by Currently November 3rd 2021 Share Facebook Twitter Chris Borgmeier, special education faculty, received a $1 million grant for the Special Education doctoral program. The five-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education is for the Special Education specialization of the Doctorate in Educational Leadership, which will provide doctoral training for professionals who want to work as special education leaders serving schools and early childhood programs. Read more. Christopher Carey, criminology and criminal justice faculty, and Kevin Kecskes, public administration faculty, received a $150,567 grant from Georgetown University and the U.S. Department of State for the Portland State University U.S.-Middle East Partnership Initiative Student Leaders Program. Randi Harris, Office of Student Success, and Perla Pinedo, Global Diversity and Inclusion, were awarded a grant from the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities and Coalition of Urban Serving Universities to develop a university-community partnership to help Black, Latinx and Indigenous adult learners with financial access, relevant and accelerated curricula, and holistic student supports. Maria Tenorio, education, and Micki (Morgan) Caskey, education faculty emerita, co-lead the First Nation Administrators and Knowledge Keepers program, which was awarded a grant of $1.4 million over five years from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Indian Education to support principal licensure preparation of American Indian and Alaska Native teachers. Read more. Tong Zhang, executive director of Oregon MESA, which has operated out of Portland State for 36 years, will lead the expansion of MESA’s STEM education programming to schools in Klamath Falls, Eugene and Albany, made possible by a three-year $981,000 grant from the Lemelson Foundation and two-year $180,000 grant from the Meyer Memorial Trust. Read more. Currently grants Return to all news