Seeds Project – Individual Assignment 1 Instructions (see example source on page two): Kent State Students Problems
- Identify a health problem you think exists for Kent State Students (can be online students, on-campus students, students at a specific campus or for the whole university system).
- Consider the numbers you would use to explain to a grant funding provider that this problem needs a solution. For instance, if the problem you want to address only affects a handful of students, it may not get funded. If a large percentage of students are affected in a meaningful way, this makes the issue more pressing and more likely to get funding. Kent State Students Problems
- Find two different sources of information on that problem. One source should be the ACHA NCHA survey, and the other one should be from recent, scholarly, peer-reviewed articles on college students/young adults in the US.
For instance, if you were doing a project on HIV awareness, you would find statistics on how many people in the US are currently infected, how many people do not know their HIV status or how many new infections occur each year.
Rubric:
This assignment is worth 20 points and will be graded on the completeness and accuracy of the worksheet below. Points will be deducted for missing portions, vague portions and spelling/grammar/citation errors. Points will also be deducted if you simply copy and paste long quotations from the source, even if they are correctly formatted. Please read the source, understand it, summarize it in your own words, cite it correctly and use direct quotations sparingly.
- Identify a health problem you think exists for Kent State Students (can be online students, on-campus students, students at a specific campus or for the whole university system). Kent State Students Problems
- Consider the numbers you would use to explain to a grant funding provider that this problem needs a solution. For instance, if the problem you want to address only affects a handful of students, it may not get funded. If a large percentage of students are affected in a meaningful way, this makes the issue more pressing and more likely to get funding.
- Find two different sources of information on that problem. One source should be the ACHA NCHA survey, and the other one should be from recent, scholarly, peer-reviewed articles on college students/young adults in the US.