Congratulations to the first recipients of the Pew
Grant Program in Course Redesign.  This message from
Carol Twigg provides information on the institutions
selected.  Descriptions of the projects and information
on applying for the next rounds of grants are available
on the projects website (URL listed below).

Joan K. Lippincott
<joan@cni.org>

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The Pew Grant Program in Course Redesign is pleased to announce the
first of three rounds of grant awards.  The purpose of this
institutional grant program is to encourage colleges and universities
to redesign their instructional approaches using technology to achieve
cost savings as well as quality enhancements.  Redesign projects will
focus on large-enrollment, introductory courses, which have the
potential of impacting significant student numbers and generating
substantial cost savings.

The institutions that have received a $200,000 grant include:

-- Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI)
-- Penn State University
-- Rio Salado College (Maricopa Community College District)
-- State University of New York at Buffalo
-- University of Central Florida
-- University of Colorado-Boulder
-- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
-- University of Southern Maine
-- University of Wisconsin-Madison
-- Virginia Tech

Full descriptions of each project will be available on the program's
Web site by the end of the month. For more information about how to
apply for a grant in rounds 2 and 3, please see the program Web site
<http://www.center.rpi.edu/>.