Awards

2017–18

C-TAC Innovation Grant ($8,900)

Documentary Filmmaking: A New Educational Experience through Creative Technology

This Documentary Filmmaking Initiative will expand learning both inside and outside the classroom. Through film and filmmaking, it will allow students to explore their given subject matter across a range of disciplines. The Initiative will give students a greater and more personal stake in their education. Moreover, it will fulfill the missions of LSC by nurturing the intellectual and cultural life of the communities it serves, notably through expanded access to new and emerging technologies.

Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) First Book Subvention Recipient ($1,500)

University of Wisconsin Press for Chris Davis (Lone Star College), Hungarian Religion, Romanian Blood: A Minority’s Struggle for National Belonging: http://www.aseees.org/news-events/aseees-news-feed/aseees-first-book-subvention-recipients-march-2018

ASEEES First Book Subvention Program

In 2014, the ASEEES Board of Directors voted to dedicate $10,000 per year from the Association's endowment dividends for subvention of books by first-time authors who have already secured publishing contracts. Multiple awards of up to $2,500 will be made on a competitive basis each year, with funds paid directly to the press.

A multidisciplinary committee of senior scholars will evaluate applications; the committee will also include a publishing professional as a non-voting member who will advise on budgetary matters. In deciding how to allocate these funds, the committee takes into account both the scholarly significance of the book and the demonstrated need for subvention support. Applications are invited from all disciplines.

2016–17

Innovator of the Year, LSC-Kingwood ($1500)

Chris Davis was chosen as the recipient of the 2017 Innovator of the Year Award for “Carpe Historiem! Oral History as Experiential U.S. History.” The award will supplement professional development plans for the 2017–18 academic year.

2015–16

Chancellor’s Faculty Technology Innovation Grant, Lone Star College ($15,000)

LSCS Center for Local and Oral History

The aim of this proposal is to accelerate this shift by creating at LSC an interdisciplinary Center for Local & Oral History (CLOH), one that enables students and faculty alike to engage in an active process of doing and making history, of becoming involved in history, rather than being, merely, passive observers and communicators of the past. By coordinating and assisting in collaborative, civically engaged assignments and projects to record our community’s cultural memory and narrative history, the center will achieve a number of goals: 1) expand learning outside classroom, allowing students to explore their community, to create and preserve a trove of knowledge about the composition and lived experiences in northern Harris and Montgomery counties; and 2) train students in the application of new technological media such as digital recording, audio and video processing, transcription, archiving, and web development.

The faculty and staff affiliated with CLOH train students in the application of new technological media such as digital recording, audio and video processing, transcription, and archiving. In doing so, we intend to give students a greater and more personal stake in their education, as well as new skill sets for success in the global marketplace.

Student-led oral-history projects are an amazing but under-used pedagogical tool, enabling students to become historians for a semester. They not only preserve local history but also create a unique space for teaching and learning. As many of our students have discovered through their own oral-history projects, ours is a diverse and introspective community that treasures its past.

The aims of CLOH include the following:

Document the local history of the LSC service area
Empower students through experiential learning
Develop student research skills
Collaborate across disciplines
Engage the community
Integrate technology into the learning process
Understand history as narrative

Quest students record Humble history with Charles Bender alumni"Attempting this in Humble enables us to record and archive local memories from individuals with firsthand knowledge of past events," said Robert Chris Davis, associate professor of history at Lone Star College in Kingwood. Humbles' soil is soaked in history, which is why Davis, who founded the LSC Center for Local and Oral History, said it's important to record stories from those who lived during the Great Depression and Civil Rights Era. "Educators are striving to incorporate more hands-on, research-based and experiential ways of learning, especially through the assistance and application of new forms of technology," Davis said. Davis said projects like this, recording oral history, help get students outside the classroom and connect history to someone's once reality through the use of new technology. "Oral-history projects such as these are an amazing but under-used pedagogical tool, enabling students to become historians for a semester, literally to make history," Davis said. Quest Early College instructor, Marty Willits, said this oral history project includes the students' interviews with Bordersville community members.

Bordersville community seeks historic designationQuest Early College and Lone Star College Kingwood have partnered with the University of Houston to preserve Bordersville by campaigning for historical recognition. With surrounding areas eating up the historic land in waves, Crescida Jacobs, instructor at Quest Early College, said they need to act fast to preserve what's left first by having the students interview community members and then documenting their stories. Designating Bordersville as a historic landmark will take time, but through this initiative, Jacobs said high school students will connect history back to their community. Several educators sat down together to discuss a project that wasn't the typical community clean-up or visit to a nursing home. The University of Houston plans to help by transcribing the interviews and archiving them for future educators, historians and students to one-day revisit and possibly contribute to this collection.

C-TAC Innovation Grant ($9000)

Project Description: Idea is to help facilitate the “flipped classroom” model, by which instructors can assign video lectures prior to class; covering content (through vodcasts) in advance of the regular classroom meeting allows for more dynamic discussion and Q&A in class, moving away from the traditional, lecture-dominated instructional model.

LSC Faculty Writing Award, Organizational Development and the Writing Awards Committee

This year’s submissions have continued to raise the bar of excellence and highlighted the talents of our faculty and staff across Lone Star College. The 2015 Writing Award winners include: R. Chris Davis, LSC-Kingwood, "'Historical Truth and the Realities of Blood’: Romanian and Hungarian Narratives of National Belonging and the Case of the Moldavian Csangos, 1920–45"

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