Welcome to the Summit!
Chronicle of Higher Education, October 10, 2010 http://chronicle.com/article/Obama-Praises-Community/124869/
George R. Boggs, president of the American Association of Community Colleges, said the summit's success would hinge on what happened after the participants left the White House and went back to their day jobs. "I hope this is not just a one-time event," he said, "but that it will affect policy down the road." Chronicle of Higher Education, October 10, 2010 http://chronicle.com/article/Obama-Praises-Community/124869
Goals of This Summit - Examine the evidence base around the changing roles of community colleges in the evolving STEM education landscape in several important areas - Outreach and Partnerships Between Community Colleges and Four-Year Institutions - Transfer Issues for Students from Two- to Four-Year Colleges and Universities - Subjects that can serve as gateways or barriers to college completion (mathematics)
Goals of This Summit - Bring together people from across the higher education system to explore the changing roles of community colleges and their relationships with four- year colleges and universities around issues of improving STEM education - Begin conversations about new opportunities for students, faculty, and institutions that result from new partnerships between 2- and 4-year colleges & universities and in context of other national initiatives - Improvement of undergraduate STEM education (e.g., BHEF, AAU, APLU, AAC&U, HHMI) - Increased attainment and completion in community colleges (e.g., Lumina Foundation, Gates Foundation, College Board)
110 In-Person and 150+ Website Registrants: - Students from Local Community Colleges - Office of Science and Technology Policy, National Science Foundation, Department of Education - State Education Agencies - Private Foundations - Faculty and Administrators from 2 and 4-year Colleges and Universities and K-12 - Business/Industry - Higher Education Organizations
Organizers: - National Academy of Engineering (Catherine Didion, co-PI) - NRC Board on Higher Education & Workforce (Peter Henderson, co-PI) - NRC Board on Science Education (Martin Storksdieck, co-PI) - NRC Board on Life Sciences (Jay Labov, PI) - NRC Teacher Advisory Council (Jay Labov, PI)
Special Thanks To: - Members of the Organizing Committee - George Boggs (Chair, Ret. President and CEO of AACC) - Thomas Bailey (Columbia University) - Linnea Fletcher (Austin Community College) - Bridget Terry Long (Harvard University) - Judy Miner (Foothill Community College) - Karl Pister (NAE, University of California, Berkeley)
Special Thanks To: - NSF’s ATE Program (especially Celeste Carter) - Carnegie Institution for Science (especially Toby Horn) - NRC Project Staff: - Margaret Hilton, Senior Program Officer - Mary Ann Kasper, Senior Program Assistant - Orin Luke, Senior Program Assistant - Cynthia Wei, Mirzayan Policy Fellow, National Academy of Sciences
Logistics: - All breakout sessions will be on this floor (except for session on mathematics education on 1 st floor) - Session is being webcast -available for viewing after the Summit - Web participants : E-mail comments and questions to cwei@nas.edu Subject Heading: SUMMIT WEBCAST QUESTION - Session is being audiotaped for transcription - Use microphones and identify yourself, please . - An Academy report will be published in Spring 2012 - Will be freely downloadable at http://nap.edu
Summit Website: http://nas-sites.org/communitycollegessummit Post-Summit Questions, Contact: Jay Labov (PI) jlabov@nas.edu
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