Sustainability: Increasing the Likelihood of a Long-Term Impact by the ATE Program

This 25-page paper, provided by EvaluATE: Evaluation Resource Center for Advanced Technological Education, discusses elements necessary for sustainability, provides a portrayal of a successfully sustained ATE project, and determines how the different sustainability elements are manifesting themselves in ATE projects. Recommendations are also provided to assist the ATE program to improve sustainability for its projects. This paper includes the following sections: The Challenge of Defining Sustainability for the ATE Program, A Literature-Based Sustainability Checklist, A Successfully Sustained ATE Project, A Comparison of the ATE Program to the Sustainability Checklist, Conclusions and Recommendations, and References.