CR Title III Grant:
"Strengthening Decision-Making by Integrating Data and Research"

Title III is a federally funded grant which started October 1, 2005 and concludes September 30, 2010.  Staff funded by Title III will assist the District in using data and research in planning and decision making as well as managing grant communication, budgeting and reporting.

Major Grant Function:

To improve college decision-making and resource allocation by integrating data and research into academic program planning, institutional management, and financial planning.

Strategies:

1. Establish a Comprehensive Institutional Research (IR) Function
2. Integrate Data and Research into Academic/Program Planning and Decision-Making
3. Integrate Data and Research into Institutional Management
4. Integrate Data and Research into Fiscal Planning

College of the Redwoods will receive 1.6 million dollars over five years (October 1, 2005 through September 30, 2010) to develop a sustainable Institutional Research function integrated across CR's academic programs, institutional management, and fiscal planning.

In response to what the CR community has been seeking for a long time and identified as a critical need- in CR's Strategic Plan, WASC Accreditation processes and the CR research study "The Underprepared"-  focusing the Title III Grant on Institutional Research will enable CR to produce, analyze, plan from, and manage by real data.