MIAMI-DADE COMMUNITY COLLEGE-UNIV MIAMI BRIDGE PROGRAM

在这次继续申请中，我们将在未来三年修改和增强我们的桥牌计划。我们的六个目标是：1)增加合格的学生申请者；2)提高桥学生的学术竞争力；3)激发学生对研究的兴趣；4)激发迈阿密-戴德社区学院(MDCC)教职员工对研究的兴趣；5)促进MDCC教职员工的创新教学；以及6)促进MDCC新科学课程的开发。我们对每个目标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。我们建议开展以下活动以实现计划目标：(1)启动更积极的招生计划，我们接触更年轻的学生及其家长；(2)继续提供特殊课程和研讨会，以提高桥学生的学术竞争力；(3)继续为MDCC学生提供小时工资，以更高的小时费率与迈阿密大学(UM)实验室的教师导师一起进行研究；(4)增加我们派往全国科学会议的一年级学生的数量；(5)通过特殊课程/研讨会使学生适应研究，并将他们的父母也包括在这个过程中；(6)继续通过奖学金计划、小型研究补助金、用于参加国家科学会议、信息技术特别研讨会以及创新教学研讨会和短期课程的资金，使社区学院的科学教师年轻化；(7)保留教学补助金，作为对MDCC和UM教职员工合作开发本科科学教学新方法的激励；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.