Congratulations to the 2016 Chancellor’s Innovation Fund (CIF) grantees listed below. The applicants responsible for these outstanding and innovative proposals will receive CIF monies to develop, pilot, and assess their projects. The purpose of the annual CIF is to provide colleges with the opportunity to request funding for innovative projects that are aligned with the single goal of the new VCCS strategic plan, Complete 2021: to triple the number of credentials awarded to Virginians by our colleges by the year 2021. Achieving this goal requires us to explore new ideas, develop new approaches, and test and implement successful innovations. The outcomes of these projects are shared with the system, and any resulting deliverables will be openly licensed, allowing them to be adopted and used by other VCCS colleges.
This year faculty and staff from 15 VCCS colleges submitted a total of 26 CIF proposals. The CIF Review Committee, made up of academic and workforce staff, faced the challenge of selecting the best projects from among many very impressive proposals. Due to a limited amount of funds, many worthy proposals could not be funded.
Again, congratulations to the awardees below. To find out more about these exciting projects, click the View link beside each project title in the table below. To find out more about the Chancellor’s Innovation Fund, visit the CIF page at http://edtech.vccs.edu/cif/.
2016 Chancellor’s Innovation Fund Awards
| More Info | Project Title | College | Credit | Award amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| View | Trades Academy | LFCC | Credit | $27,740.00 |
| View | Inspired to Succeed: Bridging the College Readiness Gap | JTCC | Credit | $16,200.00 |
| View | Access Success: Creating Guided Pathways to Student Success | WCC | Credit | $26,000.00 |
| View | Imagine 3D ( Introducing Minorities And Genders Innovations in Engineering?) – Mini STEM learning sessions | RCC | Non-Credit | $16,350.00 |
| View | Bringing Developmental Education into the 21st Century; A Project-based STEM Learning Community | VWCC | Credit | $13,193.00 |
| View | Virginia Joint Center for Military Credit Evaluation (JC4MCE) | TCC | Credit | $25,708.00 |
| View | Cooperative Learning for Distance Learning (CL4DL) | PHCC | Credit | $15,000.00 |
| View | Winning New Jobs: Train-the-Trainer | PVCC | Non-Credit | $20,635.00 |
| View | Academy for Career Education | VHCC | Credit | $17,800.00 |
| View | MyOpenMath (MOM) Training | TCC | Non-Credit | $13,000.00 |
| View | Making Electronic Technology and Engineering Courses Accessible to Rural Students | RCC | Credit | $20,571.00 |
| View | Personalizing Instruction to Promote Student Success in an Online OER Math Course | NVCC | Credit | $10,314.00 |
| View | Universal Design for Learning | BRCC | Credit | $25,100.00 |
