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DECEMBER 21, 2007
NEW GRANT! Congrats!
Colorado Department of Higher Education Reading Literacy Grant of $160,000 Grant to Dr. Matt Downey (Social Sciences Program) and other Collaborating UNC Faculty
A team of faculty led by Social Science Professor Matthew Downey received $160,000 in funding from the Colorado Department of Higher Education. The 2007-08 No Child Left Behind Grant will support the first year of the group's project, "Reading in the Social Studies Project: Teaching Reading in Civics, Economics, Geography and History." Read More
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NOVEMBER 9, 2007
UNC’s Community Development & Outreach Institute (CDOI) is pleased to announce the award of a $300,000, four-year grant from the Colorado Trust to the Realizing Our Community (ROC) community-university partnership. UNC will collaborate with more than twenty Greeley government, civic, and non-profit organizations to implement programs designed to support integration of documented immigrant and refugee newcomers and long-time residents of our community, working together to foster an atmosphere of understanding and tolerance which promotes and sustains a diverse and vibrant community where all people feel welcome to live, work, learn and play.
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NEW GRANT! Congrats Phil Klein !
Developing an Online Center for Global Geography Education (Phase 2): ($495,481)
This is UNC’s component of a larger Phase 2 proposal for a previously National Science Foundation funded project to enhance undergraduate learning of world geographical problems facilitated and developed through Internet on-line) international Geography faculty collaborations. The project will expand modules currently available on the Center for Global Geography Education Project and, additionally, operate a series of workshops to train international faculty collaborative learning theory and practices in Geography education. UNC’s contribution to the NSF proposal, originated at the Association of American Geographers, will constitute a sub-proposal component of the main NSF grant.