Spring Awards
Leadership Series Debbie Adams and Linda Holcomb - Business & Marketing - $250.00
During the 2004-2005 year, Linda and Debbie have supervised monthly meetings as part of their institutional service. These meetings, for faculty, staff, and students, have had topics like How to Go to Law School, Marketing Yourself, Understanding Your Credit Report, and Opportunities at the Port of Houston. These lunch meetings have become so successful that the money supporting them has been spent. The mini-grant fund will pay for small honorariums for future speakers and for flyers.
CE Adjunct Faculty Certification Robin Garrett - Director CE Technology Programs - $390
Microsoft Office, AutoCAD, A+, Micromedia, and MCDST instructors must maintain their certifications to be able to teach. This can become costly from year to year. Robin has requested and received $390 which will pay for three adjunct instructors to take their certification exams. Thanks to Robin for caring about the adjunct instructors. We would have liked to fund even more.
Resume Express Cora Ann Williams - Speech - $100
Cora Ann will lead speech students in creating resumes for participants at the April 13th Lone Star College-Kingwood Job Fair. This service learning project will help strengthen communication and interview skills for speech students and will enable more students to interview for jobs with a well constructed resume in hand.
Media Cart Mary Johnson, David Kirkland, Jim Derankhshandeh - CIT - $500
CIT has opened a new certification in Gaming. Mary requested a 'game cart' containing television, console, and games, for the computer gurus to use as show and tell to introductory computer classes in an effort to market the new Gaming Certification. When the media cart is not being used for demonstrations, it can be used by the gaming students in the classroom.
Adjunct Mentoring for Online Courses Linda Holcomb and Debbie Adams - Business, Management, Accounting, Logistics, Professional Office & Marketing - $1050
Currently, over 60% of the Business and Professional Office Department courses are taught online. Linda and Debbie have been overwhelmed with requests for help by new online instructors. By providing additional training for the Level I Distance Learning Certification required by district, Debbie and Linda feel instructors will have a better support system and will gain confidence quickly in this new teaching venue. The grant will help provide a mentor for new DL faculty during the first semester they teach.
BMI (Body Mass Indicator) as an Iindicator of Health and Student Success Stacy Walker - Psychology and Lutricia Harrison - Nursing $150
Stacy and Lutricia plan to establish baseline data regarding Body Mass Index and level of college success. Their life span and nursing students will participate in this study. Once the baseline data is established, they will do an experiment which determines a cause and effect relationship between the two variables. They will distribute health literature to all students. This should be an interesting project for the psych and nursing students. The grant will pay for needed equipment.