Davis Educational Foundation Awards $131K to Landmark College for Writing Project
PUTNEY, Vt. -- Landmark College has been awarded a grant of $131,220 from the Davis Educational Foundation to launch The Landmark Writing Project. This three-year project will build on Landmark College’s 31 years of experience working with writers with learning differences. The grant was received from the Davis Educational Foundation established by Stanton and Elisabeth Davis after Mr. Davis’s retirement as chairman of Shaw’s Supermarkets, Inc.
With a student population entirely composed of students with diagnosed learning disabilities, attention deficit disorders and autism spectrum disorder, Landmark College’s faculty and staff are experts in understanding these students’ needs as learners and applying research-based best practices for teaching. The Landmark Writing Project seeks to integrate, articulate and apply an approach to teaching and supporting writing across the curriculum that is unprecedented in higher education and holds potential for broad dissemination.
The Landmark Writing Project will be led by the current English Department chair, Associate Professor John Kipp, who will work with and chair a steering committee comprised of members of the English Department and teaching faculty from across academic departments.
"This is an exciting opportunity for Landmark College, and especially for our students,” Kipp said. “We are grateful that the Davis Educational Foundation recognizes Landmark College’s ongoing commitment to understanding how college students with learning disabilities develop as writers. We look forward to sharing our progress and results within the college and with the broader academic community.”
Sara Glennon, Associate Professor and former English Department chair, will co-chair the project steering committee and assist in the planning and direction of the project.