Arizona Regents Reach Out-2006 Funded Initiatives

Arizona Regents Reach Out (ARRO)
2006 Funded Initiatives

Creation of an Online Masters of Advanced Studies Degree in Geographic Education
Ronald Dorn, Department of Geography, ASUTempe Campus
Elizabeth Hinde, College of Teacher Education and Leadership, ASUWest Campus
Billie Enz, College of Education, ASUTempe Campus
Geography Faculty at NAU and UA

ASU’s Geography Department partners with ASU-Tempe College of Education, ASU-West's College of Teacher Education and Leadership, and Geography Faculty at the University of Arizona and NAU to complete a new on-line Master in Advanced Studies (MAS) in Geography Education. Surveys of K-12 teachers reveal a strong and growing demand for this program. The first-year class of fall 2007 would be held to a pilot of 20 students in year 1, growing to 50 by fall 2010. The demand for this program comes from rural and urban teachers needing advanced degrees for professional growth, middle school teachers lacking the 24 hours needed to be "highly qualified" under the No Child Left Behind legislation, and small-town and rural teachers looking for discipline-specific instruction. The ARRO grant would provide the last bit of funding needed to complete an on-line, innovative, and self-sustaining MAS in Geographic Education.   ($93,675)

Preparation of BSN/MS Nursing Students with Second Degrees through an Online Accelerated Program
Susan Mattson, College of Nursing, ASUTempe Campus

The purpose of this project is to envision and develop a program to prepare 2nd degree students for bachelor’s and master’s degrees in nursing using an online, hybrid approach. The targeted populations are those with previous college degrees who wish to begin a nursing career. In this proposal, focus groups will be held with currently enrolled second degree students to help guide the curriculum content and organization. Six courses for the first semester of the BSN generalist program will be developed in consultation with an instructional design media specialist. The total curriculum will be submitted for approval to appropriate bodies. This program will increase ASU nursing graduates by 14 percent.   ($49,810)

Preparing Prospective Teachers for Performance-Based Assessment and Their Futures
Gypsy Denzine, College of Education, NAU
Arizona Department of Education
Arizona K-12 Center

The purpose of this project is to prepare teacher candidates from Northern Arizona University for the upcoming Arizona Teacher Performance Based Assessment requirement, which will impact all new teachers in the state beginning June 2006. NAU will engage 40 pre-service secondary education teachers in a project designed to give them the knowledge and skills so they can create multi-media artifacts as performance assessments. Students will enhance their electronic portfolios to include performance based assessment evidence of teaching excellence.   ($49,995)

Development of an Allied Health 2+2+2 Educational Model
Roger Bounds, Department of Health Sciences, NAU
GateWay Community College

This project will increase accessibility of bachelor’s and master’s degree programs for individuals in high demand allied health professions by expanding “anytime, anyplace” degree options through rapid, simultaneous development of two high quality online programs and modification of an existing 2+2 program. Degree articulations will be developed and implemented at the bachelor’s and master’s level in several allied health fields with multiple community college partners.   ($49,580)

Expansion of Gerontology Programs: Online Coursework
Sara Aleman, Sociology and Social Work – Gerontology, NAU
Richard Gitelson, Gerontology, ASUWest Campus
Jake Harwood, Gerontology, UA

The program meets a demonstrated need in Arizona. It will increase the number of online gerontology courses statewide, and market graduate level gerontology certificates and PhD minors throughout the state. Financial incentives will be offered to faculty to move current courses into the online format, and to create new online gerontology courses. These new offerings will permit greater enrollments in all gerontology programs statewide, resulting in a workforce that is better trained and more sensitive to the needs of the largest growing group in the state – those over 65 years.   ($100,000)

Autism Spectrum Specialist Program
Daniel Davidson, Institute for Human Development, NAU
Susan Marks, College of Education, NAU
Sarup Mathur, Curriculum and Instruction, ASU Tempe Campus
Stephanie MacFarland, College of Education/SERSP, UA
Arizona Department of Education/Exceptional Student Services (ADE)

This multi-university collaborative and non-duplicative development creates offering of a 12-credit online graduate program of studies in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) for Arizona’s educators. Course content will be transferable, portable, shareable, and scalable. The proposed courses in ASD are in short supply while the number of students with ASD is growing. The project will collaborate with ASU, NAU, UA, and ADE as well as partners in Kansas, Kentucky, Ohio, and Nebraska.   ($99,494)

UA General Education Online: Anytime Learning About Plants and Our World
Maureen Sieberg, Office of Arid Lands Studies/Department of Plant Sciences, UA
Pima Community College

This grant would fund the comprehensive revision of Nats 104 Plants and Our World Online at the University of Arizona. The course will be revised with creative, interactive exercises, activities, and content assessment tools, in addition to adopting a new textbook and converting from WebCT to D2L web-based course management system. Plants and Our World is a distance learning Tier One Natural Science option that fulfills General Education graduation requirements at UA.   ($28,922)

ArizonaNativeNet Tribal Leadership Distance Learning Education Project
Robert A. Williams, Jr., Native Peoples Technical Assistance Office Indigenous Peoples Law & Policy Program; Native Nations Institute, UA

This proposal seeks funding support for the development of two distance learning courses produced especially for Arizona’s Native American Communities: “Nation Building for Native Nations: NNI EdVenture Curriculum,” and “Indian Law for Tribal Leaders: IPLP Tribal Leadership Curriculum.” The project’s integrated executive education curriculum will offer an online, cutting-edge, learner-centered, distance learning experience focused on developing advanced tribal leadership skills. ($49,413)

Reaching Out to Native Americans: Creating a Web-Based Liberal Studies and Diversity Course
George Gumerman, Anthropology, NAU
Scott Antes, Anthropology, NAU

The primary goal of this project is the creation of a Web-Based Native Peoples of North America course that will enable NAU to reach out to Native American students and increase their university enrollments statewide. The development of this online course will help fulfill components of NAU’s mission and strategic plan “to be the nation’s leading university serving Native Americans”.   ($4,219)

Secondary Online Integrated Science Teacher Certification (SOLISTC) Program
Sharon Cardenas, Teaching and Learning/CSTL, NAU
Timothy Slater, Astronomy, UA

SOLISTC uses lessons learned from the AZUN Tri-University Secondary Teacher Certification Program to develop a content-specific, integrated, collaborative science teacher certification program and set of advertising strategies to improve student recruitment and retention. The program can provide either teacher certification only or a Master’s degree with certification. This proposal builds upon previous online teacher certification projects funded by ARU (AZUN).   ($99,910)

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