Strengthening and Supporting the Community College Leadership Role in Advancing STEM Technician Education

先进技术教育（ATE）计划的重点是培养熟练的技术劳动力，以保持美国先进技术产业的全球竞争力，并在过去25年中一直支持这一目标。美国社区学院协会（AACC）一直是并将继续是这一努力的关键合作伙伴，它为该计划与美国社区和技术学院之间提供了直接联系。AACC支持社区大学领导建立和维持STEM项目所需的联系。AACC还为教师提供指导，促进了新的合作，加强了全国的技术人员教育项目。该项目将通过支持ATE首席研究员会议和MentorLinks计划提供的网络和专业丰富来继续这项工作。它还将为社区和技术学院的高级领导人创建一个新的计划，以加强对先进技术教育的理解，并在全国范围内扩大其实施。在这个项目中，AACC的目标是：扩大社区学院领导在推进STEM技术人员教育方面的影响；鼓励更多的社区学院发展和/或加强现有的ate相关项目；创建和支持STEM专业和领导力发展的场所；通过与社区大学校长和高级管理人员的直接接触，支持STEM能力建设；传播ATE项目的价值、资源和成就。项目活动包括组织四次ATE PI会议，扩大AACC成功的MentorLinks计划，使20所社区学院能够开发新的或加强现有的STEM技术人员教育计划。它还将制定和实施一个ATE行政领导参与计划，旨在为社区大学校长和高级管理人员提供点对点的专业发展，以提高对ATE奖励实施和STEM能力建设的认识和支持。该行政领导计划将提供：(1)在AACC年度会议上，ATE校长早餐圆桌会议；(2)为社区大学校长举办研讨会，并提交结果报告，与2020年ATE会议一起举行，重点是确定和分享有前途的战略，以支持在其校园内成功实施ATE奖励；(3)通过研讨会和圆桌会议确定与管理员相关的主题的网络研讨会系列；该项目还将通过项目网站、专题文章、演讲、会议记录和社交媒体传播ATE项目资源、信息和机会；评估项目活动，包括两个旨在加强ATE年度会议的ATE焦点小组；并发表关于AACC的MentorLinks计划的研究结果，该研究是一项2018-2019年的纵向研究，涵盖了该计划在14年期间的影响。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。

The Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program focuses on educating a skilled technical workforce to keep the United States advanced technological industries globally competitive, and has supported this goal for the past 25 years. A critical partner in this effort has been and continues to be the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC), which provides a direct link between the program and US community and technical colleges. The AACC has supported community college leaders to make the connections needed to build and sustain STEM programs. The AACC has also mentored faculty and catalyzed new collaborations that have strengthened technician education programs across the nation. This project will continue this work by supporting the networking and professional enrichment provided by the ATE Principal Investigator (PI) Conferences and the MentorLinks program. It will also create a new program for senior leaders of community and technical colleges, to enhance understanding of advanced technological education and nationally expand its implementation.In this project, the AACC aims to: broaden the impact of community college leadership in advancing STEM technician education; encourage greater numbers of community colleges to develop and/or to strengthen existing ATE-related programs; create and support venues for STEM professional and leadership development; support STEM capacity building through direct engagement with community college presidents and senior administrators; and disseminate the value, resources, and accomplishments of the ATE program. Project activities include organizing four ATE PI Conferences and expanding the AACC's successful MentorLinks program to enable 20 community colleges to develop new or strengthen existing STEM technician education programs. It will also develop and implement an ATE Administrative Leadership Engagement program, designed to provide peer-to-peer professional development for community college presidents and senior administrators, to raise awareness of and support for the implementation of ATE awards and STEM capacity building. This Administrative Leadership Program will offer: (1) ATE Presidents' Breakfast Discussion Roundtables at the AACC's annual convention; (2) A workshop for community college presidents with resulting proceedings report, held in conjunction with the 2020 ATE Conference focused on identifying and sharing promising strategies to support the successful implementation of ATE awards on their campuses; (3) A webinar series targeting topics relevant to administrators, as identified through the workshop and roundtables; The project will also disseminate ATE program resources, information, and opportunities through the project website, feature articles, presentations, conference proceedings, and the use of social media; evaluate project activities including two ATE focus groups designed to strengthen the annual ATE Conference; and publish research findings on AACC's MentorLinks program resulting from a 2018-2019 longitudinal study covering the program's impact over a period of 14 years.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.