IDEA Grant Program Recipients
Project/Program Title: Integrative Community Leadership Development Program, Southwest Minnesota Design Teams
Project Directors:
Tobias Spanier, Assistant Extension Professor, University Extension
Harry Weilage, Community Services
Darlene Macklin, Worthington Chamber of Commerce
Description: IDEA Grant awarded to fund the adaptation of the current U-LEAD leadership curriculum into a more culturally appropriate educational tool with the help of multicultural design teams from the Marshall and Worthington communities.
Project/Program Title: How to Make it to the Dance Floor: A Salsa Guide for Women (Based on Actual Experiences)
Project Directors:
Cindy Garcia, Assistant Professor, Theatre Arts and Dance, College of Liberal Arts
Description: IDEA Grant will support the development of Prof. Cindy Garcia's play, "How to Make it to the Dance Floor: A Salsa Guide for Women (Based on Actual Experiences)", including support for a collaborating professor in residence, engagment of culturally diverse students in the production and educational opportunities for audiences and students.
Project/Program Title: Faculty Mentorship Program
Project Directors:
Penny Cragun, Program Director, Disabilities Services/Resources, University of Minnesota Duluth
Trudie Hughes, Assistant Professor, Department of Education, University of Minnesota Duluth
Judith Bromen, Coordinator, Disabilities Services, University of Minnesota Duluth
Description:
IDEA Grant awarded to start a mentorship program for first-year and sophomore UMD students with disabilities. Students will be matched with a faculty member in their major/interest area.
Project/Program Title: PIRIMID (Promoting Involvement and Retention Through Integrated Multicultural Instructional Design)
Project Directors:
Jeanne Higbee, Professor, Postsecondary Teaching and Learning, College of Education and Human Development
Emily Goff, , Postsecondary Teaching and Learning, College of Education and Human Development
Description: IDEA Grant awarded to support the creation and implementation of an Integrated Multicultural Instructional Design model (IMID) as part of a collaboration between PsTL and 20 University faculty members, and is an offshoot of a current grant project entitled, "Pedagogy and Student Services for Institutional Transformation".
Project/Program Title: Opening Our Eyes: A Campus-wide Initiative on Embracing Diversity
Project Directors:
Deborah Petersen-Perlman, Director, Office of Equal Opportunity, University of Minnesota Duluth
Sysana Pelayo-Woodward, Director, Office of Cultural Diversity
Description: IDEA Grant will support a UMD campus-wide diversity initiative that will engage the campus and broader community in discussions about racism and privilege, and the role of a campus citizen.
Project/Program Title: Shifting Student Demographics and Their Impact of the University of Minnesota's Transformation: Preparing for Change
Project Directors:
Christina Frazier, Office of Institutional Research
Richard Howard, Office of Institutional Research
Description: IDEA Grant awarded to fund a project that will study the future demographics of Minnesota, and how this will affect the University of Minnesota. This project will include:developing a University database profile, creating an advisory group, determining best practices for responding to demographic shifts from other higher education institutions.
Project/Program Title:Urban/Diversity Immersion Pilot Project
Project Directors:
Kim Riodan, Assistant Professor, Education, University of Minnesota Duluth
Description: IDEA Grant awarded to fund a pilot project of an immersion experience for UMD education students. UMD students will spend one month teaching in Minneapolis schools to expose them to urban education environments, and will determine the future feasibility of this program following their experience.
Project/Program Title: Assessing Community Engagement as a Retention Strategy for Students of Color
Project Directors:
Laura Dammer Hess, Coordinator, Community Engagement Scholars Program, Career and Community Learning Center
Laurel Hirt, Career and Community Learning Center
Monica Siems, Career and Community Learning Center
Description: IDEA Grant awarded to the Career and Community Learning Center to conduct an assessment of the potential of the Community Engagement Scholars Program's potential to improve graduation rates for students of color who are participants in the program.
Project/Program Title: Connectiong the University and Communities of Color: A Structured Dialogue Series
Project Directors:
Joel Hetler, Director, Center for Excellence in Children's Mental Health
Description: IDEA Grant awarded to the Ceneter for Excellence in Children's Mental Health for a dialogue series with University of Minnesota faculty/staff and members of the Cultural Providers Network, a group of practitioners who serve children of color in the Twin Cities.
Project/Program Title: Building Success, Building Community with Teaching SMART
Project Directors:
Kevin Williams, Curator of Education, School and Community Outreach,Bell Museum of Natural History
Peggy Korsmo-Kennon, Director, Museum Programs and Operations, Bell Museum of Natural History
Kyle Whittinghill, Incoming President, Teaching SMART
Description: IDEA Grant awarded to support an outreach program, Teaching SMART, that brings together undergraduate and graduate students to conduct science-focused outreach in urban k-12 schools.
Project/Program Title: Performance and Social Justice Collaborative, Daak, Call to Action.
Project Directors:
Ananya Chatterjea, Associate Professor, Department of Theater Arts and Dance
Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley, Assistant Professor, Department of English
Gina Kundan, Assistant Director, CHIP Student Center
Description: IDEA Grant awarded to produce Daak, Call To Action, a community building and performance project, which will be performed at two theaters in June. Dakk, Call To Action is a community based project bringing together social justice work and academic excellence around issues of land rights, and environmental degradation. Project participants are a diverse group women and girls of color that includes faculty, staff and students from the University.
Project/Program Title: Portraits of the Institute of Technology Women Faculty
Project Director: Nancy Johnson, Communications Specialist, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Technology
Description: IDEA Grant will fund Nancy Johnson’s portrait work with women faculty in the Institute of Technology. Ms. Johnson created black and white photographic portraits of women faculty in Mechanical Engineering that were displayed at the show, “Women’s Work” at the Phibbs Center for the Arts in 2006. Ms. Johnson will continue this project to include all women faculty in IT in the coming year, and may include an exhibition on the Twin Cities Campus.
Project/Program Title: University of Minnesota Morris Educational Opportunity Programs Assessment
Project Directors:
Sandra Olson-Loy, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, University of Minnesota Morris
Hilda Ladner, Director, University of Minnesota Morris Multi-Ethnic Student Program
Description: IDEA Grant will fund the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs & Multi-Ethnic Student Program’s plan to bring consultant Robert Ozuna to assess UMM’s Educational Outreach Programs. Robert Ozuna will develop a report that will assist with further proposals to fund a Student Support Services Program on the Morris Campus.
Project/Program Title: Developing a Strategy for Creating Future Journalists of Color.
Project Directors:
Catherine Squires, Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Daniel Sullivan, Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Description: IDEA Grant will fund the School of Journalism and Mass Communication’s study on student attitudes towards reading/current events/newspapers and journalism and to create a program that will improve student performance and increase interest in journalism among students of color.
Project/Program Title: Minnesota’s Future Doctors.
Project Director: Jo Peterson, Director, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minnesota’s Future Doctors Program
Description: IDEA Grant awarded to the Minnesota’s Future Doctors program to fund small community based research projects that are proposed and conducted by students in the program.
Project Title: Diversity Scholarships for “Lives Worth Living”
Project Directors:
John Wallace, professor, Department of Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts
Carl Brandt, director, Career & Community Learning Center
Laurel Hirt, community involvement & service learning director, Career & Community Learning Center
Description: IDEA Grant will fund the creation of one or more “diversity scholarships” for students participating in the “Lives Worth Living” summer course offered by the Department of Philosophy and the Career and Community Learning Center.
Project Title: Creating a Culture of Diversity in the Department of Social Work at the University of Minnesota-Duluth
Project Directors:
Priscilla Day, professor & director of the Center for Regional & Tribal Child Welfare Studies, Department of Social Work, UMD
Becki Hornung, student support coordinator, Department of Social Work, UMD
Description: IDEA Grant will fund the continuing efforts of the Department of Social Work by bringing Dr. Ken Hardy back to continue his work with the department. Dr. Hardy will facilitate a faculty retreat to discuss instructional strategies and pedagogy around the issues of cultural competence and social justice and to continue the work on improving the climate of the department with regard to diversity and inclusion.
Project Title: Building Art, Building Community in Peik Hall
Project Directors:
Lori Helman, assistant professor, diversity committee representative, Department of Curriculum & Instruction, College of Education and Human Development
Mary Lee Nichols, doctoral student, diversity committee representative, Department of Curriculum & Instruction, College of Education and Human Development
Thom Swiss, professor, diversity committee chair, Department of Curriculum & Instruction, College of Human Development
Description: IDEA Grant will fund the completion of a project started by the Department of Curriculum & Instruction’s diversity committee. The project involves continuing to create a more open, inviting and reflective space for users of Peik Hall by hanging photographic portraits of students and painting the lounge space for students.
Project Title: Parenting for School Success--Cultural Approaches
Project Directors:
Kathleen Olson, extension educator, University of Minnesota Extension, Family Development
Cathy Jordan, executive director, Children, Youth & Family Consortium
Description: IDEA Grant will fund the hiring of community consultants, or “cultural guides” to assist in the creation and modification of the “Parenting for School Success” guides that are distributed by University of Minnesota Extension and the Children, Youth & Family Consortium. This grant will support collaboration with an African American cultural guide and a Latino cultural guide in the creation guides for use in these communities.
Project Title: UMC- Black Student Association Speaker
Project Directors:
Eric Burgess, instructor, Business Department, University of Minnesota, Crookston Kenneth Johnson, instructor, Business Department, University of Minnesota, Crookston
Peter Phaiah, vice chancellor of enrollment and student affairs, University of Minnesota, Crookston
Description: IDEA Grant will fund the first of a speaker series planned by the Black Student Association on the University of Minnesota Crookston campus. The Black Student Association hopes to expand upon UMC’s diversity initiative through thoughtful dialogue kicked off by a keynote by a prominent African American speaker/performer.