CSUSM Bridges to the Future

描述(由申请者提供)：北圣地亚哥县通向未来的桥梁项目将为种族和少数民族学生在生物医学科学领域的专业研究生涯做准备。合作机构是加州州立大学圣马科斯分校(CSUSM)、帕洛玛学院和米拉科斯塔学院。Bridges计划将专注于将伙伴社区、大学、种族和少数民族学生无缝地转移到CSUSM，并将尽一切努力将他们整合到目前正在实施的其他几项计划中的一项。这些举措都是为了帮助布里奇斯奖学金获得者完成学士学位，并最终被全国各地的研究生项目录取。Bridges计划每年将有20名合作社区学院的一年级和二年级学生参加一项综合的学术和职业发展计划，该计划包括：1)参加严格的课程；2)对选定的历史困难课程进行补充指导；3)暑期课程作业；4)参加研讨会和会议；5)参加CSUSM生物医学研究的高级课程；6)参与研究；7)全面的学术和职业建议；8)参与积极的跟踪计划。布里奇斯计划的具体目标是：1)为布里奇斯计划吸引有前途的、代表性不足的理科专业；2)提高布里奇斯学者的学术资历；3)让布里奇斯学者参与研究；4)发展合作伙伴关系，支持和促进布里奇斯学者在教育渠道中的关键点的转移；以及5)积极跟踪所有桥梁学者，为期10年。每个主要计划目标都有一套可衡量的目标，这些目标将用于监测项目的整体成功。目前的布里奇斯计划非常成功，在其运作的头五年里，平均90%的四年机构转学或保留了布里奇斯学者。此外，10名布里奇斯校友目前正在攻读博士学位。合作院校对多元化和多元文化的承诺，大量校园财政资源的承诺，北县高等教育联盟(NCHEA)的积极支持，配备现代科学仪器和强大教学资源的新科学和学术建筑，合作伙伴社区学院的重要桥梁奖学金学生池，现有桥梁计划的成功，拟议项目主任的经验和承诺，以及CSUSM目前正在运营的MARC U*STAR和MBRS Rise计划，使合作机构处于成功运营通往未来的桥梁计划的理想位置。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The North San Diego County Bridges to the Future program will prepare racial and ethnic minority students for professional research careers in the biomedical sciences. The partner institutions are California State University San Marcos (CSUSM), Palomar College, and MiraCosta College. The Bridges Program will focus on the seamless transfer of partner community college racial and ethnic minority students to CSUSM and every effort will be made to integrate them into one of several MORE Program initiatives currently in operation. These initiatives are all designed to assist Bridges Scholars in completing their B.S. degrees and eventual admission to graduate programs around the country. The Bridges Program will involve 20 first and second year students each year at the partner community colleges in an integrated academic and career development program that includes: 1) participation in a rigorous curriculum; 2) Supplemental Instruction in selected historically difficult courses; 3) summer course work; 4) participation in seminars and conferences; 5) enrolling in an upper-division CSUSM course in Biomedical Research; 6) research participation; 7) comprehensive academic and career advising; and 8) participation in a vigorous tracking program. The specific aims of the Bridges Program are to: 1) Attract promising underrepresented science majors for the Bridges program; 2) Enhance the academic credentials of Bridges Scholars; 3) Engage Bridges Scholars in research; 4) Develop partnerships that support and facilitate transfer of Bridges Scholars at key points in the educational pipeline; and 5) Vigorously track all Bridges Scholars for 10 years. Each major program aim has a set of measurable objectives that will be used to monitor overall project success. The current Bridges Program is very successful averaging 90% four-year institution transfer or retention of Bridges Scholars over its first five years of operation. In addition, 10 Bridges alumni are currently pursuing PhDs. The partner institutions' commitment to diversity and multiculturalism, the pledges of significant campus financial resources, the active support of the North County High Education Alliance (NCHEA), new science and academic buildings equipped with modern scientific instruments and powerful instructional resources, the significant Bridges Scholar student pool at the partner community colleges, the success of the existing Bridges Program, the experience and commitment of the proposed program director, and the currently operating MARC U*STAR and MBRS RISE Programs at CSUSM make the partner institutions ideally situated to operate a successful Bridges to the Future program.