Mentor-Connect: Leadership Development and Outreach for ATE-2

社区大学的先进技术教育项目正面临着与他们的商业和行业合作伙伴一样，由退休、知识转移和领导力发展带来的挑战。Mentor-Connect项目通过让先进技术教育（ATE）项目中现有的和有经验的项目负责人担任导师，并为新的和潜在的ATE受助人提供系统的指导服务，以培养下一代先进技术教育的领导者，并为国家科学基金会（NSF） ATE项目带来更广泛的影响，从而解决了这些挑战。最终，先进的技术教育项目和与之合作的行业将在美国各地受到影响和改善。佛罗伦斯-达林顿技术学院将与美国社区学院协会（AACC）合作，创建、实施和评估一个用于领导力发展和知识转移的再生指导系统，旨在扩大ATE项目的影响。该项目将由参与屡获殊荣的IBM公司全球指导计划的人员指导，并将利用ATE项目社区内的人才来应对一个共同且日益增长的挑战：知识转移，为下一代STEM教师领袖做好准备。此外，该项目将支持：1)增加与大学和在ATE项目中未被充分代表的人群的接触和竞争性提案，2)导师和潜在和现任首席研究员（pi）使用的技术援助和在线资源，3)扩展和更广泛地利用现有的ATE资源，4)聘请成功的ATE pi作为导师，5)对该指导系统进行为期8年的纵向研究。除了作为领导力发展和知识转移的模型，适用于社区大学和其他NSF项目之外，该项目还将评估并向广大受众传播其发现，并在此过程中，为指导潜在的受助人提供资源，并有效地吸引两年制大学和STEM教师，这些教师在地理和人口上在ATE项目中代表性不足。为美国各地的STEM技术教育培养未来人才。

Advanced technological education programs in community colleges are facing the same challenges created by retirements and the need for knowledge transfer and leadership development as their business and industry partners. The Mentor-Connect project addresses these challenges by having current and experienced project leaders in the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Program serve as mentors and develop systematic mentoring services for new and prospective ATE grantees to develop the next generation of leaders in advanced technological education and achieve broader impacts for the National Science Foundation (NSF) ATE program. Ultimately, advanced technological education programs and the industries they partner with will be impacted and improved across the United States.Florence-Darlington Technical College, in partnership with the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC), will create, implement, and evaluate a regenerative mentoring system for leadership development and knowledge transfer designed to broaden the impact of the ATE Program. The project will be guided by personnel involved with the award-winning IBM Corporation Global Mentoring Program, and it will leverage talent within the ATE project community to meet a common and growing challenge: knowledge transfer to prepare the next generation of STEM faculty leaders. Additionally, the project will support: 1) an increase in engagement with and competitive proposals from colleges and populations underrepresented in the ATE program, 2) technical assistance and online resources for use both by mentors and prospective and current Principal Investigators (PIs), 3) expansion and broader utilization of existing ATE resources, 4) engagement of successful ATE PIs as mentors, and 5) an 8-year, longitudinal study of this mentoring system. In addition to serving as a model for leadership development and knowledge transfer adaptable for use within community colleges and for other NSF programs, the project will evaluate and disseminate its findings to broad audiences, and in so doing, provide resources to guide prospective grantees, and effectively engage two-year colleges and STEM faculty who are underrepresented geographically and demographically in the ATE Program, as they develop future talent for STEM technician education across the US.