Student Development at Chicago State University

描述（由申请人提供）：位于芝加哥的南侧，芝加哥州立大学（CSU）是一所以非洲裔美国学生为主的文科公立大学。科罗拉多州立大学在伊利诺斯州-印第安纳州-爱荷华州-威斯康星州连续四个州的所有公立大学中为黑人学生提供最高比例的服务，在那里它为这一人群颁发了最多的学士学位。作为一所城市综合性大学，CSU面临着教育学生的机遇和挑战，这些学生大多在校园半径10英里的范围内长大和接受教育，并且是经济上处于不利地位的背景和高中教育的产物，这些教育可能没有为大学水平的工作做好准备。大多数CSU的本科生是第一代大学生。CSU MBRS RISE计划是对NIH倡议的回应，该倡议旨在显着提高少数民族和少数民族服务机构的研究培训能力，以满足增加生物医学研究人员多样性的需求。为了响应这一倡议，CSU-RISE计划的核心目标是增加生物科学，化学和物理部门服务的学生人数，以继续他们的教育，以生物医学研究生课程，并确保他们的准备质量。该计划包括分层的本科生培训活动，将为博士水平的研究和生物医学研究职业做好准备。通过该计划的完成，学生将有：（i）完成了一个严格的夏季培训讲习班，在讲习班中，他们学习了成为研究科学家的基本知识，（ii）有几次真实的研究经验，（iii）编写、辩护和执行了一个假设驱动的研究计划，（iv）在每次区域和国家研究会议上至少准备和发表一次演讲，（五）参加了补助金申请同行评审小组，（六）完成了至少一个学期的服务，作为他们的学科入门级课程的助教，这将为他们未来在研究生院担任助教提供培训和视角，以及（七）开发了几个研究生课程的竞争性申请。该计划的最终目标是实现至少50%的计划校友进入生物医学研究生课程。CSU RISE计划沿着其他外部资助的研究计划旨在为少数民族提供更多的资源，通过发展CSU RISE部门的学生机会和生物医学研究能力，为生物医学研究职业提供培训。RISE计划的持续资助将加速实现机构愿景，即成为芝加哥大都市地区代表性不足的少数民族生物医学培训机会的主要焦点，从而为实现中西部和全国科学劳动力多样性的目标做出重大贡献。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Located on the south-side of Chicago, Chicago State University (CSU) is a liberal arts, public institution with a predominantly African-American student body. CSU serves the highest proportion of black students of all public universities in the Illinois-Indiana-Iowa-Wisconsin contiguous four-state region where it awards the largest number of baccalaureate degree to this population. As an urban comprehensive university, CSU faces both the opportunity and the challenge of educating students who are mostly raised and educated within a ten-mile radius of the campus and are products of both an economically-disadvantaged background and a high- school education which may not have prepared them well for college-level work. The majority of CSU undergraduates are first-generation of college goers. The CSU MBRS RISE Program is a response to the NIH initiative to improve significantly the research training capabilities of minority and minority-serving institutions as a means to address the need to increase diversity in the biomedical research workforce. In response to this initiative the core goals of the CSU-RISE Program are to increase the number of students served by the Biological Sciences and Chemistry and Physics Departments to continue their education on to biomedical graduate programs, and also to ensure the quality of their preparation. The Program consists of hierarchical undergraduate training activities that will prepare them for PhD-level studies and biomedical research careers. By the completion of the program students will have: (i) completed a rigorous summer training workshop in which they learn the basics of what it is to be a research scientist, (ii) had several real research experiences, (iii) written, defended and executed a hypothesis-driven research plan, (iv) prepared and delivered at least one presentation at each of a regional and national research conference, (v) participated in a grant application peer review panel, (vi) completed at least a semester of service as a teaching assistant for entry-level courses in their discipline which will provide training and perspective for their future role as TAs in graduate school, and (vii) developed competitive applications to several graduate programs. The ultimate goal of the program is to achieve a minimum of 50% of program alumni entering biomedical graduate programs. The CSU RISE Program along with other externally- funded research programs are designed, in concert, to provide expanded resources for minorities to train for biomedical research careers by development of student opportunities and biomedical research capabilities of the CSU RISE Departments. The continued funding of the RISE Program will accelerate the realization of the institutional vision of becoming a major focal point of opportunities for under-represented minorities in biomedical training in the Chicago metropolitan area and thereby contributing materially to the goals of achieving diversity in the scientific workforce in the Midwest and the nation.