Making the LEAP from transfer student to research scientist

该项目旨在提高亚利桑那州立大学（ASU）转学生的成功率。一个重要的问题是，虽然转校生占了进入亚利桑那州立大学理科专业的学生的33%，但他们的保留率较低，毕业时间较慢，而且与在亚利桑那州立大学开始大学生活的学生相比，他们没有那么多参与本科研究。该项目使用奖学金计划为转学生提供一系列课程，帮助他们在本科研究经历中获得支持和指导。通过关注转学生，该项目将扩大亚利桑那州立大学理科学生的参与，因为转学生是一个更多样化的学生群体。该项目的目标是通过奖学金计划将转学生整合到高影响力的科学研究实践中。50名转学生将通过四个级别的课程，从新手到实践科学家。这些课程支持的本科研究经历将为生物科学、物理科学和地球科学的转学生提供一个独特的研究学习社区的结构，并将这些转学生融入已建立的科学研究社区。这个项目的影响正在被衡量，以确定提高转学生体验质量的因素，特别是导致更好的研究经历，毕业率，进入劳动力市场或研究生院。这个项目将促进对参与研究如何对转学生的经历产生积极影响的理解。此外，该课程将被打包以广泛传播，并可作为其他有兴趣吸引转学生参与研究的机构的典范。

This project aims to improve transfer student success at Arizona State University (ASU). A significant problem is that although transfer students make up 33% of entering science majors at ASU, they have lower retention rates, a slower time to graduation, and do not participate as much in undergraduate research as students who begin their college experience at ASU. This project uses a scholarship program to give transfer students access to a set of courses that help support and mentor them in undergraduate research experiences. By focusing on transfer students, the project will broaden the participation of students underrepresented in science at ASU because transfer students are a more diverse student population. The goal of this project is to integrate transfer students into the high impact practice of scientific research through a scholarship program. Fifty transfer students will progress through four levels of courses that will take them from novice to practicing scientist. These course-supported undergraduate research experiences will provide the structure for a unique research learning community among transfer students in biological sciences, physical sciences, and geosciences and the integration of these transfer students into the established scientific research community. The impact of this program is being measured to determine factors that increase the quality of the experience of transfer students, specifically leading to better research experiences, graduation rates, and entry into the workforce or graduate school. This project will advance understanding of how participation in research can positively impact the experience of transfer students. Further, the curriculum will be packaged for broad dissemination and could be used as a model for other institutions who are interested in engaging transfer students in research.