Brainstorming sidebars, roundtable discussions and networking over meals animated a recent MentorLinks project meeting where eight community college teams reported on their efforts to develop new STEM technician education programs. “With MentorLinks, mentees gain a…
Eboni Zamani-Gallaher knows that community college STEM educators are working hard to recruit students and more broadly to address gaps in achievement and earnings faced by women and people of color. In her keynote speech…
Student recruitment is an aspect of many of the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) initiatives that the National Science Foundation (NSF) supports with grants to community and two-year technical colleges. ATE educators are aware that career…
The 2022 Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Principal Investigators’ Conference began this week with a virtual session for community college presidents to learn from their peers about how to use ATE grants from the National Science…
A program that helps community college faculty improve their STEM project pitches to obtain National Science Foundation (NSF) grants focused on technician education is widening eligibility to more faculty. https://www.mentor-connect.org/ All two-year college STEM faculty…
Shopping malls may have lost much of their luster for hanging out, but the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, is not your average mall. Each day, about 170,000 people visit the facility, which includes…
Focusing on students’ assets rather than their deficits is a critical aspect of the culturally responsive instructional strategies that seven SUNY Westchester Community College (SUNY WCC) faculty members added to their teaching repertoire this past…
Emerging technology trends are always evident in Mentor-Connect teams’ proposals. This summer, 21 faculty-led teams from two-year colleges are continuing to receive Mentor-Connect mentoring to sharpen their ideas for innovations in technician education fields…
The Community College Innovation Challenge’s (CCIC) evaluation data contain rare 100% ratings. All 12 faculty or college administrator mentors whose student teams qualified as finalists for the 2021competition reported that they would recommend involvement in…
Sharna Jahan Hossain, Dallas Elleman and Sophia Ibargüen are community college alumni from different corners of the country who have something very special in common: participating in the Community College Innovation Challenge (CCIC) has moved…