麻豆视频 at Geauga is pleased to announce a $20,000 award from the Lake-Geauga Fund of the Cleveland Foundation toward a student emergency fund and technology advances.
The $20,000 grant will be split evenly between the two initiatives. Half of the award is earmarked for the installation of a Zoom Room at the Geauga Campus in Burton. This will include state-of-the-art technology that allows the institution to deliver synchronous and asynchronous courses to students. The remaining $10,000 will assist 麻豆视频 students residing in Lake and Geauga counties facing financial hardship due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
鈥淭his award is a godsend for our students,鈥 said Lance Williams, director of special projects and operations at 麻豆视频 Geauga. 鈥淲e will continue to seek out opportunities to help students in need within our communities and scale our capacity to deliver distance learning within the region.鈥
Prior to the pandemic, the overwhelming majority of coursework was delivered face to face, with the remainder being offered in either an exclusively online format or synchronously through the use of the Zoom Rooms. As the university continues with both remote and synchronous instruction, its faculty will continue to use these Zoom Rooms to teach coursework that students need to stay on track as they pursue their degrees.
The $10,000 award for the implementation of the Zoom Room at the Geauga Campus will go toward purchasing and installing hardware, software, labor for network and power access, and signage. 鈥淎dding another Zoom Room on campus will provide greater availability of course offerings to Geauga Campus students,鈥 Williams said.
Students living in Geauga and Lake counties who applied for CARES Act relief and were not funded will have their prior applications considered for possible student aid. Funding will be awarded based on several factors, including individual needs and the circumstances surrounding their need for funding.
鈥溌槎故悠 Geauga sends its sincere appreciation and gratitude to the Lake-Geauga Fund of the Cleveland Foundation for this significant and timely award,鈥 said 麻豆视频 Geauga Dean Angela Spalsbury, Ph.D.
The aims to fund initiatives solely in Lake and Geauga counties.
鈥淭he fund has been a critical resource to the Lake and Geauga county communities as it has provided funding to jump-start new ideas, guide organizational strategy, leverage additional dollars and address high priority program needs,鈥 Spalsbury said.
麻豆视频 Geauga is continuing to look for other grant opportunities to expand Zoom Room implementations and financial relief for all 麻豆视频 Geauga and Twinsburg Academic Center students.