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Aggies Against Cancer
Aggies Against Cancer is funded by the American Cancer Society. This group organizes student leaders to refine leadership skills for community organization and advocacy to prevent cancer and assist survivors of cancer.
The student leaders attend an annual HBCU Leadership training with representation from six southeastern states. They also attend national leadership training programs. The group has conducted research on tobacco images in hip hop videos. The results of their findings have been presented at national scientific conventions.
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Closing Health Disparities by Changing Lifestyle Behavior
Mary Smith (Biology) and Brenda Swearingin (Human Performance & Leisure Studies) In co-operation with members of the Healthy Lifestyle Challenge Grant Committee
African American, American Indian and Hispanic ethnic and racial groups are disadvantaged relative to whites on most health indices, according to the National Institutes of Health. African Americans are at higher risk for the most, if not all of the leading causes of health-related deaths in the United States, compared to White Americans. Risk factors, and overall quality of life may each be affected by aspects such as race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, age, education, occupation, and other lifestyle differences such as nutrition and lack of physical activity. The goal of this program is to implement a “Healthy Lifestyle Challenge” that will improve health among students, faculty and staff at North Carolina A&T State University. Specific objectives of this project are to: (1) Promote increase in physical activity among program participants, (2) Promote healthy nutritional behavior among program participants, (3) Provide educational awareness of healthy lifestyles to all interested A&T students, faculty and staff,(4) Evaluate effectiveness of program activities and (5) Use this pilot study as leverage to expand the healthy lifestyle initiative through external grant support and collaboration.
The program participants have access to the following resources to promote change:
Web-based Tutorials
Physical Activitiy (Independent or Group Sessions)
Healthy Lifestyle Challenge Website
This website has a home page with password access and links to the following: 1. The Surgeon Generals Report on Health Disparities
2. Educational Modules with Pre- and Post-test
3. A Spreadsheet of self-reported step numbers, measurements and code number, benchmark achievements.
4. A page for self-reporting by a code number
5. Announcements Back to Top | | DINE Study
A research cohort for the assessment and prevention of obesity-related risk in minority college-age populations.
The Prevalence of Potentially Modifiable Type II Diabetic Risk Factors Among Elderly African-Americans.
The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of potentially modifiable obesity-related risk factors (RF) in African-American college students ages 18-25. A voluntary convenience sample of students [N=20; Males (M) n=4, 64 ± 5.5 yrs.; Females (F) n=16, 74 ± 9.8 yrs] was taken from a historically minority university. Data for the following variables were collected during two testing sessions:; blood pressure (BP), body composition using] skinfold (SK) and girth measurements ‘including waist circumference (WAIST)]; and, the following health behavior questionnaires Twelve subjects had elevated BP. Mean values for percent body fat (%BF) were 43.9% and 39.8% for women and men respectively. WAIST [102 and 104 cm for men and women, respectively] were indicative of increased risk for heart disease. Of the twenty participants nearly all had one of more RF for NIDDM, suggesting the need for further investigation of, and more diligent screening for NIDDM in this population.
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Project HYPE
Project Helping Youth Positively Evolve (HYPE) is federally funded grant project that was written by Drs. Daniel Webb (Principal Investigator) and Paul Ankomah (Co-Principal Investigator), both professors in North Carolina A&T State University’s School of Education Department of Human Performance and Leisure Studies (HPLS).
The four year federally funded project focuses on helping youth in high-need schools succeed academically and evolve into positive contributing community members. Thus, North Carolina A&T State University in collaboration with Hampton Academy, Falkener Elementary, New Light Missionary Baptist Church (NLMBC), and Family Service of the Piedmont Inc. (FSPI) implemented Project HYPE during the spring, 2003 academic semester, which entails a 15-hour per week (i.e., 3 hours per day) after-school program to provide approximately 200 youth (who are considered at-risk of failing grade level) with reading and math tutorial services within safe and structured environments.
Project HYPE services includes social skill development activities, family literacy services, recreational activities, and family counseling services to enhance parent/children relationships. North Carolina A&T State University and NLMBC each serve as community learning centers as a means to facilitate participants’ achievement of the following project goals: 1) increase students’ performance on end of grade tests in reading by 10% in comparison to the district percent proficiency, 2) increase students’ performance on end of grade test in mathematics by 10% in comparison to district percent proficiency, 3) reduce students’ absences by 10%, 4) reduce students’ violation of Student Code of Conduct by 10%, and 5) reduce students’ suspension rates by 10%. To ensure the accomplishment of the above-mentioned project goals, each academic semester, Project HYPE employs approximately 50 tutors who are teacher education majors at North Carolina A&T State University.
Project HYPE is currently in its third year of a four year 1.2 million dollar federally funded grant awarded via North Carolina’s Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) 21st Century Community Learning Centers (CCLC). Funds are awarded annually to North Carolina A&T State University contingent upon the accomplishment of the previous year stated objectives.
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Project P.R.A.P.E.
Project “Professional Preparation of Adapted Physical Educators” (P.R.A.P.E.) is a graduate program that is supported by the Office of Special Education Programs, United States Department of Education.
The purpose of Project P.R.A.P.E. is to prepare qualified and certified adapted physical education (APE) teachers to provide quality physical education programs for diverse learners (K-12) with disabilities in various physical education settings and school systems, including Title I schools in rural and urban districts.
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