转介、资源和支持服务；*具有领导技能的新的、多样化的首席调查员队伍；*更广泛地利用现有ATE资源；*聘请成功的ATE PI作为导师，回馈ATE计划。

A team of experienced ATE Principal Investigators (PIs), working in collaboration with ATE Center and project PIs and the American Association of Community Colleges, is initiating a regenerative mentoring system for leadership development and knowledge transfer to broaden the impact of the ATE Program. Targeted outreach is facilitating participation of technician educators from underserved groups and from community colleges that have either not been successful or have never received funding from the NSF. Peer mentoring is facilitating knowledge transfer and helping prepare the next generation of community college faculty leaders in advanced technological education fields critical to economic development and national security. This project builds on three successful pilot projects that engaged new institutions in the work of the ATE Program and improved outcomes for ATE projects and ATE Centers. Mentor-Connect has involved ATE PIs, NSF Program Officers, current grantees, potential grantees, the National Academy of Engineering, and the IBM Corporation in project planning. The project is delivering:* A system benchmarked to the IBM Global Mentoring Program with multiple innovative mentoring strategies and effective use of technology;* An increase in engagement with and competitive proposals from colleges and populations underrepresented in the NSF/ATE Program;* Online referral, resources and support services for use by mentors, prospective and current PIs, and NSF Program Officers;* A cadre of new, diverse Principal Investigators with leadership skills;* Broader utilization of existing ATE resources and;* Engagement of successful ATE PIs as mentors who give back to the ATE Program.