The faculty from HHD who were selected for the Judge Julian Beck Learning-Centered Instructional Project grant are Bethany Rainisch (left) and Suzanne Spear (right) (Health Sciences) for The MPH Community Health Project: Creating Experiential Learning Opportunities.
Topics ranging from student smoking to privacy laws will be explored by California State University, Northridge’s Judge Julian Beck Learning-Centered Instructional Project grant award winners during the 2015–16 academic year in an effort to enhance student learning and engagement.
These topics and others will be researched by 20 recipients of the grant. The Beck grant selection committee, which consists of CSUN faculty, chose 12 projects that seek to provide students with opportunities to actively engage in — and ultimately become responsible for — their own learning.
“The Beck grant uniquely integrates the top two campus priorities: student success and employee success,” said Whitney Scott, director of faculty development [and Child and Adolescent Development faculty]. “Inviting faculty to carefully investigate how their students learn can result [in] positive changes in faculty pedagogical decisions and philosophy. This is a double win.” Read the full story about recipients and projects campus-wide in CSUN Today.