Promoting Diversity: Access and Engagement in Biomedical

描述（由申请人提供）：研究表明，招收和毕业少数民族学生的机构对少数民族社区的整体健康进行了投资。同样，卫生科学领域的少数种族/族裔研究人员可能会提出影响其各自原籍人口的问题。这将是该项目的一个关键的长期成果。这个综合性国家项目的具体目的是检查代表性不足的学生获得资源和参与形式的机会，这些资源和参与形式会导致生物医学和行为科学研究生涯所需的结果（技能、性格和行为）。这项研究利用了700多所院校的数据，这些院校在大学入学、大学一年级后和大学四年级时定期参与调查。这允许在关键的过渡点监测大量非裔美国人、西班牙裔/拉丁裔和美洲原住民学生的经历。由于各院校也会收到新生入学的数据，并可以参与后续跟进，因此另一个目标是鼓励各院校使用这些数据，并在自己的校园内与相关学科的教员分享研究结果。为了鼓励更广泛的人才概念及其发展，为从事研究工作做准备，对入门课程的研究也将有助于确定学生的成绩是否与从事研究工作所需的技能和性格有关。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Research has shown that institutions that recruit and graduate racial/ethnic minority students make an investment in the overall health of minority communities. Similarly, racial/ethnic minority researchers in the health sciences are likely to ask questions that impact their respective populations of origin. This will be a key long term outcome of the project. The specific aim of this comprehensive national project is to examine underrepresented student access to resources and forms of engagement that result in outcomes (skills, dispositions, and behaviors) necessary for a research career in the biomedical and behavioral sciences. The study draws on data from over 700 institutions that regularly participate in surveys at college entry, after the first year of college, and at the fourth year of college. This allows to monitor the experiences of a large number of African American, Hispanic/Latino, and Native American students at key transition points. Since institutions also receive their data on entering freshmen, and can participate in subsequent follow-ups, another aim is to encourage campuses to use the data and share findings on their own campuses with faculty in related disciplines. In an attempt to encourage broader conceptions of talent and its development in preparation for research careers, a study of introductory courses will also help determine whether students' grades are associated with the skills and dispositions needed for research career.