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）：纽约州立大学帕切斯学院正在与达奇斯社区学院、罗克兰社区学院和沙利文县社区学院合作，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，还有一些美洲印第安人和太平洋岛民）成功完成生物医学和行为科学学士学位的学生数量。这一新的卓越合作桥梁计划建立在当前计划的成功基础上，该计划已实现 96% 的转学率和 71% 的生物医学和行为科学学士学位完成率。这个新的合作伙伴计划有重大变化，将注意力和资源集中在两年制合作学校上，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发展活动系统（技能评估、学术咨询、预警系统、新生研讨会和辅导），该系统已成功提高了普切斯的学生参与度。 （每个两年期合作伙伴均承诺在第 4 年和第 5 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额资助。）该计划还将提供技能建设活动，以提高学生推进日益严格的科学内容的能力（为期五周的夏季住宿研究计划、研究方法研讨会和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：教师合作将为四个合作机构和联合招生的所有入门科学课程创建综合教学大纲。为了确保领导层对每个两年制院校的综合发展活动系统的支持，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，围绕学生成果和项目挑战问题，在学术领导层和教师之间建立沟通基础设施。这将确保对该计划的支持以及资助期之后的可持续性。外部评估员将进行形成性和总结性评估活动，旨在为有关“什么是有效的”的计划决策提供信息，并提供有关计划举措对参与者技能和能力影响的证据。此次合作将使Dutchess的整体转让率提高50%，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 Bridges 学者将转入生物医学或行为科学学士学位课程。它将确保转学到四年制大学的桥梁学者中 80% 成功完成生物医学或行为科学学士学位。 公共卫生相关性：卓越合作桥梁计划将增加来自代表性不足群体的成功完成生物医学和行为科学学士学位的学生数量。发展活动将提高学生在第一年学习期间对生物医学和行为科学的参与，提供技能建设研究，“顺利”从两年制到四年制的过渡，并确保完成生物医学领域的学士学位。