{"id":26248,"date":"2019-07-07T07:30:33","date_gmt":"2019-07-07T11:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/?p=26248"},"modified":"2019-07-02T17:06:28","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T21:06:28","slug":"nscc-board-hears-presentation-on-national-science-foundation-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/nscc-board-hears-presentation-on-national-science-foundation-grants\/","title":{"rendered":"NSCC BOARD HEARS PRESENTATION ON NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION GRANTS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Todd Hernandez, NSCC Executive Vice President, presents information about grants the College has recently received from the National Science Foundation. The two grants, totaling nearly $1 million, will focus on cybersecurity and advanced manufacturing.<\/strong>
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The Northwest State Community College Board of Trustees met in regular session on Friday, June 21 on the Archbold campus. As part of the meeting, NSCC Executive Vice President Todd Hernandez presented some exciting news on grants the College has received from the National Science Foundation (NSF).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NEARLY $1 MILLION IN NSF GRANTS FOR NORTHWEST STATE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two NSF grants that were recently awarded to NSCC totaled nearly $1 million:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NSF Cybersecurity Education for Advanced Manufacturing Organizations (CAMO) Grant<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dollar amount: $488,426 \/ Terms: 8\/1\/19-7\/31\/22<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More info: Create cybersecurity training scenarios for advanced manufacturing that will be deployed at the Ohio cyber range, including basic networking and security audit theories and techniques. This will be especially beneficial for local employers concerned about cyber attacks on their manufacturing and process systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NSF Scaling Elements of a Competency-Based Hybrid Instruction Model into Advanced Manufacturing Courses (SCALE UP)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dollar amount: $500,005 \/ Terms: 6\/1\/19-5\/31\/22<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More info: This project will achieve the long-term objectives to improve the effectiveness of advanced manufacturing courses, increase access to technical education programs, and prepare technicians with the skills that employers require in a rapidly changing workplace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe two NSF grants are a testament to the innovation of Northwest State Community College, and will allow us to continue the great work in the areas of Cybersecurity and Industrial Skilled Trades,\u201d Hernandez noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other Board action: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Approved the employment of Julie Kemarly-Dowland, Faculty & Lab Coordinator-Natural Sciences, Ashley Barth, Working Supervisor-Custodial, Jennifer Thome, Director-Accounting & Business Services<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Approved the employment\/promotion of Alex Mangotic, Enrollment Specialist, formerly Administrative Assistant for Admissions & Marketing<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Approved the renewal of probationary faculty and non-teaching faculty contracts<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Approved miscellaneous employment contracts and four resignations<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Approved 2019-2020 operating budget<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Approved per-credit-hour tuition increase for 2019-2020 academic year to $172.33 (from $167.33) for in-state, and $333.66 (from $328.66) for out-of-state<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Approved deferred compensation for NSCC President Dr. Michael Thomson, based on his annual Board performance evaluation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Northwest State Community College Board of Trustees met in regular session on Friday, June 21 on the Archbold campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2301],"tags":[1386],"class_list":["post-26248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","tag-nscc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/NWSCC-Todd-Hernandez.jpg?fit=666%2C522&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YQd9-6Pm","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-16 10:50:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}