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Communication lines at the Maricopa Center for
Learning and Instruction (mcli) were buzzing
this fall with questions about Maricopa's
Learning Grants, a new internal grants program that
stresses broad faculty access and zeroes in on one
common outcome: student learning. It seems like
colleagues, anthropologists to zoologists, are anxious to
see if they might participate--and the response has been
a resounding "Yes!"
Having learned plenty about grants processing during
the pilot, the mcli faculty are taking pains to be sure
that the next grant cycle is characterized by fewer
challenges and even more of what worked well. Toward
that end, we thought Forum readers might best be
served by the opportunity to browse a categorized list
of grants funded during the 2000-2001 pilot.
Perhaps you'll see something below that intrigues you
in relationship to your own work or a project you 'd like
to propose. While we can not provide copies of original
grant proposals, the listing includes colleges and the
principal grant contact.
Learning Grants at a Glance 2000-2001
EXPLORING CONCEPTS, METHODS, & RESOURCES
- Wellness Education Week [Health/PE ]/ Linda Crider (GCC)
- Teaching Non-Native Speakers in Multicultural Classrooms and Programs/Bonnie Ehmann (GWCC)
- Going Outside the Box: Exploring Creativity and Learning [Interdisciplinary] / Judy Boschult (PC) & Naomi Story (MCC)
- Learning Communities in Teacher Preparation [Interdisciplinary] / Mary Stewart (MCC) Cultural Resources of the Internet [Humanities] / Bonnie Loss (GCC)
DEVELOPING INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS & MODULES
- FLASH Tutorial [Math] / Tom Foley (GCC)
- Rule Time:Salute to Learning or Calculus:In Pursuit of Learning / Scott Adamson (CGCC)
- Earth Science Image Archive.com / Stan Celestian (GCC)
- Human Physiology Technology Instruction / Jean Revie (SMCC)
- Migration of MTR 270 and MTR 103 from NovaNet to Blackboard [Allied Health] / Charlene Almendarez (GWCC)
- Videography and Digital Images of Interventions for the Physical Therapist / Kirsten Berdahl (GWCC)
- Biology Teaching Modules/Bronwen Steel (GCC)
LEARNING / PILOTING / DISSEMINATING NEW TECHNOLOGIES
AND TEACHING METHODOLOGIES
- Bringing History into the New Century / Pam Petty (CGCC)
- Biotechnology in the Major Course / Pushpa Ramakrishna (CGCC)
- Innovative Developmental Writing Program at Chandler Gilbert Community College / Diane Clark (CGCC)
- Improving Multimedia Integration in the Humanities Classroom / Craig Jacobsen (CGCC)
- Learning Resource Area for PBL / Rosemary Leary (EMCC)
- Promoting Problem Solving Skills [Math] / James Vicich (SCC)
- Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectroscopy Addition to Chemistry Laboratory / John Zikopoulos (MCC)
- Project Adjunct Faculty Institute [Developmental Education] / Pearl Williams (EMCC)
- Professional Development Incentive for Adjunct Faculty [Web-CT; Foreign Language] / Jonelle Moore (MCC)
- Toward Expanded Access and Enhanced Learning Environment: Team-Teaching [Teacher Preparation Program] / James Cervantes (MCC)
- PC Power Review: Developmental English On-Line Writing / udy Haberman (PC)
- Students' Experience in Foundation Mathematics / Alan Jacobs (SCC)
PILOTING / PROMOTING NEW PROGRAMS
- Recruiting and Planning for the New Education Program at the Williams Campus / Brenda Larson (CGCC)
- Maricopa Online Librarian [Faculty Team/Multi-campus] / Shelle Witten (PVCC)
- Mathematics Learning Center / Kate Rozsa (MCC)
- Learning Electronics on Computers / Clifford Heide (SMCC)
SUBJECT SPECIALISTS / GUEST SPEAKERS
- Storytelling Workshop / Lyn Dutson (MCC)
- Understanding Our Connections to Water in the Southwest [Interdisciplinary] / Kim Chuppa-Cornell (CGCC)
- Hope Canyon Presentation [Ecology] / Jay Mitchell (MCC)
- Storytelling is not for Sissies [Multi-campus] / Liz Warren (SMCC)
- Shared Vision: Cooperative Learning in the Two-Year College [Interdisciplinary Writing] / Jim Smith (SMCC)
PERFORMANCES/SPECIAL EVENTS
- Let the Games Begin [Theatre] / Steve Meredith (SCC)
- Student Performance in Carnegie Hall [Music] / Ed Hughes (PC)
- Teaching Excellence for Adjuncts in the 21st Century [Adjunct Faculty Spring Conference] / Warren Mosby (MCC)
- Exploration [Student Conference: Leadership & Mediation] / Margaret Macias (PC)
- Faces of Glendale [Photography; Oral History; NEH continuation] / Dean Terasaki (GCC)
Hot Tips
Many of you have asked about strengthening proposals. The following patterns
from the pilot experience may be helpful.
Characteristics of projects funded:
- Clearly addressed criteria in the Learning Grant Guidelines.
- Clearly demonstrated relationship to student learning.
- Clearly addressed budget reasoning within context of proposal.
Characteristics of projects not funded:
- Faculty Professional Growth/Travel requests.
- Requests for activity within standard college responsibilities (staffing, assessment).
- Requests for activity outside of Learning Grant criteria or without clear relationship to the criteria.
Characteristics of components not funded:
- Stipends for faculty to attend professional development activities.
- Stipends/Contracts for college employees that seemed beyond scope of project.
- Project activities that crossed fiscal years.
An expanded version of this article, including program history and proposal tips, appears at
the Learning Grant web site:
www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/learngrant
For more information about Learning Grants, contact Holly McKinzie Beene,
(480)731-8293, or Bob Galloway, (480)731-8630.
 Holly McKinzie Beene and Bob Galloway, MCLI
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