Bridges to the Baccalaureate Program from Baton Rouge Community College to Louisi

描述(由申请者提供)：该项目名为“从巴吞鲁日社区学院到路易斯安那州立大学的文凭课程的桥梁”，即LSU-BRCC/BB，代表了一种战略方法，通过为学生提供进入路易斯安那州社区学院和大学层面的培训的桥梁来增加学生保留率。在这个拟议的项目中，巴吞鲁日社区学院(BRCC)将与路易斯安那州立大学(LSU)理学院和战略倡议办公室(OSI)合作，培训和指导生物医学和行为科学相关学科(或简称生物相关科学，包括生物、化学、物理、数学、计算机科学、工程、心理学)的学生。该项目的愿景是为扩大代表不足的学生的参与创造一个成功的模式。这个LSU-BRCC/BB项目的总体目标是增加在BRCC完成一般科学副科学(AS)学位、转到LSU生物相关科学学士学位(BS)并成功完成BS学位的代表人数不足的学生的数量。在该项目的五年期间(07/01/12-06/30/17)，BRCC将从不同的生物和生物医学学科招收学生。该项目将开展两种类型的活动。第一类课程向BRCC的所有STEM学生开放，包括四个部分：(1)招募高中STEM学生进入BRCC；(2)在BRCC的STEM入门课程中发展同行辅导计划；(3)BRCC STEM教员的专业发展；(4)BRCC和路易斯安那州立大学之间的STEM课程衔接；(Iv)BRCC计划入门夏令营；第二类只适用于选定的生物相关科学学生(即桥学生或桥学者)，由五个部分组成：(1)为路易斯安那州立大学BRCC学生提供的个人辅导计划；(2)为路易斯安那州立大学BRCC学生提供的暑期研究计划；(3)为路易斯安那州立大学BRCC转学学生提供的个人辅导计划；以及(4)为路易斯安那州立大学BRCC转学生提供的后续支持计划。通过在科学和指导方面建立坚实的基础，我们的进一步目标是激励BRCC/路易斯安那州立大学学者校友攻读更高的学位。 公共卫生相关性：增加少数族裔学生接受教育项目的机会对美国国家公共卫生议程至关重要，因为多样性在优质教育项目、包括临床试验在内的生物医学研究以及医患满意度方面发挥着重要作用。鉴于进入科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)学科的少数族裔学生中只有20%实际完成了STEM学位，拟议的LSR-BRCC/BB项目将侧重于增加少数族裔学生接受STEM高等教育的机会，并满足全国对训练有素的少数族裔科学家的需求，这些科学家有能力为生物医学研究和国家公共卫生议程做出贡献。该项目的愿景是创建一个成功的模式，将巴吞鲁日社区学院(BRCC)作为学位学生从代表性不足的群体转移到路易斯安那州立大学(LSU)，并支持他们完成生物医学/行为科学学科的理学士学位；一个可以被全国其他合作机构采用的变革性模式。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This project, "Bridges to the Baccalaureate Program from Baton Rouge Community College to Louisiana State University," namely LSU-BRCC/BB, represents a strategic approach to increase student retention via bridges providing student access to training at the community college and university levels in Louisiana. Within this proposed project, Baton Rouge Community College (BRCC) will partner with the Louisiana State University (LSU) College of Science and Office of Strategic Initiatives (OSI) to train and mentor students in the biomedical & behavioral sciences-related disciplines (or in-short, biological-related sciences that include biology, chemistry, physics, math, computer science, engineering, psychology). The vision of this project is to create a successful model for broadening the participation of underrepresented students. The overall goals of this LSU-BRCC/BB project are to increase the numbers of underrepresented students, who complete an Associate Science (AS) in General Science degree at BRCC, transfer into LSU Bachelor Science (BS) in biological-related sciences program and successfully complete the BS degree. During the five-year period of the project (07/01/12 - 06/30/17), BRCC students will be recruited from various biological and biomedical disciplines. Two types of activities will be developed for this project. Type-1, open to all STEM students at BRCC, consists of four components: (1) Recruitment of High School STEM Students to BRCC; (2) Development of a Peer Tutoring Program in STEM Gateway Courses at BRCC; (3) Professional Development for BRCC STEM Faculty Members; and (4) Articulation of STEM Courses between BRCC and LSU, (iv) BRCC Program Entry Summer Boot Camp;. Type-2, only for selected biological-related sciences students (namely Bridge Students or Bridge Scholars), consists of five components: (1) (1) Individual Mentoring Program for BRCC Students at LSU; (2) Summer Research Program for BRCC Students at LSU; (3) Individual Mentoring Program for BRCC Transferred Students at LSU; and (4) Follow-up Support Programs for BRCC Transferred Students at LSU. By building a solid foundation in science and mentoring, our further goal is to motivate BRCC/LSU Scholars alumni to pursue advanced degrees. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Increasing minority student access to education programs is of the utmost importance to American's national public health agenda because of the role that diversity plays in quality education programs, biomedical research including clinical trials, and physician-patient satisfaction. Recognizing that only 20% of minorities who enter science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines actually completed a STEM degree, the proposed LSR-BRCC/BB project will focus on increasing access to STEM higher education for minority students and addressing the national need for well-trained minority scientists who have the ability to contribute to the biomedical research and the national public health agenda. The vision of this project is to create a successful model for transferring Baton Rouge Community College (BRCC) AS Degree students from underrepresented groups to Louisiana State University (LSU) and support their completion of BS degrees in the biomedical/behavior science disciplines; a transformative model that can be adopted by other partnering institutions nationwide.