Bridges to the Baccalaureate at Purchase College

通往普切斯学院学士学位的桥梁

• 批准号: 8038780
• 负责人: Joseph Anthony Skrivanek
• 金额: $ 10.09万
• 依托单位: COLLEGE AT PURCHASE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-04-01 至 2011-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8038780
• 关键词: Admission activity; Advisory Committees; African American; American Indians; Attention; Bachelor' s Degree; Behavioral Sciences; California; Collaborations; Commit; Communication; Communities; County; Data; Decision Making; Development; Discipline; Doctor of Philosophy; Educational Curriculum; Educational workshop; Enrollment; Ensure; Evaluation; Faculty; Family; Family member; Fostering; Funding; Goals; Grant; Hispanics; Individual; Institution; Instruction; Internships; Joints; Lead; Leadership; Learning; Letters; Measurable; Medicine; Modeling; National Institute of General Medical Sciences; New York; Online Systems; Outcome; Pacific Island Americans; Participant; Population; Process; Program Sustainability; Recruitment Activity; Research; Research Infrastructure; Research Methodology; Resources; Schools; Science; Series; Services; Students; System; Testing; Training; Underrepresented Minority; Universities; Vision; Work; authority; base; career; college; cost; design; improved; innovation; meetings; programs; public health relevance; responsible research conduct; skills; success; university student

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Purchase College, State University of New York is partnering with Dutchess Community College, Rockland Community College and Sullivan County Community College to increase the number of students from underrepresented groups (primarily African Americans and Hispanics, with a few American Indians and Pacific Islanders) who successfully complete baccalaureate degrees in biomedical and behavioral sciences. This new Partnership for Excellence Bridges Program builds upon the success of the current program that has achieved 96% transfer rate and 71% bachelor degree completion in biomedical and behavioral sciences. This new Partnership program has significant changes that focus attention and resources on the two-year partner schools to improve competitiveness of their science graduates. It will replicate at the two-year institutions an integrated system of developmental activities (skills assessment, academic advising, early warning system, freshman seminars, and tutoring) that has successfully enhanced student engagement at Purchase. (Each two- year partner has committed to begin partial funding of these activities in years 4 and 5 and to take over full funding at the end of the grant period.) The program will also provide skills-building activities that will increase the capacity of students to advance to increasingly rigorous content in the sciences (five- week residential Summer Research Program, Research Methods Workshop, and web-based training in responsible conduct of research). Two program components will enhance the level of continuity for students: faculty collaboration will create integrated syllabi for all introductory science courses at the four partner institutions and Joint Admissions. In order to ensure leadership support for the integrated system of developmental activities at each two-year institution, this Partnership will implement an innovative series of meetings with Presidents and Chief Academic Officers of all partner institutions to build an infrastructure of communication between academic leadership and faculty around issues of student outcomes and program challenges. This will ensure support for the program and sustainability beyond the grant period. The external evaluator will conduct both formative and summative evaluation activities that are designed to inform programmatic decisions about "what's working" and provide evidence about the impact of program initiatives on participants' skills and abilities. The Partnership will increase by 50% the overall transfer rate of Dutchess from 20.3% to 30.5%, Rockland from 11.5% to 17.3%, and Sullivan from 18.9% to 28.4%. It will ensure that 96% of the Bridges Scholars will transfer to baccalaureate degree programs in biomedical or behavioral sciences. It will ensure that 80% of those Bridges Scholars who transferred to a four-year institution successfully complete their baccalaureate degrees in biomedical or behavioral sciences. Public Health Relevance: The Partnership for Excellence Bridges Program will increase the number of students from underrepresented groups who successfully complete baccalaureate degrees in biomedical and behavioral sciences. Developmental activities will enhance engagement of students in biomedical and behavioral sciences during their first year of study, provide skills building research, "smooth out" the transition from the two-year to the four-year institution, and ensure completion of baccalaureate degrees in biomedical fields.

描述（由申请人提供）：纽约州立大学Purchase学院正在与Dutchess社区学院、Rockland社区学院和Sullivan县社区学院合作，以增加来自代表性不足群体（主要是非裔美国人和西班牙裔美国人，少数美国印第安人和太平洋岛民）的学生成功完成生物医学和行为科学学士学位。这个新的卓越合作桥梁项目建立在当前项目的成功基础上，该项目在生物医学和行为科学领域取得了96%的转学率和71%的学士学位完成率。这个新的合作项目有重大变化，将注意力和资源集中在两年制合作学校，以提高其理科毕业生的竞争力。它将在两年制院校复制一个综合的发展活动系统（技能评估、学术咨询、早期预警系统、新生研讨会和辅导），该系统已成功地提高了珀克斯的学生参与度。（每个为期两年的合作伙伴承诺在第四年和第五年开始为这些活动提供部分资助，并在资助期结束时接管全部资助。）该计划还将提供技能建设活动，以提高学生在科学领域日益严格的内容（五周的住宿暑期研究计划，研究方法研讨会，以及负责任的研究行为的网络培训）。两个项目组成部分将提高学生的连续性水平：教师合作将为四所合作院校的所有入门科学课程创建综合教学大纲，以及联合招生。为了确保领导层对每个两年制院校发展活动综合系统的支持，该伙伴关系将与所有合作院校的校长和首席学术官举行一系列创新会议，以建立学术领导层和教师之间围绕学生成果和项目挑战问题的沟通基础设施。这将确保对项目的支持和拨款期后的可持续性。外部评估人员将进行形成性和总结性的评估活动，这些评估活动旨在告知关于“什么是有效的”的规划决策，并提供有关计划倡议对参与者技能和能力的影响的证据。合作伙伴关系将把Dutchess的总体转让率从20.3%提高到30.5%，Rockland从11.5%提高到17.3%，Sullivan从18.9%提高到28.4%。它将确保96%的布里奇学者将转到生物医学或行为科学的学士学位课程。它将确保转入四年制大学的桥梁奖学金获得者中有80%成功完成生物医学或行为科学学士学位。