Kansas Bridges to the Future

描述（由申请人提供）：随着西班牙裔人口的涌入和增加，堪萨斯州继续变得更加多样化。堪萨斯西南部超过25%的人是西班牙裔，西南三个最大城市的学校系统中超过70%的人是西班牙裔。在堪萨斯州立大学（Kansas State University），我们观察到西班牙裔和非洲裔美国人的人数稳步增长，因为占多数的大学适龄学生比例下降，而来自代表性不足的少数族裔的学生比例上升。我们之前的桥梁项目非常成功地将西班牙裔和非裔美国社区大学生带到K-State完成他们的学士学位。建校5年来，有10名学生获得了学士学位，今年将有8名学生毕业，其中44名学生转学到k州立大学。合作社区学院和堪萨斯州立大学为每位桥梁学生提供全额学费和费用支持，以通过桥梁完成他们的学士学位。改变和欢迎的文化已经改变了K-State社区从管理到教师再到员工。在之前的奖项中，我们有5所社区学院，两所来自堪萨斯城，三所来自堪萨斯西南部。我们建议继续与西南三所社区学院合作，以遵守新的项目公告，并在这三所社区学院的基础上取得更大的成功。我们将继续并加强我们以往成功的一些基础：1)桥梁计划的学生和他们的家人将在每年4月的桥梁开放日期间访问K-State，与K-State的教授和顾问，已经转到K-State的Bridges学生见面。2)桥梁计划的学生在社区大学一年级后，将来到K-State，参加为期一周的课间学分课程，学习负责任的研究行为，科学方法，K-State的研究，并住在宿舍了解校园生活；3)允许桥梁学院的学生在第二年之后，在K-State大学入学之前，在K-State大学教授的实验室完成为期8周的研究实习。在这个申请中，我们在社区学院提出了两个新元素：1)允许潜在的桥梁学生成为本科生助理，帮助他们准备实验室，提高他们的实验室技能；2)使用基于合作学习的模式参与社区研究。所有学生都将在科学，化学和数学的严格基础上做好准备，以确保他们在四年制大学的成功。当他们转到K-State后，我们将继续为他们的研究经验提供便利，为他们提供津贴，使他们能够在K-State的发展学者计划下担任研究助理2年，并为他们提供持续的学术支持。总体目标是增加拥有生物医学和生物行为科学学士学位的堪萨斯少数民族学生的数量，并长期增加攻读生物医学和生物行为科学博士或医学博士学位的人数。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Kansas continues to become more diverse with the influx and increase of Hispanics. Over 25% of Southwest Kansas is Hispanic and the school systems in three of the largest southwest cities are over 70% Hispanic. At Kansas State University we have observed a steady increase in both Hispanics and African-Americans as the percent of college age students who are majority declines and those from under-represented minorities increases. Our previous Bridges program has been very successful in bring Hispanic and African-American community college students to K-State to complete their BS degree. Ten students have receive their BS degrees in 5 years since inception, 8 more are scheduled to graduate this year, and 44 of the students total have transferred to K-State. The partnering community colleges and Kansas State University offers each Bridges student full tuition and fee support to complete their BS degree through Bridges. A culture of change and welcoming has transformed the K-State community from administration to faculty to staff. In the previous awards, we have had 5 community colleges, two from Kansas City and 3 from southwest Kansas. We propose to continue to work with the 3 southwest community colleges to comply with the new program announcement and to build on our greater success with these 3 community colleges. We will continue and enhance some of the building blocks of our previous success: 1) potential Bridges students and their families will visit K-State during the Bridges Open House in April of each year to meet with K-State professor and advisers, Bridges students who have already transferred to K-State, 2) After their first year at the community college, Bridges students will come to K-State and attend a one week intersession class for credit where they will learn about responsible conduct in research, the scientific method, research conducted at K-State, and live in the dormitory to learn about campus life; 3) allowing Bridges students to complete an 8 week research internship in the laboratory of a K-State professor after year 2 and prior to matriculating at K-State. In this application we propose two new elements at the community colleges: 1) allow potential Bridges students to be under-graduate assistants to help in the preparation of laboratories to sharpen their lab skills and 2) participate in community research using a cooperative learning based model. All students will be prepared in a rigorous foundation of science, chemistry, and math to help assure their later success at a 4 year institution. When they transfer to K-State, we will continue to facilitate their research experiences by providing them with a stipend to enable them to work as research assistants for 2 years under K-States' Developing Scholars Program and provide them with ongoing academic support. The overall goal is to increase the pool size of Kansas minority students with a BS degree in the biomedical, biobehavioral sciences and long-term to increase the numbers pursuing PhDs or MD-PhDs in the biomedical, biobehavioral sciences. Public Health Relevance: Kansas State University has successfully developed a Bridges to the Bachelor's degree program over the last 5 years. We propose to work with three southwest Kansas community colleges to develop enrichment activities and research internship experiences to enhance their success to obtain ad BS degree when they transfer. All Bridges students will receive full tuition and fee support by their community colleges and K-State.