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The university’s graduate distance-learning portfolio included 560 courses and 852 course sections.The graduate certificate in nuclear engineering, developed from within the Department of MechanicalEngineering, successfully went through university governance in FY11 and online course developmentwas conducted during FY12.IDDL offered professional development opportunities and built partnerships with Nigeria, South Africa,and Senegal in fall 2011. Visiting scholars from Egypt participated in the master online instructor certificateduring the spring 2012 semester.Quality assurance remains a priority while providing design and consultation services utilizing researchbasedpedagogical practices to improve distance learning at Virginia Tech. To support this commitment,IDDL provided more than $200,919 (Provost Enterprise Fund Course Development Fund) for new coursedevelopment and $15,000 for research fellowships.More than 160 faculty members participated in IDDL professional development offerings. Additionally,more than 90 faculty participated in one-on-one instructional design consultation.Outreach and International AffairsOutreach and International Affairs’ Continuing and Professional Education (CPE) continued to providevaluable programs that connected the expertise of Virginia Tech to local, state, national, and global needsof individuals, organizations, and communities. The CPE team successfully delivered 244 programs thatwere attended by approximately 21,000 participants.Continuing and Professional Education also is heading up Virginia Tech’s role in a $60 million, fiveyeargrant project funded by the U.S. Army Education Outreach Program. CPE is collaborating with theuniversity’s Office of Academic Assessment and the VT-STEM initiative on the project, which is an effortto nurture students’ interests in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers. Theproject brings together 10 national STEM outreach programs under one umbrella.CPE’s Center for Organizational and Technological Advancement (COTA) generated more than $1.2million in gross sales revenue for the Hotel Roanoke & Conference Center in FY 2012. From 2004 to 2012,COTA has generated about $45.5 million in gross sales at the hotel and conference center.Since 2008, more than $8.5 million worth of renovations have been made at the Hotel Roanoke &Conference Center, including upgrades of all guest rooms and conference facilities. In 2012, the facilityreceived Hilton Hotel’s Best Property Operations-Americas East Award in recognition of long-termeffective management.The Inn at Virginia Tech and Skelton Conference Center recently was named a top-10 meeting destinationin a readers’ choice survey by ConventionSouth. Inn and conference guests also can enjoy golf packagesat the nearby Pete Dye River Course of Virginia Tech, which was ranked among the 10 Best CampusCourses for 2011 by Golfweek magazine.The Office of Economic Development is spearheading a $1.7 million, three-year federal grant projectaimed at creating new jobs in Southwest Virginia’s transportation equipment manufacturing industry.Because of its track record in activities that help create jobs, the Office of Economic Development also hasbeen awarded a $500,000 University Center grant to further its regional economic development effortsover the next five years. The U.S. Commerce Department’s Economic Development Administration chosefewer than two dozen universities to receive the competitive grants.2012-13 University Facts & Figures 39
The Office of International Research, Education, and Development (OIRED) manages research programsfocused on sustainable agriculture, resource management, and pest management in more than 25countries around the world. It also oversees Virginia Tech’s Office of Education Abroad, Women andGender in International Development, Graduate Certificate in International Research, and Peace Corpsprograms.During the past year, OIRED continued to manage a five-year, $28 million grant from the U.S. Agencyfor International Development to revamp the agriculture curriculum in Senegal’s institutions of highereducation. The Education and Research in Agriculture in Senegal project is part of a U.S. government’sFeed the Future Initiative, aimed at ensuring that countries around the world can feed themselves.OIRED also oversees a $9.4 million, five-year project designed to help train the next generation ofagriculturalists in post-conflict South Sudan. The project’s focus is establishing agriculture and naturalresource management curricula in South Sudan’s universities.The Upward Bound program at Virginia Tech was recently awarded a five-year grant worth $1.85 millionby the U.S. Department of Education Office of Postsecondary Education, TRIO Programs. Upward Boundis one of six federal TRIO Programs designed as educational opportunity outreach programs to assistfirst-generation college and disabled students in progressing from middle school to post-baccalaureateprograms. In 2011 the university’s sister program, Talent Search, received a five-year funding grant of $1.6million from the Department of Education, renewing its outreach to middle and high school students inSouthwest Virginia.The Virginia Tech Language and Culture Institute offers language-related programs and services foracademic and professional development on the Blacksburg campus and at the National Capital Regioncampus. The Intensive English course series serves 300-400 students each semester. The institute alsohas provided pre-academic training to about 90 Fulbright scholars from Africa, Asia, Latin America, theCaribbean, Europe, and the Middle East.During the past year, more than 600 students enrolled in eight different graduate programs at the VirginiaTech Commonwealth Campus centers. The six centers also serve a wider field of clients. For example,the Southwest Center in Abingdon presented a variety of professional development, training, and STEMprograms that attracted about 9,600 participants, including K-12 administrators, teachers, and students, aswell as members of civic organizations.Virginia Tech has been named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll asone of the nation’s leading colleges in service for the past seven years, and VT Engage: the CommunityLearning Collaborative is a university leader in implementing service efforts. During the past year,about 2,700 undergraduate and 430 graduate students participated in service-learning and experientialprograms that were integrated into 84 courses in more than 28 departments.Student AffairsCook Counseling Center is accredited by the International Association of Counseling Services and offersa pre-doctoral internship in professional psychology that is accredited by the American PsychologicalAssociation.The Cranwell International Center, in conjunction with the Council of International StudentsOrganizations, 62 student organizations, and more than 200 volunteers, hosted the 53nd InternationalStreet Fair in 2012. With 13,000 attendees, it is the largest and longest-running international street fair atany university in the U.S.40University Facts & Figures 2012-13
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Page 3 and 4: TABLE OF CONTENTSSTATEMENT OF MISSI
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Page 23 and 24: CollegesCollege Of Agriculture and
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