Bridges to the Baccalaureate Program at New York City College of Technology

描述（由申请人提供）：在技术（城市技术）的纽约市学院的学士学位课程的桥梁代表了一个综合的，以证据为基础的一套学生发展活动的合作伙伴关系进行与布鲁克林学院，促进学术卓越，并促进代表性不足（UR）的学生从准学士学位的教育途径水平的及时进展。City Tech是全国STEM教育的典范机构（1），Brooklyn College是东北地区顶尖的公立区域大学之一（2）。该计划利用这两个机构的优势，以解决两年到四年的学位过渡的关键需求，并基于三个重要的具体目标的实现：1。提高UR的第一次，全日制新生的留存率就读于艺术与科学学院（SoAS）内的科学（AS）学位课程的副学士在城市技术。2.提高UR学生完成AS学位的“按时”毕业率，以及3。增加成功转入布鲁克林学院生物医学和行为科学学士学位课程的UR学生的年度人数，即，生物学、化学和心理学学士学位课程。为了实现其特定目标，研究教育计划计划由在Jolly，坎贝尔和Pearlman（3）开发的参与，能力和连续性（ECC）三部曲框架上制定的项目活动组成，作为科学和定量学科学术成功的基础。ECC被集成到关键程序组件的设计中，这些组件大致分为两个相互关联的类别：I。学术充实和 学生支持。活动包括加强在数学和化学在城市技术，建立学期前数学预备研讨会，实施定制的学术教学模式，以学科为基础的课程规划，在生物医学/行为领域的职业教育，和转移准备，并创建一个支持性的同侪辅导网络之间的学生队列（桥梁学者），和布鲁克林学院大三/大四学生。二.学生综合发展研究。桥梁学者的活动包括建立一个夏季研究学院，然后是两个学期的研究发展和充实计划，并在布鲁克林学院为期九周的夏桥研究经验达到高潮，然后预科到学士学位。此外，一个基于项目的数字平台，以促进强大的 将开发学生与导师互动的方法，并促进记录学生活动、学术著作和本科生研究经验的创新方法。这个平台将有助于综合方案的组成部分，以建立和维持参与研究。总的来说，这些策略将促进学生在入学、保留、 生物医学和行为科学的副学士和学士学位的转移和完成。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Bridges to the Baccalaureate Program at the New York City College of Technology (City Tech) represents an integrated, evidence-based set of student developmental activities conducted in partnership with Brooklyn College that promotes academic excellence and facilitates the timely progression of underrepresented (UR) students from the associate to the baccalaureate level of the educational pathway. City Tech is nationally held as a model institution of STEM education (1) and Brooklyn College ranks among the top public regional universities in the Northeast (2). The program leverages the strengths of both institutions to address a critical need in two-year to four-year degree transitions and is predicated upon the achievement of three important specific aims: 1. Increase the retention rate of UR first-time, full-time freshmen enrolled in the associate of science (AS) degree programs within the School of Arts & Sciences (SoAS) at City Tech. 2. Increase the "on time" graduation rate of UR students completing AS degrees, and 3. Increase the annual number of UR students who successfully transfer to baccalaureate programs in biomedical and behavioral sciences at Brooklyn College, i.e., bachelor's degree programs in Biology, Chemistry, and Psychology. To fulfill its specific aims, the research education program plan is comprised of project activities formulated on the framework of Engagement, Capacity & Continuity (ECC) trilogy developed by Jolly, Campbell and Pearlman (3) as a basis of academic success in the sciences and quantitative disciplines. ECC is integrated into the design of critical program components which are broadly classified into two interrelated categories: I. Initiatives for academic enrichment and student support. Activities include strengthening of a peer-led mentoring program in Mathematics and Chemistry at City Tech, establishment of pre-semester math preparatory workshops, implementing a customized academic advisement model in discipline-based curricular programming, career education in biomedical/behavioral fields, and transfer preparation, and creation of a supportive peer mentoring network between cohorts of students (Bridges Scholars), and Brooklyn College juniors/seniors. II. Integrated student development in research. Activities for Bridges Scholars include the establishment of a summer research academy, followed by a two-semester research development and enrichment program, and culminating in a nine-week summer bridge research experience at Brooklyn College prior to matriculation to the baccalaureate. In addition, a project-based digital platform to promote robust student-mentor interactions, and facilitate innovative means of documenting student activities, scholarly works and undergraduate research experiences will be developed. This platform will help synthesize the program components to build and sustain engagement in research. Collectively these strategies will foster higher rates of student success in enrollment, retention, transfer and completion of associate's and bachelor's degrees in biomedical and behavioral sciences.