{"668430":{"#nid":"668430","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Philanthropic Foundation Provides Six-Figure Grant to Engage Underrepresented Students in Computational Media","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHistorically underrepresented students interested in video game design, web development, and other interactive media careers will soon have better access to related degree programs thanks to a substantial financial grant from a leading philanthropic foundation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Maxwell\/Hanrahan Foundation has provided a $500,000 grant to Georgia Tech. The grant will be used to strengthen the pipeline for underrepresented minority students seeking degrees and careers in the growing field of computational media (CM).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are very honored and appreciative of this generous support from the Maxwell\/Hanrahan Foundation. Georgia Tech is one of just five institutions to receive a donation of this size from the foundation,\u201d said Lana Gilyalova, senior director of development for Georgia Tech\u0027s College of Computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWith this funding, we will be able to build on established relationships with Atlanta\u2019s Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Agnes Scott College, and others, to create connections between Georgia Tech\u0027s CM program and CM-related graduate degrees at the institutions,\u201d said Giyalova.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe College of Computing, the College of Design, and the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts collaborated on the grant proposal. Academic advisors, career counselors, and others from the three colleges will team up to develop and implement a collaborative student-support framework based on the funding. The framework will likely include new scholarship and fellowship opportunities, curricular innovations, mentorship programs, job search, and graduate application assistance.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIf we seek new approaches, we need new perspectives,\u201d said Foundation Program Officer Rebekah Frank. \u201cThe Foundation\u2019s one-time grants in Diversity and Inclusion in Art, Design, and Computing connect to co-founder Pat Hanrahan\u2019s background and A.M. Turing Award. These grants focus on 1) increasing the diversity of students pursuing interdisciplinary degree programs in arts, design, and computing courses or programs and 2) increasing the quantity and quality of equitable, interdisciplinary art, design, and computing curricula at the five schools.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThrough these measures, the Maxwell\/Hanrahan Foundation grant is expected to increase the number of historically underrepresented students enrolled in and obtaining degrees from undergraduate and graduate CM and CM-related degree programs. During the Spring 2023 semester, traditionally underrepresented students accounted for 17.2% of BSCM enrollment at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/degree-programs\/bachelor-science-computational-media\u0022\u003EBachelor of Science in Computational Media\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;program is a joint offering between the schools of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sci.cc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EComputing Instruction\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/music.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EMusic\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.lmc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ELiterature, Media and Communication\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This grant allows us to build on the strong foundation that we have already established in the Computational Media program to prepare students from underrepresented populations for careers as designers, researchers, and artists in various digital fields. We will be using grant funding to develop new courses \u2013for example in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.lmc.gatech.edu\/black-media-studies-\u0022\u003EBlack Media Studies\u003C\/a\u003E\u2013\u0026nbsp;and to provide scholarships for promising students from target populations,\u201d said Jay Bolter, director of Computational Media at Georgia Tech and the Wesley Chair of New Media in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMaxwell\/Hanrahan Foundation powers people who explore and ask, teach and try, conserve and connect, create and captivate. Its funding supports individual scientists, teachers, conservationists, and creators whose diverse perspectives enable us to discover new things about ourselves and our world. Learn more about the foundation\u0027s partners and work at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.maxwell-hanrahan.org\/\u0022\u003Ewww.Maxwell-Hanrahan.org\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA major philanthropic grant is paving the way for more students from underrepresented groups to access computational media programs at Georgia Tech. The $500K grant will fund scholarship opportunities for students interested in video game design, web development, or other interactive media careers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A new philanthropic grant will provide scholarship opportunities to expand computational media pipeline. 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