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

描述（由申请人提供）：纽约市理工学院（City Tech）的学士学位课程桥梁代表了与布鲁克林学院合作开展的一套综合的，以证据为基础的学生发展活动，旨在促进学术卓越，并促进代表性不足（UR）的学生及时从副学士到学士学位水平的教育途径。城市科技是全国公认的STEM教育模范机构(1)，布鲁克林学院是东北地区顶尖的公立地区大学之一(2)。该项目利用两所院校的优势来解决两年制到四年制学位转换的关键需求，并以实现三个重要的具体目标为基础：提高城市科技大学文科与理科学院（SoAS）理科副学士（AS）学位课程的首次全日制大学新生的保留率。2 .提高UR学生完成AS学位的“准时”毕业率；增加每年成功转学到布鲁克林学院生物医学和行为科学学士学位课程的学生人数，即生物学、化学和心理学学士学位课程。为了实现其具体目标，研究教育计划计划由参与、能力和连续性（ECC）三部曲框架制定的项目活动组成，该三部曲由Jolly、Campbell和Pearlman(3)开发，作为科学和定量学科学术成功的基础。ECC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.学术丰富和

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.