2007 Grantees
View 2006 Davis Educational Foundation Grantees
| American International College Springfield, MA Center for Academic Success $265,578 over two years To launch a Center for Academic Success to assist faculty in delivering comprehensive developmental advising with coordinated academic support and career services. |
| Bates College Lewiston, ME Implementing the Bates Writing Centered Program $255,000 over three years Student and faculty support systems for new general education writing requirements. The program will provide faculty development, peer writing tutors assigned to first year seminars and upper level courses, a writing center, and professional staff tutors. |
| Castleton State College Castleton, VT Pulling Together: Unifying Castleton State College's General Education Program $100,000 over one year To review and revise the general education program to incorporate core values of sustainability, civic engagement, and service learning. |
| College of the Atlantic Bar Harbor, ME Upgrading Technology to Improve Efficiency and Enhance Student Learning $135,000 over two years To upgrade the enterprise management software to improve data integration and management and provide web access for administrators, faculty, and students. |
| Endicott College Beverly, MA Center for Teaching Excellence $150,500 over two years To expand programs and services that support effective teaching practices. Examples include orientation and mentoring programs for new and adjunct faculty, workshops, discussion groups, and summer institutes to research and design approaches to specific issues and challenges. |
| Fitchburg State College Fitchburg, MA Developing a Culture of Assessment $234,622 over three years To centralize data collection and coordination of assessment across all disciplines. The electronic portfolio-based system will support program level assessment and allow students to monitor and demonstrate progress toward the achievement of learning outcomes. |
| Hampshire College Amherst, MA Center for Teaching $252,980 over two years To engage faculty in the exploration of effective teaching through seminars, presentations, formative feedback, and small grants that encourage the assimilation of institutional data with empirical research on pedagogical practice. |
| Keene State College Keene, NH Instructional Development for Integrative Teaching and Learning $240,000 over three years To continue an institution-wide curriculum revision by expanding the Integrative Studies Program into upper level courses. |
| The Maine Campus Compact Lewiston, ME Departmental Implementation of Service Learning $240,000 over three years To assist fifteen academic departments from campuses in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont as they introduce and improve curriculum, learning environments, faculty development, and incentive systems supportive of service learning. |
| Marine Biological Laboratory Woods Hole, MA Semester in Environmental Science Program $290,000 over three years Support for the seminar and hands-on research based curriculum on the theory and practice of ecosystems science and biogeochemistry. The SES provides individual students from large research universities and small liberal arts colleges an opportunity to work with research scientists at diverse aquatic and terrestrial field sites on Cape Cod. |
| Saint Joseph College West Hartford, CT Teaching, Learning and Technology $113,023 over two years To support faculty in expanding the use of technology in the classroom with goals of improving educational outcomes, exposing students to innovative uses of technology in the educational setting, and preparing students for entrance into the professional fields. |
| Simon's Rock College of Bard Great Barrington, MA The Science Initiative $291,130 over two years To design and implement a new approach to teaching mathematics and science by building on the strengths of the College's general education seminars. |
| Thomas College Waterville, ME Hybrid Science Laboratory $195,356 over one year To develop a unified, hybrid science lab to enhance general education and specialized science curriculum at the undergraduate level. |
| Worcester State College Worcester, MA The Liberal Arts and Science Curriculum $248,000 over three years Implementation of a new liberal arts and sciences curriculum involving course redesign, assessment, first year experience programming, and advising. |
Total Grants:$3,011,189 |
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.