Conference: TRACK 1 - Strengthening the Community College Pathway to Baccalaureate Engineering

作为社区学院领导人和美国工程教育协会（ASEE）之间的伙伴关系，该项目旨在扩大参与，提高不同学生的成功，特别是代表性不足的少数民族。该项目将召开一次社区学院管理人员、工程学院和工程技术学院的会议，其目标如下：1）确定阻碍社区学院学生成功获得学位的障碍和最佳做法;（二）建立社区学院专业人员工作组，继续研究在此期间出现的具体工程教育挑战。会议; 3）更好地将社区学院的领导和教育工作者融入ASEE广泛的成员和资源网络; 4）扩大ASEE的多样性认可计划（ADRP），以包括社区学院，认识到他们独特的优势和需求。这次会议是今后以虚拟方式和在亚欧会议国家会议上举行更多会议的前奏。作为社区学院领导人和美国工程教育协会（ASEE）之间的伙伴关系，该项目旨在扩大参与，提高不同学生的成功，特别是代表性不足的少数民族。该项目将召开一次社区学院管理人员、工程学院和工程技术学院的会议，其目标如下：1）确定阻碍社区学院学生成功获得学位的障碍和最佳做法;（二）建立社区学院专业人员工作组，继续研究在此期间出现的具体工程教育挑战。会议; 3）更好地将社区学院的领导和教育工作者融入ASEE广泛的成员和资源网络; 4）扩大ASEE的多样性认可计划（ADRP），以包括社区学院，认识到他们独特的优势和需求。这次会议是今后以虚拟方式和在亚欧会议国家会议上举行更多会议的前奏。 会议将于2023年秋季在印第安纳波利斯的常春藤科技社区学院校园举行。为了最大限度地扩大规模和影响，这一努力的重点是更大的社区学院系统或多校区学院，拥有多名教师和至少100名学生在工程预科，工程或工程技术课程。本次会议将产生以下产品：1）一个物理和电子社区连接工程和工程技术社区学院教师的计划，以支持增强学生的学习和转移的成功，特别注意人口在工程和工程技术中代表不足;（二）一个物理和电子社区的计划，连接社区大学管理人员，支持工程和工程技术学院更有效的教学，以及作为招聘/保留更多样化的教师; 3）一个计划，激励和承认社区学院的承诺，并成功地多样化他们的学生和教师群体，包括参与ADRP计划;和4）的方法该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过以下方式予以支持：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。

As partnership between community college leaders and the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), this project aims to broaden the participation and increase the success of diverse students, particularly under-represented minorities. This project will convene a conference for community college administrators, engineering faculty and engineering technology faculty with the following goals: 1) identify the obstacles which prevent and best practices that promote diverse community college students to successfully navigate pathways to degree attainment; 2) establish working groups of community college professionals to continue to work on specific engineering education challenges that surface during this conference; 3) better integrate community college leadership and educators into ASEE’s extensive network of members and resources; and 4) expand ASEE’s Diversity Recognition Program (ADRP) to include community colleges recognizing their unique strengths and needs. This convening is the precursor for additional future meetings to be held virtually and at ASEE national conferences. As partnership between community college leaders and the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), this project aims to broaden the participation and increase the success of diverse students, particularly under-represented minorities. This project will convene a conference for community college administrators, engineering faculty and engineering technology faculty with the following goals: 1) identify the obstacles which prevent and best practices that promote diverse community college students to successfully navigate pathways to degree attainment; 2) establish working groups of community college professionals to continue to work on specific engineering education challenges that surface during this conference; 3) better integrate community college leadership and educators into ASEE’s extensive network of members and resources; and 4) expand ASEE’s Diversity Recognition Program (ADRP) to include community colleges recognizing their unique strengths and needs. This convening is the precursor for additional future meetings to be held virtually and at ASEE national conferences. The conference will be held in the fall of 2023 on Ivy Tech Community College’s campus in Indianapolis. To maximize scale and impact, the focus of this effort is on the larger community college systems or multi-campus colleges with multiple faculty and at least one hundred students in pre-engineering, engineering, or engineering technology programs. This conference will produce the following products: 1) a plan for a physical and an electronic community linking engineering and engineering technology community college faculty in support of enhanced student learning and transfer success with particular attention to populations underrepresented in engineering and engineering technology; 2) a plan for a physical and an electronic community linking community college administrators in support of more effective teaching by engineering and engineering technology faculty as well as recruitment/retainment of more diverse faculty; 3) a plan for incentivizing and recognizing community college commitment to and success at diversifying their student and faculty populations including participation in the ADRP program; and 4) a plan for continuing conversations towards the reimagining of engineering and engineering technology at a national level.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.