Community Colleges in the Evolving STEM Education Landscape Summary of a Summit (2012) / Chapter Skim
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. 1The remainder of this chapter is based on the introductory remarks made at the sum mit by George Boggs, president emeritus, American Association of Community Colleges; Barbara Olds, acting deputy director, Directorate for Education and Human Resources, National Science Foundation; Jane Oates, assistant secretary, Employment Training Ad ministration, U.S.
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RATIONALE FOR THE SUMMIT Given the increasing importance of community colleges in the U.S. STEM education system, the National Research Council of the National Academies and the Carnegie Academy for Science Education of the Carnegie Institution for Science hosted the Summit on Community Colleges in the Evolving STEM Education Landscape on December 15, 2011.2 The event was hosted by the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, DC, with support from the National Science Foundation (NSF)
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They serve as models of excellence for STEM education in an increasingly global economy and in educating a highly prepared technical workforce. To organize the summit, a planning committee was appointed by the chair of the National Research Council and charged with a Statement of Task (see Box 1-1)
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The project will commence with a planning meeting in spring of 2011 to plan the summit and to discuss how program units of the National Academies, both individually and collectively, can best contribute to federal initiatives on community colleges in the future. This activity will be conducted as a collaboration among the Board on Higher Education and Workforce, the Board on Life Sciences, the Board on Science Education, and the Teacher Advisory Council of the National Research Coun cil, and the Engineering Education Program Office of the National Academy of Engineering.
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Other programs at NSF, both in the Education and Human Resources directorate and in other directorates, also fund community college work, facilitate transitions for students among educational institutions, and support research in volving community colleges. At the summit, Jane Oates, assistant secretary of the Employment Training Administration at the U.S.
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Participants listened to each other, reflected on new ideas and insights, learned about pressing issues, and thought about how those issues affect their own domains. As George Boggs, former president of the American Association of Community Colleges, a member of the NRC's Board on Science Education, and the chair of the summit organizing committee, said in his concluding remarks, "This summit is the start of something that will be beneficial for all of our institutions, for our students, and for the country."
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The academic and corporate agendas for STEM education that enable students to advance from two-year to four-year degrees in these fields and the need to offer programs that propel students toward specific careers in STEM are not always well aligned. In general, the dual role of community colleges to educate students for careers and matriculation in four-year programs is a continuing tension for community colleges.
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In October 2010, the Obama Administration held a summit on community col leges at the White House organized by Jill Biden, the wife of Vice President Joseph Biden and an adjunct professor of English at Northern Virginia Community College. At that summit, President Obama called community colleges the "unsung heroes" of American education and emphasized the critical role they play in sustaining the nation's competitiveness.
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