GRANT NEWS
By CCTIMES, Published November 6, 2009

Joliet Junior College (Illinois) received a $178,700 Child Care Access Means Parents in School grant from the U.S. Department of Education.  The college will use the grant to subsidize child care for low-income parents enrolled at the college.

Lehigh Carbon Community College (LCCC) in Pennsylvania also recently received a federal Child Care Access Means Parents in School grant. The college will use the four-year, $164,568 grant to provide child care scholarships for Pell-eligible students to enroll their preschool children in LCCC’s early learning center or subsidize the cost of child care services at off-campus child care facilities.

LCCC also received two grants from the Pennsylvania Higher Education Foundation for nursing scholarships. The nursing education grant will provide $48,358 for scholarships to students in the nursing and practical nursing programs and the $8,547 grant will go toward scholarships for disadvantaged students in the nursing programs.

Portland Community College (PCC) in Oregon received a $1 million state grant for its Net Zero energy efficiency plan at its Sylvania Campus. The first phase of the funding will go toward identifying improvements at the 47-year-old College Center Building. The total cost of the efficiency plan is projected at $15.4 million, with PCC contributing $9.7 million. The project will create 228 jobs.

 The Technical College of the Lowcountry (TCL) in South Carolina was recently awarded a $593,242 grant from the U.S. Department of Education to fund Project BAAM, a program to improve the math skills of African-American students. The college will use the grant to buy new computers and math software to help improve basic and advanced math skills.

Bergen Community College (BCC) received a $300,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women for a three-year project to implement programs to prevent violence against women and other potentially at-risk members of the community and to provide support for victims of violence on campus. The plan includes:  organizing a violence prevention task force on campus; developing educational programs for students about stalking, dating violence and sexual assault; and providing ongoing training for administration and staff to deal with situations involving violence against women.

Arizona Western College (AWC) and the Yuma Branch Campus of Northern Arizona University (NAU-Yuma) received a $499,976 state grant through the Yuma Violence Prevention Program to develop and strengthen effective responses to violence on campus. The efforts are designed to enhance victim services, implement prevention and education programs and develop and strengthen security and investigation strategies to prevent and respond to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking crimes on campus. 

The Community College of Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) recently received a $1.2 million challenge grant from the Kresge Foundation for its capital campaign, which includes one of the first LEED-certified buildings at a higher education institution in Philadelphia. The College must secure $2.1 million by June 2011 to receive the foundation grant.

Two campuses of the Riverside Community College District in California will share a $2.9 million, five-year federal Title V grant to promote program expansion and academic success among low-income and Hispanic students. The Moreno Valley Campus will use the funds to improve and expand its public safety education and training program, which prepares students for careers in law enforcement, corrections and firefighting. The Norco Campus will use its funds to upgrade its gaming lab and add a game design and game programming track to its game art associate degree and certificate program.

Mohave Community College (MCC) in Arizona received a $499,253 U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Utility Services Distance Learning and Telemedicine Grant to establish interactive television classrooms for college-level instruction at three local schools.

Nassau Community College (NCC) in New York was awarded a $525,359 Perkins Grant to expand academic, vocational and technical skills of secondary and postsecondary students who enroll in vocational-technical education.

Folsom Lake College (California) received a $285,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support the development of “computational thinking” (CT) elements and strategies that can serve as a curriculum model for other two-year colleges. The Computer and Information Science Education Path award will fund several demonstration projects for teaching CT in several academic disciplines. CT is a set of skills developed in computer science and related disciplines but applicable to a variety of real-world problem-solving tasks and projects associated with any academic discipline.

Arapahoe Community College (ACC) in Colorado this year has received more than $25,000 in grants from the Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation, which supports the positive development of young children in Colorado. Recently, the foundation awarded ACC a $5,500 grant to help subsidize child care costs at the college’s child development center for students who are facing tuition hardships and have young children.

Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC) in North Carolina received a $50,000 grant from the Bank of America Charitable Foundation to support its Pathways to Employment program, which prepares students to enter the workforce. The grant will provide about 50 CPCC students with scholarships.