MBRS RISE Program Plan: Salish Kootenai College

MBRS RISE 项目计划：萨利什·库特奈学院

• 批准号: 7129377
• 负责人: DOUGLAS K STEVENS
• 金额: $ 31.89万
• 依托单位: SALISH KOOTENAI COLLEGE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-08-01 至 2010-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7129377
• 关键词: Native Americans; curriculum; education evaluation /planning; health science research potential; mentoring /mentor; minority health professional; science education; teacher; training; university student

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Salish Kootenai College (SKC) is a 4-year tribal college on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana. SKC offers bachelor's degrees, associate's degrees, and certificate programs to over 1,000 students, of which greater than 75% are from Native American and other minority groups. SKC's bioscience, bio-behavioral, and health-related programs are growing but continue to be small and lacking in adequate student research opportunities, student exposure to professional research environments and training, and advanced course work that would support students who wish to pursue advanced degrees in the biosciences or careers in biotechnology. Improving science curriculum offerings, providing undergraduate research opportunities for students, expanding and better equipping laboratory facilities, and exposing students to a variety of professional research environments will not only attract new students to SKC's science degree programs but will also foster more successful outcomes for those current students who are considering graduate studies or future careers in biomedical or health-related research. The purpose of this proposal is to use the NIH-NIGMS MBRS-RISE grant mechanism to complement faculty-driven bioscience, bio-behavioral, and health-related research initiatives at SKC by accomplishing the following four specific measurable objectives. Specific aim 1: Provide mechanisms of support for student research activities in biomedical, bio-behavioral, and health-related research projects. Specific aim 2: Offer students exposure to professional scientific environments, including conferences, workshops, and specialized training in biomedically related disciplines. Specific aim 3: Foster professional collaborations with experienced scientists at active research institutions and within SKC that will lead to SKC student placement in on-campus and off-campus summer internships and that will provide critical contacts for entering graduate degree programs. Specific aim 4: Integrate the above-listed RISE objectives with continued science program development leading to "seamless" transfer programs in the biosciences, faculty enhancement, and baccalaureate level science degree programs at SKC. Given the composition of SKC's student population, implementation of this RISE program plan will result in increased minority student enrollment in the sciences. Successful progress through science degree programs will be enhanced by providing students with exposure to a variety of bioscience and health-related research environments, offering students opportunities for "hands-on" training, and developing faculty-initiated research collaboration with experienced scientists at other research institutions, which will, in turn, allow SKC students the critical contacts often necessary to enter and be successful in research-based graduate studies at major colleges and universities. SKC has defined specific numerical goals for the course of its MBRS activities and will organize an external advisory committee to evaluate the college's progress during the MBRS funding period. By equipping a multi-user biosciences laboratory and implementing the herein proposed RISE plan, the MBRS goal of increasing minority participation in bioscience, bio-behavioral, and health-related research will be achieved at Salish Kootenai College.

描述（由申请人提供）：Salish Kootenai学院（SKC）是一所四年制部落学院，位于蒙大拿州西部的flahead印第安保留地。SKC为1000多名学生提供学士学位、副学士学位和证书课程，其中75%以上的学生来自美洲原住民和其他少数民族。SKC的生物科学、生物行为和与健康相关的项目正在增长，但仍然很小，缺乏足够的学生研究机会，学生接触专业研究环境和培训，以及支持希望攻读生物科学高级学位或生物技术职业的学生的高级课程。改善科学课程设置，为学生提供本科研究机会，扩大和更好地装备实验室设施，并使学生接触到各种专业的研究环境，不仅会吸引新的学生到SKC的科学学位课程，而且还会为那些正在考虑研究生学习或未来在生物医学或健康相关研究方面的职业生涯的现有学生培养更成功的结果。