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This PowerPoint is an overview of the research process on technician education. It includes types of resources, useful links, and sample reports, projects, and presentations.
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This summary of faculty leadership provided by Mentor-Connect is focused on the role of faculty in grant preparation. It lists the roles and responsibilities of faculty. It also includes a section on traits and attitudes and a section on knowledge and skills of effective faculty leaders.
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This 26-page resource guide written for community college faculty and others in technical education presents information about forming successful partnerships with employers. The resource presents working models, lessons, and frameworks to provide a compact guide for community college faculty and...
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This one-page document created by EvaluATE explains how to create "one-pagers" : single-page documents that summarize evaluation data, findings, or recommendations. These stand-alone documents generally supplement a longer report. One-pagers are good resources for those readers who don't have the...
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Indirect costs are those expenses needed by the college/university to administer a grant. Specifics and the method used to compute those costs vary by institution. This two-page guide provides useful information for both institutions who have a current established Indirect Cost Rate and those...
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This document provides an overview of the ATE program and the importance of focusing on the goals of the ATE program when writing a grant proposal. It gives advice on what pitfalls to avoid. It gives a list of what the ATE program is NOT (for example, STEM education or short-term industry training)....
This template produced by Mentor-Connect addresses how to fill out the ATE Project Description. It goes topic-by-topic and includes an explanation, hints, and examples. For instance, it suggests using a table for the timeline and limiting it to one-third to one-half page.  
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This document from Mentor-Connect gives guidelines for creating college policies and procedures for NSF grantees. The document contains steps for developing procedures for managing grant funding. It contains an excerpt from the PAPPG about Participant Support and an extended example of a college...
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This bundle of documents from EvaluATE contains handouts, checklists, and one-page reports covering the evaluation process from beginning to end. The documents include an outline of the four steps of evaluation, a diagram of the responsibilities of the project team and external evaluator in the...
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This bundle of resources from EvaluATE includes helpful information on working with data for reporting and evaluation purposes. It includes a document on data visualization do's and don'ts, an evaluation question "chart chooser," and a tip sheet on cleaning data in Microsoft Excel. 
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