SF2UF: A new Bridges Baccalaureate program between Santa Fe College and the University of Florida.

 描述(由申请人提供)：圣达菲学院(SF)和佛罗里达大学(UF)寻求发展SF2UF项目，这是一个旨在增加从圣达菲转到UF并获得生物医学和行为科学相关学科学士学位的未被充分代表的学生数量的合作项目。就SF2UF项目而言，UR学生是那些在科学界代表性不足的种族或族裔少数群体、残疾人或低收入者。SF2UF项目的两个指导主题是，大学的头两年是招收和留住理科学生最关键的一年，及早参与指导研究可以提高留住学生和学业成绩，尤其是在UR学生中。从旧金山转到密歇根大学的本科生比所有其他社区大学的学生加起来还要多，在生物医学和行为科学相关学科中，旧金山的UR学生转到UF的可能性是非UR学生的一半。SF2UF计划将通过九个主要组成部分针对这种差距：1)为学生参与者建立有保障的UF转学录取政策；2)建立机制，在SF和UF的学术顾问之间交流转学要求和期望的变化；3)在SF和UF之间建立共同的学习成果，并在基础科学课程中使用有效的教学技术；4)使SF的科学和行为课程的教学资源现代化；5)在SF创建一个化学和生物工作室，为所有感兴趣的SF学生提供辅导；6)在SF开发和提供一门入门研究课程，将把学生介绍到科学职业，并让他们与热情的UF研究科学家接触；7)开发和提供X-Lab Institute，这是一个暑期项目，为SF2UF的参与者提供关键生物医学和行为科学研究技能、基本统计学和RCR方面的培训；8)招聘UF教师讲师、研究生和博士后，以完成旨在提高他们指导UR学生有效性的指导研讨会；9)将48名SF学生与NIH资助的UF教师安排在UF进行为期三年的持续研究经验和有效指导。1

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Santa Fe College (SF) and the University of Florida (UF) seek to develop the SF2UF program, a partnership designed to increase the number of underrepresented students who transfer from SF to UF and graduate with baccalaureate degrees in biomedical and behavioral science- related disciplines. For the purposes of the SF2UF project, UR students are those who are racial or ethnic minorities under-represented in the sciences, persons with disabilities, or persons with low-income. The two guiding themes of the SF2UF program are that the first two years of college are the most critical for recruitment and retention of students in the sciences, and that early participation in mentored research increases retention and academic performance, especially among UR students. More undergraduate students transfer to UF from SF than from all other community colleges combined, within the biomedical and behavioral science-related disciplines, UR students at SF are half as likely as non-UR students to transfer to UF. The SF2UF program will target this disparity with nine main components: 1) establish guaranteed UF transfer admission policies for student participants; 2) establish mechanisms for communicating changes in transfer requirements and expectations between academic advisors at SF and UF; 3) establish common learning outcomes between SF and UF and effective instructional techniques in the foundational science courses; 4) modernize the teaching resources available in science and behavior courses at SF; 5) create a Chemistry and Biology Studio at SF that will provide tutoring to all interested SF students; 6) develop and offer an Entering Research course at SF that will introduce students to the profession of science and engage them with enthusiastic UF research scientists; 7) develop and offer the X-Lab Institute, a summer program to provide the SF2UF participants training in key biomedical and behavioral science research skills, basic statistics and RCR; 8) recruit UF faculty preceptors, graduate students and post-docs to complete a mentoring workshop designed to increase their effectiveness in mentoring UR students; 9) place 48 SF students with NIH-funded faculty preceptors at UF for three years of continuous research experience and effective mentorship. 1