Past Grants

Caminos

Years: 2015-20
Amount: $3,178,389
Type: Cooperative with University of New Mexico-Taos

  • Goal #1: Increase access to bachelor degrees through collaborations to expand curricula and cooperative online degree programs.
  • Goal #2: Increase access to academic support services for online students and add a system of progress monitoring to improve persistence and degree completion rates.
  • Goal #3: Improve delivery infrastructure and increase access to resources to support student success in online programs.

Key Highlights: Access Stations in San Luis, Fort Garland, and Antonito; Sym’paw’sium; Think Tank; Infrastructure improvements for online learning; Library supports or interlibrary loans and electronic databases

Conexiones: Undergraduate Research & Engagement

Years: 2015-20
Amount: $2,584,038
Type: Institutional

  • Goal #1: Implement new initiatives in developmental and gateway math courses to support pathways to graduation and STEM degrees.
  • Goal #2: Revamp campus advising approach to incorporate appreciative advising strategies and alignment with career pathways to improve persistence, time to degree completion, and graduation rates.
  • Goal #3: Increase focus of campus and professional development infrastructure and programming on inclusion and equity, learning, and greater opportunity for faculty innovations supportive of student success to better serve low-income and Hispanic students.

Key Highlights: Center for Teaching, Innovation, and Research (CTIR); Research & Engagement Awarded Applications; General Education Pathways Project; Equity Retreats; Sym’paw’sium; Developmental Math revision; Adams Experience; Inclusive Excellence Liaison

Promoting Post-secondary Opportunities for Hispanic Americans

Years: 2014-20
Amount: $2,838,865
Type: Graduate

  • Goal #1: Develop and implement the infrastructure for graduate level academic support services, both on campus and online, to support graduate student success and degree completion.
  • Goal #2: Provide financial support or incentives to increase access to and persistence in graduate school for Hispanic and low-income students.
  • Goal #3: Improve faculty/staff capacity for providing services to Hispanic and low-income graduate students.

Key Highlights: Academic and professional skill-building workshops; Mentoring Program; Graduate Student Success Center; Incentive stipends/scholarships and graduate assistantships; Hot Topics series; Sym’paw’sium; NetTutor

“UNIDOS: Building Pathways to Access and Opportunity for the Upper Rio Grande Region”

Years: 2014-19
Amount: $841,470 (ASU’s portion)
Type: Cooperative led by University of New Mexico-Taos with New Mexico Highlands University

  • Goal #1: Create a comprehensive and collaborative distance education system for the region.
  • Goal #2: Increase meaningful access to quality higher education opportunities for residents.
  • Goal #3: Maximize student success through improving persistence and graduation rates.
  • Goal #4: Create revenue-generating strategies to sustain Title V new practices

Key Highlights: Equity Retreats and development of Online Equity Institute; transfer articulation agreements; Sym’paw’sium; Think Tank; Professional development in online teaching through Academic Instructional Technology Center (AITC); NetTutor

Increasing Student Engagement & Success

Years: 2010-15
Amount: $1,031,118
Type: Institutional

  • Goal #1: Cultivate a high quality, student-centered environment for Hispanic and low-income students to address issues of access, student success, and retention.
  • Goal #2: Implement a faculty development program focused on the needs of Hispanic and low-income students.
  • Goal #3: The improvement of Hispanic and low-income student access to technology.

The Title V grant also funds new instructional and assistive technology for faculty and students.

Key Highlights: Student Success Center (hyperlink to current page); New Faculty Orientation; Center for Equity in Teaching & Learning (CELT) Equity Workshops; Active Teaching & Learning Seminars; Kindred Spirits Series; President’s Advisory Group; Hilos Summer Institute; Adams State Equity Retreat; Technology- enhanced classrooms (TEC); Lifeways

Enhancing Access and Opportunity for Hispanics via Professional Development, Expanded Programs and Student Services

Years: 2005-10
Amount: $3,078,445
Type: Cooperative Trinidad State Junior College & Otero Junior College

  • Goal #1: To improve the quality of the academic programs
  • Goal #2: To improve professional development opportunities for faculty and staff
  • Goal #3: To improve transfer opportunities for community college students
  • Goal #4: To improve retention and persistence rates on the partner campuses
  • Goal #5: To improve access to higher education in the service delivery area through distance education

Key Highlights: expansion of Center for Excellence in Learning & Teaching (CELT); use of WebCT; expansion of Rural Education Access Program (REAP); implementation of web-based student services

Increasing Retention, Improving Student Success

Years: 2000-05
Amount: $2,024,303
Type: Institutional

  • Goal #1: Improved student retention through curricular innovations, faculty development and student services which support academic success.
  • Goal #2: Improved access to and preparation for post-secondary education of San Luis Valley students through outreach efforts to K12 schools, students, and parents.

Key Highlights: Establishment of Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT); First-year seminar; Early Alert