CLARKSTON, Ga.—Dean Barbara Johnson hosted a celebration of the 2024 Dean’s Summer Bridge recipients on September 30 during a formal ceremony on Clarkston Campus.
The program marked its sixth year this past summer with 21 faculty awardees receiving one of six grants funded by the dean’s office. The Dean’s summer grants program supports up to six summer seed grant opportunities for faculty development in the areas of teaching and student learning, while emphasizing classroom innovation, creativity, scholarship and research. Applicants are encouraged to explore innovative ways to advance their instruction, enhance student engagement, or address current higher education challenges.
The 2024 recipients are:
- Jennifer Duncan, English, Dean’s Fellow Program, Activating AI Resources to Meet GA Core IMPACTS through Innovative Assignments which Lead Students Beyond College to Career
- Melody Kelley, Physical Sciences, Dean’s Fellow Program, Scientists Serve Too! Expanding Community-Based learning in STEM Courses
- Barbara Hall, English, Dean’s Faculty Innovation Team, Developing Two Templates for ENGL 0999: On-Boarding new instructors with Solid and Relevant Resources in iCollege
- Tamara Shue, English, Dean’s Faculty Innovation Team, Developing Two Templates for ENGL 0999: On-Boarding new instructors with Solid and Relevant Resources in iCollege
- Michelle Chung, Mathematics, Dean’s Faculty Seed Grant, Flipped College Algebra Classroom
- Johnasha Stuart, Life & Earth Sciences, Dean’s Faculty Seed Grant, Development of Data Analytical Skills through Project-Based Learning in Microbial Diseases
- Laura Bell, Fine Arts, Dean’s Course Modification Initiative, Proposed Course Modification: art 1010/Drawing 1 (Online/Synchronous)
- Michael Diebert, English, Dean’s Course Modification Initiative, Dean's Course Modification Initiative
- Amber Brooks, English, Dean’s Summer Writing Program: Intermediate, The IUD Post-Dobbs, Discourse and Access: A Situational Analysis
- Hester (Lee) Furey, English, Dean’s Summer Writing Program: Intermediate, The Hidden Life of Mary E. Marcy
- Stuart Noel, English, Dean’s Summer Writing Program: Intermediate, Studies in the Works and Life of Truman Capote
- Blakely Phillips, Humanities, Dean’s Summer Writing Program: Intermediate, The Role of Expertise in Self-Knowledge
- Rosamond Rodman, Humanities, Dean’s Summer Writing Program: Intermediate, Broken Promises in (the) Promised Land
- Lorrie Stuart, Nursing/Health Professions, Dean’s Summer Writing Program: Intermediate, Comparison of Nursing Student Satisfaction and Acquisition of Critical Judgement Following Two Debriefing Models
- Monica Weatherly, English, Dean’s Summer Writing Program: Intermediate, Untitled Poetry Manuscript
- Owen Cantrell, English, Dean's Summer Writing Program: Advanced, Paranoia and Nostalgia Recent American Popular Culture
- Kelly Cronin, Life & Earth Sciences, Dean's Summer Writing Program: Advanced, Trace elements in the Antarctic scallop Adamussium colbecki under annual and multiannual sea ice
- Rhiannon Evangelista, History & Political Science, Dean's Summer Writing Program: Advanced, Fascists After Fascism: Mussolini's Ministers in Democratic Italy, 1943-1970
- Micah Lewin, Humanities, Dean's Summer Writing Program: Advanced, An Intrinsic Relationship between the Religious Freedom of Noncitizen Aliens and Democracy
- Kari Miller, English, Dean's Summer Writing Program: Advanced, Inventing the Pilgrims: American fiction 1820-1920
- Katherine Perry, English, Dean's Summer Writing Program: Advanced, This Laborious Nowhere
During the celebration for grant winners, Dean Johnson presented an award to each recipient and shared remarks about their importance to the college.
“The Dean’s Summer Scholars program is at the core of who we are and what we do as a two-year college with an access mission focused on excellence,” Johnson said.
“What we did over the summer, and what we always do, ensures that we continue to meet students where they are and help provide a pathway to their career and professional successes.
“We are doing exactly what we should be doing as faculty to impact student outcomes and professional development.”
The application window for the 2025 Dean’s Summer Scholars Grants Program opens next spring. Check the Perimeter College Faculty Affairs webpage for information about this and other programs.