Centers of Excellence Grant-Funded Projects

Many long-term projects, interdisciplinary classes and minors, structural improvements and art experiences have come out of past COE Grant Projects.
The Centers of Excellence Grant program has been supported by funding from The St. Paul Foundation and the Bigelow Foundation.

2006-07
Spring 2007
Title: Embodied Ways of Knowing, Liberal Arts Education and Social Justice: Pedagogical research and residency of Ananya Dance Theatre
Primary Collaborators: Hui Wilcox (Sociology), Nancy Heitzeg (Critical Studies of Race and Ethnicity), Sia Vang (Women’s Center), Martha Malinski (Community Work and Learning), Heidi Anderson-Isaacson (Residence Life), Dajovan Meekins (student)

2005-06
Spring 2006
Title: Community Connections and Collaborations
Primary Collaborators: Joan Brandt (Nursing), Carol Pavlish (Nursing), Jeanine Mueller-Harmon (Nursing), Diana DuBois (MN International Health Volunteers)

Title: Students’ Test Anxiety Management Program (STAMP) [now Skills and Attitudes for Grade Excellence (SAGE)]
Primary Collaborators: Joyce Abel (Nursing), Thelma Obah (O’Neill Center), Janet Dahlem (Holistic Health)

Fall 2005
Title: The Sankofa Project, Phase 2
Primary Collaborators: Paulette Sankofa (Scholar in Residence), Nancy Heitzeg (Sociology), Helen Howell (Education)

Title: PDAs at the Point of Learning: Integrating Technology in Nursing Education
Primary Collaborators: Kathleen Kalb (Nursing), Cyndy Krey (Computing Services), Suellen Campbell (Nursing)

Title: Robot Building at St. Kate's: Transforming Computer and Engineering Education for Women and Girls
Primary Collaborators: Yvonne Ng (Mathematical Sciences), Sherri Kreuser (Education)

Title: Dead Man Walking Play Project
Primary Collaborators: Nancy Heitzeg (Sociology), Alyssa Erickson (Campus Ministry), Gabrielle Civil (English)

2004-05 (click here for grant summaries)
Spring 2005
Title: Identifying and Addressing Barriers to Health for Women and Girls of Color: Collaboration with Northpoint Health and Wellness Center, Part 4
Primary Collaborators: Margaret Dexheimer Pharris (Nursing), Margaret Johnson (Nursing), Avonne Yang (Nursing)

Fall 2004
Title: The Sankofa Project - Fostering Resilience in African American Adolescent Girls
Primary Collaborators: Paulette Sankofa (Scholar in Residence), Nancy Heitzeg (Sociology)

Title: Telephone Joan Exploring the Life and Spirituality of Joan of Arc through Dance, Theology and Literature
Primary Collaborators: Susan Mundale (Theology), Brinsley Davis (Centers of Excellence), Scott Pakudaitis (Institutional Research), Penelope Freeh (choreographer)

2003-04 (click here for grant summaries)
Spring 2004
Title: Digital ImageBase – Developing an Accessible Database of Visual Resources
Primary Collaborators: David Schmidt (Psychology), Cyndy Krey (Academic Computing), Deborah Kloiber (Library), Gretchen Tuchel (Art), Thomas Grant (Art Gallery)

Title: Creating a Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Minor for Undergraduate Elementary Education Majors
Primary Collaborators: Tony Murphy (Education), Martha Phillips (Biology)

Title: Introducing Students to the Labyrinth
Primary Collaborators: M.J. McGregor (Continuing Education), Edward Sellner (Theology), Nancy Anderson (CSC Graduate student), Comfort Dondo (CSC student)

Title: Promoting a Caring Learning Community: Focus on Classroom and Clinical Environments (FACES)
Primary Collaborators: Patricia Schoon (Nursing), Cynthia Dols (Nursing), Sandy Parnell (Social Work), Deborah Anderson (Respond2, Inc.)

Title: The Lived Experience of Health for Adolescent and Young Adults of Color in North Minneapolis: Collaboration with Northpoint Health and Wellness Center (formerly Pilot City), Part 3
Primary Collaborators: Margaret Dexheimer Pharris (Nursing), Joan Brandt (Nursing), Margaret Johnson (Nursing), Angie Skrypek (graduate student), Dia Xiong (undergraduate student), Tiffany White (undergraduate student), LaVonne Moore (Northpoint Center)

Title: Women’s Way and Salt: Preserving the Past, Building the Present, Transforming the Future (A Centennial Project)
Primary Collaborators: Patricia Olson (Art), Kathleen Daniels (Catherine G. Murphy Gallery), Sandra Menefee Taylor (Artist)

Fall 2003
Title: Leaders of the New Millennium: The High Potential Leader
Primary Collaborators: Mary Angela Baker (Leadership Institute), Mary Unger Henderson (Business), Angela Leigh (CSC student)

2002-03 (click here for grant summaries)
Spring 2003
Title: Community-based Collaboration with the Community Center of Excellence in Women's Health at Pilot City Health Center, Part 2
Primary Collaborators: Margaret Dexheimer Pharris (Nursing), Kathleen Smith (Nursing), Joan Brandt (Nursing), Nancy Heitzeg (Sociology), Carol Wilson (Pilot City)

Title: The Effects of Linguistic Simplification on NCLEX-RN Test Scores
Primary Collaborators: Susan Bosher (English), Margaret McLaughlin (Dean of Health Professions), Alice Swan (Associate Dean for Nursing)

Title: WARIE: Women As Researchers In Environments
Primary Collaborators: Tony Murphy (Education), Martha Phillips (Biology)

Title: Revisioning General Psychology: Engaging Women in Scientific Questions
Primary Collaborators: Tom Thieman (Psychology), Cyndy Krey (Academic Computing)

Title: Osteoporosis Risk Factor at CSC
Primary Collaborators: Julie Miller Jones (Family, Consumer and Nutritional Sciences), Jean Omodt (Physical Therapy), Lynda Szymanski (Psychology), Dave Luedtke (Exercise Science)

Title: Levels of Transition for Latinas Moving to Higher Education
Primary Collaborators: Irene Campos Carr (Women’s Studies and English)

Fall 2002
Title: Integrating Spirituality in Occupational Therapy: 2003 Conference
Primary Collaborators: Lucy Crea (Occupational Therapy), Beth Graham (CSC Student), Linda Buxell (Occupational Therapy / Occupational Science), Marilyn Ricker (Occupational Therapy / Occupational Science), Joetta Schlabach (Wisdom Ways)

Title: Un Sendero al Futuro / A Path to the Future: Collaboration with Carmen Pampa University in Bolivia
Primary Collaborators: E. Brooke Harlowe (Political Science), Craig Roger (Business Administration), Clara Burgert (CSC student), Jose Luis Rea (Nursing, Carmen Pampa)

2001-02 (click here for grant summaries)
Spring 2002
Title: Sleepwalkers Performance and Residence with Margolis Brown Theater Company
Primary Collaborators: William McDonough (Theology), Susan Mundale (Theology), William Meyers (Philosophy), Gayle Gaskill (English), Gabrielle Civil (English), Kym Longhi (Margolis Brown Company)

Title: Deepening the Partnership between CSC and Roosevelt High School (CIL 150)
Primary Collaborators: Mary Sue Ingman (Physical Therapy), Kathy Bell (Nursing), Karen Harris (Community Work and Learning), Jennifer Koback (Roosevelt High School)

Title: Inequality: Intersecting Oppressions, Identity and Change
Primary Collaborators: Nancy Heitzeg (Sociology), Donna Hauer (Multicultural and International Programs and Services)

Title: Disability: An Issue of Occupational, Economic, and Social Justice
Primary Collaborators: Anita Ho (Philosophy), Jyothi Gupta (Occupational Science/Occupational Therapy)

Title: Community-based Collaboration with the Community Center of Excellence in Women's Health at Pilot City Health Center, Part 1
Primary Collaborators: Margaret Dexheimer Pharris (Nursing), Paulette Sankofa (Pilot City)

Fall 2001
Title: A3 – Girls Learning Informational Technology through Art, Advertising, and Analysis
Primary Collaborators: Yvonne Ng (Computer Science), Craig Roger (Informational Systems), Andrea M. Olson (Psychology)

Title: MERCY: Performance and Residency with Meredith Monk and Ann Hamilton
Primary Collaborators: Patty Lynch (The O’Shaughnessy), Amelia Kritzer (Theater)

Title: Hypatia II: Conference on Social Justice
Primary Collaborators: Sr. Amata Miller (Economics), Karen Harris (Community Work and Learning), Sarah Berger (Development Office)

Title: Health and Wellness for Women and Children in Crisis: An Interdisciplinary Collaboration with People Serving People, Inc. Part 2
Primary Collaborators: Roberta Hunt (Nursing), Karen Harris (Community Work and Learning), Shelly Rottenberg (Social Work), Jyothi Gupta (Occupational Science/Occupational Therapy)

2000-01 (click here for grant summaries)
Spring 2001
Title: Re/Composition for a New Age: An Engineer and a Poet Working Together
Primary Collaborators: Gabrielle Civil (English), Yvonne Ng (Computer Science), Maria Marchand (CSC Graduate student)

Title: It Takes a Village: A Forum on Children in Poverty
Primary Collaborators: Marla Hanley (Social Work), Diane Heacox (Education), Helen Howell (Education)

Fall 2000
Title: Libraries and Immigrant Communities
Primary Collaborators: Carol Johnson (Library Sciences), Ginny Brodeen, Helen Humeston (LIS/IM), Rebecca McGee

Title: Health and Wellness for Women and Children in Crisis: Collaboration with People Serving People, Inc. Part 1
Primary Collaborators: Roberta Hunt (Nursing), Kathleen Matuska (Occupational Therapy)

Title: Latinas and Higher Education: Developing a New Vision
Primary Collaborators: Irene Campos Carr (Women’s Studies and English), Nancy Heitzeg (Sociology), Karen Harris (Community Work and Learning)