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RESOURCES The reengineering efforts made at CSU, Chico would have been impossible without substantial, external funding. Furthermore, these efforts would have been thwarted by the traditional infrastructure of higher education- one that implicitly discourages experimentation and collaboration- had it not been for the support of an aggressive university president and an entrepreneurial dean. Administrators continued to favor the project team's vision for redesigning the accounting curriculum, even after initial funding was not forthcoming from the AECC or FIPSE. However, the team realized that reengineering the first two courses would be a major undertaking in and of itself. Grant funds received from first FIPSE were used primarily for two purposes: first, to compensate faculty for work in creating and continually improving the case-based learning materials that map exactly onto the new course objectives and subobjectives; and second, to compensate faculty for work in designing and evaluating outcomes assessment measures to determine if the objectives were being met. Additional funds were used for travel (e.g., to Washington, DC for the mandatory FIPSE Project Director's meeting each year), supplies, desktop publishing, and consultation from educators with expertise in writing across the disciplines and collaborative learning. Funds from the second grant have been used in a similar manner.
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