Grants & Research

Current

■ Work-based Learning and Career Outcomes. Strada. Award Amount: $50,000. April 2026 - December 2026.

■ Sustaining and Scaling Supportive Educational Practices. Ascendium Foundation. Award Amount: $1.4M. May 2023 – April 2026.

Previous

■ Lumina Foundation Grant: Creating a Multi-Generational Workforce. Award Amount: $100,000. January 2024 – November 2024.

■ Veteran Reconnect Grant: Researching Student Veteran Academic Success. Funding from the Tennessee Higher Education Commission.   Award Amount: $183,450. October 2022 – 2023.

■ AACRAO Comprehensive Student Record Project. Funding from the Bill and Melynda Gates Foundation.  Award Amount: $150,000. April 2022 – 2024.
■ Student Success Technology for Equity and Student Success. Award Amount: $40,000. September 2019- April 2021. Partnership with Ada Center funded through the Bill & Melynda Gates Foundation.

■ Mindset Interventions in Gateway Math Courses, Co-PI with University of Virginia Motivate Lab.  Award Amount: $522,959. June 2020 – June 2023. Funding from National Science Foundation.
■ Student Success Technology Integration Pilot. Award Amount: $100k. December 2019 – May 2020. Funding from the Tennessee Higher Education Commission.

■ Bill and Melynda Gates Frontier Set Continuation Grant. Award Amount: $1.4M. January 2020-June 2021.

■ National Association of System Heads (NASH) High Impact and Equity Minded Pathways. Award Amount: $100,000. Funding from the Lumina Foundation. January 2018 - December 2019.

■ AACRAO/NASPA Comprehensive Student Record Project. Funding from the Lumina Foundation. January 2018- 2020.

■ Corporation for National and Community Service AmeriCorps VISTA program. Beyond Financial Aid VISTA Members (4), Tennessee Board of Regents, August 2016-August 2019.

■ Beyond Financial Aid TBR Convening. Award Amount: $25,000 Lumina Foundation Grant, 2016. 

■ Development of a State-Wide Data Warehouse. Award Amount: $10,000 Volunteer Generation Fund Grant, 2015-2016.