UK BRIDGES--TWO YEAR TO FOUR YEAR TRANSITION PROGRAM

描述(摘自《调查者摘要》)：弗雷泽博士和他的 该团队认识到，本科院校需要改进招聘 从两年制大学毕业的代表不足的少数族裔，并制定方法 确保这些学生在整个学术生涯中都能留住他们。 肯塔基大学(英国)非常适合解决这一问题 因为它的独特的组织结构是一个学士和 拥有十四(14)所地区两年制学校的研究生院。目标是 英国桥梁项目的目的是创造一个吸引和 培养从社区高校转学来的少数民族学生 使他们能够继续接受生物医学科学方面的教育。 他们的具体目标是：(1)树立积极的形象 列克星敦校园和医疗中心对少数族裔友好；(2)增加 有兴趣在美国从事职业生涯的社区学院少数民族人数 健康科学；(3)为社区提供动态的研究体验 大学鼓励他们对科学事业的兴趣；(4)影响 在社区学院开设生物科学课程，以确保 课程设置；以及(5)培养教师/学生和学生/学生 人际关系，降低过渡期学生的不及格率。 他们建议通过一系列活动来实现这些目标 其重点是招聘、过渡和留用举措。节目 包括：学术咨询和职业咨询、研究学徒 学生和教职员工的计划，来看看你自己的计划，生物学和 化学系工作坊和辅导计划。英国大桥 Project已经组建了一支具有资格、经验和 致力于设计和管理这些项目。他们相信 这些举措不仅将增加少数族裔的数量， 转移，但会对他们保留这些资源的能力产生重大影响 学士学位课程的学生。

DESCRIPTION (Adapted from the Investigator's Abstract): Dr. Frazier and his team recognize that baccalaureate institutions need to improve recruitment of underrepresented minorities from two-year colleges and develop ways to ensure the retention of these students throughout their academic careers. The University of Kentucky (UK) is ideally suited to attack this problem because of its unique organizational structure of being a baccalaureate and graduate institution with fourteen (14) regional two-year schools. The goal of UK Bridges Project is to create an environment that will attract and nurture minority students transferring from the community colleges and enable them to continue their education in the biomedical sciences. Their specific objectives are to: (1) Establish positive images of the Lexington Campus and Medical Center as minority-friendly; (2) Increase the number of community college minorities interested in pursuing careers in the health sciences; (3) Provide dynamic research experiences for community colleges to encourage their interest in a science career; (4) Impact the biological sciences curriculum at the community college to ensure parity of course offerings; and (5) Develop faculty/student and student/student relationships to reduce the failure rate of transitional students. They propose to achieve these objectives through a series of activities which focus on recruitment transition and retention initiatives. Programs include: Academic Advising and Career Counseling, Research Apprentice Programs for students and faculty, Come see Yourself Programs, Biology and Chemistry Faculty Workshops, and the Tutorial Program. The UK Bridges Project has assembled a team which has the qualifications, experience, and commitment to design and administer these programs. They are confident that these initiatives will not only increase the number of minorities who transfer but will impact significantly on their ability to retain these students in baccalaureate programs.