PI: Dr. James Tidwell Agency: USAID-Foreign Agricultural Service Title of Project: Aquaculture in Ethiopia Award Amount: $40,000
College of Arts & Sciences PI: Dr. Kazi Javed Agency: Case Western Reserve Title of Project: Research Project, Center for Layered Polymetric Systems Award Amount: $25,000
PI: Dr. Fariba Bigdeli-Jahed, Agency: Northern Kentucky University Title of Project: Regional Coordinator Support for Intervention Award Amount: $70,000
Completed reports include: 2012-2013 Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Survey, 2013 Peterson's Interim Undergraduate Expenses, 2013 Wintergreen Orchard House Survey, 2012-2013 Voluntary System of Accountability (VSA) College Portrait and the 2012-2013 Fact Book.
KY Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE) reports completed during this quarter includes: Transfer Credits of Enrolled Students, Entrance Exam of First-Time Undergraduate Degree Seeking Students, Degrees Conferred, Summer, 2013 Enrollment Files, Tuition Waivers for Foster and Adopted Children, and Spring, 2013 End of Credit.
Activities in progress include: Fall, 2013 Enrollment Files, IPEDS Fall 2013 Collection and the updating of the OIRE publications.
The Campus Environment Team (CET) has begun to focus its efforts on inclusion initiatives involving the Hispanic and Latino populations since its representation is the lowest of all of the challenge populations noted in KSU's Diversity Plan.
A new student organization, S.A.L.S.A. (Student Advocates of Spanish and Latino Acceptance) has been formed. S.A.L.S.A. is an effort of inclusion for students of that heritage as well as a means of creating better visibility on campus and in the community of the Hispanic and Latino cultures.
S.A.L.S.A. has also offered organization membership to local Hispanic and Latino high school students. This may result in increased enrollment of that particular demographic.