campus partner(s)

Stanford University

Mills College

University of California at Berkeley

and University of California at Santa Cruz

state(s)

CA

amount

$74,900

initiative

Fresh Thinking

award date

05.2009

project director

Jennifer Summit

Stanford University

Grant Summary

$74,900 over 24 months to assemble a working group of English faculty who will investigate what undergraduate students read and how they read. The working group will conduct a full-scale survey of student reading practices, followed by in-depth focus group interviews, and will convene four workshops to discuss the survey's goals and results. Drawing on survey and interview results, the working group will develop and test new course models.