HSCC KickStarter: Providing Hispanic-Serving Community Colleges with Technical Assistance to Improve their Federal Funding Competitiveness

HSCC KickStarter：为西班牙裔社区学院提供技术援助，以提高其联邦资助竞争力

• 批准号: 1450661
• 负责人: Caroline VanIngen-Dunn
• 金额: $ 179.98万
• 依托单位: Science Foundation Arizona
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-10-01 至 2019-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1450661&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: HSCC; KickStarter; Providing; Hispanic; Serving

The HSCC KickStarter project will provide Hispanic-Serving Community Colleges (HSCCs) with technical assistance to improve their readiness and competitiveness for federal grant programs in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. HSCCs have large enrollments of Hispanic and low-income students and are therefore important partners for increasing the participation of diverse individuals in STEM education programs and careers. Many HSCCs have not been successful in securing federal grant projects, which is often attributed to the lack of infrastructure at HSCCs to develop and implement large federal grants. This project will increase the numbers of HSCCs that successfully pursue federal grants, particularly from the National Science Foundation, ultimately increasing recruitment and retention in STEM through enhancements to these institutions' STEM curricula, strengthening ties to industry and community partners, and developing robust articulation pathways to four-year STEM programs. The KickStarter project will provide intensive technical assistance to 10-15 HSCCs. In addition, all community colleges in the country will have an opportunity to benefit from access to the tools, materials, and lessons learned through KickStarter webinars and conference presentations.The KickStarter team will implement an innovative and comprehensive technical assistance model designed to address the issues associated with the HSCCs' low level of success in submitting and securing federal STEM grant proposals. According to the proposers, the issues most often cited in reviews of declined federal proposals include the lack of readiness to conceive, justify, and execute complicated projects. The KickStarter technical assistance model will address these issues by developing a "Readiness Framework" in collaboration with the HSCCs. The framework will be based on institutional self-evaluation of student support services, industry engagement, and technology and curricular alignment. This framework will guide the development of STEM proposals that demonstrate capacity for project implementation and align with the institutional mission and STEM education goals of the HSCC. The KickStarter team has expertise in building community college partnerships with industry and community organizations, and deep knowledge of and experience with federal grant programs and grant management. This project has the potential to become a technical assistance model for other minority-serving community colleges, such as two-year Historically Black Colleges and Tribal Colleges.

HSCC Kickstarter项目将为西班牙裔服务社区学院（HSCC）提供技术援助，以提高其在科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）领域的联邦赠款计划的准备和竞争力。 HSCC有大量的西班牙裔和低收入学生入学，因此是增加不同个人参与STEM教育计划和职业的重要合作伙伴。许多HSCC并未成功地确保联邦赠款项目，这通常归因于HSCCS缺乏基础设施来开发和实施大型联邦赠款。该项目将通过增强这些机构的STEM课程，加强与行业和社区合作伙伴的联系，并为四年的STEM计划开发强大的发音途径，从而增加成功追求联邦赠款的HSCC数量，尤其是来自国家科学基金会，最终增加了STEM的招聘和保留。 Kickstarter项目将为10-15 HSCC提供大量技术援助。此外，该国的所有社区大学都将有机会通过Kickstarter网络研讨会和会议演讲中学到的工具，材料和经验教训。Kickstarter团队将实施一个创新且全面的技术援助模型，旨在解决与HSCCS在提交联邦STEM赠款方面取得成功水平的低水平相关的问题。根据提议者的说法，联邦提议评论中最常提到的问题包括缺乏构思，正当和执行复杂项目的准备。 Kickstarter技术援助模型将通过与HSCC合作开发“准备就绪框架”来解决这些问题。该框架将基于对学生支持服务，行业参与以及技术和课程一致性的机构自我评估。该框架将指导STEM提案的发展，这些建议证明了项目实施能力并与HSCC的机构使命和STEM教育目标保持一致。 Kickstarter团队在与行业和社区组织建立社区大学合作伙伴关系方面具有专业知识，并对联邦赠款计划和赠款管理的深入了解和经验。该项目有可能成为其他少数派服务社区大学的技术援助模型，例如两年历史上的黑人学院和部落学院。