The Planning and Budget Council (PBC) had selected the following projects for funding from the President’s Cornerstone Fund. Decisions were based on the proposed project’s potential impact on the following four mission-focused set of goals and strategies as identified in The Cornerstone Plan.
- Enhancing teaching and learning and building a rigorous, engaged academic community;
- Increasing the intellectual vibrancy of campus life;
- Bringing Trinity true distinction through offering our students the world in a city, building on our strengths in urban engagement and global education; and
- Fostering and reaping the benefits of a broadly diverse campus community.
The PBC is grateful to these applicants for their initiative and enthusiasm, both of which are critical to Trinity as it strives to achieve its Cornerstone goals. The following eight projects received funding during Spring 2006.
• CLI Anniversary Symposium (Elly Jacobson). A ½ day symposium celebrating the 10th anniversary of Community Learning Initiative at Trinity.
• Hip Hop Presentation (Jason Azevedo‘08 and Magee McIlvaine‘06). To supplement the cost of performers and speakers for a 3-day International Hip-Hop Conference (open to the public) at Trinity in April.
• Are You in Your Right Mind? (Linda Brophy for IMPACT). Staff appreciation day speaker will explore individual difference through left brain/right brain research, with an aim for greater understanding and appreciation of differences.
• TC Literature Club (Sheila Fisher). Two-year project that will establish a Literature Club for students, faculty, and staff at Trinity, as well as organize a literacy outreach program with MD Fox Elementary School.
• Urban-Global Exploration (Jessica Wagner‘07 and Nora Steinman‘07). Implement a series of lectures that focus on social change within the urban-global context and create a research competition for a senior project relating to urban/global issues.
• Connecting Urban and Rural (Joan Morrison et al.). Environmental data collection at the Trinity College Field Station to compare with state and other agencies at urban sites in Hartford.
• 50 Stories for 50 Years (Cindy Butos). Establish a ½ credit course in which students interview Avery Heights Nursing Home clients and create a book of ‘life stories.’
• Out of Uniform (Jen Bowman et. al.). Establish a year long program involving six interactive workshops aimed at decreasing the divide between academics and athletics.
The following six projects received funding during Spring 2005.
• Spring College Course: Spring Break, Paris (Kathleen Kete & Jean-Marc Kehres) A College Course designed to prepare students for study-away and reintegrate them after, and to support integration between curriculum and study-abroad options.
• Eat, Drink, and be Holy (Dan Heischman) To examine the interrelationship between food, drink, and religion, and to determine how to best meet the needs of students’ spiritual and religious traditions.
• Enhancing the Workplace through Improving Management (Lucille St. Germain for The President’s Special Council for Women) To construct a series of mandatory workshops for faculty and non-faculty supervisors.
• The City and the Sites (Milla Riggio) To extend programs in study-abroad sites by linking Trinity’s Hartford campus through a documentary training course.
• Student Wall of Honor (Linda Gilbert & Rita Law) To honor the academic accomplishment of students with a public display in Mather Dining Hall.
• Retention of Intellectual Students (Laura Lockwood, et al.) To address human relationships on campus – stressing integrity, respectful behavior, violence reduction – with a series of programs and campaigns.