Annual Report 2007

Grants Awarded from July 1, 2006 - June 30, 2007

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OUTCOMES & ASSESSMENT

Planning Grants for Faculty-Driven Value-Added Assessment Collaboratives

Belmont University and Wagner College
$25,000 over 12 months
Learning By Doing: Assessing the Relationship between Liberal Learning and Experiential Education at two Liberal Arts Comprehensive Institutions

Case Western Reserve University and John Carroll University
$25,000 over 12 months
Effective Approaches to Refining Skills in Oral Communication

College of the Holy Cross, Assumption College, and Saint Anselm College
$22,895 over 12 months
Assessing Students' Moral and Spiritual Growth in Liberal Arts Colleges

Fairfield University, Fordham University, and Georgetown University
$24,858 over 12 months
Assessment of the Jesuit Humanitarian Action Network (JUHAN)

Goucher College, McDaniel College, and Washington College
$25,000 over 12 months
Assessing the Benefits of Multicultural Efforts

Haverford College, Bryn Mawr College, and Swarthmore College
$25,000 over 12 months
Developing Collaborations to Assess and Improve Community-Based Learning within the Tri-College Consortium

Hendrix College, Birmingham Southern College, Millsaps College, and Southwestern University
$25,000 over 12 months
From the Ancillary to the Embedded: Assessing Student Engaged Learning and Curricular Centrality

Rhodes College, Franklin & Marshall College, and Niagara University
$25,000 over 12 months
College/Community Partnerships Consortium: A Planning Grant to Explore Systematic Assessment of the Impact of Community Partnerships on Student Civic Engagement and Learning

Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Bloomfield College, and Monmouth University
$24,993 over 12 months
Connecting Assessment Data to Institutional Change: Using Findings from National Assessment to Inform Pedagogy and Decision Making for Better Learning Outcomes

Seattle University and Gonzaga University
$25,000 over 12 months
A Discourse Approach to Assessment at the Departmental and University Levels

University of Southern California
$24,998 over 12 months
Assessing the Impact of Diversity Courses on Student Learning and Skill Development

Ursinus College and Washington & Jefferson College
$24,990 over 12 months
Diversity of Thought, Diversity in Practice: Assessing Student Learning and Engagement

Grants to Consortia for the Assessment of Educational Outcomes

Appalachian College Association
$25,000 over 6 months
Planning grant to investigate the root causes of students' chronic underachievement in mathematics, to develop interventions that will increase their skills, and to measure the impact of the interventions

Council for Aid to Education
$20,000 over 1 month
Research University Consortium

Council of Independent Colleges
$545,714 over 36 months
Extending the work of the CIC-Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA) Consortium

Grants for Improved Assessment Methods

Indiana University
$97,356 over 12 months
Assessing Deep Approaches to Learning

Marywood University
$68,138 over 24 months
Expansion of the Mission Perception Inventory (MPI) / Design of the Institutional Mission Engagement Index (MEI)

FRESH THINKING

Grants for Working Groups on the Disciplines and Undergraduate Education

American Academy of Religion
$75,000 over 23 months
The Religion Major and Liberal Education

American Economic Association
$74,500 over 24 months
The Purpose and Practice of Economic Education as Related to Liberal Education Goals

American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
$75,000 over 20 months
Evaluation of the Biochemistry / Molecular Biology major as defined by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Center for Hellenic Studies
$74,912 over 13 months
Classics and Undergraduate Liberal Education

Modern Language Association
$74,505 over 20 months
Language, Literature, and Liberal Education

National History Center
$75,000 over 18 months
The History Major and the Undergraduate Liberal Education

Grants for Multi-Institutional Working Groups

Barnard College
$99,900 over 27 months
"Reacting to the Past": A Pedagogy for Curricular Innoation

Georgetown University
$83,867 over 30 months
Defining Social Pedagogies and Their Relevance to Liberal Education

New York University
$65,000 over 27 months
Educating Citizens: Civic Education, Ethics, and the Liberal Arts

Project Pericles
$100,000 over 30 months
Civic Engagement Courses

Skidmore College
$100,000 over 27 months
Engaging Sophomore Students with Deliberative Dialogues: A Pilot Project to Enhance Liberal Learning

Williams College
$97,884 over 29 months
Teaching Big Science at Small Colleges: A Genomics Collaboration

Grants for Special Fresh Thinking Projects

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences
$75,000 over 12 months
Departmental Template Survey

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
$375,000 over 36 months
Business Education and Liberal Learning (BELL) Project

Social Science Research Council
$23,500 over 3 months
Dissemination of "What College Teachers Should Know about the Religious Engagements of Today's Undergraduates"

COLLEGE-COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS

Grants for College-Community Connections Partnerships

Adelphi University
$50,000 over 24 months
Writing and Reading The City

Barnard College
$50,000 over 24 months
HEAF@Barnard: A Pre-College Program

Fordham University
$50,000 over 24 months
The History Makers Program

Sarah Lawrence College
$50,000 over 24 months
Writing for Life: Authenticity and Argument

Vassar College
$50,000 over 24 months
A Vassar-SEO Collaboration

Grants to Community-Based Orgabizations for College Preparation

The Boys' Club of New York
$80,000 over 24 months

Citizens Advice Bureau
$80,000 over 24 months

East Side House Settlement
$80,000 over 24 months

East Harlem Tutorial Program
$40,000 over 12 months

Groundwork
$80,000 over 24 months

Harlem Educational Activities Fund
$80,000 over 24 months

Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America
$80,000 over 24 months

Prep for Prep
$80,000 over 24 months

Sponsors for Educational Opportunity
$80,000 over 24 months

Union Settlement House
$80,000 over 24 months

Additional Grants to Community-Based Organizations

Community for Education Foundation / Overcoming Obstacles
$80,000 over 24 months

Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement House
$15,000 over 12 months

Project Reach Youth
$80,000 over 24 months

NEW ORLEANS

Dillard University
$250,000 over 12 months
Student Scholarships and Faculty Development

Tulane University
$100,000 over 12 months
Consortium Scholars Fund

Xavier University of Louisiana
$100,000 over 12 months
Campus Master Plan

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