Main Main Background Grant Proposal Awarded Grants Application Contact Info		Background Information on the Hewlett Foundation Grant Pacific University has been awarded a three-year, $375,000 grant by the Hewlett Foundation to create an "active learning community" at Pacific. Students will enhance their learning through reflective discussions, internships, and personal portfolios describing their educational achievements. These innovations are important because students will need to be active learners to thrive in the rapidly changing world of the 21st century, said President Faith Gabelnick. "To receive a grant of this scope and size from a national foundation is a great accomplishment," Gabelnick said. "It is a momentous opportunity for us to continue to build our vision of an active learning community at Pacific. We now have resources to support institution-wide faculty development." Under the proposed faculty development program, as many as 20 faculty members will be named Hewlett Fellows each year and will direct as many as eight projects intended to foster collaborations, teaching innovations, and active learning across the university curriculum. Active learning includes experiential or "hands-on" learning, learning through public-service work, and cross-cultural analytical learning throughout the undergraduate and professional program courses of study. "As a result of the Hewlett grant, we anticipate our graduates will carry with them the skills and competencies to enter professional careers, the values to become community leaders, the confidence to deal with change, and the motivation to be lifelong learners," said Professor Russ Dondero, Director of the Hewlett Fellows Program and a faculty member of the Department of Politics and Government at Pacific.
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