CSUSM Bridges to the Future

描述（由申请人提供）：北圣地亚哥县通往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好准备。合作机构是加州州立大学圣马科斯分校（CSUSM）、帕洛马学院和米拉科斯塔学院。“桥梁计划”的重点是将合作社区学院的少数族裔学生无缝转移到CSUSM，并将尽一切努力将他们纳入目前正在实施的几个“更多计划”倡议之一。这些举措都是为了帮助桥梁学者完成他们的学士学位，并最终进入全国各地的研究生课程。桥梁项目每年将有20名合作社区大学的一年级和二年级学生参加一个综合的学术和职业发展项目，其中包括：1)参加严格的课程；2)对选定的历史高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)报名参加CSUSM高级生物医学研究课程；6)研究参与；7)全面的学术和职业咨询；8)参与一项强有力的跟踪计划。桥梁计划的具体目标是：1)吸引有前途的未被充分代表的科学专业学生参加桥梁计划；2)提升桥梁学者的学历；3)聘请桥梁学者参与研究；4)建立合作伙伴关系，支持和促进桥梁学者在教育管道关键节点的转移；5)对所有桥梁学者进行10年的大力跟踪。每个主要的规划目标都有一组可测量的目标，这些目标将用于监视整个项目的成功。目前的桥梁项目非常成功，在最初的五年里，平均90%的桥梁学者在四年制大学转学或留校。此外，还有10名布里奇斯校友正在攻读博士学位。合作院校对多样性和多元文化的承诺、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、配备了现代科学仪器和强大教学资源的新科学和学术大楼、合作社区学院的重要桥梁学者学生群体、现有桥梁计划的成功，拟议项目主任的经验和承诺，以及目前在CSUSM运营的MARC U*STAR和MBRS RISE项目，使合作机构处于理想的位置，可以成功地运营通往未来项目的桥梁。

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.