20MM News Archive

IP Literacy: Smart.

The Michelson Institute for Intellectual Property and National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship are proud to welcome the 2022 IP Educator in Excellence Awardees, Business Administration Professor Diane Sabato and History Professor John Diffley of Springfield Technical Community College in Massachusetts.

New Year, New Opportunities to Advance Open Educational Resources

Over the past year, we welcomed three Open Educational Resources (OER) Spark Grantees, continued to advocate for the rollout of Zero-Textbook Cost degree programs centering the needs of educators and students, and will fight for an inclusive and open world in 2023 and beyond.

Creative Commons Certificate Bootcamp: Equipping Educators With the Tools to Go Open

With Creative Commons and the California Community College’s Academic Senate’s Open Educational Resources Initiative, we are supporting participating CCC faculty members as they gain CC expertise during the Creative Commons Certificate Bootcamp.

A Year in Review: Working to Help Meet Student’s Basic Needs

Together with our allies in the Student Basic Needs space, we have made tremendous strides in supporting the 50% of Community College students who are food insecure, the 11% of California State University students who are homeless, and the 20% of students across California who are parents.

A Year in Review: Supporting Faculty Members Teaching in Prisons, Creating and Disseminating California’s Best Practices, and Forging a Brighter Future for Justice-Impacted Individuals

In 2022, the Smart Justice initiative welcomed four Spark Grantees, disseminated resources to support higher education faculty members who teach inside prisons, and unveiled California’s Best Practices: Pathways From Prison to College—none of which would have been possible without our smart justice partners.

Public Advocates Seeks to Serve Low-Income, BIPOC, Immigrant, and Parenting Students in California by Tackling Housing Insecurity

Public Advocates will leverage a Spark Grant to increase the understanding of student housing insecurity and aim to stimulate state-wide investments in student housing with an emphasis on low-income, BIPOC, immigrant, and parenting students.

Introducing Ren Mao, Program Coordinator, The Michelson Institute for Intellectual Property

As Program Coordinator for The Michelson Institute of Intellectual Property, Ren Mao is eager to dive into the world of IP and work toward closing the education gap as we move toward a more technological future.

Welcoming Queena Hoang, Student Basic Needs Senior Program Manager

Queena Hoang has joined the Michelson 20MM Foundation as Student Basic Needs Senior Program Manager. She will lead the foundation’s Student Basic Needs initiative, which seeks to increase persistence and graduation rates through systems change, research, and technological innovations that help students meet their basic needs.

Postsecondary Education in Prison Is Inspiring Hope for Jaime Navarro, a Pelican Bay Scholar

Jaime Navarro, a student in the College of the Redwoods Pelican Bay Scholars Program, credits education as what may be the driving force behind hopefully receiving a release date in the future. He shares his experience as a currently incarcerated scholar and his thoughts on the importance of education in prison.

California Has an Opportunity to Extend the Basic Needs Mandate to Public Four-Year Universities, Young Invincibles Is Studying What That Will Take

Recognizing the significant potential to help students meet their basic needs and persist in their studies, Young Invincibles will use their 2022 Michelson Spark Grant to study what it will take to extend the basic needs mandate to the University of California and California State University campuses.