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New Technology Initiative!
New Verizon Foundation Grants for the "Digital Age Initiative" awarded for 2007
The VFIC and the Verizon Foundation have again partnered on a three-year program (2007-09) to significantly impact technology in the classrooms on each of the VFIC campuses.
Each year, five of the 15 VFIC colleges and universities are selected to receive a $22,500 grant. This three-year grant focuses on the new “Digital Age Initiative” designed to help VFIC colleges and universities provide incoming freshmen from challenged backgrounds (e.g., lower income, minority, first generation) with instruction and assistance in developing the computer skills they need to succeed in their academic careers. Grant funds will be used to provide the selected students with personalized instruction and the tools needed for them to study, live, work and succeed in a digital age.
Earlier grants to faculty technology development, beginning in 1998, funded training programs related to faculty use of technology in the classroom. Verizon Foundation along with the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, has contributed substantial resources to ensure that VFIC faculty continue to stay on the leading edge of technology.
The following campuses were selected to receive the grant for 2007:
Contact: Mary-Beth Johnson for further information.
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