What is Title III?

In 2009, Northland College was awarded a grant totaling $1.9 million over five years to accomplish the following:

1. Implement an integrated management system and portal and train all end-users, faculty and staff.
2. Renovate classrooms to SMART status as appropriate for curricular presentation; expand technology available for students to access supplemental learning materials and provide faculty with instructional tools, software, technology and training.
3. Provide students with access to their individual records, academic plans and advising strategies for freshman through senior year experience; graduation in four years.
4. Significantly strengthen faculty support and capabilities and skill in advising, pedagogy, educational technology and curriculum delivery.
5. Develop a comprehensive program of professional development for all faculty and staff that is integrated into employee performance goals as well as program and department assessments.
6. Provide Institutional Research capacity and data management for integrity, capable of assessing both the effect of general education and majors on students.

How does it help Northland?

Northland College has taken full use of the Title III grant and has spent money on new employees, faculty and staff development, learning resources such as Smartboards for students, and an online portal for students to check records, register, get paid and interact with professors. Here are some ways the money has been used to strengthen the Northland campus:

• Jenzabar online campus portal software including technical support, project management, staff and faculty training, ongoing support, etc.
• Wages to hire temporary employees to help with Jenzabar implementation
• Salary and fringe for three full time permanent positions:
  • Title III  Grant Coordinator - Sandra Cruzen
  • Title III  Institutional Researcher  - Petra Hofstedt
  • Title III  Learning Technology Coordinator - Becki George
• Replacement staff for faculty to attend training.
• Faculty stipends to attend training.
• Cost of training and travel for faculty and staff; Jenzabar, "Master Advisor" training
• Development of the curriculum.

Faculty Development Program

The summer faculty development program of 2010 included the following:

• Composition and quantitative reasoning instruction.
• The use of educational technologies such as SMART Boards and Jenzabar's course management system e-Racer.
• The development of websites for departments, majors, and specific courses.
• Disciplinary specific projects.
• The development of Foundations, Human, and Social Experience blocks for the College's general education Connections program.

Over the course of the summer, two-thirds or twenty-six of the College's full-time faculty members participated in one or more of these programs.

Title III Newsletters

• Winter 2012 (.pdf)
• Fall 2011 (.pdf)
• Summer 2011 (.pdf)