MIAMI-DADE COMMUNITY COLLEGE-UNIV MIAMI BRIDGE PROGRAM

在这个延续申请中，我们在未来三年修改和加强了我们的桥梁计划。我们的六个目标是：1)增加合格学生的申请数量；2)提高桥牌学生的学术竞争力；3)激发学生的研究兴趣；4)激发迈阿密戴德社区学院（MDCC）教师的研究兴趣；5)推动MDCC教师创新教学；6)促进MDCC新科学课程的发展。对于每一个目标，我们都有一套可衡量的目标，我们将用这些目标来评估我们的进展。我们建议以下活动来实现项目目标：(1)启动一个更积极的学生招募计划，我们接触到年轻的学生和他们的父母；(2)继续举办特色课程和工作坊，提高桥牌学生的学术竞争力；(3)继续为MDCC学生提供时薪，让他们在迈阿密大学（UM）的实验室与教师导师进行研究，时薪更高；(4)增加一年级学生参加全国科学会议的人数；(5)通过专门的课程/研讨会让学生适应研究，并让他们的父母参与其中；(6)通过奖学金计划、小额研究补助金、参加全国科学会议的旅费、信息技术特别讲习班、创新教学研讨会和短期课程，继续振兴社区大学科学教师；(7)保留教学补助金，以激励MDCC和UM教师合作开发本科科学教学的新方法；(8)将MDCC的新课程制度化。

In this continuation application, we modify and enhance our bridge program over the next three years. Our six goals are to: 1) increase the pool of qualified student applicants; 2) improve the academic competitiveness of bridge students; 3) stimulate student interest in research; 4) stimulate Miami-Dade Community College (MDCC) faculty interest in research; 5) promote innovative teaching by MDCC faculty; and 6) facilitate the development of new science courses at MDCC. We have a set of measurable objectives for each of these goals that we will use to evaluate our progress. We propose the following activities to accomplish the program goals: (1) initiate a more aggressive student recruiting program where we reach out to younger students and their parents; (2) continue to offer special courses and workshops to increase the academic competitiveness of bridge students; (3) continue to provide hourly wages for MDCC students dong research with faculty mentors in labs at University of Miami (UM) at a higher hourly rate; (4) increase the number of first- year students we send to national scientific meetings; (5) acculturate students to research through special courses/seminars and also include their parents in the process; (6) continue to rejuvenate community college science teachers with a fellowship program, mini-research grants, funds for travel to national scientific meetings, special workshops in information technology, and seminars and short courses on innovative teaching; (7) preserve teaching grants as an incentive for MDCC and UM faculty to work cooperatively to develop new approaches in undergraduate science instruction; and (8) institutionalize new courses at MDCC.