"What prepared me at MCLA for my internship at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and graduate school was the rigor of my physics classes. I would credit Dr. Adrienne Wootters in particular with teaching us to work hard and she was always willing to make time to work on problems with us when we couldn’t get them."

Kristy Moore ’05
Graduate Student, University of Rhode Island

Grants

Title III Strengthening Institutions Program Grant

Academic and Technology Infrastructure Enhancement as a Foundation for Professional and Curricular Development

What is Title III?

The Title III Part A Strengthening Institutions Program is part of the Higher Education Act of 1965. It is administered by the United States Department of Education’s Office of Postsecondary Education and provides competitive five year development grants to institutions of higher education. A development grant is used to help strengthen an institution’s academic quality, management capabilities, or fiscal stability. To be eligible, an institution must offer the associate and/or baccalaureate degree and demonstrate financial need, according to given criteria.

The application process involves creating a Comprehensive Development Plan, which identifies the institution’s strengths, weaknesses and areas in need of improvement. Long-range goals are developed and the grant helps address those goals by funding long-term strategies (activities) to achieve them, such as building faculty training and development programs, developing more efficient and effective institutional management processes, and improving academic programs.

Updated 8/17/07