Resource for Excellence Grants

The following projects were selected for funding for the FY23 year.

Total Resource for Excellence grant funding for the year: $141,827.

2022 Community College Adult Student Recruitment and Retention Workshop

Admissions and Outreach
$10,000

Funds will go towards delivering a workshop to provide our institution with emerging data, information and networking opportunities that will help with identifying and creating new recruitment and/or retention strategies. 

ELA Student Library Expansion Program at the Addison Learning Commons

Learning Commons & Testing Services/Addison Learning Commons

$8,080

Funds will go towards expanding the resources available to ELA students and extending the reach of the library via promotion and improvement of systems. 

Food Security Initiative: Fuel Pantry Expansion

Student Life
$17,000

Fisheries Research Internships

Biology
$9,828.60

The project seeks to enhance student success by providing research experiences for students interested in fisheries science and natural resource management by providing a one-week internship at a field-based study site working with professional scientists affiliated with the Fisheries Conservation Foundation. 

Career and Professional Training and Innovation DuPage: InternPlus Program

Career and Professional Training
$20,000

Funds will provide critical paid work experience and career readiness education to COD students.  

Introducing Industrial Certifications into the Electro-Mechanical Program

Electro-Mechanical/STEM
$20,000

Funds will go towards the introduction of industry-created certifications in COD’s Electro-mechanical program.

COD Africa Initiative Travel Scholarship

Field Studies/Study Abroad: Academic Affairs
$15,000

Funds will be used for student scholarships to offset travel costs, addressing a critical hurdle to accessibility in study abroad at community colleges.

Bridge to End Recidivism: A Courageous Career Exploration Program

Adult Education and Career and Professional Training
$19,599

Funds will be used to introduce formerly incarcerated or convicted citizens to life-changing career pathways, employment and reentry into society.

ALP Scholarship Program

Developmental English / Liberal Arts
$19,320

Funds will cover the tuition for the Accelerated Learning Program which serves as a recruitment tool for eligible students who may find difficulty paying for two English courses taken at the same time.