BUILD at Xavier, Project Pathways II

在 Xavier 进行构建，Project Pathways II

• 批准号: 9978823
• 负责人: MARYAM FOROOZESH
• 金额: $ 92.79万
• 依托单位: XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-26 至 2024-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9978823
• 关键词: Academic support; African American; African American student; Biological Sciences; Biomedical Research; Collaborations; Communities; Course Content; Discipline; Doctor of Philosophy; Doctor' s Degree; Educational Curriculum; Effectiveness; Engineering; Exposure to; Face; Faculty; Family; Fostering; Future; Goals; Health Professional; Individual; Infrastructure; Institution; Knowledge; Left; Literature; Louisiana; Medical; Medicine; Mentors; Mind; Minority; Modeling; Pathway interactions; Pharmacy Students; Pharmacy facility; Phase; Play; Positioning Attribute; Publications; Research; Research Personnel; Resources; Rewards; Risk; Role; Schools; Science; Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics; Scientist; Series; Student Persistence; Students; Support System; System; Teaching Method; Training; Training Support; Underrepresented Groups; Universities; Vision; base; career; cost effective; early awareness; experience; experimental study; graduate student; hands on research; high risk; improved; innovation; interest; program dissemination; programs; skills; socioeconomics; student participation; success; supplemental instruction; undergraduate research; undergraduate student

Xavier University of Louisiana is first nationally in the number of African American graduates who go on to earn doctoral degrees in the Life Sciences, and fifth in producing African American students who earn their PhDs in Science and Engineering. This success occurs in spite of the fact that Xavier is a relatively small, primarily undergraduate school and that the majority of its students face socioeconomic challenges. As medicine and pharmacy are familiar professions to Xavier students and their families, and since the University has a national reputation for producing health professionals, about 47% of Xavier’s new freshmen enter a premedical curriculum and another 27% enter as pre-pharmacy students. However, of these students a large percentage does not enter professional or pharmacy programs for various reasons. Thus, there are a significant number of students at Xavier who are at risk of being left behind and who might choose careers in biomedical research with early awareness, career advising, and hands-on research opportunities. The national literature identifies unique barriers faced by underrepresented individuals entering into biomedical research careers, including the lack of: (1) early awareness and deepening exposure to the type of rewards associated with biomedical research careers, and the sense of accomplishment gained from success in early biomedical educational experiences; (2) supportive relationships, particularly those related to faculty advising and mentoring; (3) suitable educational infrastructure; and (4) active engagement in meaningful biomedical research experiences and the presence of faculty and institutional resources needed to do this and enter graduate programs successfully. The Building Integrated Pathways to Independence for Diverse Biomedical Researchers Program at Xavier University of Louisiana (Project Pathways) aims to transform Xavier’s educational and support systems to better educate and engage students on the pathway to a biomedical research career, particularly those at high risk of not entering or of exiting this pathway. The second phase, Project Pathways II is responding to the findings of Project Pathways I by retaining, improving, or replacing initiatives as appropriate. Project Pathways II aims to identify the initiatives which are most impactful, cost-effective, sustainable, and transferable. The results of this Project Pathways II experiment will be widely disseminated to the greater academic community.

路易斯安那州的泽维尔大学是全国第一的非裔美国人毕业生谁继续 获得生命科学博士学位，在培养非洲裔美国学生方面排名第五， 科学与工程博士学位。尽管泽维尔是一个相对较小的， 主要是本科学校，大多数学生面临社会经济挑战。作为 医学和药学是Xavier学生及其家人熟悉的专业，因为大学 有一个全国性的声誉，生产卫生专业人员，约47%的泽维尔的新生进入医学预科 课程，另外27%进入药学预科学生。然而，在这些学生中， 由于各种原因，百分比不进入专业或药房计划。因此， 在泽维尔的学生中，有相当多的人面临着被抛在后面的风险，他们可能会选择在 生物医学研究与早期意识，职业咨询，和动手研究的机会。 国家文献确定了代表性不足的个人进入大学所面临的独特障碍， 生物医学研究职业，包括缺乏：（1）早期意识和加深接触的类型 与生物医学研究事业相关的奖励，以及从成功中获得的成就感 早期生物医学教育经验;（2）支持关系，特别是与教师有关的关系 （3）适当的教育基础设施;（4）积极参与有意义的 生物医学研究经验和教师和机构资源的存在需要这样做， 顺利进入研究生课程。 在泽维尔为不同的生物医学研究人员建立独立的综合途径计划 路易斯安那大学（项目路径）的目标是改变泽维尔的教育和支持系统， 更好地教育和吸引学生走上生物医学研究生涯的道路，特别是那些高 不进入或退出这条道路的风险。第二阶段，项目途径二是应对 项目路径I的调查结果，酌情保留、改进或替换倡议。项目路径 II旨在确定最具影响力，成本效益，可持续和可转移的举措。的 该项目途径二实验的结果将被广泛传播到更大的学术界。