RESEARCH ENHANCEMENT AT DINE' COLLEGE

Din学院的RISE项目将加强这个部落学院校园的研究环境，为纳瓦霍民族服务。这些活动将包括教师、学生、家庭、社区和纳瓦霍专业人员，以全面的努力实现学院学术和研究功能的更好整合，并在更广泛的纳瓦霍和美洲原住民社区中更有效地应用这些功能。学院的Din（纳瓦霍）教育理念将形成一个综合过程的基础，在这个过程中，纳瓦霍学生概念化、计划、实施和验证他们在实现学术和职业目标方面的进展。教师将通过研究计划和提案制定的年度研讨会得到加强，在这些研讨会上，教师将确定自己的优势、兴趣、限制和预期的研究方向。计划将由个别教师提交的研讨会，会议，课程，或研究经验的适当。学生将通过使用协作学习技术的研讨会/学习小组/与关键课程相关的指导，在学术上得到丰富；有机化学将在新密西根州立大学的协助下发展和提供；将在校园内开发和提供研究实验室设施和研究培训活动；学生将通过互访与纳瓦霍和其他生物医学科学家接触。将为在校内外的学生提供研究实习/实习机会，并为公共卫生/流行病学学生提供额外的一学分研究方法课程。研讨会，学院会议和社区研究会议将在支持性的学院，家庭和社区环境中验证学生和教师的工作，这将增强动机并与相关人员分享积极的学术经验。

The RISE project for Din College will enhance the research environment at this tribal college's campuses, which serve the Navajo Nation. The activities will encompass faculty, students, families, communities and Navajo professionals in a comprehensive effort to achieve a better integration of the academic and research functions of the college, and a more effective application of those functions within the wider Navajo and Native American community. The Din (Navajo) Educational Philosophy of the college will form the basis for a comprehensive process in which Navajo students conceptualize, plan, implement and validate their progress in achieving their academic and career goals. Faculty will be enhanced through annual workshops on research planning and proposal development in which faculty identify their strengths, interests, constraints, and intended directions for research. Plans will be submitted by individual faculty members for workshops, conferences, courses, or research experiences as appropriate. Students will be academically enriched through workshops/study groups/mentoring associated with key courses using collaborative learning techniques; Organic Chemistry will be developed and offered with assistance from NMSU; research lab facilities and research training activities will be developed and offered on campus; students will be engaged with Navajo and other biomedical scientists through exchange visits. Research placements/internships for students at on and off campus locations will be provided, with an additional one-credit research methods course for public health/epidemiology students. Seminars, college conferences and Community Research Conferences will validate the work of students and faculty in supportive collegial, family and community environments which will strengthen motivation and share positive academic experiences with relevant others.