2023-24 Teaching Improvement Grants and Student Success Grants Awarded

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The Cordes Center awards grants to support teaching each academic year. The next grant call will be in spring 2025.

The Wally Cordes Teaching and Faculty Support Center is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2023-24 Teaching Improvement and Student Success Grants.

The Teaching Improvement Grants are funded from the TFSC budget, while the Student Success Grants are administered by the TFSC and funded by Global Campus. This year, 11 different faculty teaching improvement grants totaling $19,762 and eight different faculty Student Success Grants totaling $30,000 were awarded.

As a condition of the grants, recipients are required to share the results of their scholarly projects with faculty colleagues through TFSC programs.

Teaching Improvement Grants

• Scott Biehle
  Meteorological and environmental sensors that will serve as monitoring equipment to determine landscape resilience; Landscape Architecture, $2,000

• Laurie Brady
  Attend the Teaching Professor Conference; Communication, $1,846

• Greg Buchanan
  The creation of audio materials to support the teaching of Cherokee; World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures - $660

• William Doss and Christopher Estepp
  The creation of a secondary level school-based agricultural education curriculum resource library to improve agricultural education; Agricultural Education, Communications and Technology, $2,500

• Kes Efstathiou
  Equipment for a lighting studio for students to use in courses; School of Art, $2,357

• Rachel Fredricksen
  Purchase new bassoon ensemble music; Music, $1,000

• Kenda Grover and Jim Maddox
  Online Learning Consortium Innovate Conference; Counseling, Leadership and Research Methods, $2,500

• Sarah Hixson
  To create a 3D costume collection for students to use, which will be stored and accessed for educational purposes for apparel studies; School of Human Environmental Sciences, $2,500

• Maribeth Latvis
  Strengthening botanical education through a plant teaching collection; Biology, $1,600

• Lynn Meade
  Present at the Lily Conference in Austin, Texas; Student Success, $2,339

• Li Yang and Motoko Miura
  Calligraphy materials for a Chinese/Japanese character writing competition for students; World Languages, Literatures and Cultures, $460

Student Success Grants

• David Fredrick, Annie Doucet and Curtis Maughan
  Creation of manuscript making and knowing workshops and purchase of the Cybyl Language bot project that will allow students to have real-time conversational interactions, in 360-degree interactive environments, with languages typically viewed as "dead": Middle Irish, Old French and Latin; World Languages, Literatures and Cultures, $5,000

• Betsy Garrison
  Purchasing Money Habitudes II for Young Adults materials to embed into financial related undergraduate courses; School of Human Environmental Sciences, $4,007

• Ringo Jones
  Production of a short film for an advanced filmmaking course; Communication, $3,600.

• Cengiz Koparan
  Purchase of unmanned ground vehicle development kits with artificial intelligence sensors, actuators and software components; Agricultural Education, Communication, and Technology, $5,000

• Joomi Lee and Danqi Kai
  Enhancement of interdisciplinary collaboration between communication and arts students by integrating VR/XR technologies into their collaborative class activities, culminating in an immersive virtual exhibition for presenting and archiving student projects; Communication and School of Art, $5,000

• Valentina Morello and Claudia Devich
  Purchase and implementation of new gaming console systems for the curriculum for the Italian language program where students can learn with video games in Italian; World Languages, Literatures and Cultures, $5,000

• Donna Owen
  Purchase of books that equips pre-service teachers in the Master of Arts in Teaching program pursuing English as a Second Language in K-6 schools; Curriculum and Instruction, $450

• Grace Vehige
  Support of an experiential learning course on visual storytelling/photography and editing; Agricultural Education, Communication and Technology, $1,943