Riverside Bridges to the Baccalaureate Program (Riverside B2B)

项目摘要 UCR医学院建议创建一个研究教育计划，以促进转移 学生进入生物医学和行为科学专业，最终目标是增加参与 少数群体在这些领域从事研究型职业的人数不足。许多代表性不足 少数民族（URM）学生获得高质量科学教学，资源和丰富的机会较少 公共教育各个阶段的机会。非裔美国人，墨西哥裔/拉丁裔，美洲原住民，夏威夷人 阿拉斯加原住民，太平洋岛民或社会经济弱势学生占一小部分 在K-12和高等教育中，科学教师的比例更低， 生物医学和行为科学领域需要研究生学位。 拟议的计划，滨江桥梁学士学位（滨江B2B）将建立之间 滨江城市学院（RCC）和加州大学滨江（UCR），以确定学生致力于 追求科学事业，并促进他们的转移和成功完成学士学位， STEM专业，特别关注生物医学和行为科学相关的研究。程序 包含旨在大幅改善两年毕业总体情况的干预措施和支助服务 率RCC桥梁学者，以帮助他们实现在一个规范的两年窗口毕业以下 大学入学考试，并解决URM在STEM项目中的自然减员原因。特定程序 组成部分包括：补偿研究经验，以刺激更多的职业选择意识， 生物医学和行为科学，减少从事非学术工作的必要性; 在RCC桥梁学者转移到UCR之前开始的教师指导;以及夏季“靴子营”， 让新生熟悉UCR的课程结构和学生支持服务。 通过创建一个连接社区学院和四年制大学教育的项目， 充分的赛前准备和转会后的指导，我们相信我们可以克服这些缺点 并提高URM转学生在生物医学和行为科学方面的成功和持久性， 加州大学，滨江。

Project Summary The School of Medicine at UCR proposes to create a research education program to facilitate transfer of students into Biomedical and Behavioral science majors, with the ultimate goal of increasing participation of underrepresented minority groups in research-oriented careers in these areas. Many underrepresented minority (URM) students have less access to high quality science instruction, resources and enriching opportunities at all stages of public education. African Americans, Chicano/Latino, Native Americans, Hawaiian and Alaskan Natives, Pacific Islander or socio-economically disadvantaged students make up a small percentage of science teachers in K-12 as well as higher education, and are even more underrepresented in biomedical and behavioral science fields requiring post-graduate degrees. The proposed program, Riverside Bridges to the Baccalaureate (Riverside B2B) will be established between Riverside City College (RCC) and the University of California Riverside (UCR) to identify students committed to pursuing a career in science and facilitate their transfer and successful completion of Baccalaureate degrees in STEM majors, with a specific focus on biomedical and behavioral science-related research. The program contains interventions and support services designed to substantially improve the overall two-year graduation rate for RCC Bridges Scholars, to help them achieve graduation in a normative two-year window following matriculation at UCR, and to address the causes of URM attrition in STEM programs. Specific program components include: compensated research experiences to stimulate greater awareness of career options in the biomedical and behavioral sciences and to reduce the necessity of working in non-academic jobs; peer and faculty mentoring that begins before RCC Bridges Scholars transfer to UCR; and a summer “boot camp” to familiarize incoming students with UCR's course structure and student support services. By creating a program that bridges the community college and four-year university education and provides adequate preparation before and mentoring after transfer, we believe we can overcome these disadvantages and improve the success and persistence of URM transfer students in biomedical and behavioral sciences at the University of California, Riverside.