Marnie Carroll, Colorado Mountain College’s grants writer and coordinator, represented the college at the National Library of Medicine’s Environmental Health Information Partnership (EnHIP) meeting March 11 and 12. CMC was asked to present community college concerns regarding student retention and graduation in science, technology, engineering and math at the annual meeting at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Md.
EnHIP works to enhance the capacity of minority-serving academic institutions to reduce health disparities through the access, use and delivery of environmental health information to their campuses and in their communities.
EnHIP also provides grants to qualifying educational institutions for projects related to expanding access to environmental health information.
“This is a new relationship for CMC that has a lot of potential,” Carroll said.
Carroll has attended the meeting and received grant funding from EnHIP in past years when she served as executive director of the Diné Environmental Institute, on Navajo Nation in Arizona and New Mexico.