Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC), in collaboration with the League of Innovation in the Community College, is offering $250,000 to $750,000 grants to support promising educational technology initiatives. NGLC’s RFP offers funding for the following types of activities:

  • Increasing the use of blended (hybrid) learning models that combine face-to-face instruction with online learning activities;
  • Deepening students’ learning and engagement through interactive applications, such as digital games, interactive video, immersive simulations, and social media;
  • Developing more open courseware for developmental/gatekeeper courses with low completion rates; and
  • Helping institutions use learner analytics to monitor student progress and provide appropriate supports and interventions.

West Virginia’s community colleges, which are already doing some innovative things in several these areas, are likely to submit several pre-proposals, which are due 19 November 2010

Additional information about this grant opportunity is available at the NGLC website.

DCT Advisors would like to congratulate the West Virginia Governor’s Office of Economic Opportunity, which secured a $1 million weatherization assistance program grant from the United States Department of Energy for its Green Collar College initiative.

The grant will allow the Governor’s Office of Economic Opportunity to complement its Training and Energy Services Center in southern West Virginia with two new training sites in north central West Virginia, upgrade and expand curricular offerings, and tie weatherization courses into West Virginia’s larger system of postsecondary education.  This project is being undertaken in partnership with the West Virginia Community and Technical College System and Pierpont Community and Technical College.

DCT Advisors appreciated the opportunity to assist the Governor’s Office of Economic Opportunity and wishes it and its partners well as they implement their Green Collar College initiative.

 

DCT Advisors LLC is pleased to announce the hiring of Cynthia Beth Dotson as Executive Assistant to Dennis Taylor. Dennis and Beth have worked together on three different occasions for three different employers.  This will be their fourth collaboration.

During their first collaboration as paralegals at McQueen and Brown LLC in the early 1990s, Beth and Dennis had reputations for both being productive and laughing a lot.  Expect hard work and much laughter in their latest collaboration, as well.  Consistent with past practice, “Uncle” Dennis also will make Jolt soda and sugary sweets available for Beth’s otherwise non-hyperactive daughters.

Beth starts work for DCT Advisors on 12 April 2010.

 

Congratulations to the West Virginia Community and Technical College System for receiving one of six National Governors Association grants for a Governor’s Forum on Postsecondary Credential Attainment by Adult Workers.  The Community and Technical College System will use the event to launch a new initiative, called ON-RAMP (On Reaching Academic Momentum Points), aimed at increasing the number of adults who graduate from college with a credential, whether it be with a certificate degree, associate’s degree or bachelor’s degree.  Improving retention and graduation rates is likely to be the System’s top priority over the next five years, and this Forum, which will educate participants about best practices and be followed by institutional planning meetings, is a great place to start if West Virginia is to do its part to help President Obama reach the goal of making America the international leader in postsecondary credential attainment again.

DCT Advisors is pleased to have the opportunity to support this initiative.

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WorkForceWV has received a $6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Labor to support the State’s efforts to provide green jobs education and training. The grant will support four major activities:

  • Green training for current, future and unemployed workers in building, construction, retrofitting, and installation occupations;
  • The development of a new community and technical college GREEN-UP certificate program, the new wind energy technology program at Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College, and new water and wastewater treatment programs at Marshall Community and Technical College;
  • The development and implementation of community and technical college courses that teach basic and green technical skills in combination, as well as green entrepreneurship for those interested in starting green businesses; and
  • Professional development for career center, registered apprenticeship program and community and technical college faculty to assist them in incorporating green concepts and skills into classes and programs.

The West Virginia GREEN-UP Council, along with five regional teams, will coordinate grant activities.

DCT Advisors LLC is pleased to have been able to assist WorkForceWV in obtaining this grant and looks forward to working with WorkForceWV on initial project start-up and facilitation of GREEN-UP Council activities over the next several years.

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