departments & programs academic departments adult & higher education research & extension grantsExternally and Internally Sponsored Grants
The faculty of the Department of Adult & Higher Education have received the following grants:
Akroyd
Principal Investigator. National Science Foundation (currently in 5th year) $967,049. Develop an on line graduate certificate program in Community College Teaching for faculty in North Carolina and South Carolina who teach in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics) related areas.
Bartlett
- Co-Principal Investigator, Society for Human Resource Management “Strategic HRD: A Case Study Perspective” Funded, $6,000. Submitted August 2007.
- Developed case study that integrated HRD and community college.
- Principal Investigator, Society for Human Resource Management “Integrating an HRIS: SHRM Learning Modules and Case Study” Funded, $10,000. Submitted June 2007.
- Developed in depth learning modules for HRIS for HR professionals.
Bowles
Mitchell Kapor Foundation, $10,000. ADVANCE-ENG Girls to Women: An Innovative Engineering Faculty-Student Mentoring Summit for Underrepresented Minority (URM) Girls and Their Mothers (Principal Investigator: Christine Grant).
Bracken
- Principal Investigator, NC State University Institute for Nonprofits, North Carolina State University, $4,000. “Women’s giving circles: Understanding and building capacity for social change.” Co-investigator: B. Metelsky
- Co-Principal Investigator: National Science Foundation, $511,000. “MOSS: Markers of Stem Success. An eleven-year longitudinal study of high achieving young women’s interests, experiences, and preparation for STEM careers” Three-year grant beginning August 2005.
- Principal investigator: Berenson, S. Co-Invesitagors: Bracken, Vouk & Woodard.
- Senior Researcher, National Science Foundation (NSF), $967,049, “Online Certificate Programs in STEM Community College Teaching”. Principal investigator is Dr. Duane Akroyd.
- External Evaluator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), $101,607 “An Innovative Collaboration Involving NASA’s Office of Biological and Physical Research, NASA Langley and North Carolina 4-H” Co-principal Investigator is Benjamin Silliman, North Carolina State University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service.
- Principal Investigator, North Carolina State University Research Committee, $4,000.00 “Understanding organizational and socio-cultural identities in the scholarship of engagement process” from January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2005.
- Under Development: National Science Foundation CCLI proposal, $2 million (principal investigator); FIPSE flow-through grant on CES, $15,000 (co-principal investigator)
Chapman
- NCSU Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning Instructional Grant, $2772.50. Development of Podcasts in Evaluation, Principle Investigator.
- LITRE Project Grant, $25,000. Research on student learning from the development of virtual learning environments used in courses, Co-investigator with Len Annetta and Julia Storberg-Walker.
Hatcher
- WakeMed, $25,000 - This project combines a traditional return on investment (ROI) evaluation with an innovative strategy focusing on the development of social capital. The faculty researchers have been hired to conduct an evaluative study on one of WakeMed’s workforce development programs (Health Career Pathways II, or HCPII) We seek to understand how individual and organizational social capital may have increased as a result of the workforce development program. Funding extended to Fall 07.Project Lead and PI.
NC - Sea Grant – FRG Grant $75,000“Recreation Value and Socio-Economic Impacts of the North Carolina For-Hire Recreational Fishing Fleets” Dumas, C. (UNCW), Herstine, J (UNCW), Hatcher, T (NCSU), Whitehead, J. (ASU), Landry, F. (ECU), & Whitaker, R (NC Watermans United). Submitted to NC Sea Grant. Proposal decisions in Feb, 07. Project Member.
Jaeger
Association for Institutional Research (AIR) (with support from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the National Postsecondary Education Cooperative (NPEC) $30,000. “Connecting Faculty Employment Status and Student Outcomes at Community Colleges,” Principal Investigator.
Storberg-Walker
- National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, $10,566, Continuation of Judicial Learning Research Project
- DELTA Litre Grant Co-PI on VOLT (Virtual Online Learning through Technology) Project.
Wiessner
EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative New Learning Project for the ELI Annual Event: registration, travel expenses, room and board for a ten person research team – 10,000, January 2007. PI.
