Project Grant P047A220484

The College Dreams organization will provide educational talent search services through the $554,750 Project Grant award from the Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education. The two-year grant funds the PROJECT YOUTH+ EDUCATIONAL TALENT SEARCH program from September 2021 through August 2023 under the TRIO Talent Search federal grant program (CFDA #84.044). Through this program, College Dreams will identify qualified disadvantaged youth with potential for postsecondary...

The U.S. Department of Education has awarded a $299,036 TRIO Upward Bound Program grant (CFDA 84.047) to Ohlone Community College District, doing business as Ohlone College, to provide academic support services. This one-year project grant, effective September 1, 2023, aims to generate the skills and motivation necessary for low-income and potential first-generation college students to succeed in education beyond high school. The Upward Bound program offers a range of support to prepare these...

This federal Project Grant award from the Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (CFDA 84.116) provides $602,500.00 to Simmons College of Kentucky in Louisville, KY to support the "OVERPASS PROJECT: UPLIFTING STUDENT ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE". The grant funds will be used by the minority-serving, non-profit institution to deliver educational instruction, resources, and support services to its students, faculty, and local community through June 2026....

This Project Grant award of $344,033 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) was made to the University Enterprises, Inc. (doing business as Sacramento State Sponsored Research) at California State University, Sacramento. The project, titled "PROJECT-SOAR: INVESTIGATING STUDENTS' (S) ONLINE SELF-EFFICACY (O), ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE (A) AND COURSE REDESIGN (R) - BUILDING MY CAPACITY IN SCIENCE EDUCATION RESEARCH", aims to study how student...

The National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.070 - Computer and Information Science and Engineering) awarded a $299,912 Project Grant to Chico State Enterprises, a Minority Institution and Hispanic Serving Institution, to fund the "Embedding Representation, Relevance, and Equity in a Personalized System of Instruction" project. This 2-year collaboration between California State University, Chico and the University of California, Santa Barbara will develop instructional videos featuring...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program provides $139,999 to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to implement and study the effectiveness of a "Circle of Champions" framework in supporting the academic success of Latina/o STEM students at Gavilan College. The project aims to leverage students' social capital and community wealth to enhance their academic outcomes, with a focus on: 1) advancing the...

This $595,227 National Science Foundation project grant supports the University Enterprises, Inc. dba Sacramento State Sponsored Research to implement the PROJECT-ACE program. PROJECT-ACE aims to enhance engineering students' identity, self-efficacy and sense of belonging through active learning pedagogy in six core electrical, electronic and computer engineering courses along critical paths. This supports the NSF STEM Education program's goal of improving STEM education effectiveness for all...

This $2,500,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will fund the "Creating Pathways to Computing Careers through Experiential and Engaged Learning" project at California State University - San Bernardino. Over 5 years, the project will provide 150 scholarships to support 30 high-achieving, low-income students annually pursuing computing degrees. The project aims to increase retention and graduation of these students,...

The U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences awarded a $947,891.89 Project Grant under the Research in Special Education program (CFDA 84.324) to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside. The grant, titled "Project I-SMART: Intervention to Support Mindset and Reading Together," will fund research aimed at improving academic and behavioral outcomes for students with or at risk of disabilities. The project will run from September 18, 2024, to...

The Shasta Union High School District in Redding, CA received a $145,200 Formula Grant award from the Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education. The grant was awarded on July 1, 2022 under the Indian Education Grants to Local Educational Agencies program (CFDA 84.060). The grant funds will support the Shasta Union High School District in addressing the unique educational and culturally related academic needs of Indian students. Specifically, the district will use the...