EDUARD TYAPOCHKIN

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LISA BERGH Turtle Mountain Community College
FENG HONG Ft. Berthold Community College
GREG MEYER Cankdeska Cikana Community College
KATHRYN APOSTAL Minot State University
KATSU OGAWA Mayville State University
EDUARD TYAPOCHKIN United Tribes Technical College
DAVID ROGOWSKI Valley City State
University (completed, Fall, 2003)
JEREMY GUINN Sitting Bull College
WELCOME TO THE GTI ACADEMY
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2004 BRIN GTI ACADEMY

• 10 a.m. Welcome and
  Introductions
• 10 a.m. to 1045 a.m. Overview and
  mandates of the GTI program
  Donald Schwert
• 1045 a.m. to 1100 a.m. Perspectives on a GTI
  experience David
• 
  Rogowski (Fall, 2004 GTI, VCSU)
• 1100 a.m. to 1200 noon GTI'ing, Journaling,
  and Perspectives on the
• 
  Tribal College Experience Heather Marxen
• 
  (Spring, 2003 GTI, CCCC)
• 12 noon Lunch (FLC
  316E)
• 1230 to 230 p.m. College teaching
  an active exercise Lisa
• 
  Montplaisir
• 230 Wrap-up,
  and head home

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• Building biomedical research capacity in North
  Dakota by serving public universities and tribal
  colleges within the state

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• NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
• (27 institutes and centers)

NATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH RESOURCES (NCRR)
INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT AWARDS (IDeA)
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IDeA Participants

• 23 states and Puerto Rico
• Similar, but not identical to EPSCoR states
• Receive 5 of NIH funding annually

IDeA States
EPSCoR States
IDeA / EPSCoR States
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• Building biomedical research capacity in North
  Dakota by serving public universities and tribal
  colleges within the state

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ND BRIN

• 3 years, 9/1/01 6/30/04
• 6 million
• 11 institutions
• Goal to build biomedical research capacity in
  North Dakota
• Increase research competitiveness
• Increase number of students entering biomedical
  research careers

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PARTICIPATING INSTITUTIONS
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ND BRIN Cores

• Start Up
• Bioinformatics
• Administrative
• Tribal College/Baccalaureate Science

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Tribal College and Baccalaureate Science (TCBS)
Core

• GOAL
• Increase the number of students interested in
  pursuing careers in biomedical research

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TCBS PROGRAMS

• 1. BACCALAUREATE SCIENCE
• Four institutions.
• Enhance undergraduate science programming.
• Provide funding for undergraduate-centered
  research.
• Funding focuses on one or more faculty members.
• Release time for participating faculty provided
• through Graduate Teaching Intern (GTI) program.

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TCBS PROGRAMS

• 2. TRIBAL COLLEGE SCIENCE
• Five institutions.
• Enhance undergraduate science programming.
• Provide small funding for undergraduate-centered
  
• research.
• Funding primarily focuses development of
  laboratory-
• centered science courses that can be
  offered/shared
• at a distance ---- using IVN.

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TCBS PROGRAMS

• 2. TRIBAL COLLEGE SCIENCE (continued)
• Release time for participating faculty provided
• through Graduate Teaching Intern (GTI) program.

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GTI PROGRAM

• Provides release time from teaching for one
  faculty
• member at a TCBS campus, one semester/year.
• GTI emulates the role of a science faculty
  member.
• Faculty member, in turn, provides supervision,
• mentorship, and support to GTI.
• Emulates Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) program
• (currently being established on both UND and
• NDSU campuses).

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GTI EXPECTATIONS

• Provide 20 hours total service per week.
• Do so with professionalism maintaining
  rapport,
• but at an appropriate distance, with ones
  students.
• Maintain daily contact with your mentor.
• Maintain e-mail contact with Donald Schwert . .
  .
• questions, concerns, etc.
• Payroll, personnel questions, etc., addressed to
• Michelle Stark.

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GTI EXPECTATIONS (CONT.)

• Write a detailed, daily journal of your
  experiences
• (good and bad) e-mailed each following
  weekend
• to Schwert and to your mentor.
• What went well?
• What went poorly . . . and what steps did/will
  you
• take to remediate this?
• Filtering okay (i.e. journal submissions to your
  
• mentor and to Schwert need not be identical).

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GTI EXPECTATIONS (CONT.)

• Take on recruitment role for graduate studies.
• Talk about graduate school with your students.
• When appropriate, discuss biomedical and
• biomedical research implications of your
  lesson
• materials.
• Brag up opportunities that exist at UND and
  NDSU.

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GTI EXPECTATIONS (CONT.)
RECRUIT FOR BOTH UNIVERSITIES
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GTI SUGGESTOINS

• Communicate with one another.
• Have a curiosity about the campus that you are
• serving the student body, departmental
• operations, the campus community, etc.
• Participate (if allowed) in your
  departmental/unit
• meetings and activities.
• Make your students enthusiastic for your subject
  
• matter.

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GTI, OTHER

• Site visit to you this semester by Schwert,
  others
• probable.
• At end of semester, submit appropriate and
• representative course materials, along with a
• complete photocopy set of your course
  evaluations.
• Schwert will recommend letter grade to your (UND
  
• or NDSU) academic unit, based on
• recommendation from your mentor.

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GTI, OTHER

• Expect to later receive and respond to requests
  for
• evaluation materials
• -- BRIN Evaluation Team (Dr. Sukalski and
  DMD Consulting
• -- BRIN External Advisory Committee

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LISA BERGH Turtle Mountain Community College
FENG HONG Ft. Berthold Community College
GREG MEYER Cankdeska Cikana Community College
KATHRYN APOSTAL Minot State University
KATSU OGAWA Mayville State University
EDUARD TYAPOCHKIN United Tribes Technical College
DAVID ROGOWSKI Valley City State University
JEREMY GUINN Sitting Bull College
2003-04 INTERN ASSIGNMENTS