Bridges to the Baccalaureate Research Training Program at the University of Kansas/Haskell Indian Nations University

项目摘要 Haskell-KU Bridge V计划支持来自Haskell Indian Nations University的学生，他们寻求 通过转移到生物医学，生物工程，行为和环境健康领域发展职业生涯 堪萨斯大学（KU）访问学位选项不提供在哈斯克尔。这个20年的项目 有机构之间的合作历史，以及其他NIH-培训和劳动力 发展计划，以确保美国印第安人和阿拉斯加原住民（AI/AN）的高比例实现 STEM领域的学士学位，可以导致生物医学职业。总体目标是AI/AN 学员看到自己在生物科学职业生涯中的地位，建立他们所需的技能和资源， 成功，并创造一个富有同情心的导师社区，为学员的成功投资。这 愿景是通过四个目标来实现的，这四个目标可以被概念化为形成一个楼梯，以帮助 学生解锁他们选择的生物科学职业。首先，申请人的人数将增加， 计划的可见性和吸引力，以AI/AN Haskell学生的特殊需求（目标1）。该计划将 通过综合的技能培训，指导研究， 专业发展活动（目标2）。计划活动旨在建立一个强大的群体 培养学生的科学身份感，自我效能感，以及与KU和更广泛的联系 科学界（目标3）。KU导师将为满足Haskell的独特需求做好准备 通过提供循证指导和培训，为受训者提供培训（目标4）。此次计划更新 更加强调顺序培训，并满足AI/AN受训者的特定需求， 专注于：1）通过与杰出的本土科学家一起创作和活动，培养对该计划的兴趣 描述他们的工作如何有助于改善土著社区，2）将学生与堪萨斯联系起来 通过公私伙伴关系的规划，3）增加使用职业 和专业发展工具，在受训者的发展早期，通过实施活动， 进入研究课程，4）与项目校友进行更密切的互动，以更好地建立社区 实践，这是非正式的指导和学习社区，和5）技术，业务和 专业技能发展，通过一个详细的两年序列，旨在建立密切的队列， 学生计划活动将与其他现有的促进多样性的KU计划相结合 例如新资助的NIH最大化研究职业机会（MARC）计划， KU的桥梁学员访问的社区。这些目标的连续性和附加性， 学生在三个阶段参与的计划：1）预桥，2）基本技能年（1年），和3） 社区建设年（第二年）。完成这三个阶段可以提高 Haskell学员转移到KU，并通过建立信心和社区完成他们的学位。

PROJECT SUMMARY The Haskell-KU Bridge V Program supports students from Haskell Indian Nations University who seek to develop careers in biomedical, bioengineering, behavioral and environmental health fields by transferring to the University of Kansas (KU) to access degree options not available at Haskell. This 20-year old program has a history of collaboration between institutions, as well as among other NIH- training and workforce development programs, to ensure a high rate of American Indian and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) achieve Bachelor’s degrees in STEM fields that can lead to biomedical careers. The overarching goal is for AI/AN trainees to see a place for themselves in bioscience careers, to build the skills and resources they need to succeed, and to create a compassionate community of mentors invested in the success of trainees. This vision is accomplished through four objectives, which may be conceptualized as forming a staircase to help students unlock their chosen bioscience career. First, the applicant pool will be expanded by increasing program visibility and appeal to the particular needs of AI/AN Haskell students (Objective 1). The program will produce well-trained AI/AN scientists through an integrated succession of skills training, mentored research, and professional development activities (Objective 2). Program activities are designed to build a strong cohort of trainees that develop a sense of science identity, self-efficacy, and connection with the KU and broader scientific community (Objective 3). KU mentors will be prepared for meeting the unique needs of Haskell trainees by providing evidence-based mentor orientation and training (Objective 4). This program renewal puts an increased emphasis on sequential training and meeting the specific needs of AI/AN trainees with a focus on: 1) developing interest in the program by creating and event with Distinguished Native Scientists describing how their work contributes to improving Native communities, 2) connecting students to the Kansas biocareers ecosystem through programming from a public-private partnership, 3) the increased use of career and professional development tools early in the trainee’s development, by implementing activities from the Entering Research curriculum, 4) closer interactions with program alumni to better build communities of practice, which are informal mentoring and learning communities, and 5) technical, operational and professional skills development through a detailed two-year sequence designed to create close cohorts of students. Program activities will be integrative with those of other existing diversity-promoting KU programs such as the newly funded NIH Maximizing Access to Research Careers (MARC) program, expanding the community accessed by Bridge trainees at KU. The sequential, additive nature of these objectives builds a program that students engage with in three phases: 1) pre-Bridge, 2) the Basic Skills Year (Year 1), and 3) the Community Building Year (Year 2). Completing these three phases allows for a higher success rate for Haskell trainees to transfer to KU and complete their degrees by building both confidence and community.