When two Georgia professors needed help figuring out a process for increasing the number of skilled machinists to operate complex computer numeric controlled (CNC) machines, they turned to a well-regarded program that provides mentors for expert guidance.
With advice and technical resources from Mentor-Connect, Stuart Rolf and Randall Emert crafted two successful, collaborative grant proposals to theNational Science Foundation‘s (NSF)Advanced Technological Education(ATE) program.
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Editor’s note: This article is an excerpt from ATE@20, a blog profiling stories related to the Advanced Technological Education program at the National Science Foundation.
The 81 college teams in the first four Mentor-Connect cohorts have increased the geographic diversity of colleges submitting proposals to the National Science Foundation’s ATE program.
The selected colleges are in regions in 27 different states where an ATE grant has either never been funded or has not been funded in the past 10 years. Since NSF started the ATE program in 1993, its competitive review process has awarded ATE grants in all 50 states and Puerto Rico. However, many of these grants have gone to colleges in metropolitan areas, and often these institutions have received multiple ATE grants.
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Data breach prevention is a battle, rarely plain and never simple.
For higher education institutions, the Sisyphean aspects of the task are more complex than for industry and business. Two-year colleges have payrolls and vendor contracts like those enterprises. They also have public record and student confidentiality requirements. Colleges must provide open academic environments for learning and accommodate a wide array of mobile phones, laptops, and thumb drives that students, faculty, staff and visitors use on campus and access remotely via college networks.
“Higher education has unique information security challenges because of academic values and the collaborative nature of research and education environments,” Joanna Lyn Grama explains.
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MentorLinks has served as the catalyst for making a long-contemplated biotechnology program at Virginia Western Community College a reality
for 15 students this fall.
MentorLinks is a two-year STEM program improvement initiative that the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) offers with support from the National Science Foundation’s Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program.
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