Currently Funded Projects
Sponsoring Organization: The Woods Fund of Chicago Project Title: The Chicago Freedom Movement Reconsidered
Project Director(s): Mary Lou Finley, Core Faculty Project Period: 2012
Awarded: $1,500
Summary: The Chicago Freedom Movement Reconsidered is a collection of essays and oral histories that re-examines the work of the Chicago Freedom Movement (1965-67) and illuminates some of its lesser-known contributions. Many voices are included, but the focus is on discussions of the movement’s long-term outcomes, some of which are much more visible forty-plus years after its climactic moments. This work is being prepared in the context of increased current interest in the history of the civil rights movement in the North.
Sponsoring Organization: C. Charles Jackson Foundation Project Title: Developing Women’s Leadership - Around the Globe Project Director(s): Barbara Spraker, Associate Faculty Project Period: 2012-2013 Awarded: $10,000 Summary: Developing Women’s Leadership - Around the Globe, will support women and organizations engaged in developing leadership competence by identifying and sharing cross-cultural leadership development needs and strategies. The project will engage key women coordinators in a variety of countries who can speak to the leadership needs of women in their country, and can identify and coordinate a small group of women in Conversation Circles - guided conversation regarding such needs as they experience them. These Conversations will both provide data as well as create interest and readiness among participants for utilizing the leadership strategies developed. Antioch University Seattle (AUS) students will participate in local Conversation Circles, and, co -design and co-facilitate a Women’s Leadership Conference on the AUS campus at the conclusion of the project. A paper and accompanying workbook entitled Developing Women’s Leadership: A Capacity Building Guide will be created for use by individuals, groups of women, or trainers of women around the globe.
Sponsoring Organization: Chancellor’s Discretionary Academic Innovation Fund Project Title: The Expressive Therapies Summer Institute: A New Vision for Inter-Campus Collaboration Project Director(s): Janice Hoshino, Expressive Arts Therapies Chair, and Jaime Robbins, Associate Faculty Project Period: 2012-2015 Awarded: $17,820 Summary: Our vision is to establish Antioch University as a national expressive therapies hub. First, the proposed project will develop a Summer Institute series at Antioch University Seattle that will provide both graduate degree credit to current Antioch University students as well as continuing education opportunities for alumni and clinicians. Students from all campuses will be invited to attend the week-long intensive training. Second, the Expressive Therapies week will integrate Antioch University campuses by rotating host campuses, thereby offering new trainings and continuing education units (CEUs) for students, alumni, and professionals in each region. Further, attendees will have the unique opportunity to learn from faculty across the national Antioch University system. The Antioch University Seattle campus will be in close collaboration with our cross-campus partners at Antioch University New England and Antioch University Santa Barbara.
Sponsoring Organization: Jiji Foundation
Project Title: Leadership Institute for Sustainable Schools and Communities
Project Director(s): Ed Mikel, PhD, School of Education, Antioch University Seattle (AUS)
Project Period: 2011-2012
Awarded: $10,000
Summary:
The grant funds will host an inaugural retreat for a Leadership Institute for Sustainable Schools and Communities. The grant will support the first year of a long-term initiative to catalyze new leadership in Environmental and Sustainability Education (ESE) for young people at the elementary and secondary school levels. The retreat will provide ESE training and curriculum tools for K-12 teachers and informal educators, examine alternative visions and strategies to promote dialogue for building leadership capacity across sectors, and explore trends in ESE that are occurring at the government agency, private business, nonprofit, district and school levels. The Leadership Institute is coordinated by a core team comprised of faculty from our School of Education and Center for Creative Change, and, adjunct faculty who are also representatives from two key partner organizations: Friends of the Cedar River Watershed and the EduCulture Project at Global Source Education. The grant from the Jiji Foundation will also provide support for representatives from organizations serving tribes and communities of color to participate as advisors on the Leadership Institute core team.
Sponsoring Organization: Chancellor's Discretionary Academic Innovation Fund at Antioch University
Project Title: Program Evaluation Replication and Course Development Project
Project Director(s): Pat Linn, PhD, Core Faculty, School of Applied Psychology, Counseling and Family Therapy, Antioch University Seattle (AUS)
Project Period: 2011-2012
Awarded: $94,835
Summary: The grant funds will build capacity for program evaluation (PE) across Antioch University. Dr. Pat Linn and a colleague from the Santa Barbara campus will visit experienced program evaluators with the faculty at Antioch University New England to learn their approach to practice-based participatory evaluation. Grant outcomes include the development of a Sakai-based graduate course on PE for possible use across centers and campuses at Antioch University; service-learning opportunities for graduate students as part of the PE course; and building an infrastructure for future paid evaluation contracts with local community agencies. Generating paid positions for graduate students who have built PE skills and increasing the number of partnerships between Antioch University and community agencies are long-term project goals.
Sponsoring Organization: Costco
Project Title: Impressions of Life Project
Project Director(s): Janice Hoshino, PhD, Core Faculty, School of Applied Psychology, Counseling and Family Therapy, Antioch University Seattle (AUS)
Project Period: 2011-2012
Awarded: $5,000
Summary: The grant will provide art supplies for practicum students to provide art therapy treatment. An additional $2,000 that was raised from individual donations will underwrite a portion of the cost of the clinic visits for up to 40 clients.
Sponsoring Organization: Chancellor's Discretionary Academic Innovation Fund at Antioch University
Project Title: Bringing 21st Century Skills to 21st Century Students
Project Director(s): Christie Kaaland, Ed.D., Core Faculty, School of Education, Antioch University Seattle (AUS)
Project Period: 2010-2012
Awarded: $75,000
Summary:
The grant funds will support the design and pilot of a hybrid online M.A. degree in Education with Library Media over two years in consultation with Mansfield University of Pennsylvania. Antioch University Seattle and Mansfield University were partners in a program that used a hybrid learning model funded by a $1M federal grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Sciences. The collaboration with Mansfield University laid the groundwork to launch the proposed program at Antioch University campuses. The target audience are classroom teachers and other candidates who currently hold a teaching certificate Washington. Ultimately, the aim is to expand the program across all campuses in the Antioch University system.
Sponsoring Organization: King County Drug Diversion Court
Project Title: King County Drug Court Mental Health Counseling Project
Project Director(s): Doug Wear, Ph.D., AUS Clinic Director; Carol Stanley, Ph.D., Acting Dean of the School of Applied Psychology, Counseling and Family Therapy; Jane Harmon Jacobs, Ph.D., Associate Dean of Psychology and Director of Clinical Training, School of Applied Psychology, Counseling and Family Therapy
Project Period: 2010-2012
Awarded: $198,000
Summary: Funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Justice, services will be provided by qualified students enrolled in clinical master's and doctoral degree program at AUS under the supervision of faculty members who are licensed psychologists or mental health professionals and offered at the AUS Community Counseling and Psychology Clinic.
Sponsoring Organization: Pierson-Lovelace Foundation
Project Title: Office of Grants and Sponsored Programs
Project Director: Catherine Koverola, Ph.D., Interim VPAA and Dean of Faculty
Project Period: 2009-2014
Awarded: $450,000
Summary: To support the launch of a new Office of Grants and Sponsored Programs at Antioch University Seattle.
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