COE Multicultural Education Grants

UGA College of Education Multicultural Grant Recipient 1994 – 2000

Among the recommendations made in the January, 1994 “Summary Report: Issues Clarification Effort, Multicultural Education Initiative” was for the college to provide leadership for multicultural education by allocating funds for support of School and departmental initiatives in multicultural education. This recommendation was discussed at the July, 1994 multicultural education retreat and resulted in a proposal to Dean Yeany. Specifically, the proposal asked for the establishment of “mini-grants” to provide incentive, help initiate, and support departmental and/or School efforts in multicultural education. It was suggested that a pool of money be established and available on an annual basis from the Dean’s Office, to be awarded in response to a competitive application process. It was suggested that the mini-grants could be used as start up funds to support, for example, departmental retreats for diversity training and/or planning; consultants; and/or the acquisition of multicultural resource materials in specific content areas. Dean Yeany responded positively to this proposal and allocated up to $10,000 in mini-grants for the 1994-1995 academic year. To date, 47 mini-grants have been awarded to college faculty, staff and students and the yearly allocation for these grants, as well as the competition to receive a grant, has increased yearly. Among the outcomes and products of these grants are: all day departmental training on diversity; conference presentations at state, national and international conferences; referred journal articles; seed money to provide baseline data for competing for larger grants; development of CD Rom instructional materials; development of instructional videos and teacher guides; and, the establishment of a multicultural library classroom in the COE. Following is a list of the grants funded.

1994-1995 Multicultural Education Grant Recipients

Dr. Tom Reeves, Department of Instructional Technology Mr. Bryan J. Carter, Department of Instructional Technology “Supporting Teachers through the Development of Multicultural Education CD-ROM” $1,000.00

Dr. Talmadge Guy, Department of Adult Education “Reflections on Directions: Faculty Retreat on Cultural Diversity” $800.00

Dr. Peg Graham, Department of Language Education

Dr. Sally Hudson Ross, Department of Language Education “Supporting Talk About Multicultural Education: Cedar Shoals HS and UGA COE” $2430.00

Dr. Judith Reiff, Department of Elementary Education

Dr. James Deegan, Department of Elementary Education

Dr. Martha Allexsaht-Snider, Department of Elementary Education

“A Multicultural Living Library Classroom”$2485.56

Ms. Beth Kivel, Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies

Dr. Diane Samdahl, Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies

“Learning by Doing: Student Practica in Multicultural Settings” $990.50

Ms. Joan Buttram, Department of Dance

Ms. Pam Otto, Department of Dance

“Cultural Poetics Infusion” $1005.00

Dr. Mary Atwater, Department of Science Education

Dr. Tom Koballa, Department of Science Education

Dr. Deborah Tippins, Department of Science Education

Ms. Carol Lane, Department of Science Education

Ms. Katherine Wiseman, Department of Science Education

“Reflections in the Mirror: Critical Examinations of Diversity Withinthe Department of Science Education” $1,000.00

1995-1996 Multicultural Education Grant Recipients

Dr. Judith Reiff, Department of Elementary Education”Informing Program Reform: Novice Teachers and Cultural Diversity” $2,222.50

Ms. Joan Buttram, Department of Dance “Cultures in Motion: Universal Themes of Community” $2,500.00

Dr. Maria Adelaida Restrepo, Department of Communication, Sciences &Disorders “Multicultural Undergraduate Students Access to Research” $2,460.00

Dr. Sherry Field, Department of Social Science Education

Dr. Linda Labbo, Department of Reading Education

“Fostering a Multicultural Approach to Teaching with Case-Based Instruction Materials”$2500.00

1996-1997 Multicultural Education Grant Recipients

Dr. Noel Gregg, Department of Special Education

Ms. Stacia Schmidt, Department of Special Education

“African American Adolescents and Adults with Learning Disabilities: Overview of Assessment Issues” $1225.00

Dr. Lubna Chaudhry, Department of Social Science Education & Women’s Studies

Dr. Martha Allexsaht-Snider, Department of Elementary Education

“Mapping the Immigrant Communities of Athens-Clarke County” $2,300.00

Ms. Joan Buttram, Department of Dance

“Storytelling Through Dance” $2,400.00

Dr. James Wilson, Department of Mathematics Education

Dr. Pat Wilson, Department of Mathematics Education

“Multicultural Perspectives in Mathematics Education” $2,300.00

Dr. Joan Hall Kelly, Department of Language Education

“Reflection on Issues of Language, Literacies and Culture: Opportunities for FacultyProfessional Development” $1,500.00

Dr. Ronald Keifer, Department of Language Education

Dr. Talmadge Guy, Department of Adult Education

“Multicultural Education Resources” $2,275.00

1997-1998 Multicultural Education Grant Recipients

Ms. Stephanie Bales, Department of Elementary Education

Ms. Elizabeth Platt, Department of Mathematics Education

“Multicultural Perspectives: A Staff Point of View” $1,555.00

Dr. Kathy Simpson

Ms. Shannon L. Williams

Department of Exercise Science

“Ignored No More – Improving the Techniques of Amputee-Classified Paralympic Long Jumpers Improves the Sport for All” $575.00

Dr. Jimmy Calloway, Department of Recreation & Leisure Studies

“Recreation & Leisure Studies Role in Promoting Multiculturalism”$2000.00

Dr. Tom J. Clees, Department of Special Education “Increasing Diversity in the Department of Special Education and the College of Education through Recruitment of Undergraduate and GraduateStudents from Under- represented Populations”

$2,500.00 *contingent on Department of Special Education allocation of budget for graduate assistant

Dr. Robert Cohen

Dr. Margaret Wilder

Department of Social Foundations

“Towards Diversity: African American Professors and the Desegregation of the University of Georgia Faculty” $2,500.00

Dr. Sherry L. Field, Department of Social Science Education

Dr. Linda Labbo, Department of Reading Education” Moving Toward an Understanding of Ourselves Through Seeing Others” $700.00

Dr. Stacey Neuharth-Pritchett

Dr. Judith Reiff

Department of Elementary Education “Preservice Students’ Perceptions of Multicultural Education”$1,500.00

1998-1999 Multicultural Education Grant Recipients

Dr. Rosemary E. Phelps, Department of Counseling & Human DevelopmentServices

“LET’S CHAT: Extending the Boundaries in Multicultural Counseling Training”$2,300.00

Dr. Pamela Orpinas

Dr. Laura McCormick

Department of Health Promotion & Behavior

“Harassment: Perceptions of the COE Students”$1,900.00

Dr. Mary Monroe Atwater, Science Education

Dr. Rose Chepyator-Thomson, Department of Physical Education & SportStudies

“College of Education’s Multicultural Education Initiative: Its Influence on Programs,Faculty, Administrators, Staff, and Students” $1,900.00

Dr. Noel Gregg, Department of Special Education “Downlinking Literacy and LD” $1,300.00

Dr. Diane M. Samdahl, Department of Recreation & Leisure Studies

“Introducing Multiculturalism through Leisure in the Humanities” $1,500.00

Dr. Stacey Neuharth-Prichett

Dr. Judith Reiff

Department of Elementary Education

“Preservice Students’ Perceptions of Multicultural Education”$1,500.00

1999-2000 Multicultural Education Grant Recipients

Dr. Lynn A. Bryan, Department of Science Education

“Preparing Culturally Responsive Educators: Infusing Video Case-Based Technology in Teacher Education” $1,800.00

Dr. Roy P. Martin, Department of Educational Psychology

Dr. Jeri Benson, Department of Educational Psychology

Dr. Paul Schultz, Department of Educational Psychology

Dr. Thomas Hebert, Department of Educational Psychology

Dr. Mary M. Frazier, Department of Educational Psychology

“ATTEND, INTERACT, RESPOND (AIR): A Graduate Research Seminar on Multicultural Education” $1,400.00

Dr. Pamela Orpinas, Health, Promotion & Behavior

Ms. Dawn Satterfield, Health, Promotion & Behavior

“Walking in the Wisdom of the Past for Wisdom in the Future: Promoting Awareness of Local Native American Cultural Activities” $1,700.00

Dr. Pamela Walden, Department of Dance

“Exploring Southern Music Traditions Through Movement and Visual Art: An Interdisciplinary Approach” $1,700.00

Dr. Beverly Payne, Department of Elementary Education

Dr. Judith Reiff, Department of Elementary Education

“Preservice Student Beliefs, Multicultural Attitudes, and Performance”$1,400.00

Dr. Talmadge Guy, Department of Adult Education

Dr. Margaret Holt, Department of Adult Education

Dr. Allen Moore, Department of Adult Education

“Democratic Classrooms and the Pedagogy of Difference: A Faculty Development Project for Creating Dialogue About Race, Class, and Gender” $ 500.00

Dr. Laura McCormick, Health, Promotion & Behavior

Ms. Shannon-Griffin-Black, Health, Promotion & Behavior

Mr.Michael Reece, Health, Promotion & Behavior

“Evaluation of the Multicultural Education Needs of Pre-professional Health Education Students” $1,400.00

Ms. Lynn Crisholm, CMSD, COE Audiology Clinic

Ms. Alice Sanderson, CMSD, COE Audiology Clinic

Ms. Holly Kaplan, CMSD, COE Audiology Clinic

“Addressing Audiology Service Needs of the Hispanic Population in Georgia”$1,300.00

Dr. Tarek C. Grantham, Department of Educational Psychology

Dr. Paul A. Schultz, Department of Educational Psychology

“Motivation and Ethnic Identity Among Gifted Black Students: An Action-research Project to Promote Mentoring’$2,000.00

Dr. Eurydice Bauer, Department of Reading Education

Dr. Robert Fecho, Department of Reading Education

“Reading Between the Lines: Critical Inquiry into Diversity in Undergraduate Courses” . $1,100.00

2000-2001 Multicultural Education Grant Recipients

Dr. Betsy Rymes, Department of Language Education

“Promoting the Continuing Education of Bilingual Paraprofessionals: The Background and Goals of Bilingual Professionals in Gwinnett, Hall and Clarke Counties” $2,000.00

Dr. Yvette Getch, Department of Counseling & Human Development Services

“Mothers of Children with Chronic Medical Conditions: Multicultural Perspectives” $2,400.00

Dr. Laura McCormick, Department of Health Promotion & Behavior

Ms. Dawn Haney, Department of Health Promotion & Behavior

“Incorporating

Third World Women’s Health Into the Multicultural Curriculum” $2,471.45

Dr. Beverly Payne, Department of Elementary Education

Dr. Stacey Neuharth-Pritchett, Department of Elementary Education

Dr. Judith Reiff, Department of Elementary Education

“Undergraduate and Graduate Early Childhood Education Student Beliefs, Multicultural Attitudes, and Teaching Performance” $1,450.00

Dr. Jay Bernhardt, Department of Health Promotion & Behavior

Ms. Hilary Melin, Department of Health Promotion & Behavior

“Multicultural Mentoring for Retention and Recruitment of Under-represented Students” $2,335.00

Ms. Holly Ward, Department of Elementary Education

Dr. Cathie Fallona, Department of Elementary Education “Recent Early Childhood Education Graduates’ Understandings of Diversity and Multicultural Education”$1,343.50

Dr. John Dattilo, Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies

“Development of Computer-Based Learning Activities for RLST 3850: Recreation for Special Populations” $2,000.00