2008 Grantees
View 2007 Davis Educational Foundation Grantees
| Anna Maria College Paxton, MA Center for Teaching Excellence $235,750 over two years To create an on-campus resource to deliver and facilitate pedagogical, curricular, and advising support for faculty. |
| Bentley College Waltham, MA Complex Problems/Creative Solutions $62,000 over two years To infuse the curriculum with a problem that students will study and analyze from multiple intellectual perspectives over the course of their undergraduate studies. |
| Brandeis University Waltham, MA Creating a Consistent Culture of Writing $175,823 over two years To transform the teaching of writing through the systematic application of writing pedagogy into upper-level writing-intensive courses across the curriculum. |
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| Brown University Providence, RI Integrating Primary Document Research into Introductory-Level Classrooms $173,762 over three years To expand an online collection of Aztec documents and corresponding tutorials and promote their incorporation into introductory-level social science and humanities courses in New England. |
| Chester College of New England Chester, NH Bridging Two Cultures: Integrating Art into a Modern Science Curriculum $47,687 over one year To provide science materials and laboratory improvements for a new integrated curriculum that blends art into science courses. |
| Colleges of the Fenway Boston, MA Collaborative for Teaching and Learning $293,189 over three years To establish a professional growth program for faculty at multiple career points, be a resource for faculty collaboration and a center for the study of faculty development and teaching effectiveness. |
| Daniel Webster College Nashua, NH General Education Curriculum Reform $145,690 over two years To create a support structure and provide resources for institutional goals in the core academic program. |
| Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering Needham, MA Faculty Development Modules $102,000 over three years To support cross-disciplinary understanding and interdisciplinary course development through short, intensive course modules created by faculty for faculty. |
| Granite State College Concord, NH Outcomes Assessment and Instructional Development $147,125 over two years To support assessment of student competencies in core and discipline-specific courses and a corresponding series of assessment and instructional development programs for faculty. |
| Green Mountain College Poultney, VT Assessing the Environmental Liberal Arts Program $248,457 over three years To create a system of assessment-driven continuous improvement for the College's general education program. |
| Hampshire College Amherst, MA Wabash National Study of Liberal Arts Education $249,335 over two years To support the inclusion of twelve New England colleges in a national assessment study examining the conditions and practices that promote liberal education outcomes. |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA Bringing Biology Research Software into the Classroom $226,000 over two years To create user-friendly interfaces and curriculum segments enabling undergraduate students to study protein molecules in a 3D environment. |
| Newbury College Brookline, MA Center for Instructional Development $175,000 over two years To assist faculty in adopting pedagogical and technological tools to improve learning outcomes and graduation rates. |
| Quinnipiac University Hamden, CT Critical Thinking and Writing in the Majors $250,000 over three years To expand the current critical thinking and writing approach to learning and writing in the majors. |
| Sacred Heart University Fairfield, CT Multidisciplinary Curricular Modules $80,000 over two years To create a faculty development program for the new integrated multi-disciplinary common core curriculum. |
| Saint Anselm College Manchester, NH Assessment and Faculty Research $217,500 over three years To extend the assessment of student learning outcomes, first implemented in the humanities, to general education and institutional outcomes and to support faculty research in pedagogy and curriculum development. |
| Saint Joseph's College Standish, ME Developing a Culture of Assessment $131,200 over two years To develop institutional and program assessment plans, including the introduction of e-portfolios. |
| Salem State College Salem, MA Transforming Teaching and Learning through Faculty Learning Communities $244,885 over three years To implement faculty learning communities as a means of supporting faculty collaboration, providing teaching resources to faculty, and promoting student engagement in the learning process. |
| Salve Regina University Newport, RI Center for Teaching and Learning $206,000 over two years To deliver a program of faculty and curriculum development supported by integrated technology and assessment resources. |
| Southern Connecticut State University New Haven, CT Teaching Innovation Program - Year 3 $75,000 over one year A program of fellowships and faculty development activities to foster the adoption of effective pedagogy and technology in the classroom and to document improvements in student learning. |
| Stonehill College Easton, MA Community-Based Learning $238,959 over three years To incorporate pedagogically meaningful service experiences into the curriculum. |
| University of Maine at Fort Kent Fort Kent, ME Enhancing Maternal and Neonatal Care Nursing Education $98,851 over one year To incorporate new learning technologies into the nursing curriculum. |
| University of Maine System - Chancellor's Office Bangor, ME Efficient and Cost-Effective Procurement Practices $325,000 over one year To review and re-engineer stand-alone campus procurement practices into a plan for a system-wide technology-assisted procurement system. |
| University of New Hampshire Durham, NH The Cognitive Toolbox $178,790 over three years To assist faculty in incorporating documented learning principles and assessing their impact on student learning. |
| University of Southern Maine Portland, ME The USM Core: The Transition to Excellence in General Education $354,420 over three years Implementation of a redesigned general education curriculum that includes: common experiences for new, continuing, and transfer students; developmentally-sequenced courses; interdisciplinary courses; and integrated curricular and co-curricular experiences. |
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester, MA The Connected Laboratory Project $271,440 over three years To improve student engagement in introductory biology and physics laboratory courses by using digital media to augment procedural instruction and data sharing technology to immediately display student laboratory results. |
Total Grants:$5,013,113 |
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.