A&移动商务 Institute for Competency-Based 教育 Receives $15,000 Scholarship Donation from the American Institutes for 研究
The American Institutes for 研究 has awarded the A&移动商务 Institute for Competency-Based 教育 (ICBE) a $15,000 scholarship donation for research completed by Carlos Rivers, operations research analyst for ICBE. Rivers worked with the American Institutes for 研究 on a project titled “Evaluating Competency-Based 教育 in Postsecondary Settings and Building Institutional Capacity for Conducting Rigorous 研究.”
ICBE has pledged the entire $15,000 donation to scholarships for adult learners who enroll in the competency-based Bachelor of 应用 Arts and Sciences in Organizational 领导 degree offered at A&移动商务.
“The donation serves to offer the opportunity for organizational leadership students to finish their path towards an affordable baccalaureate degree without additional financial burden,” Rivers said.
The research project, supported both by the Lumina Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, was designed to evaluate student outcomes in competency-based education programs. The American Institutes for 研究 selected a total of nine leading competency-based institutions, 包括一个&移动商务, to form part of this work. The completion of the project was made possible through the collaboration of several departments at A&移动商务 including Financial 援助, Financial 服务 and Institutional 研究.
Rivers stated that even though competency-based education is growing in popularity, it lacks a strong research foundation. “A&移动商务 and the ICBE is in a unique position to work with partners such as the American Institutes for 研究 to participate in research activities that address unanswered questions and ultimately to inform the actions taken by policymakers, practitioners and students.”
“Carlos Rivers' research brings great credit upon himself, A&移动商务 and the state of Texas,” said James Fountain, executive director of ICBE.
