NY HSI STEM Hub

New York HSI Hub: Building Community College Capacity in Culturally Responsive Professional Development and Grantsmanship NSF Due Award: 2311235

SUNY Westchester Community College Principal Investigator: Dr. Vanessa Smith Morest

Westchester Community College received a $3M grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF Due 2311235) to support the New York HSI STEM Hub, which has a focus on impacting STEM workforce development at 2-year colleges. The New York HSI STEM Hub will contribute new knowledge about transformation of practice across a culturally rich and diverse 2-year HSI community in New York and supports the education of a diverse STEM workforce in the region.

Participating campuses include SUNY Westchester, Rockland, Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Suffolk and Sullivan community colleges as well as the SUNY System Office and CUNY Borough of Manhattan, Bronx, Guttman, Hostos, Kingsborough, and LaGuardia community colleges and CUNY’s System Office.

The proposed Hub intervention builds on previously-funded NSF projects and provides:

  • mentored professional development
  • grantsmanship mentoring
  • participatory action research
  • webinars featuring culturally relevant practices and grantsmanship topics of interest
  • annual regional peer-sharing forums
  • proactive information sharing and communication among an engaged advisory council of participant college leaders.

 

About the New York HSI STEM Hub

Support for the New York HSI STEM Hub Focusing on impacting STEM workforce development at 2-year colleges.

The New York HSI STEM Hub will lead systemic improvements for 14 diverse and highly enrolled New York City area SUNY and CUNY HSI and emerging HSI (eHSI) community colleges with a five-year program of a) professional development in culturally responsive (CR) methods to advance STEM success for Hispanic, Latinx and other underrepresented undergraduate students and b) grantsmanship mentoring to increase the capacity of STEM faculty and colleges to competitively pursue NSF HSI funding to further accelerate CR and related program improvements.

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Arizona State University: Center for Broadening Participation in STEM

Arizona State University’s Center for Broadening Participation in STEM, “Kick Starter” Program, and “Culturally Responsive Instruction Program” are major contributors to this project.

Arizona State University’s Center for Broadening Participation in STEM and the fouder of Mentor-Connect at Florence Darlington Technical College are major contributors to this project.

The NY HSI STEM Hub builds upon the work previously done at SUNY WCC.

NSF Award Search: Award # 2055362 – Collaborative Research: HSI ATE Hub Professional Development for Culturally Responsive Technician Education.
NSF Award Search: Award # 2055362 – Collaborative Research: HSI ATE Hub 2: Professional Development for Culturally Responsive Technician Education HSI ATE Hub program.

Center for Broadening Participation in STEM