Grants Awarded in Fiscal Year 2005

This initiative will provide funding for the Otterbein-Indianola Mentoring Program, an award-winning initiative that serves over 200 middle school students by enhancing their academic success, developing responsibility and citizenship, and encouraging their interest and accessibility to college.

Funding of this project assists M.S.N. students in Adult Health Care to prepare for advanced nursing practice in rural and urban health care settings that serve diverse populations.

This initiative will continue funding the Otterbein-Indianola Mentoring Program, an award-winning initiative that serves over 200 middle school students by enhancing their academic success, developing responsibility and citizenship, and encouraging their interest and accessibility to college.

For continued annual scholarship support for students majoring in Business Administration and/or Social Sciences.

Cognitively Guided Instruction (CGI) is a mathematics program that integrates research findings on how children think about numbers with findings on how teachers use this knowledge to make instructional decisions. This is a proposal to expand the positive results already achieved in 10 elementary schools within the Columbus Public Schools (CPS) through previously funded activities.

The Ohio Arts Council, Otterbein College and Zygote Press of Cleveland will coordinate an exhibition of prints by German and American artists who have participated in the international printmaking residency exchange in Dresden, Germany and Cleveland, Ohio. The exhibition will build upon an earlier exhibition entitled "Foreign Affairs", held in the Fisher Gallery at Otterbein and at Cleveland State University. The exhibition will include an updated illustrated catalogue printed in English and German. It will be presented as a gift from the Ohio Arts Council to the city of Dresden in celebration fo the city's 800 year jubilee. The prints will be exhibited in a gallery in the "Standehaus," a historic government building in the center of the city's Baroque architectural monuments. The exhibition will be presented from March 31 to May 31, 2006 and will include a special reception for the mayors of Dresden's sister cities.

In its second year, funding for this project will enable Otterbein to review and streamline the "Teacher Candidate Assessment System". Through the purchase of a new server, software and staff assistance and training to enhance data collection/analysis and system documentation.

This 21st Century Community Learning Center Program is a collaboration among Otterbein College, Big Brothers Big Sisters and Columbus Public Schools that will guide and nurture middle schoolers' academic progress and aspirations to attend college through the Otterbein Indianola Mentoring Program.

The Reading First - Ohio project is a collaborative between Cleveland State University and Otterbein College that will help K-3 teachers acquire the knowledge and skills they need for effective reading instruction, data-based instructional decision-making, accurate diagnoses, and powerful interventions that ensure children's progress in Language Arts.

Year two of this collaboration between the Higher Education Partnership and Columbus Public Schools (CPS) will create and implement specialized urban teacher preparation and targeted professional development, with a particular focus on math and science at the middle school level, to increase urban student academic achievement. The "urban teacher strand" will target pre-service teachers at the partner institutions and CPS in-service teachers at the apprentice and professional stages of their careers.

Year Three of this Learn & Serve project will continue to meet critical community needs, enhance student learning, engage over 1,000 program participants (faculty, students, staff, alumni, and K-12 teachers and students) and bring together the three spheres of community engagement at Otterbein College: volunteerism, academic-based community service and community-based action research.

Funding of this project assists M.S.N. students in Adult Health Care to prepare for advanced nursing practice in rural and urban health care settings that serve diverse populations.

The purpose of Project GAIN is to increase the number of highly qualified adult nursing students pursuing a BSN. Graduates of the program will be eligible to apply for the National Nursing Licensure examination and will be eligible for employment as an RN in the health care arena.

The Otterbein College Gateway Program will provide college access and promote success for graduation for the growing number of New Americans in Columbus. The project builds upon 1) Otterbein's commitment to increase diversity; 2) the success of the pilot Gateway program; and 3) Otterbein's strong collaboration with I Know I Can, our local college access program, Project GRAD and Columbus Public Schools.

This collaboration between the Higher Education Partnership and Columbus Public Schools (CPS) will create and implement specialized urban teacher preparation and targeted professional development, with a particular focus on math and science at the middle school level, to increase urban student academic achievement. The "urban teacher strand" will target pre-service teachers at the partner institutions and CPS in-service teachers at the apprentice and professional stages of their careers.

The Leamer Family Fund of The Columbus Foundation made this award to continue the COR-CHEC II: Columbus Public Schools, Otterbein College and Riverside Methodist Hospitals: Collaborative Health and Education Clinic. A nurse-manager will provide health education, health promotion, health screening, and wellness services to adult medically underserved students who are enrolled in the Columbus Public Schools' Department of Adult and Community.

Melissa Kesler Gilbert - Center of Community Engagement and Jim Gorman, English

This initiative, a collaborative between Otterbein College and Westerville City Schools, will provide a professional development program for teachers, a mentoring and literacy skill-building program for students, and an annual literacy-through-the-arts festival open to the wider community at Genoa Middle School. You can learn more about this collaboration by reading the press release.

Funding for this project will enable Otterbein to review and streamline the "Teacher Candidate Assessment System". Through the purchase of a new server, software and staff assistance and training to enhance data collection/analysis, and system documentation.

Funding for this project will implement and evaluate technological tools, facilitate educational goals, engage learners, and provide current instructional technology to faculty at Otterbein College. The main technology in this project is an interactive whiteboard, a hybrid whiteboard and projection screen that acts as an input device for a computer.

This three-year project will develop collaborative and interdisciplinary research and teaching within the Life Sciences and Chemistry departments. It will also support four undergraduate research experiences annually.

The Presser Scholarships are given to students majoring in Music and based on the artistic potential of the students as demonstrated in an audition and interview, as well as by a careful examination of each student's music aptitude test.

Through this grant, bike helmets will be purchased and distributed to students at the Bike Safety Booth at Whittier Elementary School's Family Activity Night which will focus on physical activity benefits, proper nutrition and injury prevention.

For continued annual scholarship support for students majoring in Business Administration and/or Social Sciences.

By encouraging the invention of arithmetic algorithms in grades K-3 with Cognitively Guided Instruction (CGI), this project will focus on the Number, Number Sense, and Operations Standard of Ohio's Academic Content Standards in Mathematics by targeting ten pilot elementary schools and directly involving 10 teacher coaches, 10 principals, 100 teachers, 3,000 students and 4,500 parents within Columbus Public Schools (CPS) and 6 Otterbein undergraduates. Anticipated outcomes include increased problem-solving skills for CPS students; an increased knowledge of the variety of problems in mathematics for CPS teachers and Otterbein pre-service teachers; and an increased mathematical content knowledge for CPS parents.

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