Grants: Activities, Funding Opportunities and Challenges

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Grants Activities, Funding Opportunities and
Challenges

• Andreea M. Serban, Ph.D. Vice Chancellor
• Technology and Learning Services
• SOCCCD
• Board Meeting
• June 25, 2007

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Key Developments in State Funding

• 2002-2005 budget cuts in California Community
  Colleges funding state grant funding
  significantly reduced
• Governor's 2005-06 Budget
• expanded vocational and career technical
  educational opportunities for middle school and
  high school students
• improved linkages between the career and
  technical curricula of the public schools and
  community colleges
• Senate Bill 70, September 2005, provided 20
  million to the California Community Colleges for
  CTE programs
• System Strategic Plan for California Community
  Colleges

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Total Grant Funding Obtained 2005-07

• Technology and Learning Services (TLS)
  2006-07 1,550,000
• Saddleback College 3,000,059
• Saddleback Foundation 280,500
• Irvine Valley College 41,028
• ATEP 205,000
• TOTAL 5,076,587
• Saddleback College pending 3,951,956

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Grant Applications and Status2005-07
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Topics/Programs Funded and Pending

• Nursing 2,100,294
• Transfer research/articulation 1,550,000
• Teacher/counselor preparation
• in career technical education 406,900
• Other CTE programs 978,365
• Pending CTE programs 3,951,956
• Other 41,028

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Grant Challenges and Opportunities

• Institutional commitment and direction
• Organizational structure and staffing
• Federal, state and private funding priorities
• Complexity and, often, very short timelines of
  requests for applications
• Consortia
• Pre- and post-award grant management

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Expected Future Grant Funding Directions and
Priorities

• Federal
• Math, Science, Engineering, Technology
• State
• Career Technical Education
• Partnerships for Economic and Workforce
  Development
• Transfer
• Basic Skills
• Private
• Varied and multiple opportunities