CSUSM Bridges to the Future

描述（由申请人提供）：北圣地亚哥县桥梁未来计划将准备种族和少数民族学生在生物医学科学的专业研究生涯。合作机构是加州州立大学圣马科斯（CSUSM），帕洛玛学院和米拉科斯塔学院。桥梁计划将侧重于合作伙伴社区学院种族和少数民族学生的无缝转移到CSUSM，并将尽一切努力将他们融入目前正在运作的几个更多的计划举措之一。这些举措都是为了帮助桥梁学者完成他们的学士学位。学位，并最终进入全国各地的研究生课程。桥梁计划将涉及20名一年级和二年级的学生，每年在合作伙伴社区学院在一个综合的学术和职业发展计划，其中包括：1）在严格的课程参与; 2）在选定的历史上困难的课程补充说明; 3）夏季课程工作; 4）参加研讨会和会议; 5）报名参加CSUSM生物医学研究高年级课程; 6）研究参与; 7）全面的学术和职业咨询;以及8）参与强有力的跟踪计划。桥梁计划的具体目标是：1）吸引有前途的代表性不足的科学专业的桥梁计划; 2）提高桥梁学者的学术资格; 3）从事桥梁学者的研究; 4）发展伙伴关系，支持和促进桥梁学者在教育管道的关键点转移;和5）大力跟踪所有桥梁学者10年。每个主要的计划目标都有一套可衡量的目标，这些目标将用于监控整个项目的成功。目前的桥梁计划非常成功，在运作的前五年内，平均90%的四年制桥梁学者转学或保留。此外，10名桥梁校友目前正在攻读博士学位。合作机构对多样性和多元文化的承诺，重要校园财政资源的承诺，北县高等教育联盟（NCHEA）的积极支持，配备现代科学仪器和强大教学资源的新科学和学术建筑，合作伙伴社区学院的重要桥梁学者学生池，现有桥梁计划的成功，拟议的项目主任的经验和承诺，以及CSUSM目前正在实施的MARC U* 星星和MBRS RISE项目，使合作机构成为成功实施“通往未来的桥梁”项目的理想场所。

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.