USDA CSREES - Higher Education Challenge Grants Program New Paradigm for Discovery-Based Learning: Implementing Bottom-up Development by Listening to Farmers

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USDA CSREES - Higher Education Challenge Grants
ProgramNew Paradigm for Discovery-Based
LearningImplementing Bottom-up Development by
Listening to Farmers Needs and Using
Participatory Processes Holistic
Thinking(Estimated numbers of students are sum
of all 7 partner schools.)
Campus-wide freshmen seminars 1,000 students per
year (no travel)
Junior/senior/grad student courses 90-100
students per year (no travel)
First year externship (including 2 weeks in Mali)
20-25 students per year
Second year and beyond externship (6 -8 weeks in
Mali) 7 students per year