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Community Outreach and Leadership Development
This QEM component focuses on leadership development among college/university faculty and students as well as among parents and youth, especially those residing in low-income communities. With support from NSF and HHS, QEM offers science- and health-focused internships that emphasize leadership development. QEM, with NSF support, also is focusing on leadership development among faculty at Tribal Colleges and Universities. With support from the National Science Foundation, QEM trained and offered support over a four-year period to a core group of parents in ten low-income communities nationwide to encourage them to become stronger participants in the provision of quality science, mathematics, and technology education for their children; resource individuals for and trainers of other parents in their respective communities; and more informed advocates of quality education in their local schools. Similar parent training activities are underway in communities in Jacksonville/Duval County, Florida. |
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