It is not just a coincidence.
Community college leaders’ drive for funding from external sources and the learning curve involved in obtaining and managing grants often result in community colleges having more than one competitive federal grant.
The overlap was more than 80 percent in 2013 when staff at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) cross-checked the lists of community colleges with manufacturing or energy-related grants from NSF’s Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training(TAACCCT) program and DOE.
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Data science is an emerging occupation that employs thousands of people without any standard for credentials. In some instances, data scientists have no formal higher education credentials.
Hilary Mason, the chief scientist at bitly, said this is because new technologies have made the cost of entering the field so small. One of the social media services she cited that has developed from the “fundamental reduction in friction” is Dark Sky, a weather forecast app for the iPhone, iPad and Android. It was created by two men using public data from th eNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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Successful community college collaborations with industry do not just flow from a simple request for help.
Effective partnerships take time to develop. They require attentive listening and thoughtful discourse during one-on-one conversations and at industry advisory committee meetings, according to business leaders who partner with public two-year colleges housing Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Centers. The centers, funded by the National Science Foundation, are designed to prepare technicians for careers in advanced technology fields.
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When Kate Denniston highlights successes at community colleges, the deputy director at National Science Foundation points to her own family: Her son earned a culinary arts degree and is now a sous chef, and her daughter has degree in automotive technology, transferred to a four-year college and is currently enrolled in a doctoral program in physics.
Denniston also points to her own experience, citing positive professional collaborations with community colleges when she was a university professor.
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