The Fisk-Vanderbilt Masters-to-PhD Bridge Program: A Model for Broadening Participation of Underrepresented Groups in the Physical Sciences through Effective Partnerships with Minority-Serving Institutions
The Fisk-Vanderbilt Masters-to-PhD Bridge Program: A Model for Broadening Participation of Underrepresented Groups in the Physical Sciences through Effective Partnerships with Minority-Serving Institutions
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菲斯克-范德比尔特硕士到博士桥梁计划：通过与少数族裔服务机构的有效合作，扩大代表性不足群体在物理科学领域的参与的模式
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2010
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S. E. Lange
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K. Stassun;Arnold Burger;S. E. Lange
我们将菲斯克-范德比尔特硕士到博士桥梁计划描述为与少数民族服务机构建立有效伙伴关系的成功典范，以显着扩大代表性不足的群体在物理科学中的参与。该计划将有针对性的招聘与积极的保留策略结合起来，并建立在一个明确定义的结构之上，该结构足够灵活，可以满足个别学生的需求，同时保持明确传达的学生表现基准标准。该计划的理念的一个关键原则是消除学生辅导的被动性;学生们通过积极参与未来博士顾问的研究经验，展示核心博士学科领域能力的课程，以及与联合指导委员会的频繁互动，被故意培养为成功过渡到博士课程。这种方法可以让学生的进步和表现进行监测和评估，在一个更全面的方式比通常提供有限的指标，如标准化测试。自2004年开办以来，该方案共吸引了35名学生，其中32名为代表性不足的少数民族，60%为女性，留存率为91%。最近的研究表明，少数民族学生在攻读博士学位的过程中攻读硕士学位的可能性几乎是非少数民族学生的两倍。从本质上讲，这里描述的桥梁计划建立在这一日益重要的途径上，具有专门的指导过程，旨在确保硕士到博士的过渡是成功的。
We describe the Fisk-Vanderbilt Masters-to-PhD Bridge program as a successful model for effective partnerships with minority-serving institutions toward significantly broadening the participation of underrepresented groups in the physical sciences. The program couples targeted recruitment with active retention strategies, and is built upon a clearly defined structure that is flexible enough to address individual student needs while maintaining clearly communicated baseline standards for student performance. A key precept of the program’s philosophy is to eliminate passivity in student mentoring; students are deliberately groomed to successfully transition into the PhD program through active involvement in research experiences with future PhD advisers, coursework that demonstrates competency in core PhD subject areas, and frequent interactions with joint mentoring committees. This approach allows student progress and performance to be monitored and evaluated in a more holistic manner than usually afforded by limited metrics such as standardized tests. Since its inception in 2004, the program has attracted a total of 35 students, 32 of them underrepresented minorities, 60% female, with a retention rate of 91%. Recent research indicates that minority students are nearly twice as likely as non-minority students to seek a Masters degree en route to the PhD. In essence, the Bridge program described here builds upon this increasingly important pathway, with a dedicated mentoring process designed to ensure that the Masters-to-PhD transition is a successful one.