A. Musicant (psych), R. Farley (HH&P), D. Sullivan (Nursing

musicant@mtsu.edu

Dean Harold Whiteside

College Behavioral&Health Sciences

Discipline specific equipment

JH204,amg117,amg155, CKNB

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CB&HS serves over 5000 students in classroom education, training and research. The MTSU population reaps benefits with over 5000 additional students in Psychology courses and activity courses in HH&P. CB&HS benefits the university with maintaining its Carnegie classification (38/100 required PhD graduates per five years from HH&P). State funding uses a high multiplier for funding for the large number of master’s students from HH&P and Psychology. This request, tied to maintaining all of the aspects of education, includes funding for: patient/health related equipment (Nursing), psychological assessment kits and expansion of EEG capabilities (Psychology), “Therapeutic Exercise/Rehabilitation” for Fitness Assessment and Training, as well as equipment and facilities modification for the offering of activity courses (HH&P). Items will provide hands-on experiences essential to instruction and professional preparation of all students. DSE makes it possible to provide students with research experiences that are critical to meeting the missions of both the College and MTSU. National experts have identified these health disciplines as having a critical need for new people, with hands-on experiences/training/research. Class enrollment/usage per academic year: Activity(HH&P) undergraduate 1500+ per year, upper division research and applied research courses (EXSC 4000,4010,4260,psych 3070,3990,4080) 400+, graduate courses, graduate research, theses and dissertations (HH&P and Psych) 200+. Nursing with their maternal nursing students has an additional 130 students (roughly 40% of their total enrollment for upper division courses) per academic year utilizing specialized equipment requested.