Recipient Organization
UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND
19 WOODWARD HALL 9 EAST ALUMNI AVENUE
KINGSTON,RI 02881
Performing Department
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Non Technical Summary
The University of Rhode Island (URI) Sustainability Community Project introduces "4-H Roots of Resilience: A Journey to Self-Discovery and Social Responsibility," a groundbreaking initiative delivering a captivating 3-credit college course for high school youth. Focused on exploring four existential life questions, this transformative course intertwines self-discovery with social responsibility, complemented by research, media literacy, and information literacy. Tailored for underserved urban Rhode Island (RI) youth in grades 10-12 (n=120), our dynamic SCP promises an exhilarating experience. Featuring a specially crafted semester-long course, guest speakers from diverse fields, immersive field trips with the RI Nature Conservancy and RI Save The Bay, and workshops and tours by URI Innovation Labs and URI Media Education, this program aims to ignite the passion, motivation, and social responsibility of today's youth on an unforgettable journey of growth and empowerment. This SCP will offer high school youth the chance to engage in a 3-credit college course aimed at enhancing high school graduation rates, increasing postsecondary enrollment rates, improving enrollment rates in developmental education courses at the college level and improving their research, media and information literacy skills.
Animal Health Component
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Research Effort Categories
Basic
50%
Applied
0%
Developmental
50%
Goals / Objectives
There are 4 program goals: (1) an immersive semester-long, 3-credit college course specially designed for high school students (10th -12th grade); (2) Dynamic guest speakers including Governor of Rhode Island or other State legislatures, life coaches, psychologists, inspiring individuals sharing personal growth stories, professionals unveiling career paths, visionary entrepreneurs, community leaders charting new territories, passionate advocates, activists tackling global issues, and savvy community organizers and nonprofit leaders; (3) field trips with hands-on activities, offering exclusive tours with the RI Nature Conservancy, RI Save The Bay, and other local nonprofit champions; and (4) workshops and eye-opening in person and virtual tours hosted by the URI Innovation Labs and the URI Media Education.
Project Methods
Youth will complete an online pre & post program surveys to self-assess their confidence with sense of identity, value and unique qualities. The project team will compile and document qualitative and quantitative data about student performance and experiences in the University of Rhode Island (4-H Roots of Resilience: A Journey to Self-Discovery and Social Responsibility) Sustainable Community Project, digitally. The quantitative data will include information collected from institutional records such as age, self-reported ethnicity, and course grades. Other quantitative data will include the number of students to be directly supported by this grant in the course, cost of student support, number of underrepresented students supported during the grant period, number of students supported by this grant pursuing higher education, and total number of students impacted by this program.Additional data will include quantitative feedback, CYFAR Common Measures and evaluations from students collected through pre-program and post-program assessment. These data will include the number of youth final projects developed in the course, number of guest lecturers, speakers, and organizations involved in the program per year and in total, number of student-centered activities (e.g. lectures, field trips), and participant responses from surveys collected from youth pre-program and post-program.The qualitative data collected from youth and community partners' interviews and from youth evaluation surveys will be compiled and coded. Data will be analyzed deductively for common themes.Data FormatNone of these data sources are publicly available, so the utmost care will be exercised to compile and organize these data in a way that protects the anonymity of the provider. Transcripts and de-identified data sets will be deposited in the Qualitative Data Repository (QDR, https://qdr.syr.edu/), DMPTool ( https://dmptool.org/) or similar repository.Data Storage and PreservationElectronic data files will be stored on encrypted drives (external or cloud storage), and only shared with researchers on the project team. All data files will be password protected. Researchers will have full administrative rights to the data and retain rights to the original data until they make the data publicly accessible via web pages or by publishing the results. Data will be deposited at DMPTool, QDR or similar repository.Data Sharing, Protection, and Public AccessParticipants will be asked to provide informed consent prior to providing private data. The collected dataset will be anonymized before storage and any release forms or identifying information will be stored separately from data to better protect confidentiality. Researchers involved in this program will have full administrative rights to the data and retain rights to the original data until they make the data publicly accessible (via web page) or publish the results. Data will be deposited at DMPTool, QDR or similar repository.No restrictions will be placed on the de-identified data used after the project by the University of Rhode Island 4-H Roots of Resilience: A Journey to Self-Discovery and Social Responsibility Sustainable Community Project. All project data will be made readily available online from the repositories listed above.Roles and ResponsibilitiesPI/PD, Dr. Olagundoye and Co-PI/Co-PD, Dr. Renee Hobbs and Program evaluator, Dr. Mary Moen will ensure that the data management plan is implemented as described herein. All data information will be collected and stored at the University of Rhode Island. Password-protected data files will be stored on a shared network drive (external or cloud storage) that is accessible by the project team. In the event of personnel departure, access will be restricted to only investigators involved with the project.