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

描述(由申请者提供)：纽约城市理工学院(City Tech)的学士学位课程(Bridges To The Baccalaureate Program)代表了与布鲁克林学院(Brooklyn College)合作开展的一套综合的、以证据为基础的学生发展活动，旨在促进学业卓越，并促进未被充分代表的(UR)学生从副学士到教育途径的学士学位水平的及时进步。城市理工学院是全国STEM教育的模范机构(1)，布鲁克林学院位居东北地区顶尖公立大学之列(2)。该计划利用两所院校的优势来满足两年制到四年制学位过渡的关键需求，并以实现三个重要的具体目标为基础：1.提高城市理工大学文理学院(SOAS)理科副学士学位课程的UR首次全日制新生的保留率。2.提高UR学生按时完成AS学位的毕业率；3.增加UR学生每年成功转读布鲁克林学院生物医学和行为科学学士学位课程的人数，即生物、化学和心理学学士学位课程。为了实现其特定的目标，研究教育方案计划由Jolly、Campbell和Pearlman(3)在参与、能力和连续性(ECC)三部曲的框架下制定的项目活动组成，作为在科学和量化学科取得学术成功的基础。ECC被纳入到关键方案组成部分的设计中，这些组成部分大致分为两个相互关联的类别：一、学术充实倡议和 学生支持。活动包括加强城市理工大学数学和化学方面的同行指导计划，设立学期前数学预备讲习班，在基于学科的课程规划、生物医学/行为领域的职业教育和转学准备方面实施定制的学术建议模式，以及在学生队列(Bridges Scholars)和布鲁克林学院三年级/四年级学生之间创建支持性的同伴辅导网络。II.在研究中综合发展学生。Bridges Scholars的活动包括建立一个暑期研究学院，然后是一个为期两个学期的研究开发和充实计划，最后在布鲁克林学院进行为期九周的夏季桥牌研究体验，然后进入学士学位预科。此外，一个基于项目的数字平台，以促进稳健 将开发学生与导师的互动，并促进记录学生活动、学术作品和本科生研究经验的创新手段。这个平台将帮助综合计划组成部分，以建立和维持对研究的参与。总的来说，这些战略将提高学生的入学成功率、保留率、 转移和完成生物医学和行为科学的副学士学位和学士学位。

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.