MIAMI-DADE COMMUNITY COLLEGE-UNIV MIAMI BRIDGE PROGRAM

在此延续申请中，我们将在未来三年内修改和增强我们的桥梁计划。 我们的六个目标是：1）增加合格的学生申请人的池; 2）提高桥梁学生的学术竞争力; 3）激发学生对研究的兴趣; 4）激发迈阿密-戴德社区学院（MDCC）教师对研究的兴趣; 5）促进MDCC教师的创新教学;和6）促进MDCC新科学课程的开发。 我们为每个目标制定了一套可衡量的目标，我们将使用这些目标来评估我们的进展。 我们建议以下活动来实现计划目标：（1）启动一个更积极的招生计划，我们接触到年轻的学生和他们的家长;（2）继续提供特殊的课程和研讨会，以提高桥梁学生的学术竞争力;（3）继续为在迈阿密大学（UM）实验室与教师导师一起进行研究的MDCC学生提供更高时薪的时薪;（4）增加一年级学生参加全国科学会议的人数;（5）通过特别课程/研讨会使学生适应文化，并让他们的父母参与这一过程;（6）继续通过奖学金计划、小型研究赠款、参加国家科学会议的旅费，（7）保留教学赠款，以鼓励MDCC和UM教师合作开发本科科学教学的新方法;以及（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.