campus partner(s)

Austin Community College

state(s)

TX

amount

$25,000

initiative

Cornerstone: Learning for Living

award date

05.2017

project director

Theodore Hadzi-Antich Jr.

Austin Community College

Grant Summary

$25,000 over eleven months to Austin Community College, a multi-campus community college district with an enrollment of over 60,000 students. This planning grant supports efforts to scale up a Great Books approach to teaching a mandated student success course requirement for transfer-bound students on the liberal arts pathway. Grant funds will be applied to plan the professional development of faculty to scale up the course for all entering first-year students pursuing the liberal arts.