Kansas Bridges to the Future

堪萨斯通往未来的桥梁

• 批准号: 7148979
• 负责人: DENIS M MEDEIROS
• 金额: $ 18.42万
• 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 2009-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7148979
• 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 applicant): Kansas continues to become a diverse state with greater percentages of Hispanics in the southwest part of the state, middle of the state, and in some of the eastern parts 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. In 2003, KSU was awarded its first Bridges to the Baccalaureate grant where a partnership with these 5 community colleges was established to identify, mentor and guide minority students with potential into biomedical careers. Students identified for the Bridges program received dual admission to the community college and to KSU with tuition waivers. We propose to continue this grassroots effort in the RENEWAL 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. We propose to continue the "best practices" we have developed in the last 2 years including: 1) Visit to KSU during an Open House in April to meet with KSU professors and other minority students; 2) A short one-week summer institute will make Bridges students aware of scientific investigation and opportunities after their freshman year; 3) allowing Bridges students the opportunity to work for 8 weeks at KSU in the laboratory of a scientific investigator after year 2; and 4) enhancing the ability to conduct research at the community college by having selected instructors 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）：堪萨斯继续成为一个多元化的州，该州西南部、中部和东部一些地区的拉美裔比例更高，东部地区的非洲裔美国人越来越多。许多社区学院是少数民族追求高等教育目标的首选，许多是第一代大学生。位于堪萨斯西南部的三所社区学院，堪萨斯州立大学（KSU）提出与之合作，有很高的西班牙裔入学率。堪萨斯地区堪萨斯城的两所社区大学有很高比例的非洲裔美国学生。在2003年，KSU被授予其第一个桥梁的学士学位补助金，其中与这5个社区学院建立了伙伴关系，以确定，辅导和指导少数民族学生有潜力进入生物医学职业。被确定参加桥梁项目的学生获得了社区学院和KSU的双重录取，学费减免。我们建议继续在社区学院层面开始的RENEWAL基层努力，以发展生物医学职业意识，提高选定的桥梁学生的学术准备技能，寻求家长的参与，并投入资源给社区学院，让这些学生充分的学术成就。我们建议继续我们在过去两年中开发的“最佳实践”，包括：1）在4月的开放日期间访问KSU，与KSU教授和其他少数民族学生会面; 2）为期一周的短期暑期学院将使Bridges学生在大一之后了解科学调查和机会; 3）允许桥梁学生有机会在KSU的科学调查员的实验室工作8周后2年;和4）通过让选定的教师在KSU实验室工作8周的夏季，提高社区学院进行研究的能力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，化学和数学的严格基础上做好准备，以帮助确保他们在4年制大学取得成功。学生将被授予工作津贴，使他们能够在KSU的发展学者计划下担任研究助理2年。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少数民族学生的数量。