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

描述（由申请人提供）：该项目，“从巴吞鲁日社区学院到路易斯安那州立大学的学士学位课程桥梁”，即LSU-BRCC/BB，代表了通过桥梁为学生提供路易斯安那州社区学院和大学级别的培训机会来提高学生保留率的战略方法。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）科学学院和战略倡议办公室（OSI）合作，在生物医学和行为科学相关学科（或简而言之，生物相关科学，包括生物学、化学、物理学、数学、计算机科学、工程学、心理学）方面培训和指导学生。该项目的愿景是创建一个成功的模式，以扩大代表性不足的学生的参与。这个LSU-BRCC/BB项目的总体目标是增加代表性不足的学生的数量，这些学生在BRCC完成普通科学学位的副科学（AS）学位，转到LSU生物相关科学课程的学士科学（BS），并成功完成学士学位。在项目的五年期间（12年7月1日至17年6月30日），BRCC将从各个生物和生物医学学科招收学生。该项目将开展两类活动。类型1面向BRCC所有STEM学生开放，由四个部分组成：(1)BRCC招收高中STEM学生；(2) BRCC STEM门户课程同伴辅导项目的开发；(3) BRCC STEM教师的专业发展；(4) BRCC和LSU之间的STEM课程衔接；（iv） BRCC项目进入夏令营；类型2，仅针对选定的生物相关科学学生（即桥梁学生或桥梁学者），由五个部分组成：(1)(1)路易斯安那州立大学BRCC学生的个人指导计划；(2)路易斯安那州立大学BRCC学生暑期研究项目；(3)路易斯安那州立大学BRCC转学学生个人辅导计划；(4)路易斯安那州立大学BRCC转学学生后续支持项目。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/LSU学者校友追求更高的学位。

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.