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Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program (MSEIP) Grant

Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program (MSEIP) Grant. Or, “The Bucket Grant”. Theme of Grant. Support Native American Women in Earning Baccalaureate Degrees in a STEM Field by Refining and Expanding the NWIC Native Environmental Science Interdisciplinary Concentration Option.

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Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program (MSEIP) Grant

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  1. Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program (MSEIP) Grant Or, “The Bucket Grant”

  2. Theme of Grant • Support Native American Women in Earning Baccalaureate Degrees in a STEM Field by Refining andExpanding the NWIC Native Environmental Science Interdisciplinary Concentration Option

  3. Advantages of the Interdisciplinary Concentration Option • Great flexibility for students in meeting their academic, professional, and personal goals • Students can integrate Native culture to a greater degree than in ES Concentration • Students can develop a broad range of degree options

  4. More Choices • 5 credit NES Concentration Seminar • 30 credits of electives, taken at NWIC or elsewhere • 21 credits of Individualized Learning Courses

  5. Challenges in the Interdisciplinary Concentration Option • Many potential students don’t see the relevancy of the program to their day-todaylives. • Many students need to improve critical thinking skills to be able to identify steps from their current position to a desired future position • Many students need to improve writing skills to succeed.

  6. How the grant helps • Grant funds will support improvements to the Interdisciplinary Concentration option

  7. Year 1 (2009-2010) • Assessment of program effectiveness and appropriate adjustments to its methodology • If needed, faculty and research staff who serve on students’ concentration committees will receive professional development opportunities on how to best support the student.

  8. Year 1 (2009-2010) • Students encouraged to identify at least the chair of their committee during their sophomore year.

  9. Year 1 (2009-2010) New 100 or 200 level courses developed • Critical Thinking for the Scientist • Expressing Yourself Orally and in Writing • Writing in the Context of Native Environmental Science • Interdisciplinary Thinking Courses offered for the first time in Year 2

  10. new courses will emphasize these pedagogies: • Hands-on activities • Place-based activities • Collaborative learning activities • Service learning

  11. Reciprocal Agreements with Other Colleges and Universities • Students can take up to 30 credits from other colleges and universities • NWIC faculty and staff will work closely with Fairhaven and Huxley to refine ICO • MOU will be developed • Formal Agreements with UW, WSU, UBC

  12. Improving Extended Campus effectiveness • Yr 1: identify best practices to accommodate the needs of distant NES students • Yr 2: Implement findings • Hire half-time TA’s at Swinomish and Lummi • Imbedded in classroom, BSNES prerequisites and courses

  13. New lab at Swinomish

  14. Writing Tutors • Embed writing tutors in 100 and 200 level science courses with significant required writing (not in budget)

  15. Objectives • Objective 1-6: Increase enrollment and graduation rates with specific targets • Objective 7: In Year 1, develop curriculum for four new 100 and/or 200 level courses • Objective 8: Engage freshman and sophomore NES students in at least one place-based, science-oriented service learning activity per quarter.

  16. Objectives • Objective 9: Provide NES students with opportunities to hear or meet with Native speakers who work in the sciences (3/qtr) • Objective 10: Develop formal agreements with WWU, UW, WSU, and UBC to insure course transferability

  17. Hiring Faculty • Three faculty at 0.6 FTE each

  18. Faculty Responsibilities • Supervision of the Teaching Assistant at Lummi • Chairing and participating in students’ concentration committees • Curriculum development for new courses • Instruction of existing courses • Coordination of student internship programs

  19. Other covered items • Guest Lecturers ($3,600): Native Americans who work in a STEM field will make presentations on a monthly basis • Field Trips ($14,400): Two field trips per month will be spread among many courses.

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