Title III HBCU and Future Act Activities

Transform and Streamline Technology Solutions, Services, and Institutional Processes

John Wilson

Description
This activity is focused on improving the technology infrastructure of the College and streamlining processes to better serve students, faculty, and staff thereby enhancing the customer experience, improving service quality, and establishing a digitalized campus.

Component A: Strengthening Competencies in General Education and the Major

Dr. Dolores Bradley Brennan

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Humanities
Dr. Kathleen Phillips-Lewis

Description
This activity aims to enhance academic quality within the Division of Humanities through the provision of instructional aids, curricular and co-curricular development and integration, and the enhancement of pedagogical approaches with a focus on digital humanities.

Sub Activity
Social Sciences
Dr. Tinaz Pavri

Strengthening Competencies in General Education and the Major – Social Sciences

Description
This activity seeks to strengthen student outcomes in the Division of Social Sciences through course enhancements and by engaging faculty and students in intellectual co-curricular activities.

Sub Activity

Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Dr. Leyte Winfield

Description

To achieve the College’s academic aims, it is necessary to attract and retain high quality faculty who keep abreast of best practices, engage in research and scholarship, and who remain engaged in professional communities, especially as it relates to promoting student achievement and retention. A major component of this activity provides opportunities for faculty to advance the strategic goals of the College through support of faculty professional development and course enhancements. This activity supports the College’s efforts to transform traditional classrooms into active learning spaces to provide a technology-rich, collaborative, and engaging educational experience for students. Active learning spaces support an exceptional learning experience, which results in a range of improved student learning outcomes, including greater knowledge and application of the course content.

 

Strengthening Academic Advising and Supplemental Instruction

Dr. Myra Burnett

Description
This activity undergirds efforts to Deliver the Spelman Promise and promote student success by providing tools and training for advisors to facilitate the implementation of early intervention strategies. This activity also helps to ensure that students have access to readily-available tutoring and other forms of supplemental instruction (e.g., Student Success and WiSTEM Summer Bridge programs).

 

 

Enhancing Field-Based Teacher Preparation

Dr. Nicole Taylor

Description: This activity supports course enhancements and faculty professional development in the Education department to enhance field experiences and to ensure curricular offerings remain current and appropriate, so students are prepared to successfully complete and pass teacher education assessments.

 

Enhancing Institutional Effectiveness (Merged with Activity 3)

 

 

Project Administration and Evaluation

Helga Greenfield

Description
This activity ensures that Title III funded activities are:

1. In full compliance with federal guidelines, regulations and institutional policies

2. Implemented as described in the Comprehensive Development Plan (CDP)

3. Work collaboratively with faculty, staff, and administrators to ensure that activities align with the institutional priorities set forth in the College’s strategic plan

4. Monitor activity progress to ensure substantial progress is made toward the achievement of stated objectives

5. Ensure that Title III funds are expended to facilitate the achievement of objectives that strengthen the institution and/or enhance student outcomes

6. Monitor the effectiveness of activity implementation and the achievement of intended outcomes

 

 

Strengthening Spelman College’s Research Initiatives

Dr. Tasha Inniss

Description
This activity supports professional development to enhance the knowledge and skills of staff in the Office of Research, Innovation and Collaboration (ORIC). Staff in ORIC utilize knowledge gained to provide support and guidance to faculty, staff, and students who are working on research and scholarly activities. Research and grantsmanship workshops offered by ORIC provides faculty with knowledge of federal funding opportunities, information needed to comply with funding requirements, and resources to effectively manage grant awards.

Enhancing Excellence of Minority Women in STEM

Dr. Tamara Pearson

Description
To goal of this activity is to strengthen Spelman College’s STEM programming by supporting a Center of Excellence for Minority Women in STEM (COE-MWS) that provides research and professional development opportunities students and faculty.

 

 

The Spelman College Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP): Spelman Pathways – Creating Your Path to Life and Career Excellence

Dr. Venetta Coleman

Description
This activity aims to establish the Finding Your PLACE (FYP) Pathway for the College’s Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP). The FYP Pathway incorporates important milestones that guide students through experiences that are intended to enhance the student’s preparation for internships and a balanced post-baccalaureate life and career.

 

 

Enhancing Matriculation Pathways: Cross Collaborative Student Support Services

Dawn Alston

Description
This activity enhances the student experience related to registration, bill payment and enrollment. Specifically, the College seeks to: 1) improve the ability of students to easily view and understand account balances and 2) improve the process by which students are financially cleared, which includes providing students with notification of clearance (or non-clearance) and notifying students when course schedules are dropped/added. This activity also supports the College’s efforts to safely re-open the campus by providing support for COVID-19 testing.

Development of Virtual International Research and Intercultural Engagement for Faculty

Dr. Dimeji Togunde 

Description

This activity is intended to build upon efforts to support student and faculty international engagement with a focus on utilizing technology to facilitate virtual global interactions between Spelman students and students from other countries. The goal of this activity is to increase the number of internationally focused courses with an emphasis on virtual engagement and to support faculty research pertaining to understanding local-global connections.

 

 

Enhancing STEAM Education with Innovation, Collaboration and Technology
Dr. Dolores Bradley Brennan
 

Description

This activity aims to enhance courses, labs, research programs, and co-curricular offerings in STEAM disciplines. Another goal of this activity is to support faculty and staff whose area of expertise and research meet at the intersection of innovation, collaboration, and technology. Lastly, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the virtual instruction initiative provides faculty with resources to implement high-impact pedagogical practices, interwoven with student-centered technology to enable hybrid teaching for students taking classes on campus and online. These efforts are intended to ensure that students continue to receive an outstanding educational experience.

Sub Activity 
The Division of Arts | Dr. Ayoka Chenzira

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Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Dr. Leyte Winfield