Kansas Bridges to the Future

描述(申请人提供)：堪萨斯州继续成为一个多元化的州，西南部、中部和东部的拉美裔美国人比例更高，东部非洲裔美国人的比例也在增加。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。2003年，科罗拉多州立大学获得了第一个与这5所社区学院建立合作伙伴关系的文凭奖助金，以识别、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可以获得社区大学和科罗拉多州州立大学的双重入学许可，同时免除学费。我们建议在社区学院层面的重建工作中继续这项基层工作，以培养生物医学的职业意识、提升选定的布里奇斯学生的学业准备技巧、寻求家长的参与，以及向社区学院投放资源，让这些学生有足够的学业建议。我们建议延续过去两年发展起来的“最佳实践”，包括：1)在4月的开放日期间访问KSU，与KSU的教授和其他少数族裔学生会面；2)为期一周的短期暑期学院将使Bridges的学生在大一后意识到科学调查和机会；3)让Bridges的学生有机会在KSU的实验室工作8周；2)通过挑选讲师在KSU实验室进行为期8周的暑期工作，增强在社区学院进行研究的能力，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 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.