Rochester Bridges to the Doctorate for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students

描述（由申请人提供）：聋人和听力困难（D/HH）的人构成了一个语言和文化的少数群体，在美国的生物医学和行为科学家中，这个项目的长期目标是增加D/HH学生的数量，他们继续从事行为和生物医学科学的研究。该项目的目标是开发，实施和评估一个示范计划，该计划整合了个人和机构活动，以提高D/HH学生的准备和技能，因为他们在学术上朝着完成生物医学和行为科学博士学位迈进。这构成了美国最重要的聋人高等教育机构之间的伙伴关系，国家聋人技术研究所（NTID） 罗切斯特理工学院（RIT）内的学院），RIT其他学院的各种硕士课程，以及罗切斯特大学（UR）及其国家聋人健康研究中心（NCDHR）。这对D/HH学生在整个RIT广泛提供硕士课程与教师，学生和罗切斯特医学中心，研究密集型学术健康中心提供生物医学和行为科学博士课程的大学博士课程。该计划有四个具体目标。首先，NTID将为D/HH的桥梁学生制定一项计划，以丰富正式和非正式课程，包括相关博士课程的UR教师的参与。其中包括特别研讨会系列和技能建设讲习班（例如科学写作、赠款写作、负责任地进行研究等），学术咨询，辅导和指导，咨询服务，研究生助学金和夏季居住计划。第二，该计划将确定和招募每年三名学生谁是录取到硕士学位课程在NTID/RIT谁计划继续博士课程。该计划将向NTID/RIT的聋人学生和全国其他招收大量D/HH本科生的机构做广告，以鼓励他们申请NTID/RIT硕士课程。第三，将制定一项计划，支持桥梁学生进入UR博士课程，包括使用同行和专业指导服务。第四，该计划将通过评估所获得的核心能力进行评估，通过NTID/RIT的桥梁和非桥梁学生的后续行动来确定转移到UR（或其他提供博士学位的机构）的数量，并通过跟踪桥梁和非桥梁学生的博士学位完成和其他职业发展成果。在这段时间的资助完成后，一个示范方案将到位，使NTID/RIT硕士的学生将越来越多地决定继续和完成生物医学科学博士学位，开始，以解决在生物医学和行为科学谁是聋人教师的严重短缺。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (D/HH) persons constitute a linguistic and cultural minority group strikingly underrepresented among doctorally prepared biomedical and behavioral scientists in the U.S. The long-term goals of this project are to increase the number of D/HH students who go on to research careers in the behavioral and biomedical sciences. The objective of this project is to develop, implement, and evaluate a model program which integrates individual and institutional activities to improve D/HH students' preparation and skills as they advance academically toward completion of doctoral degrees in biomedical and behavioral sciences. This constitutes a partnership between the foremost Deaf higher educational institution in the U.S., the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) (a college within the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)), a variety of Masters level programs throughout other colleges of RIT, and the University of Rochester (UR) and its National Center for Deaf Health Research (NCDHR). This pairs D/HH students in a broad offering of Master's programs throughout RIT with faculty, students, and doctoral programs of the University of Rochester Medical Center, a research-intensive academic health center offering PhD programs in the biomedical and behavioral sciences. This program has four specific aims. First, a program for Bridges Students who are D/HH will be developed at NTID to enrich the formal and informal curricula to include involvement of UR faculty from relevant doctoral programs. These include special seminar series and skill- building workshops (e.g. scientific writing, grant writing, responsible conduct of research, etc.), academic advisory, tutoring and mentoring, counseling services, graduate assistantships and a summer in-residence program. Second, the program will identify and recruit three students per year who are matriculating into Master's Degree programs at the NTID/RIT who are planning to continue on to Doctoral programs. The program will be advertised to Deaf students at NTID/RIT and nationally at other institutions with large enrollments of D/HH undergraduate students, in order to encourage them to apply for the NTID/RIT Master's programs. Third, a program to support Bridges students matriculating into UR Doctoral programs will be developed, including the use of peer and specialized mentoring services. Fourth, the program will be evaluated by assessment of core competencies acquired, by follow-up of Bridges and non-Bridges students at NTID/RIT to identify the number transferring to UR (or other institutions offering the Doctorate Degrees), and by tracking PhD completion and other career development outcomes in Bridges and non-Bridges students. At the completion of this period of funding, a model program will be in place so that NTID/RIT Master's students will increasingly decide to continue with and complete Doctoral degrees in the biomedical sciences, to begin to address the critical shortage of faculty in the biomedical and behavioral sciences who are deaf.