Student Development at Chicago State University

描述（由申请人提供）：芝加哥州立大学（CSU）位于芝加哥南侧，是一所以非裔美国学生为主的文科公共机构。在伊利诺斯州-印第安纳州-爱荷华州-威斯康辛州连续四州地区的所有公立大学中，科罗拉多州立大学的黑人学生比例最高，并为这一人口颁发了最多的学士学位。作为一所城市综合性大学，科罗拉多州立大学面临着教育学生的机遇和挑战，这些学生大多是在校园十英里半径内长大和受教育的，他们的经济背景和高中教育可能没有为大学水平的工作做好准备。科罗拉多州立大学的大部分本科生都是第一代大学生。科罗拉多州立大学MBRS RISE项目是对美国国立卫生研究院倡议的回应，该倡议旨在显著提高少数族裔和少数族裔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，科罗拉多州立大学rise计划的核心目标是增加生物科学、化学和物理系服务的学生人数，以继续他们的生物医学研究生课程，并确保他们的准备质量。该计划由分层的本科培训活动组成，将为他们的博士学位学习和生物医学研究事业做好准备。完成课程后，学生将具备：(i)完成一个严格的暑期培训工作坊，学习成为一名研究科学家的基本知识，（ii）有几次真实的研究经验，（iii）撰写、辩护和执行一项假设驱动的研究计划，（iv）在每个地区和国家研究会议上准备并发表至少一次演讲，(v)参加资助申请同行评审小组。（vi）完成至少一个学期的本学科入门课程的助教工作，这将为他们将来在研究生院担任助教提供培训和前景；（vii）为多个研究生项目开发竞争性应用程序。该计划的最终目标是达到至少50%的计划校友进入生物医学研究生课程。科罗拉多州立大学RISE项目和其他外部资助的研究项目旨在为少数民族提供更多的资源，通过发展学生机会和科罗拉多州立大学RISE部门的生物医学研究能力，培养他们从事生物医学研究的职业。对RISE项目的持续资助将加速实现该机构的愿景，即成为芝加哥大都会地区未被充分代表的少数民族在生物医学培训中获得机会的主要焦点，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.