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Grants: Activities, Funding Opportunities and Challenges

Learn about grant funding challenges, key developments, and priorities in California Community Colleges. Explore topics such as nursing, career technical education, and more. Discover funding opportunities and future directions to leverage federal, state, and private grants effectively.

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Grants: Activities, Funding Opportunities and Challenges

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  1. Grants: Activities, Funding Opportunities and Challenges Andreea M. Serban, Ph.D. Vice Chancellor Technology and Learning Services SOCCCD Board Meeting June 25, 2007

  2. Key Developments in State Funding • 2002-2005 budget cuts in California Community Colleges funding; state grant funding significantly reduced • Governor's 2005-06 Budget: • expanded vocational and career technical educational opportunities for middle school and high school students • improved linkages between the career and technical curricula of the public schools and community colleges • Senate Bill 70, September 2005, provided $20 million to the California Community Colleges for CTE programs • System Strategic Plan for California Community Colleges

  3. Total Grant Funding Obtained 2005-07 • Technology and Learning Services (T&LS) 2006-07 $1,550,000 • Saddleback College $3,000,059 • Saddleback Foundation $ 280,500 • Irvine Valley College $ 41,028 • ATEP $ 205,000 • TOTAL $5,076,587 • Saddleback College pending $3,951,956

  4. Grant Applications and Status2005-07

  5. Topics/Programs Funded and Pending • Nursing $2,100,294 • Transfer research/articulation $1,550,000 • Teacher/counselor preparation in career technical education $ 406,900 • Other CTE programs $ 978,365 • Pending CTE programs $3,951,956 • Other $ 41,028

  6. Grant Challenges and Opportunities • Institutional commitment and direction • Organizational structure and staffing • Federal, state and private funding priorities • Complexity and, often, very short timelines of requests for applications • Consortia • Pre- and post-award grant management

  7. Expected Future Grant Funding Directions and Priorities • Federal • Math, Science, Engineering, Technology • State • Career Technical Education • Partnerships for Economic and Workforce Development • Transfer • Basic Skills • Private • Varied and multiple opportunities

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