CSU DOMINGUEZ HILLS AWARDED SECOND MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR GRANT TO IMPROVE ACADEMIC SKILLS OF HISPANIC GRADUATE STUDENTS U.S. Department of Education’s $2.9 million grant to fund the creation of Graduate Writing Institute for Excellence at CSUDH NOVEMBER 12 -- (Carson, CA) – California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) has received a five-year $2.9 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s (DOE) Title-V, Part B-PPOHA (Promoting Postbaccalaureate Opportunities for Hispanic Americans) program to launch the Graduate Writing Institute for Excellence (GWIE). The institute will advance the reading, writing and research skills of the university’s graduate students through a comprehensive skills enhancement program, and seek to develop additional academic and professional partnerships that will help foster student success. Thirty-six percent of CSUDH’s graduate student population is Hispanic. The DOE grant will enable the GWIE to advance academic achievement by providing discipline-specific research assistance, subject-specific tutoring, and thesis and capstone project support using innovative pedagogical techniques based upon the proven success of Cross-Aged Peer Assisted Learning models. Doctoral students will be employed as Cross-Age Peer Student (CAPS) mentors, who will partner with Faculty Fellows from 24 graduate-level professional and credential programs at CSUDH, thereby implementing the multi-pathway writing and research skills enhancement program. In 2010, the university was awarded its first PPOHA grant of $2.4 million, which was used to create the GWIE’s successful predecessor program: Promoting Excellence in Graduate Studies (PEGS). “This incredible support from the Department of Education for a second time is a true reflection of the exceptional work of our staff, students, and faculty partners, as well as the work of the thousands of students who benefit from their knowledge,” said Leena Furtado, GWIE’s project director and...
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