The UCI History Project
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Partnerships Overview

The UCI History Project has had a busy and successful year of working with Orange County teachers and students thanks to the continuing support of history department graduate students, faculty, and staff.  These collaborative endeavors serve the research, teaching, and service mission of the University.  To keep you informed of our activities, I have put together this brief data sheet about our work in the last year.  Please contact me if you have any questions or suggestions about this and our programming.

Sincerely,

Nicole

History Department Participation and Employment

  •  15 History Faculty served as institute presenters
  •  10 History Grads were employed by the UCI HP—two full-time academic year positions, three summer positions, and the remainder as content presenters
  •  4 UCI Faculty from other programs and schools served as presenters
  •  10 Faculty from surrounding universities and colleges participated in UCI HP programs.
  • Bob Moeller continues to serve as the Principal Investigator on all grants and the Faculty Advisor for UCI HP.  Both Sharon Block and Sharon Salinger serve as Faculty Advisors for our Teaching American History grants.
  • Our program staff includes 6 veteran teachers.

 

Program Highlights and Teachers Served

  • Over 250 teachers participated in our professional development programs.

 

  • UCI HP created a primary source-based history curriculum for 125 Santa Ana Unified students who attended the GEAR Up summer program at UCI in August of 2008.  Five history graduate students taught this weeklong curriculum.
  • With a grant from the UC Humanities Research Institute we were able to have an open institute for high school US history teachers, the Hearing and Seeing History Institute, which allowed teachers to learn about implementing visual and aural sources into their curriculum.

 

  • The UCI HP partnered with the History Project CSU Long Beach and Dominguez Hills to create the World History Institute: Sites of Encounter sponsored by the Teaching Division of the American Historical Association.
  • We initiated several new partnerships with: Orange Unified, Irvine Unified, California Digital Library, and Orange County Department of Education.