Appendix E

Budget Details

Item                                           Number        Cost Per      Total         
Summer salary for Faculty/Instructor Fellows   8             5,000         40,000        
Graduate Student Researchers                   3             22000         66000         
Student technology assistance                  2             3,000         6,000         
Assessment Coordinator (50% with benefits)     0.5           68,000        34,000        
Travel (paper presentations)                   3             1,000         3,000         
Supplies and expenses                                                      1,000         
                                                                                         
               Total Per Year                                              150,000

Budget Breakdown

The funding requested has been specifically designed to fill in the gaps not provided by other funding sources and to focus our Fellows on the integration across physical sciences, mathematics and engineering and on the cross-departmental "outcomes assessment." We expect to support approximately 8 Fellows a year on the average, supporting approximately 2-3 interdisciplinary teams.

The Graduate Student Researchers are needed for the development work and to leverage the time of the Faculty Fellows. The average cost of $22,000 per student assumes 50% academic year and summer support, along with average costs of fees and benefits. We will recruit graduate students from our School of Education's programs in Mathematics, Science and Technology as well as those from the participating departments to serve as graduate student researchers on this project. The sponsoring departments will provide the funding for the direct instructional component. The Student Technology Assistance is to support and involve undergraduates who have been trained in instructional technology, under the umbrella of the Office of Student Life-Educational Development. Modest travel funds are to encourage Fellows to write papers for dissemination of this project at national workshops and conferences.

The GE Fellows Advisory Committee will be responsible for selecting Faculty Fellows and evaluating their progress and will be co-chaired by the PIs. The cross-departmental Assessment Coordinator will be selected by the Co-PIs who will also oversee the assessment program.

Other Funding that Will Be Used to Complete the Project

Support from the Berkeley campus will include: instructional, laboratory and office space; workstations and network access; telephones; administrative support; and presenters for seminars and workshops. The work proposed will highly leverage the efforts on the UC Berkeley campus of the following organizations and grants:

Synthesis Coalition (NSF funded: Alice M. Agogino, Director)
ModularChem Consortium (NSF funded: C. Bradley Moore, Director)
"Improving the Gateway Courses in Chemistry, Mathematics, and Physics," (NSF funded: P. Buford Price, PI)
Office of the Assistant Vice Chancellor, Student Life-Educational Development (Barbara Davis)
UC Berkeley Instructional Technology Program (Fred Beshears, Assistant Director)
The Co-PIs and their units (Engineering and Physical Sciences) and the Synthesis Coalition will provide matching administrative support for this project. Dr. Flora McMartin, the Synthesis Coalition's Assessment Coordinator, will serve on the Fellows Advisory Committee. She is a Ph.D. graduate of UC Berkeley's School of Education with over 17 years in student services and program assessment in higher education. Here recent work in scalable techniques for portfolio outcomes assessment will be a valuable resources to the Fellows program. The Synthesis Coalition and the ModularChem Consortium will greatly complement this project by providing departmental curricular content and a courseware foundation. As they both have a strong information technology focus, they will also provide technical assistance and facilities for courseware and multimedia development. The "Improving the Gateway Courses in Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics" grant is restricted to revising the intensive sessions for the target courses in chemistry, mathematics and physics and for Graduate Student Instructor (GSI) training, but provides no funds for curricular redesign or for use of information technologies. The GE Fund grant will provide the resources for integrating the reforms described in this proposal into the intensive sessions and the GSI training.

We are fortunate to have the support of Barbara Davis, Assistant Vice Chancellor, Student Life-Educational Development and Fred Beshears, Assistant Director of the Instructional Technology Program, to provide support for workshops and seminars and assessment consulting. Both will also serve on the Fellows Advisory Committee.
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