Bridges to the Baccalaureate at Purchase College

描述(由申请人提供)：纽约州立大学的Purchess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(主要是非洲裔美国人和西班牙裔美国人，以及少数美国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。这一新的卓越桥梁合作伙伴计划建立在现有计划的成功基础上，该计划在生物医学和行为科学领域实现了96%的转化率和71%的学士学位完成率。这一新的合作计划有重大变化，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、学术建议、早期预警系统、新生研讨会和辅导)，成功地提高了学生在购买时的参与度。(每个两年期合作伙伴都承诺在第4年和第5年开始为这些活动提供部分资金，并在赠款期间结束时接管全部资金。)该计划还将提供技能建设活动，以提高学生在科学方面的能力，使其能够提高到越来越严格的科学内容(为期五周的住宿暑期研究计划、研究方法研讨会和负责任的研究行为的网络培训)。两个计划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机构的所有入门科学课程创建综合教学大纲。为了确保领导支持每个两年制院校的综合发展活动系统，这一伙伴关系将与所有合作机构的校长和首席学术官举行一系列创新的会议，以建立学术领导力和教职员工之间围绕学生成果和项目挑战问题的沟通基础设施。这将确保对该计划的支持和在赠款期限后的可持续性。外部评估员将进行形成性和终结性评估活动，旨在为有关“什么是有效的”的计划决策提供信息，并提供关于计划倡议对参与者技能和能力的影响的证据。该伙伴关系将把达奇斯的整体转会费从20.3%提高到30.5%，罗克兰从11.5%提高到17.3%，沙利文从18.9%提高到28.4%。它将确保96%的布里奇斯学者将转到生物医学或行为科学的学士学位课程。它将确保转到四年制院校的布里奇斯学者中80%成功完成生物医学或行为科学的学士学位。 公共卫生相关性：卓越桥梁伙伴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生物医学和行为科学的参与度，提供技能培养研究，使从两年制到四年制的过渡顺利进行，并确保完成生物医学领域的学士学位。

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.