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Educational Policy, Foundations, and Administrative Studies |
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Graduate School of Education |
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Grants, honors & Awards |
Dilafruz Williams Ph.D.
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Professor, Department Chair |
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HONORS, GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS Portland State University Co-Principal Investigator, City of Portland, Portland, Oregon, 2005-2006. 60th Avenue Learning Gardens Laboratory: Health, Multiculturalism, and Academic Achievement, $125,000. Williams, Dilafruz & Parajuli, Pramod. Co-Principal Investigators, Metro Nature in the Neighborhood Program, 2006-2007. Restoring Johnson Creek Watershed Through Learning Gardens in Schools and Neighborhoods. $25,000 Williams, Dilafruz & Parajuli, Pramod. Co-Principal Investigators, Bureau of Housing and Community Development, Portland, 2006. Economic Leadership Development for Outer Southeast Low-Income and Culturally Diverse Parents through the Learning Gardens Laboratory.$12,000 Principal Investigator, EcoWorks Foundation, Portland, 2004-2005. Dissemination of the Environmental Middle School Model in Public Schools, $33,000. Principal Investigator, PSU Faculty Development Grant, 2004-2006. What Factors Contribute to the Translation of High School Students’ Participation and Governance Policies into Civic and Political Action? $ 14,000. Principal Investigator, Osozaki Foundation, Portland, 2001-2003. Germinating the Seeds of Environmental Education: A Resource Guide for Environmental Curriculum and School. $10,000 Co-Principal Investigator, Oregon Solutions grant, Center for Academic Excellence, Portland State University, 2003-2007. Food-based Ecological Education Design.$23,000 Co-Principal Investigator, Funds for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education, 2000-2003. Civic Capacity Initiative: Integrating Liberal Arts and Professional Education, $350,000 Principal Investigator (Author). Learn and Serve Grant, Corporation for National Service, 2000-2003. Students Addressing Inequality and Diversity through Civic Responsibility. $240,000 2001 national Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service-Learning, awarded by Campus Compact/TIAA- CREF. Principal Investigator, Martin Luther King Jr. Service Day Initiative Grant, Corporation for National Service, 1999-2000. Practicing MLK Jr.'s principles of nonviolence, social justice and service: $8659. Principal Investigator, Learn and Serve Grant, Corporation for National Service Students Serving the City: $212,000 (1999-01). Co-Principal Investigator, Watershed Stewardship Education Community Program, 1999-2000. Watershed stewardship education. Partnership with Bureau of Environmental Services and watershed councils/community organizations in Columbia Slough, Johnson Creek, and Fanno Creek watersheds. $140,000 for two years. Principal Investigator, Metro Parks and Bureau Habitat Restoration Grant, 1999-2000. Zenger Farm Area Habitat Enhancement for Preservation of Wildlife, Outer South east Portland. Metro. $3,000. Principal Investigator, Campus Compact Grant, 1998-1999 Mentoring At-Risk Youth. $1,000 Faculty liaison, Watershed Stewardship Education Community Program, 1995-1998 Watershed stewardship through curriculum integration at the Environmental Middle School; expansion of programs to two elementary schools in Johnson Creek Watershed, $ 25,000. Plus 18 grants for the Environmental Middle School, worth over $100,000. Principal investigator, Center for Academic Excellence: Seven Community Service Grants, 1995-1998 Course enhancement for community participation: Introduction to Education, Administration of Curriculum, and The Urban School and 'At-Risk' Status. $ 14,385 Principal investigator, Faculty Development Grant, 1995-1996. Project: Curriculum Development and Design: Environmental Middle School. $ 3,000. Principal investigator, Faculty Development Grant, 1994-1995. Project: A study of cooperative learning and conflict resolution among urban middle school adolescents. $ 1,800. Principal investigator, Spencer Foundation grant, 1993-1995. Project: Nonviolence as a way of learning and living: Contemporary relevance of Gandhi's educational philosophy. $ 12,000. Principal investigator, Research and Scholarships Grant, 1993-1994. Project: Cooperative learning, caring, and community formation: A study of adolescents in urban middle schools. $ 5,000. Outstanding Junior Faculty Award and principal investigator, 1992. Project. Nonviolence, multiculturalism, and the unity of living and learning: The practice of Gandhi's educational philosophy. $ 4,000. Coordinator, Roosevelt cluster; technical and conceptual assistance for writing, Urban Services Grant, November 1992 to April 1993. Project: Endangered urban children and youth: Building caring communities through urban university/community partnership. USDE; $ 1.6m million. Principal investigator, Research and Scholarships Grant, 1992-1993. Project: Cooperative learning and community formation in the middle school classroom: Listening to the voices of urban adolescents. $4,541. Principal investigator, Research and Publications Grant, 1992-1993. Project: Cooperative learning and connectedness: Perceptions and attitudes of adolescents in urban middle schools. $ 1,000. Principal investigator, Faculty development grant, Research and Instructional Support, 1992. Project: Green pedagogies: A Deweyan approach to doing philosophy. $710. Co-Principal Investigator, Faculty Development Grant/Effective Teaching, 1992-1993. Project: Integrating personal and academic writing for effective teaching. $ 300. Principal investigator, Faculty Development Grant, 1991-1992. Project: Membership and sacrifice:Urban adolescents' expressions of conscience; $4,604. Principal investigator, Center for Urban Research in Education, 1991-1992. Project: Membership and connectedness among adolescents in middle schools. $ 4,400. Principal investigator, Committee for the Advancement of Teaching grant, 1991-1992. Project: Philosophical inquiry into responses to diversity in urban schools. $ 550. Principal investigator, Center for Urban Research in Education, 1991. Project: The nature and formation of communities among youth in an urban middle schools. $ 2,000. Syracuse University Assistant Director, technical assistance and conceptual development, 1986-1988. Project: Science and Technology Entry Program and Structured Educational Support Program. Awarded by the New York State Education Department. $ 200,000 per year for 3 years. Research Associate, technical assistance, 1986-1988. Projects: Higher Education Opportunity Program and Special Services Program, awarded by New York State Education Department & USDE respectively; $ approx. $ 750,000 per year fro 2 years. Principal investigator, Hispanic, African-American, Native American and Asian (HANA) grant, Methodist Church, 1985-1986. Project: The undergraduate experience: Perceptions of Hispanic, African-American, Native-American, and Asian-American graduates. $ 5,000. United Nations Intern, competitive internship at the United Nations in New York and Geneva, Switzerland; June to August 1979. Sponsors: Syracuse University and Kiwanis Club. Who's Who Among students in American Universities & Colleges, 1981-1982. Fellow, Syracuse University Fellowship Award, 1979-1981. Graduate Teaching Assistant, Cultural Foundations of Education & Curriculum, 1979-1980. Harvard University Fellowships, competitive award, India, for graduate study at Harvard University, 1978-1979. India Community award, for "Excellent Community Awareness;" 1976. Awarded by the Rotaract Club/Rotary International Club. PIIECL Student Competitive Awards, 2005-2006: Judy Bluehorse (Dilafruz Williams, & Pramod Parajuli, Faculty mentors). Connecting Healing and Learning: Native American Traditional Foods and Learning Gardens. Scholarly and Creative Activity Grants, Portland State University $ 1,500 Cori Longstreer (Pramod Parajuli & Dilafruz Williams, Faculty mentor) Bureau of Environmental Services, City of Portland JEAN’s Urban Forest Farm Watershed Restoration
$3,000 David Meon (Dilafruz Williams, Faculty mentor). Oregon Zoo Foundation Research for Former Nest Sites of Gymnogyps Californinaus (condors) |