Campus and Distance Learning Enhancement in OSH

Details

• Personal Author:
  Carter H Sr.
• Description:
  North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University (NCA&TSU), located in Greensboro, NC, was established in 1891 and was designated as one of two land grant institutions in the state. It has an enrollment of over 10,500 students and is the largest of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) in the State of North Carolina. It is the eighth largest in the nation's 114 HBCUs. The B.S. Degree in Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Program is in the Department of Construction Management & Occupational Safety and Health in the School of Technology. The OSH Program was started in 1979, with some NIOSH funding, with a very small enrollment with the objective of preparing students for jobs in the field of Occupational Safety and Health. The program is over 30 years old and now has approximately 70 students on campus and another 30-40 on-line (distance) students (mainly Go-Army Ed Program). NCA&TSU is the only B.S. in OSH in North Carolina and one of only a few institutions in the Southeast offering such a program. The University also offers three Masters of Science in Industrial Technology (MSIT) Degrees with the following Concentrations: Occupational Safety & Health (MSIT/OSH), Environmental Safety & Health (MSIT/EOSH), and Disaster Management (MSIT/DM). The Bachelor of Science Degree in OSH is conferred on students after the completion of the following: 126 semester hours of course work which includes 35 semester hours in OSH, 8 semester hours Biology, 15 semester hours Chemistry, 8 hours Mathematics, 8 semester hours of Physics, 6 semester hours of Management Courses, 3 semester hours Internship Course, 43 semester hours of English, Humanities, and other courses. Goals and objectives of the B.S. Degree in OSH Program: 1. Prepare well educated and trained minority, disadvantaged, and other graduates to assume assertive leadership roles in the field of occupational safety, health, and industrial hygiene to protect the safety and health of employees and citizens of the community. 2. Prepare students to pursue graduate studies in order to conduct research and provide training in the field of Occupational Safety and Health & Industrial Hygiene. 3. Provide financial assistance in terms of tuition and fees to sophomore, junior and senior student majors who maintain high academic achievement in their course work. 4. Develop student recruiting strategies to attract more minority students to major in OSH and build the program to the level of 100-120 (on campus) majors by June 2009. 5. Expose students to professional activities by providing funds to attend local, regional and national meetings of ASSE, AIH/ACGIH, NSC and other such meetings and conferences. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Education Occupational Health Safety Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Training
• Series:
  Grant Final Reports
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Final Grant Report
• Place as Subject:
  North Carolina ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OEP - Office of Extramural Programs
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-9
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20047261
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2016-101851
• Citation:
  Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, T02-OH-008606, 2009 Nov; :1-9
• Contact Point Address:
  Horlin Carter, Sr., Ph.D., CHCM, Project Director, Department of Construction Management & Occupational Safety & Health, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC 27411
• Email:
  carterh@ncat.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2010
• Performing Organization:
  North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• End Date:
  20090630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:387dd2a13ac0ff75b99f5e297770e8365d928b5a885f60184be3f21b5c63414aacc7f0967360c541f69e32925e33843930dbd3be4e780c6bd21c52f61d99c691
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/218616/cdc_218616_DS1.pdf
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