ÁNDALE Scholars
Funder
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Application
We are no longer accepting applications.
Criteria
Participants must meet the following criteria:
- First generation educated (parents/legal guardians do not hold a bachelor’s degree from a U.S.-based university or college)
- Spanish language fluency desired
- Multicultural
- Sophomores or new student standing
- Minimum GPA of 3.0 (Passed science courses with at least a B)
Components
Activities
The ÁNDALE Scholars Program is designed to recruit, enroll, and retain diverse undergraduates for a 38-week program (two 16-week semesters and 6 weeks in summer) to engage students in:
- Educational activities to increase nutrition and health science knowledge
- Experiential learning opportunities with faculty mentor and by completing an externship with a partner organization
- Professional development activities including a scholar learning community; and
- On-going mentoring to successfully complete all program activities.
Trainings and Webinars
Scholars will be required to attend six (6) annual competence-based trainings, facilitated by the faculty mentors and presented either in-person or via webinars.
Course enrollment
Scholars will be required to enroll in two (2) courses to improve their knowledge in nutrition, health sciences, and their ability to prepare research papers and presentations.
- HSC 333 Latino Nutrition, Health and Chronic Disease Prevention course
- HSC 407 Health Equity and Health Disparities Research in the U.S. course
Learning Community
Provide ÁNDALE scholar cohorts with professional development training through a monthly scholar learning community meeting where nutrition-related research and career planning will be discussed.
Long Term Goal #1:
Increase the number of multicultural, underrepresented, first generation educated students graduating in the nutrition, health sciences, and kinesiology disciplines at CSULB and CSUMB.
ObjectivesGoals
- Recruit a total of twenty-six (26) sophomore-level or entering transfer-level undergraduate, multicultural, first generation-educated students to participate as ÁNDALE scholars. Thirteen (13) students will be selected from CSULB and thirteen (13) from CSUMB in annual cohorts of seven (6-7) at each institution.
- Maintain a 90% student retention rate across all years.
- A minimum of 90% of ÁNDALE scholars will obtain a related degree within three years of participation as a scholar.
Long Term Goal #2:
Increase the knowledge of ÁNDALE scholars in nutrition and health sciences to prepare graduates entering the professional agriculture workforce.
ObjectivesGoals
- Enroll ÁNDALE scholars into two (2) courses in nutrition and health science.
- Provide six (6) monthly trainings/webinars to ÁNDALE scholar cohorts on nutrition, health, and community based participatory research methodology.
- Provide ÁNDALE scholar cohorts with professional development training through a monthly scholar learning community meeting where nutrition-related research and career planning will be discussed.
Long Term Goal #3:
Increase the capacity of ÁNDALE scholars to apply human nutrition knowledge in professional settings.
ObjectivesGoals
- Provide ÁNDALE scholar cohorts with experiential learning opportunities including a summer externship placement with community partners to engage in nutrition-related community-based participatory research and application.
- Provide ÁNDALE scholar cohorts with mentorship from experienced faculty and research staff to help with development of the scholars’ skills through regular meetings, trainings, involvement in the mentor’s research, and supervision during the externship placement.
2019-2020 ÁNDALE Scholars
Daisy Dueñas
Health Science
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Mara Bird
Gerson León
Health Science
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Mara Bird
Judith Magaña
Health Science
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Selena Nguyen-Rodriguez
Janet Ortiz
Health Science
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Melawhy Garcia
Kenny Torres
Kinesiology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kellie Walters
ÁNDALE Leadership Team
Melawhy Garcia, MPH, PhD
Principal Investigator / Faculty Mentor
Health Science
Center for Latino Community Health, Evaluation & Leadership Training
Melawhy.Garcia@csulb.edu
Mara Bird, PhD
Co-Investigator / Faculty Mentor
Center for Latino Community Health, Evaluation & Leadership Training
Mara.Bird@csulb.edu
Natalia Gatdula, MPH
Program Manager
Center for Latino Community Health, Evaluation & Leadership Training
Natalia.Gatdula@csulb.edu
ÁNDALE Faculty Mentors
Michelle Barrack, PhD
Family and Consumer Sciences
Michelle.Barrack@csulb.edu
Gino Galvez, PhD
Psychology
Gino.Galvez@csulb.edu
Selena Nguyen-Rodriguez, PhD
Health Science
Selena.Nguyen-Rodriguez@csulb.edu
Cheryl Rock, PhD
Family and Consumer Sciences
Cheryl.Rock@csulb.edu
Kellie Walters, PhD
Kinesiology
Kellie.Walters@csulb.edu
