McGregor
Receives Grant to Help Build "Classroom for the Future
YELLOW SPRINGS, OHIO — October
21, 2000 — The Dayton Business Committee, under the direction of
Mr. Douglas J. Mangen, donated $10,000 to Antioch University
McGregor to provide initial funding for the development of a
Classroom for the Future.
McGregor’s Classroom for the Future Project is designed
to create a teaching-learning environment that enables
Teacher Education students to become knowledgeable,
skilled, practitioner-educators in an increasingly technological world. McGregor
wants to build a classroom in which the teacher education graduate students
learn and study in an environment that is so modern it contains software and
hardware that may not yet be out on the market.
As a way of bridging the theory to practice, students from local schools will
be invited to participate, and in some cases, actual student teaching may take
place in The Classroom for the Future. In addition, a minimum of five scholarships
will be awarded to the graduate students who will not only participate in the
regular program, but go beyond to become in-house technology scholars.
The Dayton Business Committee’s generosity will enable
McGregor to bring together a working group of advisors
from local schools and information technology
businesses to assess the technology infrastructure needs of the Dayton area.
The money will be used to determine the cost of the ideal classroom and related
scholarships.
The goal is to seek and acquire additional funding to begin
the scholars’ part
of the program by fall 2001 and launch the classroom for the 2001-2002 year.
