Project Title:
Stillman College - Fiber for the Future
Funding Program:
Connecting Minority Communities Program
Project Purpose/Type:
Through the Connecting Minorities Communities Pilot Program, Stillman College seeks to directly expand educational instruction and remote learning opportunities through its Fiber for the Future program. Stillman College seeks to directly expand educational instruction and remote learning opportunities in three direct ways. First, through replacement and installation of a much faster and more secure Fiber Optic Network. Second, through a campus wide Wi-Fi expansion and upgrade, Stillman will greatly improve our broadband capacity and Wi-Fi connectivity across campus for the benefit of students and the community, building on the improvement to our fiber optic network. Third, Stillman will assist those students most in need through remote learning through the purchase of eligible equipment and devices for student use in remote learning situations.
City/Town/Service Area:
State(s):
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$2,774,257.37Funding Amount$2,774,257.37Total Project Cost0.00Non-Federal Cost Share
The Stillman College Fiber for the Future project has three activities. Stillman will install a fiber optic broadband network on its campus, which will include building out a new fiber and switch upgrade for the college. Next, Stillman will install a new wireless infrastructure for the campus and local community. It will use the new fiber network described above to develop and deploy an advanced and improved wireless infrastructure for the Stillman College campus and the local community. Lastly, Stillman will purchase eligible equipment and devices for student use in remote learning situations for dual enrollment (early college) students at area high schools in the West Alabama Black Belt, taking classes at Stillman College.
With the improvement in the campus fiber optic network, Stillman will increase and expand its broadband capacity and Wi-Fi connectivity across campus and the community. The purchase of eligible equipment and devices for student use in remote learning situations will vastly improve the digital divide situations students find themselves in that impedes learning. The project will deliver post-secondary education via remotely connected laptops to stretch Stillman College's mission which is empowering young African Americans to meet the requirements of today's society.
Stillman College and its students will be the direct beneficiaries of this project. The improved broadband capacity and Wi-Fi connectivity across campus and the community will benefit both students and the community in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
The recipient does not intend to subaward funds.
No consortium - The applicant’s activities do occur in the surrounding anchor communities. Details of community involvement are described below.