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DUE Division Of Undergraduate Education |
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| Initial Amendment Date: | April 12, 2019 |
| Latest Amendment Date: | April 24, 2019 |
| Award Number: | 1931264 |
| Award Instrument: | Standard Grant |
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Eric Sheppard
DUE Division Of Undergraduate Education EDU Directorate for STEM Education |
| Start Date: | March 29, 2019 |
| End Date: | March 31, 2022 (Estimated) |
| Total Intended Award Amount: | $464,751.00 |
| Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $464,751.00 |
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26455 ROCKWELL CANYON RD SANTA CLARITA CA US 91355-1803 (661)362-3644 |
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26455 Rockwell Canyon Rd Valencia CA US 91355-1988 |
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| NSF Program(s): | Advanced Tech Education Prog |
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| Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.076 |
ABSTRACT
America's two-year colleges (2YCs) educate a large and rapidly growing number of undergraduate students, including many students in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields. The student population at 2YCs has high racial, ethnic, and geographic diversity, making 2YCs critical entry points to STEM careers for students who have been historically underrepresented in STEM disciplines. Although National Science Foundation (NSF) programs that increase representation in STEM are open to 2YCs, 2YC faculty often lack the experience, resources, and institutional support to effectively compete for these program grants. The Advanced Technological Education for 2 Year Colleges (ATE-2YC) project will support meritorious proposal writing among 2YC faculty teams.
The project will convene annual proposal writing workshops and follow-on mentoring for 2YC STEM faculty members. The project design addresses barriers faced by 2YCs seeking participation in the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program. This project builds on previous projects that facilitated 2YCs in preparing meritorious proposals for NSF grant competitions. The workshops and mentoring by experienced ATE principal investigators and faculty who have served as Program Officers in the Division of Undergraduate Education will strengthen faculty and institutional capacity to pursue NSF support. The expected outcomes include an increase in the number of competitive ATE proposals submitted by 2YC institutions and a stronger STEM grant writing culture for 2YCs. Overall, this project will contribute to the national agenda of strengthening the STEM workforce by empowering more STEM faculty and two-year institutions to compete for meritorious NSF awards that can support education innovations.
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.
PROJECT OUTCOMES REPORT
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The key outcome of this project was an increase in the number of competitive NSF ATE Advanced Technological Education) proposals submitted by community college (2YC) faculty through a model that incorporates preworkshop mentoring, a two and a half day mentoring workshop, webinars following the workshop, and continued mentor support throughout the proposal development, writing, proposal submission and negotiation. The project proposal writing component and mentoring by experienced principal investigators increased the knowledge and skills of two-year college STEM faculty at institutions with minimal grant experience, thereby strengthening the personal and institutional ability to pursue other proposal-based projects. Participants learned strategies for institutional investment in pursuit of NSF program grant funding.
Community colleges participating in the mentoring model were from 9 different states in 2019, 7 different states in 2020, and 11 different states in 2021. The project team sought to imbue lessons learned from previous workshops and other mentoring programs to increase the success of each cohort. It is hoped that through this project and the model it has honed, the NSF ATE program will experience growth in participation and that workshop participants will serve as change agents for their institutions with the innovative ideas and teaching pedagogies developed in their mentored projects. For participant colleges awarded ATE grants, this project will result in improved student access to education and acquisition of skills needed to enter the workforce as STEM graduates whose contributions will advance the nation?s economic goals for meeting emerging workforce needs.
The success rate for 2019 was 9 out of 15 (60%) and for 2020 8 out of 14 (57%). Subsequently, two of the 2019 declines were mentored again and were awarded, one in 2019 and one in 2020 bringing the success rate to 11 out of 15 or 73%. One of the 2020 declines was mentored to look to an IUSE submission and was also subsequently awarded bringing that success rate to 9 out of 14 or 64%. For the 2021 cohort, the success rate was 71% with 10 out of 14 of the new proposals receiving negotiation questions and expected to be awarded as of this date 4/12/22.
Last Modified: 04/13/2022
Modified by: Kathleen A Alfano
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