Facilitating seamless transitions from community college to Towson University

促进从社区学院到陶森大学的无缝过渡

• 批准号: 10170368
• 负责人: Elana S Ehrlich
• 金额: $ 27.75万
• 依托单位: TOWSON UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-09-01 至 2023-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10170368
• 关键词: Acute; Address; Admission activity; Area; Awareness; Bachelor' s Degree; Baltimore; Benchmarking; Biomedical Research; Biotechnology; Chemistry; Cities; Communication; Community Developments; Complex; County; Creativeness; Degree Completion; Development; Disease remission; Drops; Educational Curriculum; Effectiveness; Enrollment; Ensure; Event; Faculty; Fostering; Goals; Graduate Education; Graduation Rates; Growth; High School Student; Individual; Institution; Low income; Maintenance; Maryland; Measures; Mentors; Minority; Natural Sciences; Newsletter; Outcome; Program Evaluation; Public Health; Research; Role; STEM career; STEM field; STEM program; STEM student; Scholarship; Schools; Science; Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education; Self Efficacy; Students; System; Talents; Training; Training Programs; Underrepresented Minority; Underrepresented Students; Universities; base; bridge to the baccalaureate; career; career networking; college; community college; course development; education research; effectiveness evaluation; experience; faculty mentor; improved; innovation; insight; kindergarten; peer coaching; postgraduate education; programs; recruit; research and development; retention rate; skill acquisition; skills; social media; success; summer research; supportive environment; transfer student; trend; tutoring; undergraduate research experience; undergraduate student; underrepresented minority student

Summary A talented and diverse biomedical workforce is essential to ensure creativity and innovation in the biomedical field. The goal of this project is to promote growth and maintenance of a diverse biomedical workforce by increasing the number of underrepresented minority (URM) students who pursue biomedical careers. While URM students are as likely as others to begin college as STEM majors, they are less likely to graduate with a STEM degree. The attrition of students from STEM majors is acutely seen in students who begin college at two-year institutions (many of whom are URM students) than at four-year institutions. Consistent with these trends, 48% of Towson University (TU) natural science majors enrolled in introductory chemistry were found to have completed a bachelor’s degree in the natural sciences within 5 years; this percentage dropped to 41% for transfer students. This project targets the transition of URM students from Baltimore City Community College (BCCC) and the Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC) to facilitate baccalaureate degree completion in the biomedical sciences at TU or other four-year institutions and to increase student competitiveness for graduate education and/or biomedical research careers. This renewal proposal builds on past success and implements new strategies to empower and motivate participating students. We aim to enhance recruitment efforts to increase program awareness and the pool of qualified applicants attracted to the program, to provide a dynamic and supportive environment for students to increase the transfer rate of students from our community college partners to TU and other four-year institutions, to provide students with the skills and capacity required for success at TU and in post-graduate training and careers, and to integrate the program with the robust pipeline of active URM training programs at TU, BCCC, CCBC and affiliated University System of Maryland schools to provide a strong minority-focused training experience. These goals will be achieved by integrating an independent research experience with strong mentoring and courses for research and professional skills development along with fostering the development of research-based curriculum at the community college partners. Building on previous success, the new initiatives proposed here include strengthening research opportunities at the community college partners to better prepare students for the research experience at TU by fostering the development of course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE) modules at the community college partners, and strengthening the integration of the Bridges to the Baccalaureate program with other minority- focused programs at partner institutions and within the University System of Maryland.

总结 一个有才华的和多样化的生物医学劳动力是必不可少的，以确保创造力和创新， 生物医学领域。该项目的目标是促进增长和维护的多样化 通过增加代表性不足的少数民族（URM）学生的数量， 从事生物医学事业的人虽然URM的学生和其他人一样有可能开始上大学， STEM专业，他们不太可能毕业于STEM学位。学生流失 在两年制院校开始上大学的学生中， 其中包括URM学生）比四年制院校。与这些趋势一致，48%的 陶森大学（TU）的自然科学专业就读于介绍化学被发现， 在5年内完成了自然科学学士学位;这个百分比 转学生的比例降至41%。该项目的目标是URM学生的过渡， 巴尔的摩城市社区学院（BCCC）和巴尔的摩县社区学院 （CCBC），以促进学士学位在TU或其他生物医学科学完成 四年制院校，并提高学生的竞争力研究生教育和/或 生物医学研究职业。这一更新建议建立在过去的成功基础上，并实施新的 策略，以授权和激励参与的学生。我们的目标是加强招聘工作 提高计划意识和吸引合格申请人的人才库， 为学生提供一个充满活力和支持性的环境，以提高转学率， 学生从我们的社区学院合作伙伴到TU和其他四年制院校，提供 具有在TU和研究生培训中取得成功所需的技能和能力的学生， 职业，并将该计划与活跃的URM培训计划的强大管道相结合， TU、BCCC、CCBC及附属大学系统为马里兰州学校提供了强大的 以少数民族为重点的培训经验。这些目标将通过整合 独立的研究经验，强大的指导和课程的研究和专业 技能发展沿着促进研究型课程的发展， 社区大学合作伙伴在以往成功的基础上， 包括加强社区学院合作伙伴的研究机会， 学生的研究经验，在TU通过促进发展的课程为基础的 社区学院合作伙伴的本科研究经验（CURE）模块，以及 加强“通向学士学位的桥梁”方案与其他少数民族方案的融合， 在合作机构和马里兰州的大学系统内的重点项目。