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. 

Due to COVID-19, many states have been under quarantine orders, causing many technical college campuses to be closed and faculty and staff to work remotely from home. Read more about how this is currently affecting our program as well.

Congratulations to Cohort 7 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 2020 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. 

Sian Proctor, PhD, a geoscience professor for more than 20 years at South Mountain Community College in Phoenix, Arizona, and current Mentor-Connect mentee, has been selected for Inspiration4. The three-day mission aboard a SpaceX rocket this autumn will be the first by an all-civilian crew of four.