Bell Atlantic Foundation Grant

$1,000,000 grant (October 1997 - December 2000) - Provided funding for:

1. New computer lab at the graduate center
2. Teacher training - from 1/98 - 12/31/01
   • Focused on integrating the Internet into standards-based curriculum
   • 321 days for 747 teachers; total of 3,034 teacher-days
   • Included workshops developed in conjunction with one district; conference day
   • 16 days subsidized 1-on-1 consultation - 115 teachers
   • Website: http://csis.pace.edu/schools
3. Model partnership with Urban League
   • Helped establish onsite computer lab
   • Twenty-one staff members enrolled in a total of 40 of PCLC's public workshops

Additional K-12 Projects

1. Worked with New York City Community School District 11 to secure New York State Staff Development Grant to train district teachers to develop project-based online lessons and support implementation of lessons
2. Worked with White Plains City School District and New Rochelle City School District to secure separate Goals 2000 grants
   • White Plains: provided 1-on-1 inschool support for implementation of technology rich projects
   • New Rochelle: collaborated with district personnel to create workshops to 1) help computer assistant/teacher teams collaboratively develop projects; and, 2) to develop indistrict teacher technology leaders
3. Worked with Pace School of Education to deliver two 5-day training workshops to 24 teachers in Clarkstown (Rockland County, NY) and to provide onsite support

Additional Programs - Not-for-Profits/community agencies

1. Partnership with Westchester Community Foundation to provide training for Not-for-profit agency personnel
2. Northern Metropolitan Health Workforce Consortium grant - provided 1260 student-days (136 workshops) of training to hospital employees from 5 hospitals in Westchester County
3. NY State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities (OMRDD) contract - in collaboration with Pace's Michaelian Institute and Lubin School
   • Goal: to provide education to agencies run by and serving minority populations to close gaps in their skills in management, accounting and technology
   • Held 25 workshops for a total of 238 student days; also provided follow-up one-on-one consultation onsite
   • Participants came from16 agencies in the NY Capital and Central regions run by a variety of minority populations including Native Americans, Latinos and Afro-Americans

Survey

1. Questionnaire mailed to 650 local Not-For-Profit agencies; 193 (19%) responded
2. Goals of questionnaire
   • Identification of computer training needs
   • Identification of obstacles to training
   • Identification of computer consulting needs

Results

• A lack of hardware and networking resources and technical support were frequently cited as problems
• 85% stated that their employees needed training to use one or more application programs to facilitate the functions of the organization
• Over 50% indicated that computer training was a high priority for their organizations, with only 10% indicating that they had all the training they needed or had no interest in training
• Most frequently cited reasons why adequate training had not already taken place were cost (67%) and time constraints (42%)
• 75% said that they could benefit from consultation to help employees perform specific tasks using computers.