Mentor-Connect leaders welcomed faculty-led teams from 23 two-year colleges when they launched support of a ninth cohort of mentee colleges during a virtual meeting on December 2. 

Sian Proctor, a geoscience professor at South Mountain Community College in Phoenix, Arizona, and current Mentor-Connect mentee, made history on September 15, 2021, launching into space as a member of the first all-civilian mission Inspiration4 on a three-day mission aboard a SpaceX making history as the first Black female to pilot a spacecraft.  

Congratulations to Cohort 8 Mentees on their new NSF ATE funding award to support their college technician programs! We are so proud of the faculty who took part in our successful mentorship from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Advanced Technological Education (ATE), Mentor-Connect project.

Each year, Mentor-Connect conducts live technical assistance webinars to help prospective grantees complete various sections of their New-to-ATE proposals. Read more to see a complete listing of our 2021 archived webinars, including tutorials, and miscellaneous older webinars.

The Mentor Fellows internship program is an activity of the Mentor-Connect: Leadership Development and Outreach for ATE-2 project (DUE #1501183). The Co-Mentor program is a new addition to the Mentor-Connect project that was added this year to help prospective grantees in their discipline in tandem with a Mentor-Connect Mentor. 

Mentor-Connect and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) Center for Community College Advancement are offering the webinar “Everything you Ever Wanted to Know about Getting an NSF ATE grant, But Didn’t Know Whom to Ask” at 1 p.m. on Thursday, July 29.

The SCATE Center and Mentor-Connect: A Leadership Development & Outreach Initiative for ATE at Florence Darlington Technical College is proud to announce it has received a $107,000 NSF ATE sub-award grant, in partnership Westchester Community College (NY) and Arizona State University.