2007 Provost Summer Sessions Grant Awards Innovation
Fifteen Virginia Tech faculty members have been individually awarded $5,000 grants--$75,000 in total grant funding—to deliver individual courses in the 2007 summer session through the Provost Office Summer Sessions Grant Program.
Established in Fall 2006, the grant program was created to meet the recommendation from the Provost Special Summer Session Task Force to develop an incentive program to promote summer session as an integral component of a student’s learning, discovery, and engagement experience.
Individual course delivery grants were awarded to departments to offer individual courses in the 2007 summer session that were new to summer offerings. In addition, cross-college program development grants were awarded per participating college. These grants were designed for faculty to develop multi-course programs of summer study to be offered no later than the following summer.
The University Summer Session Advisory Committee received a total of 35 applications, and based on their applications, awarded 15 grants to the faculty members cited below.
| Instructor | Course |
| Julia Beamish | Idea Development & Creativity |
| Yvan J. Beliveau | Information Technology in Design & Construction |
| John Boyer | Geography of East Asia |
| James M. Dubinsky | The Rhetoric of War |
| Hayward “Woody” Farrar | Modern Military History |
| Leigh Harrell | SAS and Nonparametric Methods for Non-Majors |
| Stevan R. Jackson | Jazz and Society |
| Jean Kampe | Education Fundamentals of Engineering |
| Jihyun Kim | Introduction to Fashion Industry |
| Robert Magee | Introduction to Communication Research |
| C.McIntyre & D. Good | Research Seminar & Methodology |
| Justin Nystrom | U.S. South since 1900 |
| Karen Swenson | Survey of English Literature |
| Beth M. Waggenspack | Introduction to Communication Studies |
| Diane Zahm | Public Issues in an Urban Society |