#### U. S. Department of Education

***Office of Postsecondary Education***

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#### TITLE V: THE HISPANIC SERVING INSTITUTIONS PROGRAM (84.031S)

PROJECT ABSTRACTS FOR FY 2005 NEW GRANTEES

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

***INTRODUCTION***

***[NEW INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPING GRANTS]{.underline}***

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###### CALIFORNIA

### California State Polytechnic University-Pomona

### Crafton Hills College

*Los Medanos College*

*San Joaquin Delta College*

*Taft College*

*West Hills College*

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### **FLORIDA**

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### Central Campus-Broward Community College

### Miami Dade College-Homestead Campus

*South Campus-Broward Community College*

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### **NEW YORK**

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### Metropolitan College of New York

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### **PENNSYLVANIA**

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### Eastern University Nueva Esperanza

###### PUERTO RICO

### Centro Universitario De Yauco

*John Dewey College-Hato Rey Campus*

*Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico-Arecibo Branch*

*Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez Branch*

*Santa Isabel University Center*

*Universidad Adventista De Las Antillas*

*Universidad Metropolitana-Aguadilla*

*Universidad Metropolitana-Jayuya*

*Universidad Del Turabo-Cayey*

*Universidad Del Turabo-Yabucoa*

**TEXAS**

### Galveston College

*El Centro College*

*Western Texas College*

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#### [NEW COOPERATIVE ARRANGEMENT GRANTS]{.underline}

###### ARIZONA

### Central Arizona College

*South Mountain Community College*

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###### CALIFORNIA

### Citrus College

*Evergreen Valley College*

*Imperial Valley College*

*San Bernardino Valley College*

*Victor Valley College*

*West Los Angeles College*

###### COLORADO

### Adams State College

*Pueblo Community College*

###### FLORIDA

### Central Campus-Broward Community College

*Miami Dade College-Wolfson Campus*

*South Campus-Broward Community College*

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###### ILLINOIS

### Morton College

###### PUERTO RICO

*University of Puerto-Medical Sciences Campus*

###### TEXAS

### El Centro College

### Mountain View College

### San Jacinto Community College North

*South Plains College*

*Texas A&M International University*

*University of Texas-Permian Basin*

###### WASHINGTON

######### Heritage University

#### NEW INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT GRANTS

###### CALIFORNIA

## California State Polytechnic University-Pomona (CPP)

***3801 West Temple Avenue***

## Pomona, CA 91768-2557

*Four-Year Public*

*Project Director: Harold B. Schleifer*

*Phone: (909) 869-3088*

*E-mail: hbschleifer@csupomona.edu*

*Award Amount: \$352,788*

Activity Description:

Strengthening library-based learning through a multimedia library
collection, improved learning technology, and teaching information
literacy - the activity, timed alongside construction of the library
building addition proposes to:

1\. Build a collection that supports the study of Hispanic culture as
well as brings Hispanic perspectives to the curriculum at CPP by adding
at least 5,000 items of books, media materials and electronic resources.

2\. Outfit two computer-based research centers for students and one
videoconference center for faculty development in the new library
building addition.

3\. Implement an information literacy program through a three-tiered
(freshmen, junior & senior, and graduate & credential) Web tutorial.

4\. Establish an endowment fund that provides continued support of the
Hispanic studies collection, maintenance of the learning facilities, and
the information literacy program.

***Crafton Hills College***

***11711 Sand Canyon Road***

## Yucaipa, CA 92307

*Four-Year Public*

*Project Director: Theodore Phillips*

*Phone: (909) 794-2161*

*E-mail: tphillips@craftonhills.edu*

*Award Amount: \$550,000*

Activity Description:

Developmental Education, Support Services, Faculty Development and
Access to Technology - this activity consist of three components. They
are:

1\. **Review, Reconfigure and Develop Curriculum (Developmental
Education)** -Curricula development will include new courses in
Developmental Education, strengthen Math and English gateways, and
curricula for study groups and tutoring.

2\. **Strengthening Academic and Support Services** - An array of
student support strategies will be strengthened, and a *First-Year
Experience* program will be piloted.

3\. **Faculty Development, the Foundation of Learning College** -
provides for in-depth faculty and staff development.

## Los Medanos College

***2700 East Leland Road***

## Pittsburg, CA 94565

*Two-Year Public*

*Project Director: Barbara Austin*

*Phone: (925) 439-2181*

*E-mail: baustin@losmedanos.edu*

*Award Amount: \$549,999*

Activity Description:

**Strengthening Critical Pathways to Success-** this proposed activity
comprises of three integrated components, all of which are critical to
improving the success of Hispanic and other students as they move
through Los Medanos College's Pipeline. They are:

1\. **A Strengthened and Coordinated ESL Program.**

2\. **A 'Critical Pathways' Learning Community Program to Strengthen
Gateway Courses.**

3\. **An Academic Support 'Learning Leadership Center.'**

***San Joaquin Delta College***

***5151 Pacific Avenue***

## Stockton, CA 95207

*Two-Year Public*

*Project Director: Joseph Gonzales*

*Phone: (209) 954-5589*

*E-mail: jgonzales@deltacollege.edu*

*Award Amount: \$550,000*

Activity Description:

The single five-year activity proposes to increase Hispanic student
transfer rates and completion of two-year transferable programs and is
comprised of three major components:

1\. **Instructional and Student Services Intervention** - this component
will strengthen learning assistance through developing learning
communities, advising, mentoring services, and strengthened assessment &
placement. In addition, it will establish a new Mathematics & Science
Learning Center and integrate the Reading and Writing Centers.

2\. **Curriculum Development** - this component includes developing
reading/writing/study skills courses to support student success in
Developmental Bridging English, and Mathematics and Gateway Transfer
Mathematics and Science. Also, it will structure curriculum to form
paired and clustered Learning Communities based on interrelationships
between English (reading, writing, English as a Second Language (ESL)),
Math, and Science and develop Supplemental Instruction.

3\. **Faculty/Staff Professional Development** - this component will
include a broad range of research-based activities including, but not
limited to: teaching to diverse learners, teaching communities, teaching
with technology; learning assistance and structures proven to work with
Hispanic students.

***Taft College***

***29 Emmons Park Drive***

## Taft, CA 93268

*Two-Year Public*

*Project Director: Abel Nunez*

*Phone: (661) 763-7715*

*E-mail: anunez@taft.org*

*Award Amount: \$550,000*

Activity Description:

**Guided Outcomes for Learning Development (GOLD) -** Taft College will
address deficiencies in programs that have the greatest impact on the
success of Hispanic and other under-prepared students. Through this
activity the Taft College ESL Basic Skills, developmental program will
be extensively improved and articulated with feeder high schools'
curriculum, as well as with college level coursework. Internal research
has pinpointed serious problems in this program that adversely affect
student success that have not been addressed to date due to funding
limitations. These specific problems will be addressed
systematically---following recommendations from an internal task force
based upon researched best practices, student input, and community
needs---using the following strategies:

1\. Developing outreach methods to better prepare high school graduates
for college enrollment;

2\. Addressing identified problems with assessment and curriculum;

3\. Integrating more comprehensive and responsive student support
services with instruction; and

4\. Developing a tracking and evaluation capability to support
continuous improvement of student outcomes.

In addition, Taft College will strengthen the capability of the Taft
College Foundation through training and the five-year creation of an
Endowment to provide scholarships and reduce long-term dependence on
inadequate State funds.

***West Hills College***

***9900 Cody Street***

***Coalinga, CA 93210***

*Two- Year Public*

*Project Director: Carole Goldsmith*

*Phone: (559) 934-2131*

*E-mail: carolegoldsmith@westhillscollege.com*

### Award Amount: \$523,255

Activity Description:

This project has two activities. They are:

1\. **Improving Transfer and Retention rates for Rural Hispanic
Students** - this activity will improve student success through transfer
advising, and increase retention by providing access to employment
opportunities and career planning services.

2\. **Strengthening Technology Infrastructure which Supports all Data
Management Systems and Student Electronic Access** - this activity will
improve technology by allowing students greater access to their
electronic records, modernizing electronic support systems, and
troubleshooting electronic data management systems, accesses, and
connectivity problems.

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##### FLORIDA

***Central Campus-Broward Community College***

***3501 Davie Road***

***Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301***

*Two-Year Public*

*Project Director: Ted Wright*

### Phone: (954) 201-7482

*E-mail: twright@broward.edu*

### Award Amount: \$549,981

Activity Description:

**Adelante: Advancing Hispanic Student Success** - through this
activity, the ESL Basic Skills developmental program will be extensively
improved and articulated with feeder high schools' curriculum as well as
with related college level coursework.

This activity also consists of four strategies:

1\. Developing outreach methods to better prepare high school graduates
for college enrollment;

2\. Addressing identified problems with assessment and curriculum;

3\. Integrating more comprehensive and responsive student support
services with instruction; and

4\. Developing a tracking and evaluation capability to support
continuous improvement of student outcomes.

## 

## Miami Dade College-Homestead Campus

## 500 College Terrace

***Homestead, FL 33030***

*Two-Year Public*

### Project Director: Ian Cobham

*Phone: (305) 237-5004*

*E-mail: icobham@mdc.edu*

### Award Amount: \$450,000

Activity Description:

**Viva el Exito Student Success Initiative (VESSI) -** this activity
will improve student success and retention through case management and
other retention services, including a First-Year Experience program:

1\. Homestead Campus's Student Success Center (SSC) will provide
retention programming to all students, including first-year experience
programming for incoming developmental students.

2\. Homestead Campus retention rate will increase from fall to spring by
3 percent annually.

3\. Homestead Campus's retention rate for incoming students will
increase by 10 percent over the base year for incoming freshman cohort.

4\. Homestead Campus will increase the number of Miami-Dade County
Public Schools graduates entering Miami Dade College-Homestead Campus by
ten percent over the base year.

***South Campus-Broward Community College***

***225 East Las Olas Boulevard***

***Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33024***

### Two-Year Public

*Project Director: Ted Wright*

*Phone: (954) 201-7482*

*E-mail: twright@broward.edu*

*Award Amount: \$549,951*

Activity Description:

**"La Lectura Iguala Las Matematicas"-** this activity will address
deficiencies in programs that have the greatest impact on the success of
Hispanic and other under-prepared students: Basic Reading and
Developmental Mathematics. Also, through this activity, South Campus
developmental program will be extensively improved and articulated with
feeder high schools' curriculum, as well as with college level
coursework. In addition, this activity will address the following
strategies:

1\. Developing outreach methods to better prepare high school graduates
for college enrollment;

2\. Addressing identified problems with assessment and curriculum;

3\. Integrating more comprehensive and responsive student support
services with instruction;

4\. Developing a tracking and evaluation capability to support
continuous improvement of student outcomes; and

5\. Documenting the correlation between improved reading skills and
learning outcomes in math.

# NEW YORK

***Metropolitan College of New York***

## 75 Varick Street

***New York, NY 10013***

*Four-Year Public*

*Project Director: Nancy Velazquez-Torres*

*Phone: (212) 343-1234*

*E-mail: nvelazquez-torres@metropolitan.edu*

*Award Amount: \$550,000*

Activity Description:

**Developing Institutional Capacity to Improve Academic Success for
Hispanic and Other Under-prepared Students** - this activity focuses on
development to address identified institutional weaknesses, which
undermine Metropolitan College of New York's founding mission to prepare
disadvantaged adults for leadership positions in human services and its
current mission to increase excellence and accountability in all
programs and services. This activity will develop a new learning
enhancement center, which will provide a wide range of best practice
services on line, and in the center to help students develop their
writing, math and other deficient skills.

###### PENNSYLVANIA

## 

## Eastern University Nueva Esperanza

***4261 N. 5^th^ Street***

***Philadelphia, PA 19140***

*Two-Year Private*

### Project Director: Josephina Sarvabui-Banner

*Phone: (610) 341-5936*

*E-mail: jbanner@eastern.edu*

*Award Amount: \$422,480*

Activity Description:

**Expanding Hispanic Access to Hope** - this activity will allow the
institution to expand its facilities to accommodate the growing Hispanic
students. This activity will allow the institution to build new
classrooms, offices and a Learning Resource Center.

***Eugenio Maria de Hostos Community College***

***500 Grand Concourse***

## Bronx, NY 10451-5323

*Two-Year Public*

*Project Director: Daisy DeFilippis*

*Phone: (718) 518-6660*

*E-mail: ddefiliippis@hostos.cuny.edu*

*Award Amount: \$542,318*

Activity Description:

**Shifting the Paradigm on Teaching and Learning to Improve Student
Success*. ***This activity consists of three activities:

1\. **Integrate and redefine institutional information management
systems** - Hostos will create the Learner, Educator and Administrator
Portal (LEAP), a campus-wide information management system that will
integrate all of Hostos' information management databases, and provide
consistent access so that students, faculty, and administrators are
interacting seamlessly to identify solutions to student educational
challenges.

2\. **Retool student learning supports** - Through the Hostos Academic
Learning Center (HALC), the College will implement a College Preparatory
Academy that will operate during the summer and winter intercessions and
on Saturdays during the academic year. The Academy will provide academic
learning supports to entering freshman and English developmental and ESL
students to fortify basic skills, strengthen college readiness, and
improve academic literacy.

3\. **Increase faculty leadership in curricular revitalization and
innovation on campus** - Faculty will have the opportunity to
participate in a Faculty Development Series where they are competitively
selected to engage in seminars designed to support their development of
curriculum innovations to be implemented on campus.

###### PUERTO RICO

***Centro Universitario De Yauco***

***Calle Santo Domingo Final #29***

***Yauco, PR 00698***

*Four-Year Private*

*Project Director: Ana Santiago*

*Phone: (787) 856-4852*

*E-mail: ue_asantiago@suagm.edu*

### Award Amount: \$536,240

Activity Description:

The institution's activity will address the following components:

1\. Establishment of the **Resource Center for Excellence in Education
(RCEE)** to provide integrated student and academic supplementary
services to CUNY student population through computer assisted systems,
tutoring; academic counseling, mentoring services, personal counseling
and referral services.

2\. Establishment of a **Teaching and Learning Resource Center (TLRC)**:
a facility that will model the learning community instructional approach
through professional development services to the faculty and staff, and
technical assistance to faculty engaged in the GE curriculum
implementation.

3\. Implementation of **twenty revised GE courses** as learning
communities designed to develop an achievement academic culture, which
will emphasize on the development of key competencies; among them:
critical thinking skills, communication skills, quantitative scientific
reasoning, and information literacy and information technology skills.

4\. Hiring with institutional funds **additional full-time faculty** for
teaching Math, English and Spanish GE courses aimed to increase passing
rates and reduce the number of sections taught by part-time faculty.

5\. Retrofit nine **classrooms as smart-classrooms**: computerized
classrooms with access to Web-based resources designed to enhance the
delivery of GE courses addressing students learning styles.

***John Dewey College***

***PO Box 19538***

***San Juan, PR***

*Four-Year Public*

*Project Director: Sonia Cortes*

*Phone: (787) 753-0039*

*E-mail: decanagu@yahoo.com*

*Award Amount: \$500,000*

Activity Description:

This project consists of two activities:

1\. **The Establishment of a Student Developmental Studies and Retention
Program -** the purpose of this activity is to design and establish a
Student Developmental Studies and Retention Program that will integrate
the following components:

-   Three developmental or preparatory courses in Spanish, English, and
    Mathematics,

-   One Introduction to College Life courses,

-   Academic and personal counseling,

-   Tutoring and mentoring

2\. **The Establishment of Four Engineering Technology Associate Degree
Programs and Acquisition of Equipment -** this activity includes the
establishment and offering of four Engineering Technology Associate
Degrees in Civil Engineering Technology in Construction, Environment
Engineering Technology, Electrical Engineering Technology in Electronics
and in Computers. These programs are in high demand from students and
employers.

***Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico-Arecibo Branch***

***P.O. Box 144045***

***Arecibo, PR 00614***

*Four-Year Private*

*Project Director: Vega Lucia*

*Phone: (787) 881-0777*

*E-mail: smowen@E-mail.pucpr.edu*

*Award Amount: \$430,681*

Activity Description:

This project will establish a comprehensive use of new technologies to
improve the basic courses of communication, science and mathematics, in
order to significantly increase the academic achievements of our
Hispanic population. The proposed single activity focuses on exploiting
technology to improve the content and teaching of a variety of academic
programs through the use of technology in four ways:

-   Training the faculty to use technology effectively in the teaching
    learning process,

-   Acquiring experiences in the use of technologies for learning
    through pilot projects,

-   Acquiring equipment and materials and

-   A student support structure to allow students to take advantage of
    the learning potential available.

***Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez Branch***

***P.O. Box 1326***

***Mayaguez, PR 00681***

*Four-Year Private*

*Project Director: Hector Cancel*

*Phone: (787) 834-5151*

*E-mail: ywadm11@yahoo.com*

*Award Amount: \$500,000*

Activity Description:

This project proposes to utilize the rich potential for education
offered by the new technologies to invigorate the learning-teaching
environment in the classroom and the laboratory, through curriculum
enrichment. It also seeks to reinforce the student academic support
structure and related projects in order to significantly increase the
academic success rate of our Hispanic student population. The proposed
single Activity focuses on exploiting technology to provide support for
students, in first and second level courses of high attrition rate. The
project will develop in four areas:

-   Effective faculty training and institutionalization of a permanent
    training program for the faculty in the pedagogical use of
    technology for teaching and related activities and student-centered
    approaches to learning such as constructivism and the incorporation
    of assessment;

-   Development and integration of curricular and co-curricular support
    materials that will become a key factor to improve retention and
    other student outcomes,

-   Develop a comprehensive tutoring program providing several
    modalities of tutoring services including face to face tutoring and
    instructional modules that adequately adapted, will be available
    both off-line an on-line and

-   Improving the technological infrastructure related to those elements
    that support the above-mentioned initiatives of the proposed
    program.

***Santa Isabel University Center (SIUC)***

***P.O. Box 756***

***Santa Isabel, PR 00757***

*Four-Year Private*

*Project Director: Evelyn Ayala*

*Phone: (787) 845-3050*

*E-mail: ue_eayala@suagm.edu*

### Award Amount: \$527,975

Activity Description:

The institution's activity will address the following components:

1\. Establishment of the **Resource Center for Excellence in Education
(RCEE)** to provide integrated student and academic supplementary
services to SIUC student population through computer assisted systems,
tutoring; academic counseling, mentoring services, personal counseling
and referral services.

2\. Establishment of a **Teaching and Learning Resource Center (TLRC)**:
a facility that will model the learning community instructional approach
through professional development services to the faculty and staff, and
technical assistance to faculty engaged in the GE curriculum
implementation.

3\. Implementation of **20 revised General Education (GE) courses** as
learning communities designed to develop an achievement academic
culture, which will emphasize on the development of key competencies;
among them: critical thinking skills, communication skills,
quantitative/scientific reasoning, and information literacy and
information technology skills.

4\. Hiring with institutional funds **additional full-time faculty** for
teaching Math, English and Spanish GE courses aimed to increase passing
rates and reduce the number of sections taught by part-time faculty.

5\. Retrofit **six** **classrooms as smart-classrooms**: computerized
classrooms with access to Web-based resources designed to enhance the
delivery of GE courses addressing students learning styles.

***Universidad Adventista de las Antillas (UAA)***

***P.O. Box 118***

***Mayaguez, PR 00681***

*Four-Year Public*

*Project Director: Dr. Jose Dial*

*Phone: (787) 834-9595*

*E-mail: jdial@uaa.edu*

*Award Amount: \$534,341*

Activity Description:

####### Building Our Future through Program and Facility Improvement - this activity has three primary functions:

1\. To house UAA Language Institute, inclusive of a computerized
language laboratory, thereby facilitating English as a Second Language
(ESL) and Spanish as a Second Language (SSL) instruction for current and
new UAA students resulting in the improved marketability of students in
their chosen profession and an increase in UAA enrollment;

2\. To house new Science Laboratories and multi-media instructional
classrooms thereby facilitating up-to-date instruction in Biology
(General, Advanced, and Anatomy and Physiology), Chemistry (General,
Organic, and Analytical) and allowing for the expansion of high demand
nursing and allied health academic programs.

3\. To accommodate the Academic Support and Tutoring Center to promote
and facilitate the success of UAA students requiring remediation in
English, Spanish, and Mathematics.

***Universidad Metropolitana-Aguadilla***

***P.O. Box 70***

***San Juan, PR 00928***

*Four-Year Private*

*Project Director: Gladys Bonilla*

*Phone: (787) 766-1717*

*E-mail: gladys_bonilla1@yahoo.com*

*Award Amount: \$550,000*

Activity Description:

####### Improving the Success of Hispanic Students in Northwestern Puerto Rico - this activity will improve student success through increased retention by providing expanded student support services, a comprehensive professional development program to prepare faculty to integrate technology into the curriculum, the development of the technological skills of disadvantaged Hispanic students, and the improvement of the teaching/learning process in nursing education through the establishment of up-to-date nursing and science basic skills laboratories. 

***Universidad Metropolitana-Jayuya***

## P.O. Box 1527

***San Juan, PR 00927***

*Four-Year Public*

*Project Director: Gladys Cora*

*Phone: (787) 766-1717*

*E-mail: um_gcora@suagm.edu*

*Award Amount: \$550,000*

Activity Description:

**Increasing the Retention and Success of Rural, Disadvantaged Hispanic
Students in Higher Education -** this activity will improve student
success through increased retention by providing expanded student
support services, a comprehensive professional development program to
prepare faculty to integrate technology into the curriculum, the
development of the technological skills of disadvantaged Hispanic
students and a tracking system to enable appropriate institutional
planning, recruitment and retention strategies.

***Universidad del Turabo-Cayey***

***P.O. Box 9000, Suite 281***

***Cayey, PR 00737***

### Four-Year Private

*Project Director: Juan Rosado*

*Phone: (787) 263-2177*

*E-mail: ut_jrosado@suagm.edu*

*Award Amount: \$444,486*

Activity Description:

This project consists of two activities:

**Strengthening Academic Achievement and Student Retention through the
Development of a Supplemental Instruction Program** - this activity
focuses on strengthening academic achievement and student retention
through improved student support services by providing academic support
to students in high-risk courses in order to increase their success
rates.

**Faculty development in the Use and Integration of Technology to
Classroom Instruction** - the goal of this activity is to increase the
number of teachers adequately trained to use instructional technology,
so that they can integrate technology into the curriculum and classroom
activities.

***Universidad del Turabo-Yabucoa***

***P.O. Box 25***

***Yabucoa, PR 00767***

*Four-Year Private*

*Project Director: Juan J Del Valle*

*Phone: (787) 266-0255*

*E-mail: ut_jdelvalle@suagm.edu*

*Award Amount: \$444,486*

Activity Description:

This project consists of two activities:

**Strengthening Academic Achievement and Student Retention through the
Development of a Supplemental Instruction Program** - this activity
focuses on strengthening academic achievement and student retention
through improved student support services by providing academic support
to students in high-risk courses in order to increase their success
rates.

**Faculty development in the Use and Integration of Technology to
Classroom Instruction** - the goal of this activity is to increase the
number of teachers adequately trained to use instructional technology,
so that they can integrate technology into the curriculum and classroom
activities.

# TEXAS

***Galveston College***

***4015 Ave. Q***

***Galveston, TX 77550***

*Four-Year Public*

*Project Director: Cristina Cardenas*

*Phone: (409) 944-1205*

*E-mail: ccardena@gc.edu*

*Award Amount: \$479,406*

Activity Description:

**Increasing Student Success and Institutional Effectiveness** - This
activity consists of two components:

1\. **Strengthening Developmental and Gateway Courses for Student
Success** - Galveston College will engage in curriculum review and
revision, improve personnel and instructional resources, and ultimately
improve student retention and success by creating a developmental
education program that is responsive to student needs and effective in
its primary goal of successfully remediating our under-prepared
students.

2\. **Strengthening Student Information Systems** - This component will
include the development of an automated Student Tracking System (STS) to
close serious information gaps efficiently and cost effectively and
measure student outcomes, and development of a comprehensive Student
Response System (SRS) to affect student outcomes.

***El Centro College***

***801 Main Street***

***Dallas, TX 75202***

*Two-Year Public*

*Project Director: Felicitas Alfaro*

*Phone: (214) 860-2219*

*E-mail: fxa5541@dcccd.edu*

*Award Amount: \$550,000*

Activity Description:

**Closing the Gaps-Improving Success of First-Year Students -** This
activity has two components:

1\. **Outreach Strategies Designed To Close Participation Gaps** -
strategies proposed to develop new outreach programs to high schools and
the community including: an outreach program to minority males centered
on peer mentoring; development of new informational materials for
targeted groups; development of a Leadership Series; development of
Career Clubs; development of a college entrance prep course; improved
financial aid processes and bilingual financial aid outreach; and
strengthened capacity for Hispanic family involvement in programs and
services.

2\. **Strategies Designed to Close Success Gaps** - strategies include:
re-engineering of the institution's advising program with comprehensive
'Advising Services Review;' training and research in counseling and
advising best practices; creation and training of a Master Cadre of
Faculty Advisors; pilots of the Case Management approach in advising;
and establish advising at West Dallas Center, including case management.
In addition, this component will develop and pilot Summer Bridge
programs and strengthen assessment and testing services, especially for
ESL students and others whom English is not their primary language.

***Western Texas College (WTC)***

***2900 Ave U***

***Snyder, TX 79549***

*Two-Year Public*

*Project Director: Carolyn Osborn*

*Phone: (325) 573-2318*

*E-mail: cosborn@wtc.edu*

*Award Amount: \$484,680*

Activity Description:

**Closing Institutional Gaps to Increase Student Success and Retention
-** This activity is designed to increase student success and retention
through the development of:

-   Accessible quality student support services, interventions, and
    student success strategies to meet the needs of at-risk students;

-   An integrated student tracking system;

-   A comprehensive program to strengthen instruction in developmental
    education and general education for under-prepared learners;

-   A comprehensive faculty and instructional resource development
    program to enable faculty to incorporate a variety of methodologies,
    including multimedia, into the classroom to increase the success of
    diverse learners; and

-   A comprehensive strategy to diversify WTC's financial resources by
    strengthening its fund-raising capabilities.

#### NEW COOPERATIVE ARRANGEMENT GRANTS

##### ARIZONA

## Central Arizona College (CAC)

## 8470 North Overfield RD

***Coolidge, AZ 85228***

*Two-Year Public*

*Project Director: Rosemary Ramirez*

*Phone: (520) 876-1925*

*E-mail: rramirez@centralaz.edu*

*Award Amount: \$599,655*

Activity Description:

**Enhancing the Career Pipeline for Hispanic in Education: Achieving
Student Success Through Transfer Facilitation, Distance Learning, and
Faculty Development** - this activity will attack the unacceptably low
rates at which Hispanic and other low income, rural students persist and
succeed in post-secondary settings. The activity has the following four
components:

1\. **Enhancing the IT infrastructure and technical support services for
distance learning**. By cooperatively designing and maintaining this
system, the two institutions can improve our mutual capacities to reach
out to rural Hispanic and low-income students who have difficulty
accessing education in a traditional setting.

2\. **Strengthening professional development in hybrid instruction (long
distance, Web-enhanced and traditional classroom instruction)**. The
project will introduce and maintain a systematic approach to providing
this professional development. By sharing the professional development,
we will be able to provide it in a cost-effective, efficient manner and
find common solutions to common problems.

3\. **Improving access to education programs that have the most impact
in addressing critical issues within the Hispanic and low-income
populations we serve.** We will use technological and instructional
improvements to enhance access to the CAC's Arizona General Education
Curriculum (AGEC) and to ASU East's Bachelor of Arts in Education. This
strategy will increase opportunities for CAC students to transfer to a
four-year university. It will also enable more minority residents to
become certified teachers in local school districts, where the need for
minority teachers is great.

4\. **Expanding and improving student services.** While we need to
improve the services, as they exist in the traditional "walk-in" format,
we also need to make them available on-line, especially as we develop
distance-learning programs.

***South Mountain Community College***

***7050 S. 24^th^ Street***

***Phoenix, AZ 85042***

*Two-Year Public*

*Project Director: Ken Roberts*

*Phone: (602) 243-8032*

*E-mail: ken.Roberts@smcmail.maricopa.edu*

*Award Amount: \$547,578*

Activity Description:

**Academic Quality -** The project goal of increasing access to
educational opportunities for Hispanic and minority, low-income
populations through a creative partnership in nursing and science-based
education will be achieved through the following objectives:

-   To develop and institutionalize a career pipeline in nursing
    education for bilingual students,

-   To increase the institutional facilities' capacity to offer more
    science-based education,

-   To create alternative strategies for students to obtain the critical
    mathematical skills needed to succeed in gate keeping college-level
    coursework, and

-   To provide resources and instructional strategies for students to
    obtain critical skills needed to succeed in inquiry-based and
    applied science.

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##### CALIFORNIA

## 

## Citrus College

## 1000 West Foothills

***Glendora, CA 91741***

*Two-Year Public*

*Project Director: Laura M. Villegas*

*Phone: (626) 914-8638*

*E-mail: lvillegas@citruscollege.edu*

*Award Amount: \$700,000*

Activity Description:

**Enlightened Cooperative Effort to Develop an Accessible Pathway to
Teaching: No Potential Teacher Left Behind** *-* This proposed
cooperative arrangement agreement will build on the strengths and values
in common between two Hispanic-serving institutions, Citrus College and
University of LaVerne (ULV). Both colleges share strong potential for
working together to provide a much needed and highly effective
intersegmental pathway that enables many Hispanic, and other
underrepresented students in their shared service area to become
teachers. Such a pathway is critically needed and is a high priority for
both Citrus College and ULV. The single Activity project has three
components:

1\. Enlightened Partnerships for Early Readiness Awareness;

2\. Enlightened Partnerships to Develop A More Accessible Pathway for
All Potential Teachers and An Intensive Care Pathway for Students Most
at Risk; and

3\. Enlightened Partnerships to Sustain Development for Continuous
Improvement.

***Evergreen Valley College***

***3095 Yerba Buena Road***

***San Jose, CA 95135***

### Two-Year Public

*Project Director: Richard C. Regua*

*Phone: (408) 274-7900*

### E-mail: Richard.regua@evc.edu

*Award Amount: \$699,994*

Activity Description:

This project has one Activity in three components:

1\. **Strengthening Transition of Hispanic students through critical
gateway classes -** this component addresses low Hispanic rates of
completion of critical gateway courses in Math, Science and English at
Evergreen Valley College. Strategies selected are: to strengthen
instruction for Hispanic students by training a cadre of adjunct faculty
in the methods used by the nationally renowned Enlace Program, which has
a demonstrated record of increasing transition and success rates of the
students it serves. These methods include culturally sensitive
instruction, and a strong emphasis on tying outcomes to assessment.
Enlace has a strong mentoring component, and the strategies used in all
three components reflect that successful method; and peer tutoring,
using students who are trained to be effective and supportive.

2\. **Supporting Hispanic EVC students through transfer to San Jose
State University and increasing numbers of successful transfers.** In
this component, Program staff will work with counselors and faculty at
San José State to weave a support system for Hispanic students as they
transfer, involving transfer counseling, mentoring, and tutoring. This
segment will develop a Summer Bridge Program to help Hispanic transfer
students' work through the various issues that are daunting to far too
many first-generation college students.

3\. **Improving Persistence of Hispanic Transfer Students to Program
Completion.** This component involves extended mentoring and developing
and deploying a tracking system that will allow better monitoring of
student success rates and earlier intervention when needed.

## Imperial Valley College

380 E. Aten Road

***Imperial, CA 92251***

### Two-Year Public

*Project Director: Lianna Zhao*

*Phone: (760) 355-6476*

*E-mail: liana.zhao@imperial.edu*

*Award Amount: \$698,490*

Activity Description:

**Expanding Career Opportunities for Rural Hispanics: New two plus two
(Associate's to Bachelor's) Degree Programs in Imperial County,
California -** this project permanently expands the pipeline to
educational attainment and professional careers for Hispanic and
low-income students through creating two plus two(associate's to
bachelor's) degree programs in computer science and nursing. These new
programs will also meet desperate county needs for computer
professionals and nurses. As a result, economic development and
healthcare will improve in this border county, with its rates of
childhood asthma and tuberculosis that are twice California's rates.

## San Bernardino Valley College

## 701 S. Mount Vernon Avenue

***San Bernardino, CA 92410***

### Two-Year Public

*Project Director: Denise Whittaker*

*Phone: (909) 384-8298*

*E-mail: dwhittak@sbccd.cc.ca.us*

*Award Amount: \$700,000*

Activity Description:

**Strengthening Technology Infrastructure & Resource Development
Capacity -** this activity consists of two components:

1\. **Technology Infrastructure Development -** this component presents
strategies and rationale to: Strengthen delivery and effectiveness of
programs and services through upgrades to the e-mail system supporting
all college employees, students, online services and e-learning; improve
access to technology for students through expanded open computer labs,
creation of a remote site in the mountain communities, expansion of
wireless capability, and lighting the campus parking lots next to
computer labs for evening access and safety; improve the tracking of
service usage through the implementation of a magnetic striped Student
One-Card system; technology training to support the above listed items.

2**. Strengthened Resource Development Capacity -** this component
presents rationale and strategies to: develop grant-seeking capacities
in both the public and private sector; develop capacity to compete for
HSI funds from federal agencies, corporate, private/public foundation
sources; strengthen college foundations through training and board
development, alumni program development, and deferred gifts programs;
develop, increase, and strengthen corporate and community connections;
to improve institutional and funds allocation effectiveness, strengthen
linkages between institutional planning, research, grants and funds
development; increase college endowments to strengthen long-term
stability of institutions.

## Victor Valley College

## 18422 Bear Valley

## Victorville, CA 92392

### Two-Year Public

*Project Director: Willard Lewallen*

*Phone: (760) 245-4271*

*E-mail: lewallenw@vvc.edu*

*Award Amount: \$700,000*

Activity Description:

**Increasing Persistence, Transfer, and Graduation With Collaboration
-** this activity has three components:

1\. **Transform Basic Skills Programs**

-   Increase partners' internal consensus on revised goals of basic
    skills programs

-   Strengthen alignment of basic skills and/or pre-collegiate and
    college-level courses

-   Improve under-prepared students' skills and persistence

2\. **Cohort Communities**

-   Increase course completion, productive grades

-   Increase percent of students declaring major by end of first
    semester and satisfaction with support systems

-   Reduce time to transfer from eight semesters to six by year four.

3\. **Reduce Barriers Tracking System**

-   Increase skills of campuses' ask Force members to reduce pathway
    barriers.

-   Reduce barriers along the academic pipeline, high school

-   Increase complete and appropriate Tracking data fields

## West Los Angeles College

## 9000 Overland Avenue

***Culver City, CA 90230***

*Two-Year* *Public*

*Project Director: Robert Sprague*

### Phone: (310) 287-4325

*E-mail: spragurl@wlac.edu*

*Award Amount: \$694,303*

Activity Description:

**Los caminos hacia el éxito or Pathways for Success -** the proposed
activity offers solutions to the problems that prevent Latino and other
low-income students from moving through the education pipeline and
realizing their career and educational goals. Our project has four
interwoven strands that will:

1\. Support the adaptation of transfer and high-demand professional
degree programs to a hybrid format (blending online, on ground, and
digital broadcast instruction) that will fully articulate with
University of California and California State University (UC & CSU)
systems;

2\. Provide a Web-based portal (Passport) linked with UC & CSU to
support a transparent and seamless transfer process for students;

3\. Provide training in blended learning strategies to increase student
engagement and persistence; and,

4\. Augment teaching, learning with technology, and media-enabled
instructional tools.

###### 

###### COLORADO

## 

## Adams State College

## 208 Edgemont Boulevard

***Alamosa, CO 81102***

*Four-Year Public*

*Project Director: Barbara Media*

*Phone: (719) 587-7936*

*E-mail: bmmedina@adams.edu*

*Award Amount: \$688,235*

Activity Description:

**Enhancing Access and Opportunity for Hispanics via Professional
Development, Expanded Programs and Student Services -** this activity is
designed to attack the problems that prevent too many Hispanic students
from making it through the higher education pipeline to obtain a
bachelor's degree and become a teacher or enter other professions. These
challenges are synergistic and systemic, and are not just of access, but
also of providing quality programs and transfer opportunities to a
historically underserved region. The activity contains four major
dimensions:

1\. A professional development program driven by the highly successful
CELT initiative;

2\. Professional development for faculty in learner-centered pedagogy
and instructional technology;

3\. Expanding access to teacher education programs by distance education
(online and WebCT) and expansion of the Rural Education Access Program
(REAP) model; and

4\. Web-based student services and/or retention services and an Early
Alert System.

***Pueblo Community College (PCC)***

***900 West Orman Avenue***

***Pueblo, CO 81004***

*Two-Year* *Public*

*Project Director: Derek Lopez*

*Phone: (719) 549-3439*

*E-mail: Derek.lopez@pueblocc.edu*

*Award Amount: \$696,841*

Activity Description:

**Improving the Pipeline for Student Success** - this activity will
focus on assisting Latino and other low-income students in moving
towards higher levels of educational attainment and ultimately the
bachelor's degree and to become a teacher or a member of other
professions. This effort is systematic and addresses deficiencies within
the partner institutions that are preventing disadvantaged students from
succeeding academically, from progressing towards higher levels of
education, and from achieving the bachelor's degree. The activity
includes three major components:

1\. A professional development program focused on learner-centered
pedagogy and academic and transfer advising;

2\. Curricular alignment between PCC and Colorado State
University-Pueblo; and

3\. A pre-teacher education initiative aimed at increasing the number of
education majors in the transfer pipeline.

###### FLORIDA

## 

## Central Campus-Broward Community College

## 3501 Davie Road

## Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301

*Two-Year* *Public*

*Project Director: Donna Henderson*

*Phone: (954) 201-7571*

### E-mail: dhenders@broward.edu

*Award Amount: \$693,823*

Activity Description:

**"Trabajando Juntos" -- Strengthened Collaboration to Improve Student
Persistence and Teacher Education Degree Completion -** Central Campus
along with its partner, Florida Atlantic University, will work to
strengthen linkages in their teacher education programs, which will have
a great impact on the success of Hispanic and other under-prepared
students in the entire K-20 system in Broward County, F.L. The
"Trabajando Juntos" (Working Together) project will build upon the
existing partnership between the two institutions to provide a much
needed, highly effective, intersegmental ladder, thus enabling many
Hispanic and other underrepresented students in their shared service
area to become teachers. While many of the rungs of the ladder are
already in place, some critical steps need to be reinforced.
Specifically, the Project Activity will focus on three rungs:

1\. Providing Early Readiness Awareness;

2\. Developing A More Accessible Ladder for All Potential Teachers with
Reinforcements to Keep Students Most at Risk on the Ladder; and

3\. Sustaining Development of the Ladder for Continuous Improvement. The
proposed program is based on best practices for ensuring success for
Hispanic and other underrepresented students.

## 

## Miami Dade College-Wolfson Campus

***300 NE 2^nd^ Avenue, Room 7157***

***Miami, FL 33132***

*Two-Year* *Public*

*Project Director: John Sussman*

*Phone: (305) 237-3735*

*E-mail: jsussman@mdc.edu*

*Award Amount: \$699,900*

Activity Description:

This project has two activities:

1\. **Create new Biotechnology and Biosciences degree programs -**

-   The Campuses will produce 18 curricula for Associate degree programs
    in Biotechnology and Biosciences.

-   The Campuses will produce nine articulation agreements with
    Biotechnology and Biosciences baccalaureate-degree-awarding
    institutions to facilitate student transfers from the new Associate
    degree programs.

-   The Campuses will have four fully equipped, state-of-the-art
    laboratories for Biotechnology and Biosciences.

2\. **Improve enrollment, student retention, job placement and transfer
rates in Biotechnology and Biosciences programs -**

-   The Campuses will have a new inter-industry, inter-campus
    collaborative academic-student support services-industry process to
    link Biotechnology and Biosciences Programs with mentoring and
    internship programs to promote retention, placement, and transfer
    rates at both Campuses.

-   The Campuses will have a new interdisciplinary, inter-campus
    integrated student support services-community outreach process to
    reach under-prepared minority high school students for academic and
    career planning to support enrollment in Biotechnology and
    Biosciences degree programs at both Campuses, resulting in 140
    credit enrollees, 100 mentors and interns, and 200 adult trainees.

## 

## 

## South Campus-Broward Community College (SBCC)

## 225 East Las Olas Boulevard

## Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301

*Two-Year* *Public*

*Project Director: Donna Henderson*

*Phone: (954) 201-7571*

*E-mail: dhenders@broward.edu*

*Award Amount: \$699,083*

Activity Description:

**¡Enseñar! -- A Collaborative Initiative to Increase the Number of
Highly Qualified Hispanic Teachers in South Florida** -- this activity
will have a great impact on the success of Hispanic and other
under-represented students in the entire K-20 system in Broward County,
FL. Through one thoroughly planned Project Activity, SBCC along with its
partner, Florida International University, will work to strengthen
linkages between their teacher education programs. The *¡Enseñar!*
Project will build upon the existing partnership between the two
institutions to lay a much needed, highly effective, intersegmental
track, thus enabling many Hispanic and other underrepresented students
in their shared service area to become teachers. Some of the rails of
the track are already in place, but others still need to be nailed down.
Specifically, the Project Activity will focus on developing three
sections of the track:

1\. Early Readiness through Awareness;

2\. A Clearer "Fast Track" for All Potential Teachers with
Reinforcements to Keep Students Most at Risk on the Right Track; and

3\. Continuous Improvement of the Track so no one gets derailed. The
proposed program is based on best practices for ensuring success among
Hispanic and other underrepresented students.

###### ILLINOIS

## 

## Morton College

## 3810 Central Avenue

***Cicero, IL 60804***

*Two-Year* *Public*

*Project Director: Mario Moreno*

*Phone: (708) 656-8000*

*E-mail: mario.Moreno@morton.edu*

*Award Amount: \$700,000*

Activity Description:

**Collaboration to Improve Hispanic Student Persistence to Degrees -**
this activity has three components:

1\. **Fast Track/Transition Centers**

-   Persistence is at least seven percent above comparable cohort in
    2001, at 23.8 percent

-   Transfer is at least five percent higher than 2001

-   At least 10 percent more Fast-Track students than comparable group
    rate engagement and satisfaction with comprehensive program

-   Higher enrollment increases six percent above 2003.

2\. **Faculty Development**

-   All 14 faculty submit solid curriculum for research-based methods
    and materials, as confirmed by Culture Consultant

-   Students in faculty pilot earn five percent higher grades,
    engagement scores, and satisfaction than comparable groups with
    similar curricula-current or previous term.

3\. **Student Tracking System**

-   All of Fast-Track student data elements entered into the database;
    all faculty pilot students and comparable groups are entered for
    comparison.

-   At least ninety percent of end-users on local surveys agree that
    Tracking System is nearly complete and accurate and accessible.

###### 

###### PUERTO RICO

## 

## University of Puerto-Medical Sciences Campus

## P.O. Box 365067

***San Juan, PR 00936***

*Four-Year Public*

*Project Director: Ruben Garcia*

*Phone: (787) 758-2525*

*E-mail: rubengarcia@cprs.rcm.upr.edu*

*Award Amount: \$699,911*

Activity Description:

Enhancement of the Teaching-Learning Process through Integration of
Technology and Information Literacy:

-   The persistence rates of students participating in the tutoring and
    mentoring programs will increase five percent each year;

-   The number of students passing gateway/bottleneck courses with a
    grade of A, B, or C will increase by five percent each year;

-   A minimum of three workshops in areas such as study habits, test
    taking, time management, and others will be offered to students at
    least three times per year;

-   Use of technology will be created each year and used by 130 students
    and faculty;

-   At least three online information literacy tutorials will be created
    each year and used by at least one hundred students;

-   One hundred percent of students and faculty members will have
    attended workshops/seminars on the use and integration of technology
    each year; and

-   By the end of the fifth year, 35 electronic classrooms will be
    functional and available.

###### 

###### TEXAS

## 

## El Centro College

801 Main Street

***Dallas, TX 75202***

*Two-Year* *Public*

*Project Director: Lisa Theriot*

*Phone: (214) 860-2263*

*E-mail: ltheriot@dcccd.edu*

*Award Amount: \$700,000*

Activity Description:

####### Professional Career Ladders-Strengthening Pathways to Success - this activity consists of four components:

1\. **Strengthening the Teacher Education Pathway**

-   Strengthened field experiences for El Centro and North Lake College
    students;

-   Stronger ties to high school prep curriculum.

2\. **Improving the Health Career Pathway**

-   Expansion of core curriculum-crosswalks developed and common
    competencies identified;

-   Pre-health advising improved.

3\. **Opening Stronger General Transfer Pathways**

-   Creation of Transfer Centers;

-   Closer ties to four-year colleges through use of graduate interns.

4\. **Professional Development and Technologies for Improved Teaching
and Learning**

-   Both colleges working toward becoming 'Learning Colleges.'

-   El Centro College will strengthen the Teaching and Learning Center
    with consolidation of all aspects of faculty and staff development.

## 

## Mountain View College

4849 West Illinois Avenue

***Dallas, TX 75211***

*Two-Year* *Public*

*Project Director: Moises Almendariz*

*Phone: (214) 860-8711*

*E-mail: moisesa@dcccd.edu*

### Award Amount: \$699,969

Activity Description:

**Opening Pathways For Future Hispanic Teachers And Nurses -** the goal
of this activity is to improve transfer rates and strengthen transfer
success of future teachers and nurses completing their lower-division
coursework at Mountain View College, a significant portion of whom are
Hispanic students, by: strengthening instruction and creating a support
community for teaching students; developing curriculum and support
systems to assist students in successfully climbing the Teaching Career
Ladder; developing a nursing program at Mountain View College and
strengthen existing math and science offerings to improve transfer
success and improving conditions for transfer.

***San Jacinto Community College North***

***5800 Uvalde***

***Houston, TX 77049***

*Two-Year* *Public*

*Project Director: Rebecca Goosen*

*Phone: (281) 459-7628*

*E-mail: Rebecca.goosen@sjcd.edu*

*Award Amount: \$604,918*

Activity Description:

**Increasing Retention and Persistence through Strengthening Development
Courses and "Barrier to Success" Classes -** this activity has four
components:

1\. **Building Student Success through Career Counseling and Preparing
Student in Pre-college Skills -** Addresses the problems that many
students come to the colleges, such as being without a career or
educational pathway. Also, students lack the pre-college skills such as
time-management, familiarity with college, and study skills to be
successful. This component ensures incoming students are in the right
educational pathway and develops the skills necessary to be successful
in college level courses. Improved entry-level advisement, career
counseling and a first year experience will compose the major
activities.

2\. **Developing More Effective Methods of Placing Students in
Developmental Courses -** Address the problem that the placement tests
do not accurately place students in the appropriate level course. A test
construction specialist will develop tests to place accurately students.

3\. **Strengthening and Restructuring the Development Program -**
Addresses the problem that few students progress through the
developmental sequence to college-level courses. The activities focus on
centralizing the administration of the program, restructuring the
curriculum, and training faculty in adult education.

4\. **Establishing Support Services for Students in Developmental and
Gateway Courses -** Addresses the problem that successful end-of-course
completion rates are low in developmental courses such as Algebra,
Composition, Biology, Psychology, and History.

## 

## South Plains College

## 1401 S. College Avenue

***Levelland, TX 79336***

*Four-Year Public*

*Project Director: James Walker*

*Phone: (806) 894-9611*

*E-mail: jwalker@southplainscollege.edu*

### Award Amount: \$699,900

Activity Description:

Education through South Plains and Amarillo Network (E-SPAN): Broadening
Educational Access for Hispanic and Low-Income Students - the goal of
this activity is to work cooperatively to improve the access and success
of the Colleges' large rural Hispanic and low-income populations, who
have been severely under-represented in higher education. The proposed
project will capitalize on the strengths of both Colleges while
addressing their common problems through a new, shared system of
instructional delivery called E-SPAN. Through this system, the Colleges
will:

-   Strengthen Faculty and/or Staff Development in Distance Learning
    strategies that address the needs of Hispanic and low-income
    students;

-   Improve the access of Hispanic and low-income students to college
    degree programs in rural areas;

-   Transform on-line support services for rural and other place-bound
    students; and

-   Strengthen the infrastructures for Distance Learning. By
    cooperatively designing and supporting this comprehensive system,
    the Colleges can greatly improve their mutual capacities to reach
    out to rural Hispanic and low-income students, increase the
    students' opportunities for success, and accomplish the Colleges'
    common goals effectively and in the most cost-effective manner.

***Texas A&M International University (TAMIU)***

***5201 University Boulevard***

***Laredo, TX 78041***

*Four-Year Public*

### Project Director: Miroslava Vargas

*Phone: (956) 326-2684*

*E-mail: mvargas@tamu.edu*

*Award Amount: \$650,000*

Activity Description:

**Hispanic Student Success Initiative: Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers
Today -**

the proposed project will improve the writing proficiency of students
during their first two years of college by providing technological and
pedagogical opportunities in preparation for passing the University
Writing Assessment and other transfer requirements for entrance into the
College of Education. In addition, students will be provided writing
software and laptop computers to engage in writing tasks and practice on
diagnosed writing deficiencies. The activity consists of three
components:

1\. **To increase the number of students admitted into the College of
Education -**

By creating a cohort of students at the college and university exposed
to numerous field and writing experiences including but not limited to
summer writing camps, field trips, reading center/writing center
experiences, students will increase their chances of meeting the entry
requirements for the College of Education (COE).

2\. **To strengthen the advisement system and retention effort -** by
providing a support system that has a structured tracking system with
ongoing assessment, evaluation and advisement, students that would have
normally dropped out from college during the first year, will be
retained.

# 3. **Development of Seamless Transfer System -** a comprehensive system will be designed to assist students with advisement, placement, registration, financial aid, and degree audits at both institutions*.* This system will become the model for other shared degree programs. 

## 

## University of Texas-Permian Basin (UTPB)

4901 E. University Boulevard

***Odessa, TX 79762***

*Four-Year Public*

### Project Director: Susan Lara

*Phone: (432) 552-26202*

*E-mail: lara_s@utpb.edu*

*Award Amount: \$699,458*

Activity Description:

**Literacy Educational Advancement and Development (LEAD) -** this
activity consists of four components:

1\. **Readiness for college** - which will make post-secondary
educational opportunities more accessible to students by expanding an
established program of college and career awareness to school districts
in the Big Spring area.

2\. **The HC LEAD Center** - will offer mentoring, on-line learning for
remotely located students and developmental instruction for those who
need it in reading and literacy.

3\. **The UTPB LEAD Center** - will feature a new literacy center
emphasizing an interactive reading and writing approach, intensive
English (ESL) and faculty development.

4\. **The Teacher Education Pipeline** - will feature teacher education
at HC through distance learning, teacher education laboratories at HC
and UTPB and advisement for transfer students on the HC campus.

###### WASHINGTON

## 

## Heritage University

## 3240 Fort Road

***Toppenish, WA 98948***

### 

### Four-Year Public

*Project Director: Mary Alice Muellerleile*

*Phone: (509) 865-8531*

*E-mail: muellerleile_m@heritage.edu*

*Award Amount: \$649,930*

Activity Description:

**Utilization of Technology to Strengthen Student Persistence and
Academic Achievement** - this activity consists of three components:

1\. The **Advising component** will include the development and
implementation of an on-line advising module supported by distance
video-conferencing between both institutions.

2\. The **Developmental Instruction component** will include the
development of video-based (DVD) and computer-assisted instructional
modules. Developmental courses will be captured on video, edited and be
made accessible for review in the developmental skills lab. The
developmental courses will also be broadcast via distance learning
technology between both campus sites.

3\. The **Faculty Development component** will include learner-centered
technology instruction to support faculty, with limited technology
knowledge, in adopting technology strategies into their teaching.