Evolving Relationships and Dynamics Between Two- and Four-Year Colleges and Universities: A Summit
Scope of Work
An ad hoc committee will plan and conduct a summit that will feature invited presentations and discussions on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education in two-year higher education institutions and how the changing dynamics between two- and four-year institutions of higher education might offer new educational opportunities for students, institutions, and the nation's workforce.  The summit will include leaders from community colleges, four-year postsecondary institutions, business and industry, and state and federal policymakers, and researchers with expertise in community colleges, student learning, and teaching. The summit will allow these stakeholders to engage in discussions of critical issues in two- and four-year STEM education. Experts will be commissioned to summarize the evidence available in several commissioned papers which will be available prior to the planning meeting and summit. The presentations and discussions from the summit will be synthesized in an individually authored workshop summary.  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 Teacher Advisory Council, Board on Science Education, Board on Higher Education and Workforce, Board on Life Sciences, and the National Academy of Engineering’s Engineering Education Program Office.
Members
Members Bio Sketches
George R. Boggs, Chair, American Association of Community Colleges, San Marcos, CA Thomas R. Bailey, Community College Research Center, Columbia University, New York, NY Peter T. Ewell, National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS), Boulder, CO Linnea Fletcher, Department Chair of Biotechnology, Austin Community College, Spicewood, TX Bridget Terry Long, Harvard University, Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA Judy C. Miner, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, CA Karl S. Pister, University of California (Retired), Lafayette, CA
Upcoming Meetings
December 15	Summit on Evolving Relationships and Dynamics Between Two- and Four-Year Colleges and Universities By invitation only	Agenda (draft)