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<p>UPR-M: </p>
<p>1. Improve undergraduate curriculum in consortium institution through the development and offering of a Food Safety course. </p>
<p>2. Strengthen students' entrepreneurship skills through the offering of an intramural practicum. </p>
<p>3. Develop research skills in undergraduate ag students </p>
<p>UOG: </p>
<p>1. To improve curricula by sharing available educational resources. </p>
<p>2. Provide authentic work experience in an educational environment. </p>
<p>3. Expand educational offerings to better represent the current state of Guam and the world. </p>
<p>4. Evaluate the current effectiveness of programs and look for ways to improve them to meet current educational needs. </p>
<p>5. Provide a leading edge program in food safety and nutrition. </p>
<p>6. Provide qualified undergraduate students with real-world work experience in the fields of agriculture and food. </p>
<p>7. Provide qualified students entering UOG with some introductory real-world work experience in the fields of agriculture and food. </p>
<p>ASCC: </p>
<p>1. Provide high quality classes and a sufficient number of classes so students can graduate on a timely basis. </p>
<p>2. Bring course content in alignment with the priorities of NIFA and USDA. </p>
<p>3. Provide high quality learner-centered educational tools and access to the internet. </p>
<p>4. Provide qualified undergraduate students with real-world work experience in the fields of agriculture and food. </p>
<p>5. Build the capacity of the American Samoan economy by supporting qualified students who wish to obtain an advanced education. </p>
<p>CMI: </p>
<p>1. Faculty Preparation and Enhancement for Teaching. 2. To take knowledge and share it more actively with more learners. COM-FSM: 1. Provide equitable teaching materials and library resources at all campuses. </p>
<p>2. Prepare science teachers to teach at the High School level to support and improve science programs </p>
<p>3. Review agriculture programs and conduct assessment surveys as needed. </p>
<p>4. Encourage students to explore entrepreneurial and government service careers. </p>
<p>5. Increase student enrollment in COM-FSM certificate and AS courses with potential to transfer to a university later on. </p>
<p>6. Increase retention at college and University level. </p>
<p>7. Improve rate to graduation from AS programs. </p>
<p>8. To encourage high school students to study STEM programs. PCC 1. Maintain a vibrant and diverse range of education and training programs/offerings that reflects the changing learning environment to meet the needs of students and community. 3. Ensure that learning support services are sufficient to support instructional programs. UVI 1. Increase the educational opportunities in AES labs for students that would otherwise be available to them. ALL Institutions: To further develop the professional and global competencies of students from institutions within the IALGI.</p>
<p>NON-TECHNICAL SUMMARY:<br/> The Land-Grant Institutions in the Insular Areas of the Caribbean and the Pacific, organized under the Consortium named CariPac, have as mission "To provide excellent higher education in Agriculture and Food Science, within the Insular Areas, to meet the evolving needs of a global society." This supports the RIIA program goals: (1) To increase the number and diversity of students who will pursue and complete a 2 or 4 year postsecondary degree in the food and agricultural sciences, or other STEM fields closely related to the food and agricultural sciences, and encourage study in areas that contribute to any of the five NIFA Priority Areas; and (2) To enhance the quality of postsecondary instruction and faculty development to help meet current and future national food and agricultural sciences workplace needs. Each participating
institution will focuses its objectives primarily on NIFA priority area of Global Food Security and Hunger and as a consortium on incorporating Food Safety courses into the curriculum. Through this proposal, we will continue to work together as a consortium to address the technological needs of each CariPac member institution as well as outreach activities to prospective students, acquisition of state of the art equipment, providing for faculty development trainings, activities and salary support, reviewing and updating curricular offerings, providing scholarships to agriculture and related science students, and offering hands-on research and study opportunities for undergraduates. We intend to help students achieve their professional goals by upgrading the quality of undergraduate instruction through modern instructional technologies and methodologies, updating disciplinary
content, and by developing students analytical, interpersonal, leadership, communications, problem-solving, computational, decision-making, and entrepreneurship skills and global competencies.
<p>APPROACH:<br/> UPR-M: Feedback from experts. Questionnaire to Caripac institutions adopting the course. Questionnaire to students. Student grades. Project records. Questionnaire Rubric to assess entrepreneurship, team working and problem solving skills. Project records. Final report, oral presentation. Project records. Seminar rubric. University of Guam: Course to be tested Obj 5. Course grades and semester course evaluations. Once established, the growth in this program will be tracked by registrar's office using standard tools. The presence of a final review document with useful recommendations. Conduct student learning assessment and course delivery evaluation using standard UOG tools. Student's performance to be evaluated by sponsoring faculty member. Student's performance to be evaluated by sponsoring faculty member. Project records. Final report, oral
presentation. American Samoa Community College: Project records. Institutional faculty evaluations. Project records. Course evaluations. Project records. Log sheet of computer usage. Project records. Final report, oral presentation. Project records. Data on participants. Participant projects and presentation. Rubric evaluations (oral & communication skills). Project records. Records of academic progress towards completion of a Bachelor's degree. College of the Marshall Islands: Course grades and evaluations before and after the class will be compared. Course grades and evaluations before and after the class will be compared. Project records. Final report, oral presentation College of Micronesia - Federated States of Micronesia: These materials will most likely be reference tools and thus not allowed outside of library. Thus, hard to measure usage. Grades and course evaluations,
though it would be hard to measure impact of supplies. Mentor evaluation. Course grades and semester course evaluations. Organizational evaluation of work performance. Project records. Final report, oral presentation. Surveys of new students asking what got them interested in the agriculture program. Various methods of contact to students who graduate to survey them on their work status. Data from registrar's office on student retention and completion. Surveys of new students asking what got them interested in the agriculture program. Palau Community College: Observation by instructors and PI that equipment is used. Project records. Final report, oral presentation. Survey of student mentors. Data from campus registrar's office. Survey of students using mentoring students. Grades and progress toward graduation will be used. University of the Virgin Islands: Counting applications
for program. Stay in touch with students after graduation. Project records. Final report, oral presentation.