Mentoring to Support Designing and Launching of New Data Science Career Pathways at Community Colleges

该项目旨在加强社区学院教师设计和推出新数据科学课程的能力。该项目包括教育发展中心的海洋数据研究所与邦克山、辛克莱和诺曼代尔社区学院之间的合作。这一合作关系将支持拥有现有数据科学项目的机构的教师，以指导希望建立自己的项目的机构。导师将指导学员评估当地行业需求和制定课程。该项目解决了建设国家熟练数据劳动力的能力的需求，以填补数据科学和数据分析领域越来越多的工作岗位。该项目将培训导师，与来自四个被指导机构的教师分享他们在开发数据项目方面的经验。导师将指导学员领导机构努力：1)对学院的数据项目开发资产进行自我评估；2)制定和实施创建新的数据项目的战略计划；3)与雇主合作，确定在当地行业取得成功所需的工作任务的优先顺序；4)使课程和课程符合当地行业的技能需求；5)为新的数据项目建立广泛的内部支持；以及6)为学院的课程委员会制定新的项目提案。数据海洋研究所将维持一个专业的学习社区，在整个过程中为导师和被辅导者提供支持，并将他们与从高级技术教育MentorLinks和Mentor-Connects项目中学到的最佳做法联系起来。导师们将每月会面，制定计划，讨论挑战，分享成功经验。导师和被辅导者将相互访问对方的机构，让大学教职员工和行政人员参与事实调查和解决问题的对话。导师和学员将每年在ATE年度高影响力技术交流会议之前会面，以参与专业发展、计划和解决问题。该项目将部署资源，支持接受指导的机构发展数据科学项目。这些资源也将向公众广泛提供。外展和传播工作将针对将从这些信息中获益最多的社区大学。该项目有可能使社区大学能够扩大努力，持续和及时地培训下一代数据工作者。该项目由NSF的高级技术教育计划资助，该计划专注于为推动我国经济的高科技领域培养技术人员。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project aims to strengthen the capacity of faculty in community colleges to design and launch new data science programs. The project includes a partnership between Education Development Center's Oceans of Data Institute, and Bunker Hill, Sinclair, and Normandale Community Colleges. The partnership will support faculty from institutions with existing data science programs to mentor institutions that want to establish their own programs. The mentors will guide the mentees in assessing local industry needs and establishing curricula. The project addresses the need to build the capacity of the nation's skilled data workforce to fill the growing number jobs in data science and data analytics. This project will train mentors to share their experiences in developing data programs with faculty from four mentee institutions. The mentors will guide mentees to lead institutional efforts to: 1) Conduct a self-assessment of their college's data program development assets; 2) Develop and implement a strategic plan to create a new data program; 3) Work with employers to prioritize work tasks required to achieve success in local industries; 4) Align courses and curriculum with local industry skill demand; 5) Establish broad, internal support for the new data program; and 6) Develop a new program proposal for their college's curriculum committee. The Oceans of Data Institute will maintain a professional learning community to support mentors and mentees throughout this process, and link them to best practices learned from the Advanced Technological Education MentorLinks and Mentor-Connects projects. Mentors will meet monthly to plan, to discuss challenges, and to share successes. Mentors and mentees will visit each other's institutions to engage college faculty and administrative staff in fact-finding and problem-solving conversations. Mentors and mentees will meet annually in advance of the ATE annual High Impact Technology Exchange Conference to engage in professional development, plan, and problem-solve. The project will deploy resources to support mentee institutions in their pursuit of developing data science programs. These resources will also be made widely available to the public. Outreach and dissemination efforts will target community colleges that would most benefit from this information. The project has the potential to enable community colleges to scale-up efforts and train the next generation of data workers in a sustained and timely manner. This project is funded by NSF's Advanced Technological Education program, which focuses on the education of technicians for the high-technology fields that drive our nation's economy.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.