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2011 Program Enhancement Grants
The CCCC Educational Foundation funds innovative projects on campus through an annual competitive grant process. Since 1994, the College Foundation has provided over $170,000 in seed money for some 125 different initiatives on campus through this special grant program. The Grants Committee selects innovative, creative and collaborative projects from individuals, groups or departments that enhance a student’s experience and the teaching/learning process.
Priority is given to projects that:
- enhance diversity or our response to diversity;
- support development of technology in instruction and student service;
- improve student success, retention and persistence to commencement;
- engage students in service learning or multi-generational activities, or
- reach out to high schools and potential adult populations, particularly those underserved in education.
Congratulations to the 2011 Enhancement Grant Recipients!
- Sea Change, CCCC’s “Magazine of the Arts” 50th Anniversary Edition-$2,000, Patricia McGraw. Sea Change is an annual publication which showcases students’ best creative writing (short stories, creative non-fiction, and poetry) and artwork (drawing, painting, and photography).
- STEM Speaker Series-$1,500, Eric Arsnov, Kristina Ierardi. The STEM Club and Career Services will collaborate to bring prominent, diverse speakers from Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics industries to campus to promote student interest in STEM career fields. Sparking the interest of women and students of color in particular will be a goal of this series. Presentations will focus on engaging Cape Cod Community College students, but outreach efforts will also be made to local high schools and middle schools to engage younger generations and prospective CCCC students in STEM fields as well. Evening presentations geared toward the broader community will also be developed.
- Student Learning Response System for Information Literacy Instruction-$729, Brenda Collins. A Student Learning Response System will greatly enhance Information Literacy instruction at the College, thereby enhancing students’ chances for success in pursuing academic research by actively engaging them in the learning process. Research has substantiated the value of such systems. The response system proposed for the Information Skills Classroom includes 20 response devices, a receiver, and software which integrates with PowerPoint presentations.
- Honors Colloquium: Listening to the Silenced-$910, Kate Martin. The Colloquium “Listening to the Silenced” is intended to give voice to persons normally not heard due to official or unofficial social and/or government suppression here in the United States and internationally, including victims of domestic abuse, women under control of fundamentalist regimes, and individuals whom societies marginalize. Colloquium students will present a reading of essays from the Afghan Women Writers Project as part of the Spring Play with Your Food series and bring the Clothesline Project to campus. Each of these service learning activities will ensure that the silenced are heard not only by the HON200 students, but by the college community as a whole.
- Online Accuplacer Prep-$2,861, Patricia Allen. The Online Accuplacer Prep project will create tutorial modules to help students refresh their skills so their placement in English courses will be more accurate. The four modules proposed are based on curriculum developed by CCCC faculty through the CVTE Linkage program. These modules will be free for all students and available 24/7
- One College, One Book-$1,000, Jeanmarie Fraser. Common reading projects are used by many colleges to foster reading for pleasure (rather than for a grade), to encourage conversations on important social topics, and to build community among students and staff. This year’s One Book is In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whale Ship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick. The Committee will use the Program Enahncement Grant to fund activities connected with the reading of the book such as a screening of Moby Dick, subsidizing a trip to the New Bedford Whaling Museum, inviting speakers to campus, and sponsoring a whale watch.
- Strengths Development Inventory Training for Academic Support Department-$1,000, Sarah Moon. This project is a leadership training session aimed at better aligning the Academic Support team and other departments toward a shared vision for student services. Departments included are the Tutoring Center, the Math Learning Center, and the Reading and Writing Resource Center. This workshop will illuminate individual working and conflict styles and bring colleagues into group discussion around those styles. The end result will be better working knowledge of one another and a common vision to guide work.
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