Note: This is a copy of the actual form I used while I was the Title V grant coordinator at the College of Mount Saint Vincent 2001, Riverdale, New York. The entire grant was 160 pages long and no one at the College wanted to read it. A previous Dean of Students wrote it with several faculty and then left on medical leave and never returned. The College won the award in September 2000, but had no President in place. A faculty member was acting President at the time and the new President Charles Flynn was not hired until January 2001.
I was hired six months after the grant started in May 1, 2001.
Dr. Pelham Mead , ED.D.
GRANT APPLICATION FOR THE
HISPANIC-SERVING INSTITUTIONS PROGRAM
Title V, Higher Education Act, as amended FORM APPROVED
OMB No.: 1840-0745
EXP. DATE: 3/31/03
Cooperative Activity Objectives and Performance Indicators
NAME OF APPLICANT INSTITUTION:
College of Mount Saint Vincent
ACTIVITY TITLE: Breaking down the Digital Divide for Hispanic and other minority, or below poverty level students to achieve better college performance
MAJOR OBJECTIVES IN MEASURABLE TERMS
PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
- To encourage Hispanic and other minority or below poverty level students from Manhattan Borough Community College, NYC, to transfer after graduating to the College of Mount Saint Vincent as a full time matriculating student.
2- To remove the digital divide between affluent student who have their own computers and Hispanic, minority and poor students who do not own a computer.
3- To overcome the lack of sufficient LAN connections around the College of Mount Saint Vincent for students to get to the internet of online software. To battle the digital divide in having sufficient places for internet connections for laptop computers.
4.-To overcome a lack of LAN connections in the Dorms and to reduce redundant wiring for repairing old LAN and installing new LAN connections at a higher cost.
- In the spirit of removing the digital divide the College will make Wireless less expensive so that all students can afford to buy a wireless card.
1.- By Oct. 2004, The full-time enrollment of Hispanic, minority and below poverty level students will increase at the College of Mount Saint Vincent by 20 transfer students.
2.- By Oct. 2004, twenty (20) new laptops computers with printers and wireless LAN card, will have been purchased and distributed to incoming Manhattan Borough Community College incoming transfer students who qualify as Hispanic, minority or below poverty level.
- By Dec. 2004, five (5) new wireless transmitting stations will be installed in the College Think Tank room on the Second floor, the student lounge on the first floor, Pastorini hall on the first floor, Smith hall on the 2nd floor of the Administration building and in the student café on the first floor.
- By Dec. 2004, at least two wireless transmitting stations will be installed on each floor of Alumni Hall dorm, Mary Seton Dorm, Cardinal Spellman Dorm and Merrimac Dorm to allow access for all residents in the on campus dorms to the LAN system without adding addition and costly wiring and to reduce future repairs.
- As of August 2004, The College of Mount Saint Vincent will provide a reduced rate wireless PC or MAC card for laptop computers for all students in the College bookstore
ED FORM 851S-2
GRANT APPLICATION FOR THE
HISPANIC-SERVING INSTITUTIONS PROGRAM
Title V, Higher Education Act, as amended FORM APPROVED
OMB No.: 1840-0745
EXP. DATE: 3/31/03
Cooperative Activity Objectives and Performance Indicators NAME OF APPLICANT INSTITUTION:
College of Mount Saint Vincent
ACTIVITY TITLE: Breaking down the Digital Divide for Hispanic and other minority, or below poverty level students to achieve better college performance
MAJOR OBJECTIVES IN MEASURABLE TERMS
PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
- To remove the digital divide in lack of educational technology services for transfer students and Freshman.
- Hispanic Students and other minorities are falling through the cracks in terms of educational Technology support. Language challenged Hispanics, slow learners; unclassified disadvantaged students all require educational Technology training for at least one year.
- A method of reaching out to Hispanic students both transfers and Freshman needs to be put in place as to educational technology barriers.
- Hispanic students and other minorities need to be tracked with electronic portfolios to record their success and or problems in classes.
- Hispanic students are under-represented in enrollment in the College Teacher Education program. A severe shortage of certified Hispanic Teachers exists in NYC, the Bronx and all boroughs for Hispanic teacher role models to work with Hispanic teachers.
- As of August of the year 2004 ,the Freshman Orientation course will be modified to teach better teach Hispanic students and all minority students by expanding to include brief Coursettes of 3 hrs. each in Powerpoint, Word, Excel and Access.
- As of August of the year 2004 the College will establish an extension of the TLC office called the Student Educational Technology Office (Alcunsar-to reach out in Spanish) to provide one hour training sessions for all Hispanics students and other underserved minorities. This office will not try to duplicate what the College Academic center does with tutoring. Its mission will be to coordinate the Laptop loan program, organize the teaching schedule for all Hispanic transfer students and Freshman to allow them to learn Word, Powerpoint, Access and Excel. This office will be under the supervision of the Director of the TLC program, Dr. Pel Mead who has two years of teaching Professors in a Title V, HIS Grant.
- Beginning in Oct. 2004, all Hispanic students who are part of the Laptop loan program will be mandated to take one hour a week (twice a month) for no credit to learn educational software to help them achieve better in academic disciplines. A trained group of TLC Professors will be hired to conduct the software training sessions. The existing ½ time TLC staff Christine Servando and PyLiv Sun will be upgraded to full time with the Cooperative Grant providing full benefits and ½ time employment to add up to full time with the existing TLC employment for 5 years. (the length of the Cooperative Grant).
- By Oct. 2004, the existing blackboard system that the College has in place will be used to set up electronic portfolios for every Hispanic and under-represented minority to track their progress, and to increase the method of support and help in software instruction.
- By Oct. 2004 the increase in enrollment in the Teacher Education program will help that College department to grow and offer more programs to its majors. It will also serve a teacher shortage in Hispanic teachers in New York City and local areas in New York State. At the enrollment rises the Colleges promises to increase the Teacher Education faculty and courses toward Teacher Certification.
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ED FORM 851S-2
GRANT APPLICATION FOR THE
HISPANIC-SERVING INSTITUTIONS PROGRAM
Title V, Higher Education Act, as amended FORM APPROVED
OMB No.: 1840-0745
EXP. DATE: 3/31/03
Cooperative Activity Objectives and Performance Indicators NAME OF APPLICANT INSTITUTION:
College of Mount Saint Vincent
ACTIVITY TITLE: Breaking down the Digital Divide for Hispanic and other minority, or below poverty level students to achieve better college performance
MAJOR OBJECTIVES IN MEASURABLE TERMS
PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
ED FORM 851S-2
