{"id":703570,"date":"2010-03-29T12:52:37","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T16:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"2350"},"modified":"2010-03-29T12:52:37","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T16:52:37","slug":"cbc-faculty-member-awarded-bill-and-melinda-gates-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/703570","title":{"rendered":"CBC faculty member awarded Bill and Melinda Gates grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><SPAN class=heading3>NEWS RELEASE<\/SPAN><BR>March 29, 2010&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Contact: Erica Jesberger, 544-4916<\/P><P>Yongsheng Sun, Columbia Basin College Associate Professor for English as a Second Language (ESL), has been awarded a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for his upcoming in the capacity of a global citizen\/multicultural expert.&nbsp; His job will be to work with instructors selected from community colleges, and who are also receiving Gates Foundation grants, to design digital course curriculum for face-to-face, hybrid, and\/or online delivery.<\/P><P>He will work with these faculty members to weave critical perspectives throughout the course curriculum, such as economic competition, communications across cultures, multiple political perspectives, ethical responsibility, humanistic values, and cultural\/religious\/institutional awareness associated with global citizenship.&nbsp; Yongsheng will also provide online professional development materials to support these faculty designers.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS RELEASEMarch 29, 2010&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Contact: Erica Jesberger, 544-4916Yongsheng Sun, Columbia Basin College Associate Professor for English as a Second Language (ESL), has been awarded a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for his upcoming in the capacity of a global citizen\/multicultural expert.&nbsp; His job will be to work with instructors selected from community colleges, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2X1U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}