Purchase College MARC U-STAR Honors Program: Building the Academic, Social and Economic Capital of Underrepresented STEM Scholars

 描述（由申请人提供）：购买大学MARC U-STAR荣誉计划：建立代表性不足的STEM学者的学术，社会和经济资本与购买大学的使命和承诺保持一致，以建立编程来支持代表性不足（UR）的学生在STEM中取得成功。该计划旨在满足中心目标，这将有助于提高UR专业人员在生物医学或行为研究职业生涯的深度和质量：增加UR学生在采购学院主修STEM的数量;支持25 UR受训人员通过学士学位和STEM博士或博士/医学博士学位的进展。该计划还将建立采购学院的能力，有效地招募不同的学生进入干程序，并提供他们成功所需的支持。我们已进行院校自我评估（如背景资料所述），以评估需要。我们由此产生的计划利用循证实践来改善UR STEM学生的招聘，改善专业和非专业课程的STEM教学法，并在大三和大四期间连续24个月支持学员。我们的目的是，通过获得学术、社会和经济资本，学员将成为并逐渐将自己视为完全有能力的学术“圈内人”。“该计划将确保学员在严格的STEM课程、四个学期的校园研究和十周的研究密集型大学研究中受到挑战和支持时建立资本。学员将有机会在生物学，生物化学，生物统计学，化学，认知科学，计算机科学，人类发展，环境健康，流行病学，数学，神经科学，药理学和社会医学科学进行研究。严格的学术和研究经验，加上获得辅导，学习小组，并定期与积极的同行社区参与将帮助学员获得学术资本。学费支持、暑期津贴以及如何获得奖学金、研究金和赠款的指导将使学员能够建立经济资本。学员将通过与教师，服务学习，并与研究生和教师在其他机构和科学会议的互动定期互动建立社会资本。该计划最大限度地提高了师生互动，最大限度地减少了科学的客观和竞争的介绍，并提供了必要的严谨性，为学生准备研究生学习和职业生涯在生物医学和行为科学。我们将在会议上，发表论文和计划网站上传播研究结果和计划材料。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Purchase College MARC U-STAR Honors Program: Building the Academic, Social and Economic Capital of Underrepresented STEM Scholars aligns with the mission and commitment of Purchase College to build programming to support underrepresented (UR) students' success in STEM. The program is designed to meet central goals that will help to improve the depth and quality of UR professionals in biomedical or behavioral research careers: Increase the number of UR students majoring in STEM at Purchase College; Support 25 UR trainees' progress through a bachelor's degree and PhD or PhD/MD in STEM. The program will also build Purchase College's capacity to effectively recruit diverse students into STEM programs and provide the support they need for success. We have conducted an institutional self-assessment (as described in the background) to assess need. Our resulting program utilizes evidence-based practices to improve recruitment of UR STEM students, improve STEM pedagogy in courses for majors and non-majors, and support trainees for 24 consecutive months during the junior and senior year. Our intent is that through the acquisition of academic, social, and economic capital, trainees will become, and come to see themselves as, fully capable academic "insiders." The program will ensure that trainees build capital as they are challenged and supported in rigorous STEM courses, four semesters of research on campus and ten weeks of research at a research-intensive university. Trainees will have opportunities to conduct research in biology, biochemistry, biostatistics, chemistry, cognitive science, computer science, human development, environmental health, epidemiology, mathematics, neuroscience, pharmacology, and socio-medical science. Rigorous academic and research experience coupled with access to tutoring, study groups, and regular engagement with a community of motivated peers will help trainees acquire academic capital. Tuition support, a summer stipend, and instruction on how to obtain scholarships, fellowships, and grants will enable trainees to build economic capital. Trainees will build social capital through regular interaction with faculty, service learning, and interactions with graduate students and faculty at other institutions and scientific conferences. The program maximizes student-faculty interaction, minimizes the presentation of science as impersonal and competitive, and provides the rigor necessary to prepare students for graduate study and careers in biomedical and behavioral science. We will disseminate findings and program materials at conferences, in published papers and on a program website.