January 09, 2015
Strategic Initiatives Fund awards for 2014-15
The President’s Strategic Initiatives Fund provides annual support for projects that help Lewis & Clark advance key initiatives.
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The President’s Strategic Initiatives Fund provides annual support for projects that help Lewis & Clark advance key initiatives. In order to be considered for funding, one or more Executive Council members must sponsor each project.
After reviewing Strategic Initiatives Fund proposals for 2014-15, President Glassner and Executive Council have approved the following projects:
- Funding to support faculty to hire students as research assistants
- Academic English Studies recruitment funding to maintain and diversify international student enrollment
- Distance learning courses in the environmental law program
- Support for newly implemented law admissions interview program
- Interventions for Undergraduate Student Success—designed to increase incoming undergraduates’ persistence and academic success
- Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Cyber-Security—a new course taught by multiple cross-school faculty and offered to students from all three schools
- Research funds to determine the specific activity of spider venom toxins for commercialization in medicinal (pharmaceutical) and/or agricultural (insecticidal) endeavors
- Support for the creation of a fellowships-advising system across all three schools
- Funds to create articulation agreements with feeder colleges to improve transfer recruitment efforts
- Funding for the law school’s centennial gala event and planning efforts to maximize overall engagement and fundraising success
- Development of and support for career outcomes for students
- Funds for graduate faculty to work with the Portland African American Leadership Forum to create a new certificate and/or degree program in community leadership
- Development of a new online school psychology license-only program
- CAS Admissions admitted student fly-in initiative to help increase enrollment for first-generation students and students of color, with an emphasis on gender balance and economic and geographic diversity
- Funding to appoint a new coordinator of district-affiliated programming within the teacher education program
- Entrepreneurship and Innovation brochure and video to promote curricular offerings and cocurricular activities
- Conference registration, lodging, and travel expenses for graduate students presenting at local, regional, or national professional conferences
- Funds to increase marketing efforts for planned giving
- Support for the Gantenbein Society spring event and recruitment of new members
- Creation of a new natural resources law and policy class aimed primarily at science students and professionals who are not currently Lewis & Clark students
- Search engine marketing services to find and cultivate prospective law and graduate students
- “Sophomore Soar” programming to fight off sophomore slump, engage students academically, and build a spirit of community outside of the classroom
- Funds to host a group of international college admissions guidance counselors
- Funds to visit Waterford United World College to offer presentations and interviews to prospective students
- Development of a sustainability-related course to be cotaught by faculty from all three Lewis & Clark schools
- Sustainability Council funding request for a watershed restoration event (to remove invasive plants and plant natives), Salmon-Safe marketing, the Green Move-Out, and the senior celebration event
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