Academic Partnerships is very pleased by the overwhelming response to our grant notice and we celebrate the quality of proposals that were submitted. We are happy to announce the recipients of the grants below. Congratulations!

A special thanks to our grant selection committee:

Dr. Kenneth Craycraft

Dr. Jeri Nowakowski

Dr. Dick Ferguson

Dr. Charles Green

Dr. Les Wyatt

Dr. Melissa Kaulbach

Dr. Karen Anderson

University	Recipients	AP Course/Program	Title of Proposal
Arkansas State University	Dr. Po-Lin Pan	Communications/BSIS	Examining Perceived Teacher Confirmation in online classroom in relation to online student resistance strategies and learning outcomes
Augusta State University	Dr. Olajide Agunloye, Dr. Samuel Hardy and Dr. Paulette Harris	Education	“A Comparative Study of the Instructional Effectiveness of Traditional vs. Online Course Delivery”
Florida International University	Dr. Krishnan Dandapani, Dr. Deanne Butchey, Dr. Edward Lawrence	Finance/MBA	Efficacy of standards from accrediting perspective: Evaluation of online MBA program
Lamar University	Dr. Ordene Edwards	Education	Practicing Teachers’ Perceptions of Social Presence and Future Success: The Value of Online Learning
Lamar University	Dr. Stefan Andrei	Programming Fundamentals/BAAS	Building an online computer science course with embedded signing avatars useful for deaf and hard of hearing students
Lamar University	Dr. Lynn Godkin Dr. Vivek Natarajan	Marketing/Management	Technology readiness and learning goals as antecedents to student satisfaction and learning outcomes in online and traditional settings: an empirical investigation
Purdue University Calumet	Dr. Pam Frampton Anastasia M. Trekles	Education	Learning at the speed of light: Deep learning and accelerated online graduate courses
Texas A&M University Commerce	Dr. Casey Graham Brown	Education	The Impact of Online Learning: Student Persistence and Attrition
Texas A&M University Commerce	Dr. Maria Hinojosa Dr. Rusty Waller	Education	Diversity at Work: TAMU – Commerce and Academic Partnerships (Demographics of online Master M. Ed. Students)
Texas A&M University Commerce	Dr. Raghu N. Singh	Criminal Justice	Toward developing ideas on evaluating the effectiveness of teaching online graduate courses in criminal justice program
University of Texas at Arlington	Dr. Kimberly Breuer	History	Comparing the use of weekly journals and discussions to improve critical thinking and writing skills in face to face and online courses
University of Texas at Arlington	Dr. Beth Mancini Jean Ashwill	Nursing	A comparative analysis of demographic and academic success characteristics of 2,355 online RN to BSN students
University of Texas at Arlington	Dr. Joohi Lee	Education	Factors of effective online learning: Assessing satisfaction levels of graduate students of mathematics education associated with human and design factors of an online course.
University of Texas at Pan Am	Dr. Dave Jackson,  Dr. Joo Jung, Dr. David Sturges	Business	Implementation of new online programs with Quality Matters development: Variables to make it more effective and efficient
University of Texas at Permian Basin	Dr. Raj Desai	Management/Business	Applying Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints to Increase Enrollment
University of Texas at Permian Basin	Dr.  Dian Jordan-Werhane	Sociology/BAAS	Social Dynamics of online discussions pertaining to family dysfunction and substance abuse