Clinton Professors Chosen to Receive SUNY Grant

Thursday, August 09, 2012

ALBANY, N.Y. (August 9, 2012) Clinton Community College is recognizing two of its faculty members for being chosen by SUNY to receive an Innovative Instruction Technology Grant.

Clinton Community College President John E. Jablonski said, “We are so proud of the good work Amy and Nathan are doing on campus. Their willingness to innovate is commendable and gratefully acknowledged.”

Assistant Professors of English Amy T. Dohm and Nathan A. Franklin received a Tier One grant to fund a “Non-Profit Community Partner Service Project.” Tier One grants fund projects up to $10,000. Of the 48 awards handed out, only four went to Community Colleges.

“The exciting thing about the SUNY Innovative Instruction Technology Grant is that it will provide English 101 students the opportunity to intervene in a specific writing or rhetorical situation beyond classroom walls.” Assistant Professor of English Nathan A. Franklin said.

Assistant Professor of English and Principal Investigator Amy T. Dohm said, “Receiving a SUNY Innovative Instruction Technology Grant is a great honor. Students will have an opportunity to work with local non-profit organizations to create a marketing brochure and presentation for the organization. I have asked students to participate in this kind of ENG 101 project before, and it was successful for all those involved.”

The State University of New York recently announced recipients of the 2012 Innovative Instruction Technology Grants (IITG) program, which funds campus innovations and initiatives that have the potential to be replicated throughout the SUNY system and benefit students and faculty worldwide.

IITG is a competitive grants program open to SUNY faculty and support staff across all disciplines. IITG encourages development of innovations that meet The Power of SUNY’s transformative vision. Grant recipients will openly share project outcomes, enabling SUNY colleagues to replicate and build upon an innovation.

SUNY Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher said, “This new competitive grants program will enable partnerships across SUNY to leverage technology as a means to educate students. It serves as an excellent example of the power of SUNY to realize efficiencies through the sharing of resources and instructional partnerships within our system.”

SUNY Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost David K. Lavallee, who administers the program, said, “The IITG program puts SUNY is a position to support specific projects on our campuses that have the potential to be implemented elsewhere in the system, to the greater benefit of our faculty, staff, and students across New York. Congratulations to all of this year’s awardees.”

Of the 117 proposals submitted, 48 were selected to receive awards across three different funding tiers. These awards will foster study and development of educational gaming tools, e-textbooks, online classes, e-portfolios for lifelong learning, and more.

Several projects included collaborations by two or more campuses and/or with local organizations and businesses. A complete list of grant-funded projects is available at www.suny.edu

All projects included an assessment and communications plan to ensure that the new innovations can be openly shared and replicated across SUNY. Funded projects demonstrating potential for multi-campus use will be eligible to apply for additional funds in 2013.

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