Innovation Grants
In order to ensure that our students have an outstanding education and the opportunity for meaningful careers, CSUF has been working for many years to improve student success, as measured by student learning outcomes, time to graduation, and decreasing equity gaps. We continue this commitment to the success of ALL Titans as we participate in the system-wide CSU Graduation 2025 Initiative.
One of our campus strategies involves engaging faculty and staff to pursue ideas that demonstrate potential to “move the needle” on student success through the CSUF Innovation Grants Program.
CSUF Innovation Grants of up to $10,000 funded by Graduation Initiative 2025 are awarded to fund faculty members and/or campus units that proposed a project that researches or implements a program, practice or strategy aimed at decreasing time to degree, increasing graduation rates or decreasing achievement gaps.
Innovation
2020-21
2019-20
| Awardee(s) | Project |
|---|---|
| Doina Bein and Sandra Boulanger | Interactive Teaching using Flipped classroom and Collaborative Assessment |
| Merri L. Casem | BioMajors-2-BioMajors: Developing a Video Resource to Support Student Success |
| Amanda Evans | Innovating Undergrad O-Chem Lab Training at CSUF |
| Chiranjeev Kohli | You Can't Make Students Do What They Don't Value: Motivating Students to Graduate Early and Save One Hundred Thousand Dollars! |
| J. Michael DeMars, Jonathan Cornforth, Joy Lambert and Sarah Parramore | Library S.O.S. - Student Outreach to Students |
| Patricia Literte | Titan Scholars |
| Stacy Mallicoat | Peer Mentors for Criminal Justice Success Academy |
| Sinjini Mitra | Understanding factors for 4-year freshmen graduation in MCBE |
| Rosario Ordonez-Jasis and Deanna Merino-Contino | Avanzando Learning Community for First-Generation Students |
| Jasamin Rostam-Kolayi | History Cohort Project |
| Jessica Stern, Merri Casem, Janna Kim and Teeanna Rizkallah | Explore Core: A Novel Interdisciplinary Curriculum Designed to Narrow the Achievement Gap, Improve Student Retention, and Decrease Time to Graduation |
| Brittney Swanson | Graduate Assistants - An Under-Utilized Resource |
| Devon Thacker Thomas, Eileen Walsh and Berna Torrr | Increasing Retention and Graduation Rates of Sociology Transfer Students: A Transfer Student Learning Community built on First Year Experiences |
| Lisa Weisman-Davlantes and Eriko Sef | The Psychology Department’s Continued Effort to Tackle PSYC 110 |
| Hope L. Weiss | Videos to aid in the mastery of prerequisite materials in mechanical engineering courses |
2018-19
| Awardee(s) | Project |
|---|---|
| Doina Bein and Sandra Boulanger | Interactive Teaching using Flipped classroom and Collaborative Assessment |
| Merri L. Casem | BioMajors-2-BioMajors: Developing a Video Resource to Support Student Success |
| Amanda Evans | Innovating Undergrad O-Chem Lab Training at CSUF |
| Chiranjeev Kohli | You Can't Make Students Do What They Don't Value: Motivating Students to Graduate Early and Save One Hundred Thousand Dollars! |
| J. Michael DeMars, Jonathan Cornforth, Joy Lambert and Sarah Parramore | Library S.O.S. - Student Outreach to Students |
| Patricia Literte | Titan Scholars |
| Stacy Mallicoat | Peer Mentors for Criminal Justice Success Academy |
| Sinjini Mitra | Understanding factors for 4-year freshmen graduation in MCBE |
| Rosario Ordonez-Jasis and Deanna Merino-Contino | Avanzando Learning Community for First-Generation Students |
| Jasamin Rostam-Kolayi | History Cohort Project |
| Jessica Stern, Merri Casem, Janna Kim and Teeanna Rizkallah | Explore Core: A Novel Interdisciplinary Curriculum Designed to Narrow the Achievement Gap, Improve Student Retention, and Decrease Time to Graduation |
| Brittney Swanson | Graduate Assistants - An Under-Utilized Resource |
| Devon Thacker Thomas, Eileen Walsh and Berna Torrr | Increasing Retention and Graduation Rates of Sociology Transfer Students: A Transfer Student Learning Community built on First Year Experiences |
| Lisa Weisman-Davlantes and Eriko Sef | The Psychology Department’s Continued Effort to Tackle PSYC 110 |
| Hope L. Weiss | Videos to aid in the mastery of prerequisite materials in mechanical engineering courses |
2017-18
| Awardee(s) | Project |
|---|---|
| Natasha Anderson | Online Coding Cohort: Take a Fast-Track to Your Graduation |
| Marisol Cardenas | Peer Mentor Program in BUAD300 course |
| Vincent Harris | Brother-2-Brother Summer Retreat & Brother's Reach Higher Success Series |
| Nick Huntington-Klein and Andrew Gill | Encouraging CSUF Students to take 15 Credits |
| Zair Ibragimov and Marina Borovikova | Increasing Graduation Rates and Closing Opportunity Gaps in Advanced Calculus (Math 350) |
| Volker Janssen | High-Impact Faculty Advisement in H&SS |
| Marie Johnson | Pilot-scale CNSM 101 First-Year Experience for incoming FTF NSM majors |
| Patricia Literte | Titan Scholars Project |
| Stacy L. Mallicoat and Christine Gardiner | Peer Mentors for Criminal Justice Success Academy |
| Colleen McDonough | SuccessFULLY NSM |
| Katherine Powers | Joining Pipeline Stages: ProActive Advising for Success |
| Irena Praitis, Su Swarat and Cathy Dionaldo | I Can See it Now: Goal Setting and Student Success |
| Christine D. Scher | Enhanced Introductory Psychology: A Needed Approach to Addressing the Achievement Gap of Underrepresented Students |
| Eriko Self and Lisa Weisman-Davlantes | Decreasing Repeatable Grades and Achievement Gap in PSYC 110 |
