GGC Receives Significant Grants

Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC) finished 2022 with more than $10 million in competitive federal, state and organizational grants, setting a new GGC record for the amount of such grants awarded in a calendar year. Highlighted grants include the following.

$500,000

Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Inclusive Excellence 3 initiative with tackling specific topics. GGC will use its funds to investigate the impact of inclusive teaching practices and evaluation of these practices towards increasing student retention.

Georgia Gwinnett received nearly $500,000 in grant funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s (HHMI) Inclusive Excellence 3 (IE3) initiative, which seeks to research efforts to advance diversity and inclusiveness practices in STEM education.

Using School of Science and Technology as a campus model for inclusive excellence, the GGC team will offer faculty professional development and training on inclusive teaching practices, and identify tools that measure and evaluate effective and inclusive teaching.

$3.7M

Teacher Quality Grant

The School of Education was awarded a Teacher Quality Grant from the U.S. Department of Education of more than $3.7 million, disbursed

GGC is the only Georgia institution among 22 schools nationwide selected to receive this funding.

The grant will provide funding for 40 GGC students to complete a year of residency in addition to induction support during their first two years of teaching in the Gwinnett County Public School (GCPS) system.

The initiative aims to increase the diversity of the educator pipeline from GGC to GCPS in critical shortage areas including secondary math and science, K-12 special education and elementary English Learners/ESOL-endorsed teachers.

$1.65M

Nita M. Lowey 21st Century Community Learning Centers Subgrant Georgia Gwinnett received nearly $1.65 million from the Nita M. Lowey 21st Century Community Learning Centers Subgrant, funded by the U.S. Department of Education and administered by the Georgia Department of Education.

The grant supports GGC’s Grizzly Academy Dreamers after-school program for historically underserved elementary students from two local schools (see story, page 10).

This innovative program also incorporates programming for parents, and a collaboration with GCPS that includes bus transportation for the students to GGC for program activities.