Ellen Hause is the associate vice president for academic and student affairs with the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC). She is the principal investigator on AACC’s Advanced Technological Education (ATE) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Hause serves as the project director for AACC’s MentorLinks program, which provides mentoring and technical assistance to community colleges seeking to develop or strengthen STEM programs as well as manages the national Community College Innovation Challenge (CCIC) and the annual ATE PI Conference. She serves as a member of the Partners Council for New America's Accelerator for Community Colleges in the Innovation Economy, a strategic initiative launched by New America and the U.S. National Science Foundation to support community college capacity-building for emerging technology workforce development and tech-based economic development partnerships.