Proposal for a FIPSE grant to fund curriculum transformation dissemination to community colleges, 1986

[handwritten: WMST FIPSE Dissemination Grant Funded for FY 68-87 (notified 6/17/85)] Integrating the Scholarahip on Women Dissemination to Community Colleges in Maryland We are concluding a three-year proJect to transform the traditional curriculum by integrating materiala on women. We have produced over 30 new syllabi in 13 different disciplines, including courses in the liberal arts and sciences and in professional programs, and we have trained over 70 faculty who are able to help us with dissemination. We have published a newsletter RE-VISIONS (copies enclosed) each semester of the proJect and have distributed it to over 2,000 educators both on and off campus in Maryland and throughout the nation. We recently held an Area Conference (program enclosed) to which we invited selected educators in higher and secondary education in the Baltimore-Washington area. This conference was enthusiastically received, with 85% of those attending requesting continued work with us as consultants, in workshops, and through courses. We published a book of curriculum resources for distribution at the conference that will be made available generally (copy enclosed). We anticipate publishing a more substantial book with a professional press. Aa a result of administrative encouragement and support, we plan to eatablish an institute through which we will offer a variety of services to local and regional educational institutiona to assist them in integrating the scholarship on women into the traditional curriculum. Services will be of two kinds: 1) consultants, workshops, conferences, short courses, credit and non-credit Saturday, evening, or summer courses: and 2) extensive resource materials, including integrated syllabi, writing assignaents, examinations, exercises, bibliographies, and tapes of lectures and conferences given by consultants who visited during the proJect. We are committed to effective dissemination of the proJect both on and off campus. Some dissemination can be done with campus resources, and some will require outside funding. We have chosen to focus our off-campus dissemination efforts in the first year on the community colleges, and we are requesting a FIPSE dissemination grant to fund that effort. There are twenty community colleges in Maryland. We will initially work with seven to ten of theae, located near Baltimore and Washington, enrolling over 75,000 students of whom