Kansas Bridges to the Future

堪萨斯通往未来的桥梁

• 批准号: 6782708
• 负责人: DENIS M MEDEIROS
• 金额: $ 25.57万
• 依托单位: KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-08-01 至 2006-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6782708
• 关键词: African American; Hispanic Americans; clinical research; educationally disadvantaged; health science research; health science research potential; role model; science education; training; university

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.

描述（由申请人提供）：堪萨斯州正在成为一个多元化的州，该州西南部的拉美裔比例更高，东部的非裔美国人比例也有所增加。许多社区学院是代表性不足的少数族裔追求高等教育目标的首选，其中许多是第一代大学学生。堪萨斯州立大学 (KSU) 拟与其合作的位于堪萨斯州西南部的三所社区学院的西班牙裔入学率很高。堪萨斯州堪萨斯城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、指导和指导有潜力进入生物医学职业的少数族裔学生。被确定参加桥梁项目的学生将获得肯塔基州立大学社区学院的双重入学资格，并免除学费。我们建议从社区大学层面开始开展基层工作，培养生物医学职业意识，提高选定的桥梁学生的学术准备技能，寻求家长参与，并向社区大学投入资源，以便为这些学生提供充分的学术建议。为期一周的短期暑期学院将使桥梁学生在大一结束后了解科学研究和机会。第二年之后，Bridges 学生将有机会在 KSU 的科学研究人员实验室工作 8 周。社区大学教师还将有机会在 KSU 实验室进行为期 8 周的夏季工作，以帮助弥合研究培训和课程开发方面的差距。所有学生都将在科学、化学和数学方面做好严格的基础准备，以确保他们日后在四年制院校取得成功。学生将获得工作津贴，使他们能够在堪萨斯州立大学的发展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学位或医学博士学位的堪萨斯州少数族裔学生的数量。