Sept. 10, 2008
Rockefeller Announces $748,334 in Federal Funding to Recruit Next Generation of Math, Science Teachers
Program Aims to Recruit West Virginia’s Best and Brightest College Students to Teach by Providing Scholarships
Special to Huntingtonnews.net
Washington, DC (HNN) -– As a life-long supporter of increasing the number of math and science teachers in West Virginia schools, U.S. Sen.r Jay Rockefeller is thrilled to announce that the West Virginia University Research Corporation has been awarded $748,334 in federal funds to help recruit freshman and sophomore college students into the teaching profession.
“West Virginia’s students benefit from motivated and talented teachers. By encouraging the best and brightest minds at our colleges to become skilled math and science teachers they’ll be inspiring a whole new generation of scientists and engineers. That’s a very good thing,” Rockefeller said. “I congratulate the WVU Research Corporation on receiving this grant and in particular Dr. Paul Hill, head of WV EPSCoR, and Jennifer Jackson, who penned the grant, for their leadership.”
Under the proposal authored by the WVU Research Corporation entitled, “Teaching Excellence at College for High Achievement in West Virginia” (Teach –WV), 20 scholarships will be awarded to students who complete the Benedum Collaborative Five-Year Teacher Education Program. Upon completion, students will earn a Bachelor’s Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM), as well as a Master’s Degree in Education. This will qualify them to teach in West Virginia’s elementary and high schools.
The funds were awarded through the Robert Noyce Scholarship Program that Rockefeller co-authored several years ago. Administered by the National Science Foundation, grant applications are competitively peer-reviewed. The aim of the Noyce Scholarship Program is recruiting college students majoring in science, technology, engineering and math to enter the teaching profession. In exchange for one year of financial aid, recipients agree to teach for two years in rural schools.
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Rockefeller Announces $748,334 in Federal Funding to Recruit Next Generation of Math, Science Teachers
Program Aims to Recruit West Virginia’s Best and Brightest College Students to Teach by Providing Scholarships
Special to Huntingtonnews.net
Washington, DC (HNN) -– As a life-long supporter of increasing the number of math and science teachers in West Virginia schools, U.S. Sen.r Jay Rockefeller is thrilled to announce that the West Virginia University Research Corporation has been awarded $748,334 in federal funds to help recruit freshman and sophomore college students into the teaching profession.
“West Virginia’s students benefit from motivated and talented teachers. By encouraging the best and brightest minds at our colleges to become skilled math and science teachers they’ll be inspiring a whole new generation of scientists and engineers. That’s a very good thing,” Rockefeller said. “I congratulate the WVU Research Corporation on receiving this grant and in particular Dr. Paul Hill, head of WV EPSCoR, and Jennifer Jackson, who penned the grant, for their leadership.”
Under the proposal authored by the WVU Research Corporation entitled, “Teaching Excellence at College for High Achievement in West Virginia” (Teach –WV), 20 scholarships will be awarded to students who complete the Benedum Collaborative Five-Year Teacher Education Program. Upon completion, students will earn a Bachelor’s Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM), as well as a Master’s Degree in Education. This will qualify them to teach in West Virginia’s elementary and high schools.
The funds were awarded through the Robert Noyce Scholarship Program that Rockefeller co-authored several years ago. Administered by the National Science Foundation, grant applications are competitively peer-reviewed. The aim of the Noyce Scholarship Program is recruiting college students majoring in science, technology, engineering and math to enter the teaching profession. In exchange for one year of financial aid, recipients agree to teach for two years in rural schools.
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