Funding roundup

A $200,000 grant to Cape Fear Community College will help connect students with hands-on training and career development opportunities through the college’s power line technician program. (Photo: CFCC)

In North Carolina, Cape Fear Community College’s power line technician program got a boost with a $200,000 investment from Duke Energy and Piedmont Natural Gas. The funds will go toward tuition and equipment for the program, including trucks, trailers, poles and line worker toolkits.

“There is a tremendous need for power line technicians in our region,” CFCC President Jim Morton said in a release. “We are very pleased to be working with Duke Energy to offer this training program for our area. This partnership will help us provide highly-trained employees to meet industry demands in this lucrative field.”

Johnston Community College has a new ultrasound machine, donated by Wake Internal Medicine in Raleigh. The equipment is valued at approximately $10,000 and will be used in the college’s sonography programs.

Arizona

Mohave Community College students pursuing legal careers will benefit from a $2,400 donation from local attorney Shawn B. Hamp. The donation funds two scholarships: the Law Offices of Shawn B. Hamp Criminal Justice Scholarship and the Law Offices of Shawn B. Hamp Paralegal Scholarship. Over the past three years, Hamp has funded the scholarships with a total of $4,800.

Maine

The Foundation for Maine’s Community Colleges received a $25,000 donation from KeyBank in honor of Sterling Kozlowski, the bank’s former Maine president. Kozlowski died in June and the donation establishes a scholarship in his name.

Minnesota

South Central College will use a $16,000 grant from the Bosch Community Fund to update and expand its automotive service program. The plan is to upgrade the curriculum to include environmentally friendly hybrid and electric car technology.

New Jersey

Union County College received a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) program to support science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) research at Hispanic-serving institutions. The college’s research project aims to embed course-based undergraduate research experiences into STEM courses, support independent research experiences during the academic year and develop a summer research academy.

“The mission of the project is to develop students’ critical-thinking skills through the research opportunities. The goal is to motivate each student to continue on to a four-year institution with a STEM major,” said Liesl Jones, principal investigator and STEM dean at the college.

Oklahoma

Oklahoma City Community College (OCCC) is giving a standing ovation to the Oklahoma Arts Council. The council awarded the college $10,900 for its 2018-2019 performing arts series and will support three performances.

Tennessee

Pellissippi State Community College will receive a $400,000 National Endowment for the Humanities Infrastructure and Capacity-Building Challenge Grant to create a center to house the Appalachian Heritage Project collection, which focuses on regional literature, history and folklore. The college also will use the funds for related educational activities and public programming. The challenge grant requires a match of nonfederal funds.

West Virginia

Blue Ridge Community and Technical College leaders recently received the best kind of surprise: an unsolicited $10,000 grant from FirstEnergy Corp. The grant came as part of the FirstEnergy Foundation’s Christmas in July campaign, a new giving initiative designed to support deserving community organizations. The funding will support student scholarships.

“The need for donor support is greater than ever. With the tremendous opportunities in STEM based occupational training for area students, the Christmas in July gift from the FirstEnergy Foundation will have a big impact on our students,” said Blue Ridge CTC Foundation Director Anne Myers.

(From left) Jim Sears, president of Maryland operations for FirstEnergy Corp.; Peter Checkovich, president of Blue Ridge CTC; Anne Myers, director of the college’s foundation; Ann Shipway, the college’s vice president of workforce and engineering technology; and Thomas Butcher, First Energy external affairs manager.

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Tabitha Whissemore
Tabitha Whissemore is a contributor to Community College Daily and managing editor of AACC's Community College Journal.
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