2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

BOARD # 386: J ATE - The Journal of Advanced Technological Education Special Project (DUE ATE 2325500): Lowering Barriers to Publishing for Two-Year College Faculty and Students

Presented at NSF Grantees Poster Session II

The Journal of Advanced Technological Education (J ATE) special project was a one-year pilot funded through NSF’s DUE ATE program (DUE ATE 2325500) whose goal was to build a community of peer-reviewed published authors from technical and community colleges. The “publish or perish” academic aphorism of the 4-year university tenure system does not cross over to community colleges, and community college faculty face many barriers to pursuing scholarship. Two of this project’s objectives that directly impact two-year college faculty were 1) providing new writers with professional development interactions with experienced writing coaches to support them in writing and publishing their work in a peer-reviewed journal and 2) supporting faculty in developing and incorporating lessons into their community college research programs to enable their undergraduate research students to become peer-reviewed published journal authors. These objectives were implemented with two separate programs, called “J ATE Connect” and “J ATE URE” (Undergraduate Research Experience). The pilot focused on publishing in the J ATE journal, but the skills apply to other journals. We report on the successes and lessons learned from these two programs.

Authors

Dr. Peter D Kazarinoff http://orcid.org/https://0000-0002-3482-6164 Portland Community College [biography]

Peter D. Kazarinoff is a full-time faculty member in Engineering at Portland Community College in Portland, OR. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Advanced Technological Education (J ATE). J ATE is the peer-reviewed journal focused on technician education at community colleges. Peter is a co-PI of MNT-EC, the National NSF ATE Center for Micro and Nano Technology. Peter is passionate about helping community college faculty and staff publish their work in peer-reviewed journals like J ATE. In addition to his work on J ATE, Peter is also the voice of the Talking Technicians Podcast, a podcast about working technicians.
Dr. Tanya Faltens http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4035-1908 Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI) [biography]

Tanya Faltens is the Assistant Director of Education and Community Partnerships for the Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN) at Purdue University.
Karen Leung City College of San Francisco
Candiya Mann [biography]

With 25 years’ experience in social science research, program evaluation, survey design, and data analysis, Candiya Mann specializes in helping clients tell their stories with data. She has served as the independent evaluator for over 50 grants, representing over $109 million, across a number of federal agencies (NSF, NIH, DOL, DoED, NOAA, and USDA). She has evaluated dozens of NSF grants, including national centers, resource centers, and projects. Clients range from federal grant recipients to state agencies, community colleges, nonprofit organizations, and private sector firms.
Janet Pinhorn

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