NY HSI STEM Hub
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.
