Transfer Prep Grant Newsletter
Title V/HSI
Volume III, Issue 2
December 2012
CHC 2012 Student Research
Conference A Success by Jennifer Floerke
On Friday, November sure to Dementia: An im- Social Class and SelfEvaluation of Sense of Hu30, 2012, the College Honors portant Inverse Correlation?”
Following the posters were mor,” sparked discussion and
Institute (CHI) hosted CHC’s
first Student Research Con- two oral presentation sessions, questions from many of the
when students approximately 30 audience
ference.
The
gave 12– minute members.
conference feaFour students presented in
oral
presentatured both posttions about their the second session, including a
er and oral
research. These second research project from
presentations
sessions
were Sharifa Kato, “Mao-Tse-tung”;
from research
facilitated
by Melissa Klaib’s survey reconducted
in
two volunteers search titled, “Parental Favoritmultiple disciwho also serve ism: Etiology and Impact”;
plines.
The
as CHI Ambas- Benjamin Wallsten’s analysis
three
poster
Melissa and Rose
sodors,
Rose of quantum theory titled, “The
presentations
Uncertainty of “Being”: The
engaged approximately 50 Guzenski and Ty Hopp.
In the first session, Sharifa Implications of Consciousness
students and faculty for the
as a Product of Quantum Enfirst hour of the conference. Kato’s survey research,
tanglement”;
George Diab presented his “Literal Creaand
Paul
research titled, “Slaves Were tionism in an
Shibley’s analyNot Docile: Slaves’ Re- African
sis of American
sistance against Slavery”; Church,” and
politics titled,
Vithyea Phann’s research is Brianna Dust“Analyzing the
titled, “The President of the in’s research,
Dominance of
United States: Andrew Jack- “…But I Have a
the
American
son”; and Amanda Tennant Good Sense of
Political
Sysalso presented her research Humor: The
Vithyea with Gerarda Costello tem.”
titled, “Religiosity and Expo- Relationship of
Luncheon with Honors Faculty by Jennifer Floerke
The College Honors Institute held another successful
Luncheon with Honors Faculty on November 28, when
Honors students were able to
mingle with Honors faculty
before registering for the
spring semester. The eighteen
Honors students who attended
were able to sit down and talk
with instructors about the
courses they teach while also
hearing about other students’
experiences in Honors classes
they have taken in the past.
Ranya Zaragoza, a third semester Honors student, stated, “I
really enjoyed talking with
Troy [Dial] because it is interesting to get her perspective on
transferring as the Honors
Counselor.”
It is exciting to watch the
Honors students interact and
have some fun during a stressful time of the semester. Many
attendees brought in a baby
Amanda Tennant
After the presentations, the
participants gathered together
over lunch to discuss the future
research possibilities and conference opportunities with their
faculty mentors and fellow students. Many of the participants
have decided to submit their
research to the upcoming Honors Transfer Council of California Research Conference, to be
held at the University of California at Irvine in March.
We are very proud of all of
the students who participated in
Crafton’s first annual student
research conference and look
forward to the event growing
each year.
picture for the Who Is Who?
bulletin board, where students
and faculty alike tried to guess
which baby grew up to be which
outstanding CHC Honors student. Building personal relationships between Honors faculty
and students is the primary goal
of this event, and each semester
those bonds grow stronger.
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Transfer Prep Grant Newsletter
CHC Director of Resource Development and
Grants Tills the Fields of Washington, DC
Last November, Karen Childers, the
CHC Director of Resource Development
and Grants, spent a productive week in
Washington, DC, attending the annual
conference of the Council for Resource
Development (CRD), and visiting with
the federal program officer who oversees
our Title V-HSI Transfer
Preparation grant.
CRD is a national organization for grant and resource
development
professionals
who work at community colleges (CCs). CRD provides
webinars, summer institutes,
a listserv, an annual conference, and the Federal Funding Task Force. CRD has only three paid
staff members, with the rest of the work
completed by volunteers; nonetheless,
CRD membership offers a useful network of helpful professionals in CCs all
over the country, including CC professionals in grant writing, fundraising,
alumni development, major gifts, and all
other facets of resource development.
For the past two years, Karen has
gone to the CRD annual conference and
volunteered for the Federal Funding Task
Force (FFTF) , which is a group of about
60 CRD members who arrive three days
prior to the CRD annual conference to
visit federal offices and find out about
potential funding opportunities open to
CCs for the coming year. FFTF members
start making appointments in the summer
so they can see as many federal program
officers as possible during the conference
week. The result is the Federal Funding
to Two-Year Colleges Report, an annual
report distributed to CRD members that
lists over 200 federal grants offered
through 16 federal agencies.
The FFTF report, an invaluable resource for CC grant development, includes basic information, application tips,
and the number of awards given to CCs
in the last funding cycle. The task force
also serves as annual unofficial ambassadors from CCs to federal agencies, offering information and support from the CC
point of view. The complete FFTF report , due to come out in early spring,
will give a comprehensive picture of federal grant funding available to CCs in
2013. The report from 2012 is
available in the Grants Resource Library in LADM 300.
The CRD annual conference is
also very useful for resource
development and grants at
CHC. Karen attended sessions
on data mining, storytelling,
building a case for support, and
other topics related to fundraising and grants. She found two preconference sessions especially fruitful:
Compression Planning, which offers a
method for planning sessions that maximize engagement; and Title III/Title V
grants, which will help as the college
applies for a Title V Cooperative grant
this spring.
While in Washington, DC, Karen
also had the opportunity to meet and visit
Everardo Gil (Lalo), our federal program
officer for the Title V-HSI Transfer Prep-
The vision of Crafton Hills College is to be the premier community college for public safety
and health services careers and
transfer preparation.
aration grant. An alumnus of CSULB,
Lalo shared fond memories of California,
as he and Karen talked about the Transfer
Prep grant at CHC, and reviewed the CHC
website. He said he was impressed by all
of it: the Transfer Center, the Honors Program, the newsletters, our processes for
funding and conference requests, and the
grants themselves. Although Karen invited
him to come visit us anytime, saying we
would be delighted to see him at our campus, he demurred, noting that their funding
constraints would probably limit his ability to travel to California.
Karen summarized the experience
succinctly: “It was a very enjoyable and
productive visit!”
What’s in a Name?
Is it Title V or Title 5? What’s
the difference? And why should I
care?
Title V refers to a federal program of the 1965 Higher Education
Act that provides funding to colleges
identified as Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI). To be eligible, colleges must demonstrate that 25% or
more of the enrollment is comprised
of Hispanic students, of which at
least 50% are low-income students.
Title 5, on the other hand, refers
to the California Code of Regulations, which guide the implementation of the Education Code as created
and amended by the state Legislature. Because Title 5 (more specifically, Division 6 of Title 5) defines
all the policies by which the CCCs
must abide, this is what most people
are referring to when they discuss
“Title Five.”
Just remember: If someone is
referring to an HSI grant, it’s Title
V; if not, it’s Title 5.