As of 9/30/2007

**Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE)**

***FY 2007 Comprehensive Program -- New Grant Awards by Organization***

**American Association of State Colleges and Universities**

**P116B070066**

Title: Wisconsin's Grassroots Teacher Quality Assessment Model:
Large-Scale Assessment of Math and Science Content Knowledge in Student
Teaching

Develops tools for assessing student teacher performance in teaching
mathematics and science. A collaboration of state-supported and
independent teacher preparation programs will create a model of
consensus-based performance assessment that will provide a replicable
measure of student teacher performance in these areas.

FY 2007 Award: \$186,410

Total Award: \$591,825

Contact: Mona Wineburg, AASCU, 1307 New York Avenue, Washington, DC
20005-4701; 202-478-4649; <wineburgm@aascu.org>

**Community-Campus Partnerships for Health**

**P116B070121**

Title: Faculty for the Engaged Campus

Connects community service to scholarship in health school
collaboratives. The program will partner with twenty universities to
replicate competency-based models. The project will develop an online
clearinghouse of resources and a database for mentors. Partnerships are
also in place with three national health professional associations for
sustainability of the program.

FY 2007 Award: \$208,537

Total Award: \$615,409

Contact: Sarena Seifer, Community-Campus Partnerships for Health, 1107
NE 45th Street, Suite 345, Seattle, WA 98105; 206-616-4305;
<sarena@u.washington.edu>

**LaGuardia Community College**

**P116B070065**

Title: Making Connections: ePortfolios for Learning and Transfer

Disseminates a successful electronic student portfolio program that
supports assessment and engages students in learning for higher levels
of access, persistence, and completion of graduation requirements for
higher education. Building on LaGuardia's successful ePortfolio program,
this project focuses on teacher preparation, business and fine arts, and
allied health and engineering at two- and four-year institutions to
facilitate articulation and transfer among more than 20 institutions of
urban higher education and to address issues of student engagement and
success.

FY 2007 Award: \$165,011

Total Award: \$619,211

Contact: Bret Eynon, LaGuardia Community College, Academic Affairs M413,
31-10 Thomson Avenue, Long Island, NY 11101; 718-482-5478;
<beynon@lagcc.cuny.edu>

**Marquette University**

**P116B070189**

Title: Who Counts? Math Across the Curriculum for Global Learning

Focuses on life-long mathematics learning, using quantitative literacy
and mathematical reasoning as the vehicles for solving global problems
in core and majors courses, not including science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Building on the best practices of
mathematics-across-the-curriculum programs, this project links student
learning in mathematics and global leadership skills with local and
international service learning in community, government, and business
partnerships. In addition, the project works with faculty to improve
faculty teaching through curriculum development and participation in
professional development workshops that implement mathematics
assignments in coursework.

FY 2007 Award: \$229,558

Total Award: \$631,661

Contact: Christine Krueger, Marquette University, Core of Common
Studies, 320G Raynor Library, 1355 West Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, WI
53201; 414-288-6862; <christine.krueger@marquette.edu>

**National Commission on Teaching and America's Future**

**P116B070236**

Title: Teachers Learning in Networked Communities (TLINC): Closing the
Gap Between Teacher Preparation and Teaching Practice

Focuses on online and face-to-face professional learning communities to
connect pre-service and novice teachers with teacher education faculty
and accomplished in-service teachers. Through this collaboration each of
three universities will connect with a partner school district to build
a shared and cohesive professional body of knowledge and improve teacher
education, teaching practice, and student achievement.

FY 2007 Award: \$190,420

Total Award: \$571,260

Contact: Kathleen Fulton, NCTAF, 2100 M Street, N.W., Suite 660,
Washington, DC 20037; 202-429-2570; <kfulton@nctaf.org>

**New England Conservatory**

**P116B070245**

Title: The Music-in-Education Dissemination Project

Focuses on using in-service music teachers to encourage higher levels of
access to higher education.

Initiatives include development of a Music Learning Leadership
Certificate program for training music specialists and music teachers,
administrators, and classroom teachers to serve as artist-teacher-action
research change agents in public schools. Guided internships for
teachers will connect community-based collaborations through music in
education programs and will use a digital portfolio system for
documenting school-based research.

FY 2007 Award: \$248,862

Total Award: \$624,843

Contact: Lawrence Scripp, New England Conservatory, Music-in-Education,
Research Center 309, 290 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115-1364;
617-585-1364; <lscripp@newenglandconservatory.edu>

**Pratt Institute**

**P116B070111**

Title: Greener by Design: A Model for Infusing Sustainability into the
Curriculums of Schools of Art and Design

Establishes academic vehicles for new curriculum development and
interdisciplinary research with applied experiences in sustainable
practice that encourage higher levels of persistence and completion. The
living campus laboratory will be a model for applying theory in the
education of future industrial designers, urban planners, and
architects.

FY 2007 Award: \$181,468

Total Award: \$474,974

Contact: Debra Johnson, Pratt Institute, Office of the Provost, 200
Willoughby Avenue -- Main 1, Brooklyn, NY 11205; 718-636-3690;
<djohn377@pratt.edu>

**Temple University**

**P116B070143**

Title: Conflict Resolution Education in Teacher Education (CRETE)

Disseminates successful conflict resolution materials and protocols and
classroom management practices in urban education settings. The program
will improve teacher retention and teach conflict resolution
competencies to improve unsafe learning environments across five states
in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions. The project addresses teacher
education programs in private and public four-year institutions as well
as in community colleges.

FY 2007 Award: \$512,758

Total Award: \$512,758

Contact: Tricia Jones, Temple University, College of Education,
Psychological Studies in Education, 1301 Cecil B. Moore Avenue,
Philadelphia, PA 19122; 215-204-7261; <tsjones@temple.edu>

**University of Minnesota Twin Cities**

**P116B070062**

Title: Reenvisioning Land Grant and Research Institutions for an Urban
Age

Develops an urban research and outreach and engagement center model to
resolve urban issues with attention to urban community-based work.
Collaborative teams of university and community partners will address
areas of need identified by the community, focusing on education,
economic development, and health issues that will open pathways for
diverse people to enter universities.

FY 2007 Award: \$250,000

Total Award: \$750,000

Contact: Geoff Maruyama, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, System
Academic Administration, 100 Morrill Hall, 100 Church Street,
Minneapolis, MN 55455; 612-625-5861; <geoff@umn.edu>

**University of Rhode Island**

**P116B070031**

Title: The Academic Roadmap: A Web-Based Tool for Improving Student
Access, Advising, and Retention

Develops Web-based roadmaps for informing, guiding, and advising
students and their families. The focus is on customized student profiles
connected to transfer and career planning in a collaboration of the
university and community college with specific attention to nursing and
biology fields. Materials developed will be available on the Internet
for easy access to students, high school counselors, college and
university academic advisors, employers, and faculty as well as for
replication at other partnering institutions.

FY 2007 Award: \$204,964

Total Award: \$643,117

Contact: Deborah Grossman-Garber, University of Rhode Island, Student
Learning, Outcomes Assessment, and Accreditation, Edwards Hall -- Room
205, 64 Upper College Road, Kingston, RI 02881-1219; 401-874-5401;
<dggarber@uri.edu>

**University of Texas at Austin**

**P116B070251**

Title: The Texas Language Technology Open Access Initiative (TLTOA)

Addresses less commonly taught languages in the development, production,
and dissemination of six foreign language instructional resources:
Aswaat Arabiyya (Arabic), Alkitaab Textbook (Arabic), Deutsch im Blick
(German), Persian Online (Persian), Radio Arlecchino (Italian), and Tá
Falado (Portuguese). Multimedia resources will be accessible online,
free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Evaluation and dissemination of materials will be ongoing and available
during all stages of development.

FY 2007 Award: \$181,050

Total Award: \$545,154

Contact: Carl Blyth, University of Texas at Austin, Texas Language
Technology Center, 1 University Station, Mail Stop B3500, Mezes Hall,
Austin, TX 78712; 512-232-2312; <cblyth@mail.utexas.edu>

**University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College**

**P116B070230**

Title: Collaborative Computer Science and Mathematics Ambassador Program
for High School Students

Establishes a Science Ambassadors program for high school juniors and
seniors. Through interaction with college undergraduate and graduate
students and faculty, high school students will participate in research
topics that build basic skills in computing and mathematics that can be
applied to any science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)
major. High school students will build relationships with research
scientists as well as with college STEM majors through dual enrollment
classes, a summer bridge program, and weekly meetings at the university
to promote higher levels of access, persistence, and completion in STEM
majors.

FY 2007 Award: \$159,799

Total Award: \$487,012

Contact: Lappoon Tang, UTB/TSC, Computer Sciences, SETB 1.514, 80 Fort
Brown, Brownsville, TX 78521; 956-882-6771; <lappoon.tang@utb.edu>

**University of Texas-Pan American**

**P116B070124**

Title: Medical Spanish for Heritage Learners: Advanced Language Skills
for Quality Health Care

Focuses on developing a language curriculum with online resources to
improve the second language skills of health care professionals. Through
partnerships between two-year and four-year institutions, students in
associate-level programs will be able to pursue baccalaureate-level
programs in allied health. Language development targets medical
terminology in the core disciplines of public health and includes
embedding language instruction in coursework as well as application of
language development through internships with local community health
centers.

FY 2007 Award: \$169,840

Total Award: \$442,837

Contact: Andrew Martinez, University of Texas-Pan American, Department
of Modern Languages, 1201 West University Drive, Edinburg, TX
78541-2999; 956-381-3441; <martinezg@utpa.edu>

**Utah State University**

**P116B070167**

Title: National Consortium to Broaden Access to Electronically-Mediated
Education Through Institutional Accreditation

Develops Web accessibility materials and processes for institutional
self-study accreditation processes. The program addresses prevention of
design barriers and promotion of program changes for online learning. A
consortium of leaders in disability access will develop a self-study
process which will include benchmarks for identification of
institutional accessibility in online learning offerings.

FY 2007 Award: \$228,259

Total Award: \$700,669

Contact: Cyndi Rowland, Utah State University, College of Education and
Human Services, Center for Persons with Disabilities, 6800 Old Main
Hill, Logan, UT 84322-6800; 435-797-3381; <cyndi@cpd2.usu.edu>

**Western Oregon University**

**P116B070112**

Title: Preparation for Instruction in Science and Math (PrISM) Oregon

Establishes a consortium of public and private higher education
institutions to share curriculum leading to teaching preparation and
licensure endorsement in mathematics and science in the elementary
grades. Through a partnership of Arts and Sciences and Education
faculty, the program will also develop offerings for secondary teachers
and explore designing a new advanced integrated science teacher
endorsement as a model for other states.

FY 2007 Award: \$216,095

Total Award: \$685,685

Contact: Dianne Ferguson, Western Oregon University, Teaching Research
Institute, Todd Hall, 345 N. Monmouth Avenue, Monmouth, OR 97361;
541-346-2491; <diannef@comcast.net>

**Yale University**

**P116B070104**

Title: Development of Materials and Infrastructure for Individualized
Enrichment in Language and Discipline Study

Focuses on individualized language enrichment and advanced level of
proficiency in Arabic and Russian of non-language majors. The project
will develop materials and an infrastructure as a model for language
across the curriculum in less commonly taught languages. Resources will
include advanced-level language learning, especially through technology,
mentoring from professionals in their field who have international
experience, internships, and study abroad experiences.

FY 2007 Award: \$200,281

Total Award: \$604,563

Contact: Bradley Gano, Yale University, Center for Language Study, 370
Temple Street, First Floor, P.O. Box 208349, New Haven, CT 06520-8349;
203-432-7279; <bradley.gano@yale.edu>