Research / Grants

 

College research supported by external grant awards and designated gifts. Listed projects are currently active or have been completed within the past 12 months. Identifies principal investigators, funding source, project start and end dates, brief project summaries, and links to project web sites. The current report reflects data as of June 2005. Due to database reprogramming, monthly reports will resume no later than August 2005.

Walter Feinberg, Principal Investigator

Summer Doctoral Training Institutes in Philosophy of Education Stanford University

The Spencer Foundation

7/2002 - 9/2004

$135,417 

The desire to improve graduate education in philosophy of education is the motivation behind this training program with Stanford University. Two interrelated structural problems are being addressed and a mechanism is being developed to allow top students in the field take advantage of excellent faculty resources presently spread thinly across several geographically dispersed institutions. A three week summer training/research institute for advanced graduate students, conducted by faculty from premier graduate programs, allows opportunity for discourse and research to be presented at professional meetings in the field. Students who attend the seminar receive an award to enable their attendance.

Fazal Rizvi, Principal Investigator

International High School

Illinois Board of Higher Education

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Center for Global Studies

1/2002 - 6/2004

$20,117 

The goal of this project is to develop a curriculum website on international issues for use by high school teachers in Illinois. The website will be interactive and invite users to share their assessment and will contain annotations about how the material presented could best be used in teaching particular subjects.

Fazal Rizvi, Principal Investigator
Ian Westbury, Principal Investigator

National Resource Center for Global Studies

U.S. Department of Education

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Center for Global Studies (contractor)

8/2003 – 8/2006

$81,034 

William Trent, Principal Investigator
Yuqin Gong, Co-Principal Investigator

Data Analysis & Interpretation from 2002 Longitudinal Study

Illinois Education Research Council

3/2004 - 6/2004

$1,500

This grant supports a doctoral dissertation research project.

William Trent, Principal Investigator

Underrepresented Minorities in the Academy: Understanding the Career Attainment Process

U.S. Department of Education

9/2001 – 8/2004

$1,508,156 

This project examines how traditionally underrepresented students traverse the educational pipeline to attain careers for which graduate school training is a prerequisite. A central interest of this research is to understand the inter- and intra-group differences in navigating the transition from undergraduate status to a career in the academy. The project is survey based, targeting students who have participated in the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC-SROP), Summer Research Opportunities Program. The longitudinal study employs multiple methodologies to explore critical questions of persistence, achievement and attainment. It collects data on a sample of non-SROP students from host institutions, assisted by Educational Testing Service databases.