TY - JOUR
T1 - The Road to Strengthening Two-year Hispanic-Serving Institution Participation in the NSF ATE Funding Program
AU - Pickering, Cynthia Kay
AU - Craft, Elaine L.
AU - VanIngen-Dunn, Caroline
AU - DeWitt, Emery
AU - Roberts, Richard H.
N1 - Funding Information:
HSI ATE Hub is a three-year collaborative research project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) that joins two successful programs. Mentor-Connect mentors 2-year college faculty to develop competitive proposals for the NSF Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Program, and KickStarter facilitates strategic STEM assessment and planning to drive competitive STEM proposal development at 2-year Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs).
Funding Information:
Project Manager and Co-PI for Mentor-Connect, an outreach initiative for the South Carolina Advanced Technological Education (SC ATE) Center of Excellence, which is funded by NSF and housed at Florence-Darlington Technical College in Florence, SC. I started as Project Manager for another FDTC NSF-funded project (the National Resource Center) in March 2016 and became Project Manager for Mentor-Connect In April 2018. Prior to my Project Manager positions, I was Program Coordinator for the FDTC Educational Foundation for six years. I received my Bachelor of Arts in Public Relations and Sociology from Clemson University.
Publisher Copyright:
© American Society for Engineering Education, 2021
PY - 2021/7/26
Y1 - 2021/7/26
N2 - HSI ATE Hub is a three-year collaborative research project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) that joins two successful programs. Mentor-Connect mentors 2-year college faculty to develop competitive proposals for the NSF Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Program, and KickStarter facilitates strategic STEM assessment and planning to drive competitive STEM proposal development at 2-year Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs). The goal of HSI ATE Hub is to build capacity and leadership at 2-year HSIs for developing competitive ATE proposals to elevate 2-year HSIs as drivers of their community's economic success via technician education. Data sets from three annual HSI ATE Hub Cohorts, four prior KickStarter Cohorts, and nine Mentor-Connect Cohorts have been aggregated to assess the following research questions about 2-year HSIs: 1. Are there unique opportunities/barriers/challenges related to STEM program development and grant-writing endeavors for advanced technological education? 2. How do we build capacity to pursue the opportunities and address the barriers/challenges? 3. How do mentoring efforts/styles related to STEM program development and grant-writing need to differ for HSI faculty? 4. What types of resources are relevant to the HSI ATE Community? This third paper in a series will report new data and incremental results from Year 3 of the HSI ATE Hub and a summary of results from the prior two years [1] [2]. These results include interactions with the HSI ATE community through intentional, expanded engagement to enhance learning from Latinx Advisory Council members and training webinars to develop educators' acumen of culturally responsive instruction and high impact practices. Feedback from interviews and surveys with faculty at 2-year HSIs in HSI ATE Hub Cohorts 1-3 will be discussed to address research questions 1, 2, and 3. Evolved staging of resources relevant to the HSI ATE Community and related research directions for extending the project will address research question 4.
AB - HSI ATE Hub is a three-year collaborative research project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) that joins two successful programs. Mentor-Connect mentors 2-year college faculty to develop competitive proposals for the NSF Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Program, and KickStarter facilitates strategic STEM assessment and planning to drive competitive STEM proposal development at 2-year Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs). The goal of HSI ATE Hub is to build capacity and leadership at 2-year HSIs for developing competitive ATE proposals to elevate 2-year HSIs as drivers of their community's economic success via technician education. Data sets from three annual HSI ATE Hub Cohorts, four prior KickStarter Cohorts, and nine Mentor-Connect Cohorts have been aggregated to assess the following research questions about 2-year HSIs: 1. Are there unique opportunities/barriers/challenges related to STEM program development and grant-writing endeavors for advanced technological education? 2. How do we build capacity to pursue the opportunities and address the barriers/challenges? 3. How do mentoring efforts/styles related to STEM program development and grant-writing need to differ for HSI faculty? 4. What types of resources are relevant to the HSI ATE Community? This third paper in a series will report new data and incremental results from Year 3 of the HSI ATE Hub and a summary of results from the prior two years [1] [2]. These results include interactions with the HSI ATE community through intentional, expanded engagement to enhance learning from Latinx Advisory Council members and training webinars to develop educators' acumen of culturally responsive instruction and high impact practices. Feedback from interviews and surveys with faculty at 2-year HSIs in HSI ATE Hub Cohorts 1-3 will be discussed to address research questions 1, 2, and 3. Evolved staging of resources relevant to the HSI ATE Community and related research directions for extending the project will address research question 4.
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M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85124557132
SN - 2153-5965
JO - ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
JF - ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
T2 - 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference, ASEE 2021
Y2 - 26 July 2021 through 29 July 2021
ER -