Bridges to the Baccalaureate at Purchase College

描述(由申请人提供)：纽约州立大学购买学院，与达奇斯社区学院、拿骚社区学院、奥兰治县社区学院、沙利文县社区学院、韦斯特切斯特合作。社区学院、阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦医学院、惠氏制药公司和Emisphere技术公司将实施目前成功的学士学位课程的延续。该计划服务于少数族裔学生，使他们能够在生物医学研究方面获得职业和/或高级学位。这一桥梁计划的广泛和长期目标是：1)增加科学领域中代表性不足的少数族裔学生的数量2)为代表性不足的学生提供具有挑战性的科学课程、学术和经济支持，使他们能够完成生物、化学、环境研究、数学/计算机科学的学士学位课程，或心理学3)为一年级和二年级的社区大学学生提供综合暑期研究计划，在实验室研究环境中由教师对学生进行密集指导4)帮助获得学士学位的学生在生物医学研究领域找到工作和/或进修5)加强副学士学位、学士学位授予机构以及企业和研究机构之间的合作安排6)评估桥梁计划的有效性该项目将利用外部评估员的服务，该评估员将向项目主任提交年度报告。在学生参与该计划的整个过程中，我们将继续对他们进行仔细的监控和跟踪。将继续维护并通过该联盟成员的六所学院的网站传播这一计划在留校率、毕业率和转读率方面的好处。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Purchase College, State University of New York, in collaboration with Dutchess Community College, Nassau Community College, Orange County Community College, Sullivan County Community College, Westchester. Community College, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, and Emisphere Technologies, will implement a continuation of the current successful Bridges to the Baccalaureate Degree Program. This Program serves underrepresented minority students and enables them to attain careers and/or advanced degrees in biomedical research. The broad, long-term objectives of this Bridges Program are: .1) To increase the number of underrepresented minority students in the sciences 2) To provide challenging scientific curriculum, academic and financial support for underrepresented students enabling them to complete a baccalaureate degree program in biology, chemistry, environmental studies, math/computer science, or psychology 3) To provide an integrated summer research program for first and second-year community college students that offers intensive mentoring of students by faculty within a laboratory research environment 4) To assist students who complete their Bachelor's degrees with placement in jobs and/or advanced study in the biomedical research field 5) To increase collaborative arrangements among associate degree, baccalaureate degree granting institutions, and corporate and research institutions 6)To evaluate the effectiveness of the Bridges Program The project will utilize the services of an outside evaluator who will make annual reports to the Project Director. Students will continue to be carefully monitored and tracked throughout their participation in the Program. Date to demonstrate the benefits of this Program on retention, graduation and transfer rates to the next highest degree program will continue to be maintained and disseminated through the websites of the six colleges that are members of the consortium.