Please join Nancy Maron, Program Director of Sustainability and Scholarly Communications at Ithaka S&R, and Edward Almasy, Director and Co-PI of ATE Central, for the first webinar in our spring series: Planning, Goal Setting, and Follow-Through.  As we all know, planning and goal setting in terms of grant funded projects may seem obvious: the terms of the grant spell out the aims of the work and its need, the timings and budget. Still, for multi-year grants or projects that are moving into the post-grant phase, setting achievable goals that address both the short and very long term ambitions of the initiative is harder than it looks.

• The #1 secret to increasing the number of women in your classes
• The top three recruitment strategies -- according to the women themselves
• Why changing your thinking isn't enough, and what you can do about it
• The critical thing women want to hear up front that will keep them engaged throughout your course
• 3 simple techniques you can implement tomorrow so your female students will excel in the lab
• Answers to your specific questions during the Live Q&A session

Two social media experts, Mike Quaissaunee (Brookdale Community College and ICT Center Lead) and Gordon Snyder (Consultant, formerly of Springfield Technical Community College and former ICT Center co-lead) will talk us through using social media strategies for promoting your course or program. Using the ICT Center and other college examples as they go through the strategies, they will cover: 

• Facebook Groups for students in a discipline 
• Twitter for a more global reach
• LinkedIn for connecting with alumni and the business community

Register here: http://go.edc.org/STEPWebinarRegistration

• The #1 secret to increasing the number of women in your classes
• The top three recruitment strategies -- according to the women themselves
• Why changing your thinking isn't enough, and what you can do about it
• The critical thing women want to hear up front that will keep them engaged throughout your course
• 3 simple techniques you can implement tomorrow so your female students will excel in the lab
• Answers to your specific questions during the Live Q&A session

 “Small Grants for Institutions New to the ATE Program” is a funding track specifically designed for community colleges that have not had an ATE award within the past 10 years. Like all ATE awards, these projects—up to $200,000 over three years—are required to have an external evaluation that matches the scope of the project. In this webinar, EvaluATE and MentorConnect are teaming up to provide guidance on evaluation to current and prospective recipients of small ATE awards—or anyone tasked with producing a meaningful and useful evaluation for a small-scale project.  We’ll discuss how to design an evaluation that will generate the evidence needed to support claims of project success and set the stage for larger-scale projects in the future.

• The #1 secret to increasing the number of women in your classes
• The top three recruitment strategies -- according to the women themselves
• Why changing your thinking isn't enough, and what you can do about it
• The critical thing women want to hear up front that will keep them engaged throughout your course
• 3 simple techniques you can implement tomorrow so your female students will excel in the lab
• Answers to your specific questions during the Live Q&A session

• The #1 secret to increasing the number of women in your classes
• The top three recruitment strategies -- according to the women themselves
• Why changing your thinking isn't enough, and what you can do about it
• The critical thing women want to hear up front that will keep them engaged throughout your course
• 3 simple techniques you can implement tomorrow so your female students will excel in the lab
• Answers to your specific questions during the Live Q&A session