#### *U. S. Department of Education*

***Office of Postsecondary Education***

######## Washington D. C. 20006-8501

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

PROJECT ABSTRACTS FOR FY 2003 NEW GRANTEES

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

***INTRODUCTION***

***NEW DEVELOPMENT GRANTS***

***ARIZONA***

######## Arizona Western College

***CALIFORNIA***

######## California State University, Bakersfield

*Cypress College*

*Mt. San Jacinto College*

*Porterville College*

*Riverside Community College District, Moreno*

*Riverside Community College District, Norco*

*Riverside Community College District, Riverside*

***COLORADO***

######## Pueblo Community College

***PUERTO RICO***

######## Caribbean University, Ponce Branch Campus

*Inter American University, Guayama Campus*

*Universidad Central del Caribe*

*University of Puerto Rico at Carolina*

***TEXAS***

*University of Texas Pan American*

*Victoria College*

***NEW COOPERATIVE ARRANGEMENT GRANTS***

***ARIZONA***

*Arizona Western College*

*Cochise College*

***CALIFORNIA***

*California State University, Bakersfield*

*California State University, Stanislaus*

*Rio Hondo College*

*Santa Ana College*

***NEW MEXICO***

*Eastern New Mexico University*

***PUERTO RICO***

*Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico*

*University of Puerto Rico, Cayey*

*University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras*

***TEXAS***

*Houston Community College*

*Our Lady of the Lake University*

*University of Texas at El Paso*

*University of Texas at San Antonio*

## CROSS REFERENCES -- WHO'S DOING WHAT NETWORK LIST 

**INTRODUCTION**

The Developing Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) program was
introduced under Title V of the Higher Education Act, as amended, in
1998. This program was created to address the growing need for federal
assistance to eligible HSIs to expand their capacity to serve Hispanic
and low-income students. The goal of the HSI program is to expand
educational opportunities for and improve the academic attainment of
Hispanic students; and to expand and enhance the academic offerings,
program quality, and institutional stability of low-income students
attending Hispanic-serving colleges to enable them to complete
postsecondary education.

Since FY 1999, the appropriation has increased dramatically from \$28
million to \$86 million in FY 2002. Of the amount awarded in FY 2003,
\$6,370,990 was awarded to 15 new Development grants and \$8,205,917 for
14 new Cooperative Arrangement grants for a total of \$14,576,907 for
new HSIs. Approximately \$70 million was reserved to support 157
continuation HSI awards. The HSI program has two types of grants:

-   Development grant is a five-year grant award to assist an HSI carry
    out its comprehensive development plan to strengthen the
    institution's program to improve and expand its capacity to serve
    Hispanic students and other low-income students.

-   Cooperative Arrangements is a five-year grant award to encourage
    cooperative arrangements between an eligible HSI and other
    institutions in a combined effort to serve Hispanic students and
    other low-income students and to enhance the development of HSIs.

Funds for the HSI program may be used for activities such as the
renovation of instructional facilities, faculty development, the
purchase of scientific or laboratory equipment for educational purposes,
funds for administrative management, development and improvement of
academic programs, acquisition of equipment to strengthen funds
management and academic program, joint use of facilities, academic
tutoring, counseling programs, and support services.

The HSI program is the only discretionary grant program under the U. S.
Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education that
provides federal funds to strengthen institutions that serve Hispanic
students and other low-income students. More information about the HSI
program is available on the Department's web-site
[*www.ed.gov/hsi*](http://www.ed.gov/hsi).

NOTE: The data provided for the "Total Student FTE" and the "Total
Percent Hispanic FTE" is based on the ED Form 851S-7 submitted with the
new FY 2003 HSI grant award application.

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***ABSTRACTS***

## ARIZONA

######## Arizona Western College

***P.O. Box 929***

***Yuma, AZ 85366***

*Type/Control:2-year/Public*

*Project Director: Barbara Hanson*

*Phone: (928) 344-7519*

*Fax: (928) 344-7730*

*Email: Barbara.Hanson@azwestern.edu*

*Award Amount: \$423,000*

*Total Student FTE: 3,596*

*Percent Hispanic Student FTE: 59%*

***Activity Description:***

***EXITO: Excellence Through Xcelerated Involvement, Teaching, and
Organization --** The purpose of this activity is to address the risk
factors associated with high attrition and low completion at AWC by
developing a learning model based on highly successful program with
proven results. This model will combine intensive classroom time with
competency-based curricula, distance strategies, and collaborative
learning to concentrate the instructional time to completion.
Faculty/staff development will also be implemented to improve
instructional, support service, and cultural climate of the
predominately Hispanic and low-income student population.*

***CALIFORNIA***

***California State University, Bakersfield***

***9001 Stockdale Highway***

***Bakersfield, CA 93311***

*Type/Control: 2-year/Public*

*Project Director: Janice Chavez*

*Phone: (661) 664-2231*

*Fax: (661) 664-3342*

*Email: jchavez@csub.edu*

*Award Amount: \$448,693*

*Total Student FTE: 5,296*

*Percent Hispanic Student FTE: 32%*

***Activity Description:***

***Increasing the Persistence, Retention and Success of Hispanic and
Other Low-Income Students for Baccalaureate Degree Completion --** This
activity consist of four components:*

1.  ***One-stop Academic Success & Integrated Services (OASIS)** --
    Designed to provide access to Hispanic and other low-income students
    in support services which include academic advisement,
    individualized assessment, tutoring, career development, faculty
    mentoring and technology.*

2.  ***Enhancing Faculty Development Through Diversity Training** -- In
    collaboration with OASIS and the CSBU Teaching and Learning Center,
    will train faculty advisors and instructors to more effectively work
    with Hispanic and low-income students.*

3.  ***Expanding Multicultural Library Resources and Internship
    Opportunities** -- Designed to strengthen CSUB's library resource
    sin Hispanic, ethnic minority, and multicultural perspectives by
    providing texts and designating HSI grant funds towards an endowment
    for Hispanic and low-income librarians, internships, and Library
    Information Science .*

4.  ***Gaining Technology and Information Resources Competency** -- Will
    provide Hispanic and low-income students with skills in computer and
    information resources literacy.*

***Cypress College***

***9200 Valley View Street***

***Cypress, CA 90630***

*Type/Control: 2-year/Public*

*Phone: (714) 484-7231*

*Fax: (714) 527-1044*

*Email: <sdonley@cypresscollege.edu>*

*Award Amount: \$450,000*

*Total Student FTE:*

*Percent Hispanic Student FTE: 7,316*

*Percent Hispanic Student FTE: 26.1*

***Activity Description:***

***Closing Institutional Gaps to Enhance Instructional and Academic
Support Programs, and Improve Hispanic Student Retention, Persistence,
and Success --** This activity has three components:*

1.  *The first component will provide a "Freshman Experience" and a
    summer "College Readiness" program. Both of theses programs will
    provide Hispanic and low-income students with instruction in basic
    skills in math and English.*

2.  *The second component will develop and implement an Academic Center
    for Teaching Excellence and Student Success which will include a
    coordinated tutoring program.*

3.  *The third component will provide faculty and staff development
    through the development of a Teaching Effectiveness Center. This
    center will improve institutional capabilities to address the needs
    of culturally diverse and under-prepared students.*

######## Mt. San Jacinto College

***1499 N. State Street***

***San Jacinto, CA 92583***

*Type/Control: 2-Year/Public*

*Project Director: Dona Alpert*

*Phone: (909) 487-6752*

*Fax: (909) 654-5191*

*Email: <dalpert@msjc.edu>*

*Award Amount: \$447,819*

*Total Student FTE: 6,574*

*Percent Hispanic FTE: 29.6%*

***Activity Descriptions:***

1.  ***Conduits for Students --** This activity will implement a
    strategic faculty/curriculum development plan, establish a campus
    resource center, campus resource centers, and critical interventions
    for students including the creation of a case-management approach to
    student success.*

2.  ***Conduit for Fiscal Stability --** This activity is designed to
    strengthen the institution's capacity to augment the state-funded
    budget by developing a Grants Office.*

######## Porterville College

***100 College Avenue***

***Porterville, CA 93257***

*Type/Control: 2-Year/Public*

*Project Director: Bill Andrews*

*Phone: (559) 791-2316*

*Email: (559) 782-8396*

*Award Amount: \$443,752*

*Total Student FTE: 2,779*

*Percent Hispanic FTE: 39%*

***Activity Descriptions:***

1.  ***Increasing Student Services --** This activity has three
    components:*

-   *Expanding Student Advising*

-   *Math Lab (provide tutorial services in math)*

-   *Assessing Student Outcomes*

2.  ***Expand Vocational Programs --** This activity has two
    components:*

-   *Diesel Technology Program*

-   *Distance Education Leading to Associated Degree*

######## Riverside Community College District/Moreno Valley Campus

***16130 Lasselle Street***

***Moreno Valley, CA 92551***

*Type/Control: 2-Year/Public*

*Project Director: Daria Burnett*

*Phone: (909) 571-6170*

*Email:* <Maureen.Chavez@rcc.edu>

*Award Amount: \$436,095*

*Total Student FTE: 3,841*

*Percent Hispanic FTE: 34%*

***Activity Description:***

***An Integrated Approach to Instruction and Student Services and
Learning Support Services --** This activity is designed to develop
alternative curriculum pathways for students and train faculty and staff
to implement alternative teaching methodologies. This activity will also
provide student support services which include career counseling,
tutoring, special courses and workshops, and financial aid.*

######## Riverside Community College District/Norco

***2001 Third Street***

***Norco, CA 92860***

*Type/Control: 2-Year/Public*

*Project Director: Brenda Davis*

*Phone: (909) 372-7016*

*Fax: (909) 372-7090*

*Email: <Brenda.davis@rccd.edu>*

*Award Amount: \$431,143*

*Total Student FTE: 4,721*

*Percent Hispanic FTE: 33%*

***Activity Description:***

***Improve Student Success of Low, High Risk and Hispanic Students --**
This activity is designed to provide an integrated approach involving
instruction, student services, and learning support services. Through
the development of alternative curriculum pathways and faculty and staff
development training in alternative teaching methodologies student
academic success will increase significantly.*

***Riverside Community College District/Riverside***

***4800 Magnolia Avenue***

***Riverside, CA 92506***

*Type/Control: 2-Year/Public*

*Project Director: Richard Keeler*

*Phone: (909) 222-8211*

*Fax: (909) 222-8055*

*Email: <rkeeler@rccd.cc.ca.us>*

*Award Amount: \$429,749*

*Total Student FTE: 13,221*

*Percent Hispanic FTE: 30%*

######## Activity Description: 

***Improving Student Success of Low-Income, High Risk and Hispanic
Students --** This activity is designed to provide an integrated
approach to instruction, student services, and learning support
services. Through identification and development of alternative teaching
strategies and faculty/staff development training in alternative
teaching methodologies, at-risk students will achieve academic success
in basic skills needed for college level courses. Student support
services will also include career counseling, tutoring, special courses
and workshops, and financial aid.*

######## 

######## COLORADO

***Pueblo Community College***

***900 West Orman Avenue***

***Pueblo, CO 81004***

*Type/Control: 2-Year/Public*

*Project Director: Chip Nava*

*Phone: (719) 549-3430*

*Fax: (719) 549-3333*

*Email: <Chip.Nava@pueblocc.edu>*

*Award Amount: \$411,775*

*Total Student FTE: 2,315*

*Percent Hispanic FTE: 36%*

***Activity Description:***

***Student Success Initiative --** This activity has three components:*

1.  *Provides professional development designed to support
    faculty-driven efforts to increase retention to include teaching
    methodologies, theories and principals of learning, managing
    learning communities, increasing retention, meeting the learning
    needs of the special needs population, and integrating critical
    skills in the curriculum .*

2.  *Improve support services to individual students in each academic
    area of the college: incorporating educational advocates, a new
    advising model, tutoring and other learning supports.*

3.  *Increasing retention/academic success among specific groups of
    students via a learning communities initiative.*

######## PUERTO RICO 

***Caribbean University Ponce Branch Campus***

***P. O. Box 7733***

***Ponce , PR 00732***

*Type/Control: 4-Year/Private*

*Project Director: Edgardo Rosaly*

*Phone: (787) 840-2955*

*Fax: (787) 840-3065*

*Email: <dir.ponce@caribbean.edu>*

*Award Amount: \$424,600*

*Total Student FTE: 720*

*Percent Hispanic FTE: 100%*

***Activity Description:***

***Enhancement of Library Information, Technological Research and
Educational Services --** This activity is designed to increase access
to technology, information science, and educational services not
currently accessible to the majority of Hispanic students at the
university-campus. It is anticipated that the newly acquired facilities
will significantly impact the campus student, faculty, and
administrative community.*

######## Inter American University, Guayama Campus

***Call Box 10004***

***Guayama, PR 00785***

*Type/Control: 4-Year/Private*

*Project Director: Daisy Irizarry*

*Phone: (787) 864-2222*

*Fax: (787) 864-8232*

*Email: <dirzarry@inter.edu>*

*Award Amount: \$403,117*

*Total Student FTE: 1,597*

*Percent Hispanic FTE: 100%*

***Activity Description:***

***Improving Teaching and Learning Through Integration of Technology
--** This activity is designed to improve student learning outcomes by
increasing the university's instructional computing capacity, train
faculty in the use of technology in instruction, increase student access
to instructional technology and information literacy resources, and
prepare students to succeed in certification tests.*

######## Universidad del Caribe

######## P. O. Box 60327

######## Bayamon, PR 00960

*Type/Control: 4-Year/Private*

*Project Director: Aristides Cruz*

*Phone: (787) 798-6732*

*Fax: (787) 740-4390*

*Email: <acruz@uccaribe.edu>*

*Award Amount: \$392,320*

*Total Student FTE: 345*

*Percent Hispanic FTE: 100%*

***Activity Descriptions:***

1.  ***To Help Improve Student Performance --** This activity is
    designed to:*

    -   *Create a culture assessment among faculty and staff*

    -   *Develop English language modules and incorporate into health
        field and clinical skills context*

    -   *Develop comprehensive exams as practice to assist students
        better prepare for standardized exams*

    -   *Develop a comprehensive institutional assessment program geared
        towards institutional improvement and effectiveness*

    -   *Provide intensive and extensive training activities and
        technical assistance to faculty and staff*

    -   *Design, develop and offer Distance Education courses in
        Substance Abuse Counseling*

2.  ***To Help Improve the University's Fiscal Stability --** This
    activity is designed to:*

-   *Establish an Institutional Development Office that will coordinate
    all outreach and promotion efforts in the community*

-   *Provide training to Board of Directors on their role in fundraising
    and building in the university's image and develop an active alumni
    association*

-   *Increase the number of fundraising activities sponsored by the
    Board and alumni*

-   *Improve its publications and promotional materials and increase its
    web exposure*

***University of Puerto Rico at Carolina***

***P. O. Box 4800***

######## Carolina, PR 00984

*Type/Control: 4-Year/Private*

*Project Director: Maria del Pilar Toral*

*Phone: (787) 276-0226*

*Fax: (787) 750-7940*

*Award Amount: \$445,140*

*Total Student FTE: 3,995*

*Percent Hispanic FTE: 100%*

######## Activity Description: 

***Improving Academic Achievement and Development Skills Through the
Establishment of the State of the Art University Comprehensive Center
for the Enhancement of Student Success (SUCCESS) --** This activity is
designed to provide online developmental courses in English, Spanish,
and mathematics to retain its at-risk students. Through this approach it
is anticipated that persistence, retention, and graduation rates will
increase. Renovation of existing laboratory facilities is a part of this
activity.*

######## 

######## TEXAS

***University of Texas Pan American***

***1201 W. University Drive***

***Edinburg, TX 78541***

*Type/Control: 4-Year/Public*

*Project Director: Ann Maria Rodriguez*

*Phone: (956) 316-7919*

*Fax: (956) 292-7211*

*Email: <amrodriguez@panam.edu>*

*Award Amount: \$333,963*

*Total Student FTE: 10,407*

*Percent Hispanic FTE: 87%*

***Activity Descriptions:***

1.  ***Improve Student Retention and Time to Graduation Through
    Programmatic and Curricular Innovation --** This activity will
    provide Freshman Success Seminars, Learning Communities, Academic
    Advisement, and Assessment of Entering Students. Key measures
    include improving first-year retention and reducing the time to
    graduation.*

2.  ***Faculty and Staff Development --** This activity will focus on
    instructional practices in the following areas: Learning
    Communities, Cooperative (Active) Learning, Academic Advisement,
    Critical Thinking, Learning Styles, Assessment, Writing Across the
    Curriculum, Technology Innovations and Web-based Instruction, and
    Curriculum Alignment K-16.*

***Victoria College***

***220 E. Red River***

######## Victoria, TX 77901

*Type/Control: 2-year/Public*

*Project Director: Jennifer Ortiz-Garza*

*Phone: (361) 582-2514*

*Fax: (361) 582-2525*

*Email: <jgarza@victoriacollege.edu>*

*Award Amount: \$449,824*

*Total Student FTE:2,997*

*Percent Hispanic FTE: 28.9%*

***Activity Descriptions:***

1.  ***Establishing a Center for Academic Achievement --** This activity
    will establish a Center for Academic Achievement that will provide
    effective and coordinated academic support services through: a) Math
    and Learning Lab with Supplemental Instruction by Peer Mentors, b)
    Distance Education Opportunities, and*

*c) Interdisciplinary Learning Communities, and d) Faculty Effectiveness
Program.*

2.  ***Implementation of the Virtual College --** This activity is
    designed to address the problems of unequal and inadequate access to
    student support services by developing online student support
    services via a virtual campus for online student services. Needed
    infrastructure will be purchased to allow online advising,
    admissions, registration, and career counseling.*

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## NEW COOPERATIVE ARRANGMENT GRANTS

######## ARIZONA

***Arizona Western College***

######## P. O. Box 929 

######## Yuma, AZ

*Type/Control: 2-year/Public*

*Project Director: Tim Shove*

*Phone: (929) 928-344-7659*

*Fax: (929) 344-7751*

*Email: <tim.shove@azwestern.edu>*

*Award Amount: \$621,599*

*Total Student FTE: 3,596*

*Percent Hispanic FTE: 59%*

***Activity Description:***

######## Crossing the Educational Divide -- Arizona Western College in partnership with Northern Arizona University/Yuma will address cooperatively through a shared system of delivery (1) improve access to degree programs for rural Hispanic and low-income students, (2 transform support services for these students, (3) strengthen faculty/staff development and distance learning services, and (4) strengthen the infrastructure for Distance learning. As a result of this activity it is anticipated that there will be an increase in enrollment, an increase in completion rates, and an increase in retention rates. 

######## Cochise College

***4190 West State Highway***

***Douglas, AZ 85635***

*Type/Control: 2-year/Public*

*Project Director: Doris Jensen*

*Phone: (520) 515-5491*

*Fax: (520) 515-5303*

*Email: <jensend@cohise.edu>*

*Award Amount: \$600,125*

*Total Student FTE: 2,381*

*Percent Hispanic FTE: 30.9%*

***Description of Activity:***

***Improving Hispanic Students' Attainment Through Collaboration --**
Cochise College in partnership with the University of Arizona (UA),
South, will:*

-   *Increase timely completion of AA/AS and transfer to UA, South by
    30% over five years;*

-   *Increase timely completion of BA/BS degrees by 40% over five
    years;*

-   *Through magnet learning communities improve student readiness for
    transition to college and to transfer;*

-   *Improve student persistence through comprehensive support: tutors,
    mentors, and internships; and*

-   *Through faculty development strengthen faculty skills in curriculum
    development for Hispanic and low-income students in the magnet
    community.*

######## CALIFORNIA

######## California State University, Bakersfield

***9001 Stockdale Highway***

***Bakersfield, CA 93311***

*Type/Control: 4-year/Public*

*Project Director: Janice Chavez*

*Phone: (661) 664-2231*

*Fax: (661) 664-3342*

*Email: <jchavez@csub.edu>*

*Award Amount: \$619,679*

*Total Student FTE: 5,225*

*Percent Hispanic FTE: 32.7%*

***Activity Description:***

***Cooperative Curriculum Alignment and Integration of Services and
Systems to Improve Access to Higher Education for Hispanic and Other
Low-income Students -** California State University, Bakersfield (CSUB),
in partnership with Bakersfield College (BC) will:*

-   *Increase the number of transfer students through alignment of
    curriculum and systems at CSUB and BC;*

-   *Expand faculty development by providing faculty development
    activities to address the needs of ESL and other culturally diverse
    students; and*

-   *Expand ESL services.*

######## California State University, Stanislaus

***5151 Pacific Avenue***

***Stockton, CA 95207***

*Type/Control: 4-year/Public*

*Project Director: Marcella Rogers-Vieria*

*Phone: (209) 954-5543*

*Fax: (209) 954-5692*

*Email: <mrogers.vieria@sjdccd.cc.ca.us>*

*Award Amount: \$600,00*

*Total Student FTE: 7,053*

*Percent Hispanic FTE: 25.2%*

***Description of Activities:***

***1. Increase Student Algebra Content Knowledge to Improve Student
Performance in***

***Algebra and Selected Algebra Courses --** California State
University, Stanislaus, in*

*partnership with Merced College and Modesto College will increase
course*

*retention, increase academic achievement, increase the completion rate
of students*

*taking math remediation, and increase the academic achievement rate of
first time*

*freshman students.*

***2. Reduce Inter-institutional Barriers that Inhibit Transfer --**
This activity will establish*

*a comprehensive database tracking system to evaluate the major goals of
this project.*

***Rio Hondo College***

***3600 Workman Mill Road***

***Whittier, CA 90601***

*Type/Control: 2-Year/Public*

*Project Director: Judith Henderson*

*Phone: (562) 692-0921*

*Fax: (562) 562-7386*

*Email: <jhenderson@rh.cc.ca.us>*

*Award Amount: \$586,592*

*Total Student FTE: 3,715*

*Percent Hispanic FTE: 69%*

***Activity Description: Teacher Education Program --** Rio Hondo
College in partnership with Whittier College will (1) develop a model
articulation and admission agreement in order to provide more transfer
opportunities to a four-year college, (2) increase retention and
persistence rates by developing a structured series of lower division
general education and teacher preparation classes, and providing
"success teams" to assist students in achieving their goals, (3)
increase retention, matriculation , and success between community
colleges and four-year institutions through development of a "transfer
shock" prevention plan, and (4) establish an endowment chair for teacher
education.*

######## Santa Ana College

***1530 W. 17^th^ Street***

***Santa Ana, CA 92706***

*Type/Control: 2-Year/Public*

*Project Director: Irene Malmgren*

*Phone: (714) 564-6078*

*Fax:* *(714) 564-6086*

*Email: <malmgren.irene@rsccd.org>*

*Award Amount: \$644,239*

*Total Student FTE: 8,986*

*Percent Hispanic FTE: 50%*

***Description of Activity:***

***A Collaboration to Prepare Hispanic Students to Become Highly
Qualified and Effective Teachers --** Santa Ana College in partnership
with Fullerton College and California State University, Fullerton, will
develop Transfer Blended Teacher Education Program centers for future
teachers at the partner institutions. Electronic tracking and
educational planning tools will be developed to ensure successful
intervention and retention strategies.*

######## 

######## NEW MEXICO

***Eastern New Mexico University***

***Station 2***

***Portales, NW 88130***

*Type/Control: 4-Year/Public*

*Project Director: Patrice Caldwell*

*Phone: (505) 562-2315*

*Fax: (505) 562-2244*

*Email: <Patrice.Caldwell@enmu.edu>*

*Award Amount: \$563,805*

*Total Student FTE: 2,686*

*Percent Hispanic FTE: 29.6%*

***Description of Activities:***

Eastern New Mexico University in partnership with Clovis Community
College will address the following issues:

-   ***Improving Completion and Transfer Success --** This activity is
    designed to improve student success and retention to transfer and
    degree completion by expanding campuses' ability to provide timely
    advising, academic support, and ease of transfer through coordinated
    curriculum, programs, and institutional practices.*

-   ***Enhancing Faculty/Staff Expertise --** This activity is designed
    to enhance faculty awareness of issues of cultural fluency and
    distance learning technologies through professional development
    activities that will increase the success of Hispanic and low-income
    students.*

-   ***Effective Distance Education --** This activity is designed to
    provide state-of-the-art video-conferencing for Hispanic and
    low-income students in rural and significantly under-served rural
    areas and to place support services to facilitate course delivery
    and two-campus faculty collaboration.*

######## PUERTO RICO

***Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico***

***2250 Avenue Las Americas***

***Ponce, PR 00717***

*Type/Control: 4-Year/Private*

*Project Director: Mara Gautier*

*Phone: (787) 841-2000, ext. 1589/1590*

*Fax: (787) 651-0777*

*Email: <mgautier@email.pucpr.edu>*

*Award Amount: \$562,553*

*Total Student FTE: 5,795*

*Percent Hispanic FTE: 100%*

***Description of Activity:***

*Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico-Arecibo(PCUPR), Ponce, in
partnership with PCUPR-Mayaguez, Inter-American University-Guyama, and
Escuela de Artes Plastica will implement the following activity:*

-   ***Exploiting Technology to Provide Support for Students Relating to
    Core Curriculum and General Education --** This activity has three
    sub-components and is designed to focus on technology to provide
    support for students as it relates to core curriculum and general
    education:*

    1.  *Develop an effective training program for faculty to utilize
        technology for teaching and related activities;*

    2.  *Develop and implement a curriculum and curricular support to
        improve retention;*

    3.  *Improve partnership technological infra-structure relating to
        those elements that support Internet use the first two
        sub-components.*

######## University of Puerto Rico-Cayey

***Antonio R. Barcelo Avenue***

***Cayey, PR 00736***

*Type/Control: 4-Year/Public*

*Project Director: Ram Lamba*

*Phone: (787) 738-2161*

*Fax: (787) 738-8510*

*Email: <rlamba@cayey.upr.edu>*

*Award Amount: \$589,553*

*Total Student FTE: 4,796*

*Percent Hispanic FTE: 100%*

***Description of Activity:***

*University of Puerto Rico-Cayey in partnership with the University of
Puerto Rico- Ponce, and the University of Puerto Rico-Bayamon will
implement the following activity:*

-   ***Increasing Student Academic Achievement Through Curricular
    Revision, Integrated Academic Support Systems, and Faculty
    Development --** This activity is designed to establish an Teacher
    Learning Center at each partner institution. Each center will
    provide professional development services to faculty and
    instructional staff and revise and implement twelve Language, Math
    and Science courses as leaning communities designed to develop and
    academic culture of achievement.*

######## University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras

***P. O. Box 23341***

***San Juan, PR 00931***

*Type/Control: 4-Year/Public*

*Project Director: Brad Weiner*

*Phone: (787) 765-5170*

*Fax: (787) 756-7717*

*Email: <brad@adam.upr.pr>*

*Award Amount: \$562,995*

*Total Student FTE: 16,617*

*Percent Hispanic FTE: 100%*

######## Description of Activity: University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras in partnership with University of Puerto Rico- Arecibo, and University of Puerto Rico-Humacao implement the following activity which has three sub-components: 

-   ***Improving Academic Outcomes for Science/Math Students Through a
    Technology-Based Consortium Program --***

1.  *Develop and implement a permanent training program for faculty to
    use technology for activities supporting math and science
    education;*

2.  *Develop and implement curricular support components to improve
    student retention and other student outcomes with emphasis on
    student-centered approaches to learning; and*

3.  *Improve the technological infrastructure of partner institution's
    as related to the first two sub-components.*

## TEXAS

***Houston Community College***

***HCCS-NW 1550 Fox Lake***

***Houston, TX 77084***

*Type/Control: 2-Year/Public*

*Project Director: Juan Carlos Reina*

*Phone: (713) 718-5841*

*Fax: (713) 718-5761*

*Email: <Juan.Reina@hccs.edu>*

*Award Amount: \$524,644*

*Total Student FTE: 23,705*

*Percent Hispanic: FTE: 28.8%*

***Description of Activity:** Houston Community College in partnership
with the University of Houston-Downtown will implement the following
activity:*

-   ***Faculty Leadership Program --** This activity is designed to
    focus on the need to decrease remedial education for increasing
    numbers of low-income, first-generation minority students entering
    college, and to improve their retention, persistence, and transfer.
    This will be accomplished through a partnership Faculty Leadership
    Program which will combine professional development for public
    school teachers, counselors, and college faculty with shared
    follow-up and shared resources by Faculty Teams in key disciplines
    and subjects.*

######## Our Lady of the Lake University

***411 SW 24^th^ Street***

***San Antonio, TX 78297***

*Type/Control: 4-Year/Private*

*Project Director: Yvette Benavides*

*Phone: (210) 434-6711*

*Fax: (210) 436-0824*

*Email: <benay@lake.ollusa.edu>*

*Award Amount: \$569,680*

*Total Student FTE: 1,753*

*Percent Hispanic FTE: 70%*

***Description of Activity:** Our Lady of the Lake University in
partnership with St. Edward's University will implement the following
activity:*

-   *Improve overall institutional effectiveness by improving
    instructional/student learning outcomes, improving student services
    outcomes, improving outcomes of administrative processes, improving
    public service outcomes, and improving research productivity.*

-   *Increase undergraduate student retention and development of a joint
    web-site on retention of Hispanic students*

######## University of Texas at El Paso

***500 West University***

***El Paso, TX 79968***

*Type/Control: 4-Year/Public*

*Project Director: Maggy Smith*

*Phone: (915) 747-5151*

*Fax: (915) 747-5012*

*Email: <msmith@utep.edu>*

*Award Amount: \$573,592*

*Total Student FTE: 12,910*

*Total Hispanic FTE: 73.3%*

***Description of Activity:** The University of Texas at El Paso in
partnership with El Paso Community College will implement the following
activity:*

-   ***Development of a Joint Transfer Program --** This activity has
    three components is designed to:*

1.  *Develop technology infrastructure to enable EPCC to students to
    self-direct their transfers to the UTEP'*

2.  *Develop a Transfer Center at EPCC and expand that center to UTEP;
    and*

3.  *Develop Transfer Seminars.*

######## University of Texas at San Antonio

***6900 North Loop 1604W***

***San Antonio, TX 78249***

*Type/Control: 4-Year/Public*

*Project Director: Blandina Cardenas*

*Phone: (210) 458-4370*

*Fax: (210) 458-4487*

*Email: <bcardenas@utsa.edu>*

*Award Amount: \$586,590*

*Total Student FTE: 18,204*

*Percent Hispanic FTE: 46.8%*

***Description of Activity:** The University of Texas at San Antonio in
partnership with San Antonio College will implement the following
activity:*

-   ***Improvement of Teacher Preparation Through Creation of an Academy
    for Teacher Excellence --** This activity has four subcomponents and
    is designed to provide:*

1.  *Student academic support*

2.  *Faculty curriculum development*

3.  *School partnerships/field experience*

4.  *Research and dissemination of teacher preparation "best practices"*

######### CROSS REFERENCES -- WHO'S DOING WHAT NETWORK LIST

## DEVELOPMENT GRANTS

######## Academic Achievement

***Assisting Student Transfer Students***

***Counseling/Tutoring***

***Curriculum Development***

***Distance Education***

***Endowment***

***Faculty/Staff Development***

***Remediation Instruction***

***Student Retention/Persistence***

***Strengthening Fiscal Stability***