Adult Basic Education – Stoughton. Community Adult Learning Center
9/1/07 to 8/31/08
Massachusetts Department of Education
Funding Partner: Brockton Area Private Industry Council, Inc. (BAPIC)
This program, located at Stoughton High School, provides adult basic education instruction and support services from basic literacy or beginning English proficiency through high school level skills.
Project coordinator: Linda Aspinwall
Supervising dean: Elaine Stewart

Adult Basic Education Transition to Community College
7/1/07 to 6/30/08
Massachusetts Department of Education
Massasoit provides adult education instruction and support services to help adult learners transition to and succeed in post-secondary education. The program is offered to students who have been served by DOE-funded Community Adult Learning Centers, GED Test Centers, and/or Community Partnership Agencies and who have received a GED or Adult Diploma Program/External Diploma Program credential.
Project coordinator: Linda Aspinwall
Supervising dean: Elaine Stewart

Academic Support and College Transition Services for Students from the Classes of 2003-2009
Academic Year, Fund Code 598 – 9/1/07 to 6/30/08
Summer, Fund Code 593 – 7/1/08 to 8/31/08
Massachusetts Department of Education
Massasoit has two grants from the Massachusetts DOE to provide transitional support services, remediation, and skills-building tutoring in mathematics and English language arts to students who have not yet passed the MCAS.  This program enables students to continue to pursue a competency determination during the school year while transitioning into higher education.  Partners include area high schools (Brockton, Randolph, Southeastern Regional Voc. Tech.), BAWIB, BAPIC, and CareerWorks.
Project coordinator: Pamela Floyd-Ogawa
Supervising dean: David Campbell

Building Careers in Early Childhood to Support Inclusive Programs and Curriculum
9/1/06 to 8/31/07 (and reapplying for continuation fy 2008)
Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care
This funding has enabled Massasoit to provide area early education and care providers with advising and counseling services as well as tuition assistance to help them complete their associate’s degree. This assistance enables these providers to gain the academic credentials and skills they need to plan and implement curriculum, assess the children in their care, and enhance and increase the quality of care and programming they provide.
Project coordinator: Patricia Ferrell
Supervising dean: Karyn Boutin

Dental Assistant Program
10/1/07-9/30/08
Massachusetts Dental Society Foundation
The MDS Foundation has supported Massasoit’s Dental Assistant Program with grant funds since 2004. Continued funding in FY 2008 will enable Massasoit to replace obsolete equipment in the dental clinic and lab, thereby maintaining strong enrollment in both the day and evening programs, training our students on the kinds of equipment that they will encounter in the workplace, and better meeting the needs of both our graduates and the dentists with whom they will be employed.
Project coordinator: Judy Shannon
Supervising dean: Anne McNeil

Department of Mental Retardation Direct Support Certificate Program
9/1/07 to 6/30/08
Massachusetts Community Colleges Executive Office
The DMR Direct Support Certificate Program is a seven-course program reflecting DMR mandatory training and the National Community Support Skill Standards. This grant provides curriculum resources to faculty and staff involved in the project and enables Massasoit to offer the courses, work with area providers to enroll students, and provide students with tuition assistance and case management support.
Project coordinator: Julienne Isaacson
Supervising dean: Karyn Boutin

eTutoring
9/1/06 to 8/31/08
Mass. Colleges Online (MCO)
Massasoit is one of five MCO institutions selected to participate in this pilot project, which provided membership to the established Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium. Each institution provides online tutoring services in various academic disciplines with the goal of increasing access to tutoring services and subject breadth for students of all the collaborating schools. Because access to online tutoring services is especially helpful to our many students who have work and family commitments and are therefore unable to remain on campus for assistance after their classes, Massasoit continues to participate in the project during the second year of support from MCO. 
Project coordinators: Candy Center and Nancy Sullivan
Supervising vice presidents: Barbara Finkelstein and Carl Kowalski

EXCEL (Extending Choices to Empower Leaders)
9/1/07 to 6/30/08
A Consortium of Brockton Area Businesses
Begun in 2004 as the Massasoit and Putnam Program, and supported with grant funding for three years by Putnam Investments, MAP provides career exploration services to Brockton High School juniors who are low-income, at-risk students in good standing.  Students in the program attend academic and career skills courses, workshops, and guest speaker forums; visit professionals in the field; and network with local businesses and community agencies.  Thanks to the efforts of Nancy Sullivan, Director of the Academic Resource Center, a group of Brockton area business leaders has generously committed funding to continue the program for an additional three years.
Project coordinator: Amanda Huggon-Mauretti
Supervising director: Nancy Sullivan

Gateway to College
1/1/07 to 12/31/09
Portland Community College/Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Partners
Massasoit Community College has been selected to offer the nationally recognized Gateway to College grant program for at-risk and dropout youth. Developed by Portland (OR) Community College, the Gateway to College program provides 16- to 20-year-olds who have dropped out of high school or are on the path to dropping out an opportunity to attain their diploma while simultaneously working toward an associate’s degree. Massasoit’s Gateway to College program serves youth from both Brockton and Boston and is partly supported with per-pupil funds from these two school systems. It is part of a national initiative to launch 200 Early College High Schools by 2010, funded by support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Ford Foundation, and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
Project coordinator: Carine Sauvignon
Supervising VP: Barbara Finkelstein

Jobs in Boating
6/1/07 to 6/30/10
A Workforce Competitiveness Trust Fund Grant Administered by Commonwealth Corporation, funded by the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development
The Jobs in Boating project is intended to meet the employment needs of the region’s marine trades employers while also increasing employment opportunities for our residents. Massasoit and its partners – including the Massachusetts Marine Trades Association, the Massachusetts Marine Trades Educational Trust, MY TURN, Bristol Community College, and several marine trades employers – will work together to expand marine technician training and education in the Southeast Region of Massachusetts; increase public awareness of careers and career pathways in the marine trades industry; recruit youth, older workers, and others for marine trades workforce training and employment opportunities; and develop marine technician curriculum to incorporate advanced electronics, instrumentation, and other advanced training to provide career ladders to both new and incumbent workers.
Project coordinator: Audrey Boucher
Supervising dean: Elaine Stewart

Leading by Example Program: Compactor for Campus-Wide Recycling Program
Massachusetts Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs
This award will enable Massasoit to purchase a trash compactor for recyclables in order to extend Single Stream Recycling to every part of the Brockton campus.

MCNAIR GRANTS
Funded by the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education, Office of Student Financial Assistance:

Latch (College Success Program / CSP)
7/1/07 to 6/30/09
The Latch program offers strongly structured academic support to students with socio-economic disadvantages, developmental delays, learning disabilities, emotional-behavioral problems, and other challenges. The program helps students develop clear and realistic academic and career goals, as well as the skills they need to reach those goals.  Latch provides special sections of reading, writing, math, and College Experience courses; drop-in tutoring; and one-on-one academic and career path counseling.
Project coordinator: Eric Hanson
Supervising dean: Deanna Yameen

Massachusetts Educational Opportunity Program (MEOP)
7/1/07 to 6/30/09
Massasoit’s MEOP program is an educational after-school program for at-risk, disadvantaged students from Brockton High School. MEOP provides students with academic support, career exploration, educational and recreational activities, and cultural enrichment opportunities. The program, a collaborative effort between Massasoit and Brockton High School, is intended to increase students’ access to and success in post-secondary education.
Project coordinator: Amanda Huggon-Mauretti
Supervising director: Nancy Sullivan

Summer Bridge Program (Disadvantaged Student Program / DSP)
7/1/07 to 6/30/09
The Summer Bridge program is an intensive, multi-dimensional summer enrichment program for Brockton High School graduates who are disadvantaged and first-generation college students.  The program is designed to help students prepare for and succeed in their academic careers at Massasoit. Summer Bridge provides academic support services, workshops, field trips, and activities for students in the summer between high school and college.
Project coordinator: Amanda Huggon-Mauretti
Supervising director: Nancy Sullivan

Perkins Career and Technical Education Grant
9/1/07 to 8/31/08
US Department of Education – Administered by MA Department of Education
The Career and Technical Education grant funds are intended to strengthen Massasoit’s career and technical education (CTE) programs and help students enrolled in these programs increase their academic, career, and technical skills. The grant particularly focuses on resources and services for CTE students who have economic disadvantages, disabilities, or limited English proficiency; are single parents or displaced homemakers; or are enrolled in programs that are non-traditional for their gender.
Project coordinator: Patty Chambers
Supervising VP: Barbara Finkelstein

Proactive Learning Assistance Network (PLAN)
9/1/05 to 8/31/09
US Department of Education TRIO Grant
The Proactive Learning Assistance Network (PLAN) program serves students who are first generation college students, low-income, and/or have documented disabilities. PLAN provides individual and academic counseling; tutoring; disability support; career planning services; and exposure to cultural activities above and beyond those offered to all Massasoit students.
Project coordinator: Alvin Riley
Supervising dean: Deanna Yameen

Project CONNECT with Languages: Connecting Faculty Grant
Spring 2008
CONNECT Partnership
This grant provides opportunities for modern language faculty from the six CONNECT institutions to discuss current language offerings, articulation and coordination of courses across campuses, outcomes and assessment of language proficiency, and promotion of languages across the curriculum.
Project coordinator: Cristina Ajemian
Supervising dean: Deanna Yameen

Raise Your Voice: Presidential Activity Fund
Spring 2008
Massachusetts and Rhode Island Campus Compact
This grant provides support for the Earth Day Sustainability Fair, organized and presented by the Emerald E.A.R.T.H. Student Sustainability Club.

Simulation Technology in Nursing Education and Practice
MA Department of Higher Education
Spring 2008
This grant provides a human simulation equipment and software to be shared with and housed at New England Sinai Hospital. This equipment will enable Massasoit’s nursing and respiratory care students and faculty to practice assessments and interventions in a realistic patient-care setting, thereby enriching both classroom instruction and clinical experiences.
Project Coordinator: Barbara Waible
Supervising dean: Anne McNeil

PARTNERSHIPS

Massasoit Community College works in partnership with institutions that serve as lead agencies on the following grants.

CONNECT CITI (Commonwealth Information Technology Initiative)
March 2007 to 6/30/08
The CITI project is a collaboration with the CONNECT consortium to increase high school student access to college-level science, technology, engineering, and math courses.
Project coordinator/MCC liaison: Candy Center

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program (STEP)
Lead Partner: Stonehill College
A Public – Private Partnership to Increase Enrollment, Retention, and Diversity in Chemistry, Biology and Biochemistry
10/10/06 to 9/30/10
National Science Foundation
This collaboration with Stonehill College provides Massasoit students with opportunities for research, a revitalized curriculum, faculty mentoring, and an increased awareness of career options in the sciences.  Massasoit faculty members benefit from Stonehill faculty’s research and curriculum expertise and experience, and the two institutions will be able to share their resources with area high schools.
Project coordinators: Kendra Twomey
Supervising dean: David Campbell

Southcoast Regional PreK-16 STEM Network – Lead Partner: CONNECT
7/1/07 to 6/30/10
MA Department of Higher Education
This partnership among the CONNECT institutions and area secondary schools is intended to 1) strengthen the skills of incumbent middle school science and mathematics teachers and 2) increase the number of new math and science teachers by providing MTEL test preparation assistance and outreach to recruit teachers into the region’s alternative pathways to teacher licensure.