Iowa College Foundation – Special Programs

Funding Special Programs

Funding special programs is an important part of the overall support of ICF member institutions. Scholarship support to ICF constitutes the largest number and amount of gifts received each year. Special programs are beneficial as they support students and faculty in their pursuit of educational and professional growth. The organizations listed in this section have given their generous resources to ICF to create and sustain programs that benefit students and faculty. ICF and its member institutions wish to thank these organizations for their commitment and generosity.

FACULTY DEVELOPMENT AND TECHNOLOGY
INTEGRATION PROGRAM
The faculty at ICF’s member colleges and universities are the fortunate beneficiaries of a $600,000 commitment over three years by the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust. This fund has provided summer workshops for college faculty aimed at integrating technology into their curricula and classrooms. In addition, the Foundation for Higher Education UPS Venture Fund provided an additional $100,000 fund for awarding post-workshop grants to faculty to help them create programs on their own campuses to utilize the knowledge gained at the workshops.

The first two series of workshops occurred in the summers of 2002 and 2003. The third series of workshops is scheduled for June 2004. At these workshops, faculty are exposed to technological tools that are proven to be essential to today’s classroom experience. Over the program’s three years, an estimated 500 faculty members from all 25 ICF institutions will have attended the workshops hosted on the campuses of various member schools.

ICF is proud to administer the Faculty Development and Technology Integration Program and wishes to express its heartfelt gratitude to the Carver Trust and UPS/FIHE Venture Fund for their commitment to providing resources to enhance the ability of ICF’s member schools to infuse technology into their students’ classroom experience.

MAYTAG INNOVATION AWARDS FOR
STUDENT/FACULTY RESEARCH
Thanks to the Maytag Corporation, ICF expanded the opportunity for students to undertake innovative research projects on our campuses.

With Maytag’s generous support, ICF last spring awarded Maytag Innovation Awards to students at ICF’s colleges and universities. The Maytag Awards averaged $1,700 per project.

R.J. McELROY STUDENT/FACULTY RESEARCH PROGRAM
Thanks to the continued support from the R.J. McElroy Trust in Waterloo, ICF awarded grants averaging $1,700 each for student/faculty research projects at selected ICF colleges and universities. This marks the seventh year that the McElroy Trust has sponsored this program. Under this research program, students develop close apprentice-mentor relationships with professors who often inspire them to pursue meaningful advanced study after college or professional opportunities in business, industry, education or government. Students and sponsoring faculty share the outcomes of their research projects at an ICF-sponsored symposium each spring.