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Date 5-25-06
Contact Shelia White 228.865.4573
Gulfport—The
University of Southern Mississippi’s Gulf Coast campus was selected
as one of 40 two- and four-year colleges and universities nationwide
to receive the 2006 HP Technology for Teaching grant, which is designed
to transform and improve learning in the classroom through innovative
uses of technology.
During the 2006-07
academic year, grant projects through this program will impact more
than 4,000 students. Southern Miss Gulf Coast will receive an award
package of HP products and a faculty stipend valued at more than
$69,000.
Each of the
HP Technology for Teaching grant recipients will use HP wireless
Tablet PC technology to enhance learning in engineering, math, science,
computer science or business courses. The funded project enables
a redesign of the MBA class, analytical decision making. The goal
is to create a mobile teaching environment that fosters an active
approach to individual and team-based learning for the MBAs, but
is not place-bound.
“We would like
to express our gratitude to Hewlett Packard for this opportunity,”
said Dr. Elizabeth K. LaFleur, project director and professor of
marketing. “Our MBA students are scientists, engineers and business
people who work for strategically important organizations on the
Mississippi Gulf Coast. They must be able to use analytical decision
making tools and mobile wireless technology to contribute to their
organization’s post-Katrina strategy and decisions.”
The College
of Business at the University of Southern Mississippi and its MBA
graduate programs are fully accredited by AACSB International, the
Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. On the Mississippi
Gulf Coast, the MBA program serves the educational needs of regional
businesses, industry and governmental employees.
The 2006 HP
Technology for Teaching grant program is awarding grants totaling
more than $7 million to 130 kindergarten through 12th grade public
schools and 40 two- and four-year colleges and universities in the
United States and Puerto Rico. From 2004 to 2006, HP has committed
$36 million in Technology for Teaching grants to more than 650 schools
worldwide to support HP’s broader education goal of transforming
teaching and learning through the integration of technology.
“The HP Technology
for Teaching initiative focuses on transforming teaching and learning
through technology,” said Bess Stephens, vice president, Philanthropy
and Education, HP. “By integrating mobile technology in meaningful
ways into their classrooms, instructors can increase student achievement
and interest and prepare them for greater success in the competitive
global workforce.”
More information
about the 2006 HP Technology for Teaching program and grant recipients
is available at www.hp.com/go/hpteach.
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