2004-2005 Project Specifications & Instructions
The grant award specified in this Request for Application (RFA) is for the 2004 - 2005 academic year. The funding source is VTEA Title 1B State Leadership Funds. Mini-grant awards are available in amounts up to $10,000. Collaborative projects are encouraged. Grants will be reviewed and awarded by November 1, 2004.
Electronic versions of Mini-Grant Applications should be sent to Kathy Craven at: by 5 p.m., Monday, October 18, 2004. Three copies of Mini-Grant Application Packets with original signatures in blue ink on the Face Sheet and Budget Sheet must be received by Wednesday, October 20, 2004. Send to:
Coastline Community College
11460 Warner Avenue
Fountain Valley, CA 92708
Attn: Kathy Craven
Technology Center
The objectives of the Statewide Discipline/Industry Collaborative for the Business Education Mini-Grants are to (1) develop new and/or revised curriculum and (2) provide staff development opportunities that focus on one or more of the following discipline areas listed in Appendix A. Examples of activities include, but are not limited to:
o Developing student leadership opportunities,
o Developing new techniques for online class design and delivery,
o Developing new course content,
o Developing instructional techniques for onsite and online classes emphasizing SCANS competencies and academic integration,
o Developing effective collaborative approaches to the delivery of state-of-the-art instruction,
o Developing strategies and implementation methodologies to offer relevant learning experiences,
o Developing instructional methods focused on diverse student populations,
o Developing effective assessment strategies for measuring student outcomes based on VTEA Core Indicators, and/or
o Planning and implementing professional development activities.
Project Requirements for Use of These Funds
The following conditions are required for the use of these funds:
· Develop ADA compliant curriculum that is responsive to the needs of the labor market for occupations that provide family-supporting wages. Workforce opportunities including data that assesses job demand should be cited.
· A plan for field testing new and/or revised curriculum must be established.
· A minimum of five active business partnerships must be established in the work of the project.
· Description of how core indicators can be improved with the use of new/revised curriculum and related staff development activities must be included.
· Presentation of project results must be made at the annual Business/CIS Conference to be held April 18-20 at the Asilomar Conference Center. (Additional conference funding is available for the presenter.)
· At least ten resources for the discipline addressed must be included to add to the Resources Document on the project website; see http://calbusinessed.org
· At least ten best practices for the discipline addressed must be added to the Best Practices document on the project website; see http://calbusinessed.org
· Final project deliverables and expenditures must be forwarded to the following address by 5 p.m. April 30, 2005, in a format to be specified by February 1, 2005. Send to:
Coastline Community College
11460 Warner Avenue
Attn: Kathy Craven
Technology Center
· Participation as a member of the Business/CIS Education Statewide Advisory Committee (BESAC) through videoconferenced or in person attendance at quarterly meetings is required.
Guidelines for Using VTEA Funds
The following guidelines apply to Statewide Discipline/Industry Collaborative for Business/CIS Education mini-grants:
· No equipment purchases.
· Out-of-state travel must have prior Chancellor's Office approval.
· Per diem is based upon the policy of Coast Community College District.
For further guidelines on allowable uses of VTEA funds, please refer to the PowerPoint presentation, “Managing Perkins Funds: Questions and Answers.” This presentation is accessible online at http://calbusinessed.org; then select Managing Perkins Funds.
Procedures
1. Log on to http://calbusinessed.org to access the Mini-Grant 2004-2005 RFA and Application Packet. The Application Packet has the following parts: Specifications and Instructions, Face Sheet, Narrative, Workplan, and Budget Sheet. The applications are limited to a maximum of four pages. Face Sheet and Budget pages are not part of the four-page limit.
• Part 1 - Narrative: Complete the following three sections (maximum two pages):
(Use Part 1 - Mini-Grant Narrative Form.)
A) Goals to be Addressed;
B) Project Description and Need; and
C) Project Impact and Outcomes.
• Part 2 - Workplan: List the activities, performance outcomes, timelines, and responsible persons of this project and specify how they will be measured (maximum two pages). (Use Part 2 - Mini-Grant Workplan Form.)
• Part 3 - Budget Sheet: Complete the Budget sheet with original signatures in blue ink of the Project Director, Dean, and Chief Budget Officer. No signatures are required on the electronic copies of the Budget Sheet. Only the typed names are required. (Use Part 3 – Mini-Grant Budget Form.)
Final Evaluation Report
Upon completion of Mini-Grant projects, each Mini-Grant Project Director will submit a Final Evaluation Report consisting of two parts:
1) a completed and signed Data Summary Form (two pages); and
2) a completed and signed Final Report of Expenditures by Object.
On a separate sheet of paper, recap outcomes, both expected and unexpected. In addition, describe lessons learned; project successes; and project barriers. If applicable, describe how this mini-grant project could be replicated to benefit or impact other community colleges regionally or statewide. Include any recommendations for successful implementation. The format for this narrative will be provide by February 1, 2005.
All Mini-Grant Final Evaluation Reports must be submitted by Friday, April 29, 2005, to Kathy Craven at . Three copies of the Mini-Grant Final Evaluation Reports with original signatures in blue ink where indicated must be received by Wednesday, May 4, 2005.
Send to:
Coastline Community College
11460 Warner Avenue
Fountain Valley, CA 92708
Attn: Kathy Craven
Technology Center
Funds will be distributed upon receipt of the Final Evaluation Report.
Additional Information
If you have questions or need more information regarding the Mini-Grant Application process, please contact Kathy Craven, at .
Appendix A
Business/CIS discipline areas by TOPs Codes:
o Architecture and Related Technologies
Instructional programs that prepare individuals to assist in architectural tasks, including the creation, adoption, alteration, preservation, and control of physical and social surroundings.
§ Architecture and Architectural Technology
Planning, organization, and enclosure of space for functional and esthetic purposes, including the design of structures, testing of materials, estimating, environmental impact studies, and dealing with contracts and specifications.
§ Landscape Architecture
§ Other Architecture and Environmental Design
Specify (includes all emerging occupations).
o Business and Management Instructional programs that prepare individuals for a variety of activities in planning, organizing, directing, and managing all business office systems and procedures.
§ Business and Commerce, General
Processes, principles, and procedures of purchasing, selling, producing, and interchanging goods, commodities, and services to prepare a person for a position of responsibility, management, and/or ownership.
§ Accounting
Procedures to systematize information about transactions and activities into accounts and quantitative reports to verify accuracy of data by applying accounting, internal reporting, and decision making principles. Includes accounting and financial reporting that assists in making internal management decisions.
§ Tax Studies
Tax preparation and tax management services for individuals and businesses, including individual and business income tax preparation, and tax planning.
§ Banking and Finance
Financial sectors of the general economy to prepare individuals to engage in financial or banking services. Includes bank management, investments, and loan analysis and management.
§ Business Administration
Programs designed to give a broad, balanced introduction to professional careers in business, usually including business law, economics, mathematics, managerial accounting and computer systems. Includes transfer programs.
§ Business Management
Planning, organizing, directing, and controlling business operations. Includes various theories and practical applications used to maintain business sustainability through the management of capital, financial, and human resources.
§ Management Development and Supervision
Supervising employees; budgeting, analysis, and coordinating clerical activities; evaluating, organizing, and revising office operations; design of facilities to pro-vide maximum production; evaluating employee records; and coordinating activities of clerical departments and workers, dispute resolution, and mediation.
§ Small Business and Entrepreneurship
Principles and methods of small business wholesale, retail, or service operations for owners/managers, and marketing principles and methods applicable to developing businesses.
§ Retail Store Operations and Management
Principles and methods of retail store operations and management, including department stores and supermarkets.
o International Business and Trade
Principles of managing a business in an international context, and of exporting or importing of industrial or consumer goods in world markets. Includes trade controls, foreign trade operations, locating markets, negotiation practices, monetary issues, and international law and public relations.
o Marketing and Distribution
Marketing functions and tasks that facilitate the flow of goods and services to customers and/or ultimate consumers.
o Advertising
Describes the creation, execution, transmission, and evaluation of commercial messages concerned with the promotion and sale of products and services.
o Purchasing
The purchase of machinery, raw materials, and product components for manufacturing firms; office supplies, furniture, and business machines for a place of business; or the supplies and equipment needed to conduct a retail or service business.
o Sales and Salesmanship
Sales functions and tasks generally applicable to any marketing environment, including retailing, sales, and customer service.
o Display
Creation of products or institutional displays and exhibits for the purpose of stimulating sales and goodwill.
o E-Commerce (business emphasis)
Programs that combine marketing and management principles with technical applications of the Internet and World Wide Web, with main emphasis on business principles.
(see 0508.00)
o Logistics and Materials Transportation
Theory, principles, functions, and procedures for the orderly and economic receiving, manufacturing, shipping, and servicing of products or services.
o Real Estate
Theory and techniques of buying, selling, appraising, renting, managing, and leasing real property. Includes marketing, financing government regulations, and legal aspects of real estate and land economics.
§ Escrow
Principles and methods of real estate escrow and title company operations.
o Insurance
Risk analysis and personal and/or business insurance and their application in such things as life, disability, property, liability, and fiduciary trust and annuity under-writing.
o Office Technology/Office Computer Applications
Recording and disseminating of information, by manual and/or electronic means, including administrative office practices (keyboarding, computer literacy/applications internet usage, e-mailing, scheduling, etc.), global concepts, and office management skills (problem solving, critical thinking, and interpersonal relations).
o Legal Office Technology
Preparation of legal papers and correspondence by manual and/or electronic means. Includes legal terminology, procedures, and documents.
o Medical Office Technology
Prepares individuals to perform medical office administrative duties by manual and/or electronic means. Includes acknowledge of medical terminology, as well as hospital, clinic, or laboratory procedures, and compiling and maintaining medical records.
o Court Reporting
Prepares individuals to record court testimony or other proceedings by machine short-hand. Prepares also for closed captioning and scoping.
o Office Management
Preparation to supervise and manage operations and personnel of business offices, including supervision, budgeting, scheduling, office systems and records.
o Labor and Industrial Relations
Describes the history and development of the labor movement, including the analysis and interpretation of federal and state regulations, union contracts, labor negotiations, conciliation, arbitration, and grievance procedures.
o Other Business and Management
Specify (includes all emerging occupations).
o Media and Communications Instructional programs that study the theory, principles and methods of creation, transmission, reception and evaluation of various media.
o Media and Communications, General
Programs including combinations or overviews of the media arts and technologies categories included in this discipline.
o Journalism
The gathering, processing, evaluation, and dissemination of information concerning current events and issues through the mass media. Origination and preparation of materials is practiced.
o Radio, Motion Picture, and Television History, theories, principles, techniques, functions, technologies, and creative processes of radio and television (including combined television/film/video programs) in reaching mass audiences.
§ Radio
History, theories, principles, techniques, functions, technologies and creative processes of radio.
§ Television (including combined TV/film/video)
History, theories, principles, techniques, functions, technologies and creative processes of television and video. Include here programs that combine television with film and/or video.
§ Broadcast Journalism
Theory and techniques of gathering and reporting news specifically for electronic media such as radio and television.
o Public Relations
Surveying and research in PR, issues PR and news media collaboration, writing for PR, media in PR, speech writing and PR campaigns, data collection and analysis, logic and critical thinking in PR, psychology in critical thinking, public speaking and presentation skills, legal issues in PR, and ethics.
o Technical Communication
Theory, methods, and skills for writing and producing scientific, technical, and business communications and documentation.
o Mass Communications
Study of the media by which entertainment and information messages are delivered, techniques used in such media, and social effects of such messages.
o Film Studies (including combined film/video)
History, development, theory, and criticism of the film/video arts, as well as principles of film making and film production.
o Film History and Criticism
History, development, theory, and criticism of the film/video arts.
o Film Production
Communication of dramatic information, ideas, moods, and feelings through films and videos. Includes film technology and equipment, directing, editing, planning and management of film/video operations.
o Animation
Principles and techniques for creating the visual illusion of motion through sequenced images. Includes animation using digital technology.
o Multimedia
Principles and techniques of using computers to bring together text, sounds, animation, graphic art, and video to create interactive products to inform, educate, or entertain.
o Website Design
Principles of design, user interface/navigation, graphics applications and other authoring tools to design, edit, and publish web pages, documents, images, graphics, sound and multimedia products for the Internet.
o Graphic Communication
Principles and techniques of preparing materials for print or electronic publication using electronic page layout and related computer programs.
o Desktop Publishing
Methods of preparing text and images for presentation to readers, using computerized electronic page layout programs.
o Computer Graphics and Digital Imagery
Theories, principles, and uses of computer graphics vector- and raster-based software programs for consumer, commercial, and industrial applications.
o Other Media and Communications
Specify (includes all emerging occupations).
o Information Technology
Instructional programs in the theories, principles, and methods of design, development and application of computer capabilities to data storage and manipulation.
o Information Technology, General
Information technology concepts, theories, theories, principles, methods and related computer capabilities and applications related to business, technical, and scientific problems.
o Computer Information Systems
General programs in data and information storage and processing, including hardware, software, basic design principles, and user requirements.
o Software Applications
Computer application software used in a business or home environment ranging from an end user skill level to corporate level for the management of information. Concepts, theory, application of software for the design and development, distribution, publishing, presentation, and analysis of text, numeric, and graphic data. Procedures, information, and application of software including a variety of methods for inputting data, records, and information. Application of software and computer-related tools such as e-mail and speech/voice recognition for the global dissemination of information.
o Computer Science (transfer)
Scientific and mathematical principles used in designing and building computers and computing systems, including transfer-oriented programs
o Computer Software Development
Design and development of computer-based applications. Includes systems analysis, design, specification, programming, database analysis and design, user interface development, maintenance, and testing.
o Computer Programming
Entry-level programming, including methods, procedures, symbols and rules used in planning and writing instructions in computer language for the solution of a problem.
o Database Design and Administration
Development of database applications in a business or organizational environment, including database architecture, programming languages, proprietary database software, graphical user interfaces, and related skills and techniques.
o Computer Systems Analysis
Systems analysis and design, including the recognition, definition, and improvement of processes through the use of computer technology and methodologies.
o Computer Infrastructure and Support
Network and operation systems design and administration, including certification preparation.
o Computer Networking
Principles of local and wide area computer networking design, installation, maintenance and troubleshooting.
o Computer Support
Preparation to provide technical assistance to computer system users. May include use of computer hardware and software, printing, installation, word processing, electronic mail, and operating systems.
o World Wide Web Administration
Methods to develop and maintain web servers and hosted web pages, and to function as webmaster. Includes computer systems and networks, servers, web design and editing, information resources management, web policies and security.
o E-Commerce (technology emphasis)
Programs that combine marketing and management principles with technical applications of the Internet and World Wide Web, with main emphasis on applications of technology.
o Geographic Information Systems
Computer hardware, software, and procedures designed to manipulate, analyze, and display spatially referenced data for solving planning and management problems.
o Other Information Technology
Specify (includes all emerging occupations).
o CAD/CADD
Use of Computer Assisted Drafting and Computer Assisted Design. Application of advanced computer software and hardware to the creation of graphic representations and simulations in support of engineering projects
o Technical Illustration
Principles, methods, and techniques used in the design and layout of consumer, commercial, and industrial illustrations.
o Commercial Music
Performance of music in public venues under contract and related business skills and services.
o Commercial Dance
Dance performance techniques specifically for occupational applications.
o Applied Design
Theory and studio work in the application of esthetic principles to the design of useful and decorative objects and spaces design and execution of art objects.
o Applied Photography
Application of esthetic principles and technical processes to the exposure, development, and marketing of photographs and photographic services.
o Commercial Art
Design and execution of layouts and illustrations for advertising displays and instructional manuals, including the preparation of copy, lettering, poster, package and product design, fashion illustration, silk screening, air brushing, inks, color dynamics, and computer pre-print applications.
o Graphic Arts
Any form of visual artistic representation, including design, painting, drawing, and photography, and impressions made from various kinds of blocks, plates, screens, or reproductions made from etching, lithography, serigraphy, dry print, offset, and computer generated images.