Kansas Bridges to the Future

描述(申请人提供)：堪萨斯州正在成为一个多元化的州，西南部的拉美裔美国人比例更高，东部的非裔美国人也越来越多。许多社区大学是少数族裔追求高等教育目标的首选，许多是第一代大学毕业生。堪萨斯州立大学(KSU)计划与位于堪萨斯州西南部的三所社区学院合作，其中三所社区学院的拉美裔入学率很高。堪萨斯州堪萨斯城地区的两所社区学院的非裔美国学生比例很高。KSU建议与这5所社区学院合作，识别、指导和指导有潜力的少数族裔学生进入生物医学职业生涯。参加布里奇斯项目的学生将获得社区大学的双重入场券，进入KSU就读，并免除学费。我们建议从社区学院层面开始开展基层工作，培养生物医学职业意识，提高选定的布里奇斯学生的学业准备技能，寻求家长的参与，并向社区学院投入资源，以便为这些学生提供足够的学术建议。为期一周的短期暑期学院将让布里奇的学生在大一后意识到科学调查和机会。在第二年之后，布里奇斯的学生将有机会在科罗拉多州立大学的科学调查员的实验室工作8周。社区大学教师还将有机会在KSU实验室工作8周的暑期，以帮助弥合研究、培训和课程开发方面的差距。所有学生都将在严谨的科学、化学和数学基础上做好准备，以确保他们在四年制学校取得成功。学生将获得工作津贴，使他们能够在KSU的发展中学者计划下担任两年的研究助理。总体目标是增加在生物医学领域攻读博士或医学博士学位的堪萨斯州少数民族学生的数量。

DESCRIPTION (provided by the applicant): Kansas is becoming a diverse state with greater percentages of Hispanics in the southwest part of the state, and increasing African-Americans in the Eastern part. Many of the community colleges are the first choice of underrepresented minorities in pursuing their higher education goals, and many are first generation college bound students. Three of the community colleges located in southwest Kansas, with which Kansas State University (KSU) proposes to partner, have a high Hispanic enrollment. Two of the community colleges in the Kansas City, Kansas area have a high percentage of African-American students. KSU proposes to partner with these 5 community colleges to identify, mentor and guide minority students with potential into biomedical careers. Students identified for the Bridges program will receive dual admission to the community college land to KSU with tuition waivers. We propose a grassroots effort beginning at the community college level to develop biomedical career awareness, enhance the academic preparation skills of selected Bridges students, seek parental involvement, and devote resources to the community colleges to allow for sufficient academic advisement of these students. A short one-week summer institute will make Bridge students aware of scientific investigation and opportunities after their freshman year. After the second year, Bridges students will have the opportunity to work for 8 weeks at KSU in the laboratory of a scientific investigator. Community college instructors will also be given an opportunity to work at a KSU laboratory for an 8 week summer period to help bridge gaps in research training and curriculum development. All students will be prepared in a rigorous foundation of science, chemistry and math to help assure their later success at a 4 year institution. Students will be awarded a work stipend to enable them to work as research assistants for 2 years under KSU's Developing Scholars Program. The overall goal is to increase the number of Kansas minority students pursuing PhDs or MD-PhDs in the biomedical field.