$972,598 Awarded to Gaston College for STEM Student Support
The National Science Foundation (NSF) notified Gaston College yesterday of a grant award in the amount of $972,598 for the project titled: SPARC3 Initiative: Alleviating Transfer Shock in Community College STEM Students. The project is an expansion and scale-up of the SPARC3 program at Gaston College that has resulted in improved academic scores and associate…
2018 Regional Faculty Member for the Southern Region by the Association of Community College Trustees
Ashley Hagler, SPARC Director, Director of Undergraduate Research, and Biology Instructor at Gaston College, has been recognized by the Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT) as the winner of the 2018 Regional Faculty Member Award for the Southern Region. ACCT is a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit educational organization that promotes advocacy of the nation’s community college…