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Photographs by Chuck Kimmerle, Office of University Relations. Published in June 2007 by the Office of University Relations. The University of North Dakota is an equal opportunity/affirmative action institution. |
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| The Joy of Reading |
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| For more than 20 years, the UND College of Education and Human Development has delivered a Summer Reading Program for second through seventh grade children. The College and its Department of Teaching and Learning collaborate with the Grand Forks Public School District as well as several area rural schools. The program promotes literacy development among young readers and writers. In addition, the program serves as a clinical practicum for undergraduates majoring in elementary education and graduates enrolled in the reading or elementary education master’s degree programs. The program is interactive, with the children participating in a four-week quest to become better readers. |
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| Continuing Medical Education |
| The UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences underscores its nationally recognized service to rural communities through its Office of Continuing Medical Education and Outreach (OCMEO), which directly or jointly sponsors more than 500 continuing medical education activities annually for physicians and other healthcare providers. According to Dr. H. David Wilson, dean of the medical school, this effort fosters and supports continuing professional development for health care professionals in North Dakota and the High Plains region, with content areas that include primary care and specialty and sub-specialty topics. OCMEO sponsors conferences, workshops, seminars, review courses, symposia, lecture series, and distance education by telephone, television, personal computer and other innovative formats. |
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| "Gro"-ing Communities |
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Citizens of even the smallest North Dakota communities can quickly and easily access governmental services, thanks to the UND College of Business and Public Administration’s Government Rural Outreach (GRO) initiative. The multi-disciplinary GRO project has included several AmeriCorps Vista volunteers who have provided workforce and asset development, education, technology support, and helped local citizens to leverage existing resources. GRO also includes a “research of engagement” component that reinforces the notion that university investigators can derive new knowledge as part of providing service to constituents. In practical terms, GRO looks into how the Internet and other information technologies can be better utilized to increase rural access to government services. |
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GRO is a component of the UND Center for Rural Service Delivery. Through the applicaiton of information technology, video communications, and organizational development, the Center creates Video Service Delivery (VSD) links that connect Social Security Offices and remote community facilities. The progam has already made a tremendous impact. The first VSD site, in Belcourt, N.D., on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation, has produced more than 300 complete applications for SSI and Disability. More than $3 million has gone into the Turtle Mountain community as benefits to individuals and reimbursements to the local Indian Health Service hospital. Another example: A VSD in Dickinson, N.D., has resulted in more than $700,000 in benefits to the community and the hospital. |
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| Nursing Center |
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| The Nursing Center was established by the UND College of Nursing to provide primary health care to vulnerable rural populations. Theoretical models for this “Center without Walls” included the World Health Organization Primary Health Care model; community empowerment approaches of Paulo Freire; and the Ecological Model of Urie Bronfenbrenner. The Nursing Center facilitates student clinical experiences, provides nursing care to individuals and groups, fosters faculty clinical practice, and promotes nursing research. Nursing Dean Dr. Chandice Covington says the Center provides its services primarily, but not exclusively, to expectant and new parents, children with special needs, the elderly, people with chronic illnesses, uninsured/underinsured, and expectant parents and children at risk for developmental delays. |
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