Grants and Fellowships Awarded

 

“Cal-High SIFE: A University/School/Business Partnership,” $22,500, Applied Materials, Inc, Fall 2001.

 

“Cal-High SIFE: A University/School/Business Partnership,” $10,000, Applied Materials, Inc, Fall 2000.

 

“Cal-High SIFE: A University/School/Business Partnership,” $10,000, Cadence Designs, Inc, Fall 2000.

 

“Entrepreneurship for Summer Youth,” $43,433, Private Industry Council of Butte County, June 1999.

 

Summer Scholar Award, 1998, “Assessment, Publication and Grant Writing: A CSU, Chico/K-12 Partnership.”

 

"Doing More with Less in Introductory Accounting: (More Learning, More Technology, More Relevance;

Less Teaching, Less Lecture, Less Pain)," $8,000, submitted to the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching under the CSU Chancellor's Learning Productivity Project Program for 1998/99, July 1998.

 

"Entrepreneurship for Summer Youth,"  $9,995. Private Industry Council of Butte County, July 1998.

 

"Entrepreneurship for At-Risk High School Students: Turning Risk into Success,"  $25,000. The Coleman Foundation, Inc. Chicago, IL, April 1998.

 

January 1997, $2,500 grant from the California Campus Compact under its Service-Learning Curriculum Development and Action Research program. As a result of this grant, I have written a syllabus to establish a service-learning course within the College of Business entitled “Business and Computer Literacy in the Community,” an ACC 189C course.

 

Project Director, $10,000 grant from Sun Microsystems  for a SIFE project entitled “Business and Computer Literacy in the Community,” Fall 1996.

 

Project Director, $5,390 grant from Intel Foundation for a SIFE project entitled “Business and Computer Literacy in the Community,” Fall 1996.

 

Co-Director, Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Postsecond­ary Education, "Disseminating Proven Reforms,” September 1995. The grant was one of 13 awarded out of 43 proposals that deemed themselves models of “proven reform.” It totals $180,000  over a two-year period beginning October 1, 1995. CSU, Chico’s share is $60,000;  the remainder will be split equally between six schools who are adapting the CSU, Chico model for reengineering introductory accounting.

 

Co-Director, Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Postsecond­ary Education, "Re-Engineering Elementary Accounting. The grant was one of 70 awarded out of approximately 1,600 proposals. It totaled $393,492 over a three-year period beginning September 1, 1992. FIPSE's share of the monies was $198,919; the grant sought to improve the first two courses in the pre-business core.

 

"Business Literacy for Junior High Math Students: A Partnership Among Universi­ty, Community College, K-12, and Business," submitted to the Academic Programs and Support Task Force at the CSU Office of the Chancellor in Long Beach. This $10,000 grant was funded for the summer of 1994. The purpose of the grant was to enhance linkages with K-12 education.

 

Foundation Fellowship, Spring Semester 1994, $4,873. This fellowship provided .2 assigned time to develop one proposal for external funding. (A proposal was later submitted to the Texas Instruments Foundation.)

 

Instructional Improvement Committee Grant, 1993, $675: "Technology and Ac­counting: An Historical Perspective Since the Renaissance."

 

Instructional Improvement Committee Grant, 1993, $4,455: "Interactive Multime­dia: A 'Mentorial' System for Underrepresented Business Students."

 

CSU Chico Summer Scholar, 1992, $3,500: "Grant Development: Integrating Information Technology into Elementary Accounting." A proposal emanating from this grant was submitted to the Westinghouse Foundation.

 

CSU College of Business Unit Incentive Grant, 1992, $685: "Grant Development: Integrating Information Technology into Elementary Accounting: A Proposal to Apple Computer Corporate Giving Program."

 

Instructional Improvement Committee Grant, 1991, $2,500: "The Pension Case: An Opportunity to Enhance Instructional Teaching Methods Across All Levels of Financial Accounting." Resulted in one refereed journal article.

 

CSU Chico Summer Scholar, 1990, $3,500: "The Usefulness of Earnings Per Share Disclosures: Some Empirical Evidence," (with Brock Murdoch). Resulted in two refereed journal articles.