Vision 2020
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Today
 Overview of grants program
 Ideas for grants
 Short presentations by some of last year’s teams
 Q&A of Vision 2020 committees and teams
The Grants
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Vision 2020
 Small grants program designed to encourage
faculty and staff to work together to improve
student success
 Ties to Chancellor’s strategic planning goals for
2020, the IU bicentennial
 Our Quality Initiative (QI) for reaccreditation by
the Higher Learning Commission (HLC)
Vision 2020 main goals
 Focus on student success
 Retention, persistence, timely graduation
 Learning, engagement, advising . . .
 Focus on assessment
 Collect data, use to improve
 Focus on collegiality
 Teams include at least one fulltime faculty
member, one staff member
 Multi-units, roles highly encouraged
Vision 2020 Grants
 Max of $5K/yr; renewed up to 3 years
total
 Re-apply each year
 Show assessment data
 Make changes based on data
 Then baseline budget or external grants
 Enough for 7-10 new grants/year and
continuing grants
Budget possibilities
 Personnel (fringes)
 Summer Salary
 (+28.41% benefits)
 Travel
 Supplies
 AY salary (+43.72)
 Honorarium
 Student research asst.
(0%)
 Hospitality
 Other research asst. (+7%)
 Raffle prizes
 Participant support (IRB
approval)
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 Lastest info—RFP, etc
 Last year’s successful grant applications
 LibGuide!
 Scholarly literature
 Data from IUSB and national
 Info on great programs
 Constantly updated
 https://www.iusb.edu/vision-2020/
RFP:
latest at vision2020.iusb.edu
 Team info
 Narrative:
 What are your goals?
 How will you know whether you reach your goals?
 What will you do to reach these goal? To whom?
 Budget
 AY 2&3:
 how are you doing? What will you change?
Project Title (short):
Year 1 amount:
Reviewer:
Total points:
DRAFT Grants Rubric for Y1 submitted 3/2015
Project leader:
Points
Area
A.
Potential to enhance
student learning and/or
student success, or the
environment that
enhances student
learning and/or student
success
B.
Number of students
affected
C.
Assessment measures
(quantitative and/or
qualitative). Plan to
refine in view of data
Fiscal sustainability
35
20
One measure.
No plan to use data to fine tune.
E.
Diversity of project
members
No alternative funding sources
identified
No chance for line item in base budget
or external funding
All one unit (e.g. English faculty),
No students
F.
Timeline
Vague and/or unrealistic
G.
Budget
Vague, unrealistic and/or unnecessary
for the success of the project
Detailed, realistic, and necessary for
the success of the project
D.
10
5
5
High
High potential.
Supported by existing research and
best practices such as high impact
practices or active learning.
Data supporting the need for the
program is provided or explanation
of why there is no data.
Strong indication of potential
impact/relationship on student
learning and/or student success
indicators such as retention,
persistence and/or timely graduation.
Large group (e.g. most Freshmen)
Several strong (reliable and valid)
quantitative and qualitative
measures.
Plan to use the data.
Identified alternative sources of
funding
Could become base budget or secure
external funding if effective
Diverse (e.g. Eng. and Arts faculty,
student services, students,
community)
Detailed and realistic
20
5
Low
Modest potential.
Not strongly supported by existing
research.
No data and/or no explanation of why
data supporting the need for the
proposed program is provided.
Weak indication of
impact/relationship on student
learning and/or potential impact on
student success indicators such as
retention, persistence and/or timely
graduation.
Small group (under 20)
Overall comments:
comments
points
IRB?
 NOT needed unless you plan to share publicly
 But a good idea!
 Even then, NOT needed for proposal
 Erika Zynda will help those who get grants and plan to
publish
 Can be Exempt (short form!) if using “normal educational
practices”– those from LibGuide
Yearly timeline
 Feb. 1: Proposals due for continuing grants
 March 1: Proposals due for NEW grants
 April 1: Notifications of funding
 April: feedback on all proposals
 May-August: projects start
More information?
 Vision 2020: vision2020.iusb.edu
 vision20@iusb.edu
 Grants information
 Resources on student success, assessment, IRB, etc
 Gwynn Mettetal
 Heading this initiative
 Can brainstorm, problem-solve, network
 NOT on grants committee, so no conflict of interest
Ideas
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Brainstorming project ideas
HIGH IMPACT PRACTICES
SOME OTHER IDEAS
(Kuh, 2008)
Advising changes
First year seminar and experiences
IU Flags and similar
Common intellectual experiences
Tutoring programs
Learning communities
Supplemental instruction
Writing-intensive courses
Mentoring programs—seniors mentor freshmen?
Collaborative assignments and
projects
Office for Service Learning
Undergraduate research
Diversity/Global learning
Service-Learning, communitybased learning
Ways to meet “unmet financial needs”
Second chance scholarship (completion)
More job creation in community—incentive to
graduate
Internships
Publicize 80-20 flip (in high school, teachers give
you 80%; in college you learn 80% on your own)
Capstone courses and projects
Changing student mindset—intelligence is not
set, but can improve
Ideas based on IUSB data . . .
 Improve first semester GPA
by doing (your idea here)
 Why?
 First term GPA of 2.5 or up—
70% are here the next fall
 First term GPA below 2.5-Only 22% here the next fall
 Improve funding for low
income students by (your
idea)
 Why?
 High income students–73% here the next fall
 Low income students—63%
here the next fall
Even more project ideas
 Dept. Data Drilling—support and encouragement for depts who want
to explore the data on their classes or majors
 Ways to encourage our best teachers to teach freshman classes
 Encouraging student-instructor interaction—”lunch with your
professor” coupons?
 Change classroom teaching strategies to be more active/ higher
order
 More jobs on campus for students. Work-study “clearinghouse” or
matching service
 Look for “hidden barriers” to student success, eg course scheduling
conflicts, difficulty finding needed forms and signatures
 Ideas to help students in high DFW courses
 Ways to encourage study groups
 “Finish in Time” video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulptCQhAjy0
Other sources of ideas
 Tinto’s “Completing College”
 Chambliss & Takacs “How College Works”
 Washington Monthly September 2013 issue on colleges
 Vision 2020 Libguide (link on vision 2020 website)
Last year’s
grants
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2020 grants for 2014-15
 U100 Scholar Athletes
 Bruce Watson
 Summer workshops for
students with disabilities
 Jim Hasse
 CLAS internships
database
 Gail McGuire
 Summer Bridge campus
pride
 Ginny Heidemann
 High Impact
Practices for U100
 Kathy Sullivan
 IUSB Brave (sexual
assault)
 Tiny Shelves concert
series
 Online alcohol and
drug abuse
education
Questions?
Brainstorming!