“It brings you out of the cornfield,” Ken Ingersoll said of the way MentorLinks enhanced not only the law enforcement program he teaches, but improved several other programs at Kaskaskia College in Illinois. The rural college is using an Advanced Technological Education (ATE) project grant to add geospatial technology instruction across several disciplines.
Bart Gledhill, deputy director of Bio-Link at City College of San Francisco, chats with Lianna Zhao, dean of math, sciences and engineering at Irvine Valley College (California), at last month’s MentorLinks meeting in Washington, D.C.
Editor’s note: This is the first of a three-part series profiling community colleges joining the MentorLinks program this fall and the challenges they aim to tackle.
Ten new MentorLinks colleges embarked this fall on the exciting possibilities of refreshing their technician education programs with help of community college experts in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
The faculty member and administrator on each MentorLinks team recently met their mentor and then got to work refining their project plans during a two-day planning session in Washington, D.C. The annual MentorLinks work sessions are held prior to the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Principal Investigators Conference in order for mentees to learn from and network with educators who have received ATE grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
WASHINGTON — The federal government’s largest investment in apprenticeships will begin in the next few weeks.
Details of the application process for the $100-million American Apprenticeship Grants will be announced next week or in early November, according to Laura Ginsburg, a team leader in the Office of Apprenticeship at the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL).
WASHINGTON — Geospatial technologies may have quietly entered Americans’ lives via smart phones and electronic toll collection systems, but they are part of a revolution that Keith Masback wants people, particularly educators, to pay attention to.
“Geospatial intelligence is fundamentally about exploration, understanding the world around us,” Masback said, explaining that the revolution is due to phenomenal devices that most people previously encountered only in spy novels.
Geospatial intelligence imagery — whether its source is on-the-ground sensors, space satellites or low-flying drones — “goes into almost every aspect of everything we do,” Masback said in his keynote address at the opening of the Advanced Technological Education Principal Investigators Conference on Wednesday.
Kaskaskia College, Eastern Shore Community College (ESCC) and Joliet Junior College.
