Anne Arundel Community College (AACC) in Maryland contacted STC last week requesting to distribute an RFP to our members. The project at hand involves instructional design, and one of the members of the management team is a former STC member now involved in project management. She commented that she knew STC was the place to go to get the RFP to the most qualified people.
The college is leading the National STEM Consortium (NSC), a collaborative of ten leading community colleges in nine states organized to develop nationally portable, certificate-level programs in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) and to build a national model of multi-college cooperation in the design and delivery of high quality, labor market-driven occupational programs. AACC is searching for a qualified company to develop a series of hybrid courses for each of five technical pathways as well as for its developmental Fast Track Program. Proposals are due to the following address no later than 11:00 AM EST (GMT-5) on 11 January 2013:
Anne Arundel Community College
Purchasing Office
Resource Management Building, Room 107
101 College Parkway
Arnold, MD 21012-1895
A pre-proposal conference will take place on Thursday, 13 December 2012 at 1:30 PM EST (GMT-5) in the Resource Management Building, Room 130, Arnold Campus, for those local to the college. Directions to and around the campus are available at www.aacc.edu.
Download a copy of the RFP here. You can also read their Letter of Solicitation. If you are interested in submitting a proposal, AACC requests you contact Kathy Goodman, the purchasing agent, immediately so she is aware you have a copy of the RFP.
Read more below for excerpts from their RFP and Letter of Solicitation for more details.
Letter of Solicitation
The objective of this Request for Proposal (RFP) is to solicit sealed proposals for a contractor to develop hybrid courses for the National STEM Consortium for each of its five technical pathways as well as for its developmental Fast Track program. Fast Track is remedial education for lower-level learners, enabling these students to get up to speed quickly and prepare to enter a technical certificate program. The NSC has partnered with the Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST) and the Carnegie Mellon University Open Learning Initiative (OLI) for technical assistance, and will be developing all courses in OLI’s Platform+ online learning environment, which features extensive learner analytics and an instructor dashboard.
Request for Proposal
Anne Arundel Community College (AACC) is leading the National STEM Consortium (NSC), a collaborative of ten leading community colleges in nine states organized to develop nationally portable, certificate-level programs in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) and to build a national model of multi-college cooperation in the design and delivery of high quality, labor marketdriven occupational programs. The NSC colleges are: AACC in Maryland; Clover Park Technical College in Washington; College of Lake County in Illinois; Cuyahoga Community College in Ohio; Florida State College at Jacksonville; Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana; Macomb Community College in Michigan; NorthWest Arkansas Community College; Roane State Community College in Tennessee; and South Seattle Community College in Washington. The NSC is funded by a $19.7 million grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL), Employment and Training Administration, Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) Grants Program.
Under this program, the NSC is targeting five high-wage, high-skill STEM pathways: composite materials technology; cyber technology; electric vehicle technology; environmental technology; and mechatronics. In each pathway, the NSC will develop a “best in class”, nationally portable, one-year certificate program that is in demand by employers and can be disseminated quickly and widely to community colleges throughout the United States. These programs will be designed for Trade Assistance Act (TAA) eligible workers in communities directly served by the participating colleges. Upon implementation, the programs will also be accessible to other unemployed and underemployed working adults, at NSC colleges and nationally.