2009 Grantees
View 2008 Davis Educational Foundation Grantees
| Boston Consortium for Higher Education Needham, MA Cost Containment Initiatives $300,000 over three years Project Leader: Phillip DiChiara Support for collaborative programs that strengthen the business practices and improve the cost efficiency of member schools. |
| Boston University Boston, MA Developing a Culture of Assessment for Interdisciplinary Learning $150,000 over two years Project Leader: Gillian Pierce Support to train faculty to use electronic portfolios to assess student learning outcomes. |
| Bowdoin College Brunswick, ME The Expanded Role of Assessment $101,700 over three years Project Leader: James Higginbotham To implement an assessment of the new, six-part general studies curriculum and academic support services. |
| Colby-Sawyer College New London, NH A Center for Teaching Enrichment $165,000 over three years Project Leader: Jean Eckrich To support faculty learning communities, a teaching certificate program, and a series of teaching and leadership development activities. |
| College of the Atlantic Bar Harbor, ME Sustainable Business: A New Focus Area at College of the Atlantic $143,805 over two years Project Leader: Jay Friedlander Support for sustainable business education courses for students interested in profit and/or non-profit enterprises. |
| Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium Newington, CT eMedia Learning Resources Collaboration $75,000 over one year Project Leader: Diane Goldsmith To create and pilot multimedia curriculum segments addressing specific problem areas in writing, mathematics and information literacy. |
| Dartmouth College Hanover, NH Re-envisioning Composition: Assessment, Knowledge Transfer, and Emerging Literacies $200,000 over three years Project Leader: Christiane Donahue To redesign the first year writing program to foster greater transference of learning and to incorporate a broader range of communication formats. |
| Endicott College Beverly, MA Center for Teaching Excellence $58,000 over two years Project Leader: Dakin Burdick To support discipline-based learning communities and teaching and learning grants for faculty. |
| Fairfield University Fairfield, CT Institutionalizing a Culture of Integration and Assessment $200,000 over three years Project Leader: Larry Miners To support cross-course curriculum development and assessment around five integrative themes and departmental peer reviews of teaching and curriculum. |
| Lasell College Newton, MA Increasing Academic Challenge through Research across the Curriculum $85,700 over three years Project Leader: Jim Ostrow Support to build on the College's educational philosophy of 'connected learning' by integrating undergraduate research throughout the curriculum. |
| Lyndon State College Lyndonville, VT Strengthening the Practice of Assessment, Accountability, and Improvement $200,000 over three years Project Leader: Donna Dalton To support faculty in assessing student learning outcomes through rubrics, redesigning curriculum, and connecting learning outcomes with institutional outcomes and performance indicators. |
| Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts North Adams, MA Assessment-Driven Instruction and Learning $225,100 over three years Project Leader: Cynthia Brown To create a comprehensive system of assessment by centralizing and coordinating resources and support. |
| Mitchell College New London, CT Achieving Student Success Through Engaged Teaching $189,004 over two years Project Leader: Peter Love Support for a new center for teaching excellence to assist faculty in developing the pedagogical practices shown to promote academic success for non-traditional learners. |
| Mount Ida College Newton Centre, MA Creating a Culture of Assessment to Improve Learning $204,000 over two years Project Leader: Deborah Hirsch To develop a systemic process to assess student learning outcomes and to use the results to inform practice. The project will pilot e-portfolios in two academic programs. |
| Norwich University Northfield, VT Faculty Learning Community $121,760 over two years Project Leader: Joseph Byrne To develop and deliver a one-semester blended course on teaching and learning for new tenure-track faculty. |
| Providence College Providence, RI Fostering a Culture of Student Engagement $250,000 over three years Project Leader: Charles Haberle Support of a comprehensive campus-wide program to increase student engagement in learning. |
| Rhode Island College Providence, RI Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning $187,826 over three years Project Leader: Ronald Pitt To provide institutional support to faculty as they adapt to a more diverse student population and pursue a broader range of pedagogical and assessment practices. |
| Southern Vermont College Bennington, VT A Laboratory Approach to Learning in a 4 x 4 Curriculum $200,000 over three years Project Leader: Albert DeCiccio Support to move from a three credit hour to a four credit hour curriculum and to develop a collaborative problem-based approach to learning across all fields of study. |
| Tufts University Medford, MA Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching $110,066 over two years Project Leader: Linda Jarvin Support for the Faculty Fellows Seminar to help faculty learn and apply techniques to enhance student learning. |
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| University of Massachusetts Dartmouth North Dartmouth, MA Blended Learning for the Improvement of Student Learning $210,401 over three years Project Leader: Jeannette Riley A program of faculty training and support to redesign courses using both traditional and online learning methods. The project will also produce a repository of reusable learning objects. |
| University of New England Biddeford, ME Integrating Effective Writing Instruction into the Core Curriculum $100,000 over two years Project Leader: Stine Brown To fully integrate effective writing instruction into the new core curriculum, departments and academic support structures. |
| Wheelock College Boston, MA Establishing General Education 'Integrative Learning' Courses $54,000 over two year Project Leader: Julie Wollman Support to create new multi-disciplinary courses within the General Education Program. |
Total Grants:$3,831,362 |
Additional Project Examples
In addition to our grantee listings, we have provided links to the National Center for Academic Transformation's Pew-funded Program in Course Redesign. We offer these examples of initiatives that improve teaching and learning and reduce costs to share well-documented projects consistent with the Foundation's objectives and not as an endorsement of any one program or approach.
- Overview
and Analysis
This link provides an overview of each of the three rounds of the Program in Course Redesign (PCR) and an analysis of what was learned from the perspective of the program staff. The analyses compare the pedagogical and cost reduction techniques used by each round as well as the implementation issues they encountered. - Final
Reports
View the final reports for each of the 30 PCR projects. - Summary
Charts
View the charts summarizing the actual cost savings achieved by the 30 PCR projects in comparison with their projected savings.