Grants Awarded in Fiscal Year 2007

The COR CHEC initiative will enable Otterbein to continue programs of health education and health promotion for minority and/or underprivileged populations in Central Ohio through health fairs and clinical services provided by nursing students and faculty.

Presser Scholars are students majoring in music who demonstrate excellence and artistic potential. One scholarship is awarded annually by the President of Otterbein College and the Chair of the Department of Music.

These funds support Otterbein faculty in the pursuit of additional courses and majors approved for the Otterbein-Maastricht Exchange Program.

Otterbein continues its leadership role in preparing teachers for service in urban middle schools with two subcontracts under the U. S. Department of Education: TQE Year 4 and TQE 3AB received $236,740 and $72,000 respectively. Through collaboration with the Higher Education Partnership, a consortium of higher education institutions in central Ohio, Teacher Quality Enhancement programs target Otterbein pre-service teachers and the Columbus district's in-service teachers in the apprentice and professional stages of their careers.

Now in its second year, the objectives of this program are to expand service-learning activities on Otterbein's campus through faculty development, engaged departments and institutionalization; and to build a statewide service-learning consortium. Current partners include Ohio Campus Compact and the University of Cincinnati.

Project SHINE enables Otterbein College to expand nursing education capacity in Ohio by increasing the enrollment of post-licensure nurses in graduate education, preparing them to become the nursing instructors who will educate the next generation of nurses.

This initiative is in its second year, and will continue the community health partnership between Otterbein College and area churches. Cycles of five and ten week wellness programs will be offered to teach bio-feedback/self-regulation strategies designed to reduce the risk hypertension among African-American residents in the Linden community.

A collaborative project between Otterbein College and Cleveland State University, Reading First, now in its third year, trains and supports literacy specialists in local schools to serve as school-based professionals and coaches for K-3 teachers. Objectives include the establishment of standards of practice based upon data based instructional decision making, accurate diagnoses and powerful interventions to ensure students' continued progress in Language Arts.

Otterbein College provides pediatric education for undergraduate and graduate nursing students using such methodologies as classroom teaching, on-line and hybrid model courses. TEACH-US initiates pod or vod-casting in clinical courses on select pediatric topic such as growth, development and health promotion; increases the use of high fidelity Human Patient Simulators to replicate clinical case scenarios; and evaluates the effectiveness of technology and simulation on undergraduate and graduate nursing student knowledge and satisfaction.

In its second year, this service-learning initiative will provide a cohort of first generation and/or low-income students the opportunity to serve as Columbus Foundation Citizen Scholar Fellows. Working within the existing Cardinal Corps structure, Fellows will serve 300 hours of community service, acting as civic capacity-builders on campus and coordinating weekly volunteer programs at area nonprofit agencies.

This initiative supports a long-standing mentoring program that guides and nurtures middle school students to promote their academic progress and college aspirations.

By providing specific health care services to a select group of high school students, HEALTH-SS is a pilot project designed to increase the nurse practitioner student skills related to health assessment of adolescents, knowledge of adolescent growth and development, positive interpersonal communication, identification of adolescent risk factors and health promotion strategies for risk reduction.

This project features web-based materials to help students and faculty visualize and teach 3-dimensional molecular symmetry. The software will display and animate symmetry elements and operations in ways that cannot be achieved with physical models. Otterbein will collaborate with seven other institutions of higher learning that also will implement the web-based materials in their coursework and assess results.

Through the Neva J. Collins, and J. Ray and Lillian W. Waller funds, this multi-tiered mentoring initiative will help to develop urban middle school students' capacity to improve their academics. Throughout the 2006-2007 academic year, Otterbein and Linden-McKinley High School students will mentor students participating in 8th Grade College Clubs, 6th Grade Apprentice College Clubs and a mentoring course.

This project will study the mussel fauna of the Little Miami River system in areas that represent the most diverse species of mussels in terms of species richness and number of individuals.

This project will strategically deploy electronic Smartboard technology across campus and within diverse departments. Smartboard Mentor Groups will train and support faculty new to the technology, and help to development and implement classroom lessons in multiple courses of study. Dual research analysis will assess the experience of implementing the technology for the first time and study the impact of sustained use of Smartboard technology.

This continuing initiative, a collaborative among Otterbein College, Columbus Public Schools (CPS), Project GRAD, I Know I Can and Westerville City Schools, will enable 10 Otterbein students to be involved in a variety of service programs with a focus on urban youth mentoring. Six Otterbein students will serve as college club coordinators in three urban CPS middle schools. Four Otterbein students who are community service scholars (TEAM members), will participate in youth mentoring service programs in both CPS and Westerville City schools. Fellows will serve as capacity-builders for each site: recruiting volunteers, designing program activities, and mentoring elementary and young middle school students contemplating a future in higher education.

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