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The college has applied for and received numerous grants from a variety of organizations and agencies, including those listed below. The information on this page is updated regularly, so watch for additional descriptions in the future.
The Fund for Innovation in Post-Secondary Education, a federal program, helps support several initiatives in teacher and paraprofessional training, including our Urban Teaching Foundations Program, a program for students who want to become teachers (Pre-K/12). The grant also supports our award-winning Urban Educator Program that provides special course work and academic advising and scholarships to working paraprofessionals and classroom assistants so they can earn a degree and credits required as part of the No Child Left Behind federal legislation. This program is also supported with scholarship funding for students from Xcel Energy, 3M, and other sponsors.
This degree program, launched in fall 2005, features comprehensive curriculum developed through funding by the National Science Foundation. The college, a Cisco Network Academy, is one of the leading training sites in the world for industry professionals. The new curriculum is designed to meet the needs of newcomers to networking industry as well as experienced employees upgrading skills and learning new technologies, especially in wireless, IP telephony, and network systems security.
Here are brief descriptions about awards and recognition the college has received recently.
Cisco Networking, Inc., National Recognition Award as one of seven designated Network Security Training Sites in the world (2003, 2004). Networking instructors who teach at networking academies all over the world are trained at the college's state-of-the-art computer networking laboratory.
Community College Futures Assembly, Bellwether Award in Instructional Programs and Services given to the Inver Hills Liberal Studies/Professional Skills (LS/PS) program which allows students to build a career portfolio demonstrating their "Skills Profile" in transferable employment skills such as communication, evaluating information, organizing ideas, and using technology. (2002)
Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Academic Award given to the Inver Hills ASAP program (Adult Success through Accelerated Programs), a degree-completion program for adult students that awards credit for life/career experience and demonstrated competencies and provides specially scheduled classes and other credit-earning opportunities. (2004)
Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Academic Award given to Inver Hills for its new Networking Technology and Security program which offers degrees and certificates using newly developed curriculum funded by the National Science Foundation. (2005)
The Council for Adult Experiential Learning (CAEL) has designated the ASAP adult degree-completion program at Inver Hills as an Adult-Learning Focused Institution (ALFI), one of only 27 in the country, and the only ALFI two-year college. (2004)
Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Exemplary IT Project Award given to Inver Hills for its budget development application created by programming analyst Dean Eddy. Each line item in departmental budget requests is tied to a specific institutional goal and associated with perceived need (urgent, important, desired), which facilitates the work of the CFO and executive management by providing accurate data from which to develop a balanced budget that meets department and institutional needs. (2004)