"Reclaiming the American Dream" A Scholarship Program for Community College Transfer Students in Biology

该项目为30名从迈阿密戴德学院转学到迈阿密大学获得生物学学士学位的学生提供奖学金。它建立在社区学院和研究型大学之间已建立且成功的转学计划的基础上，并确保学术上有才华的学者获得财政和其他支持，以坚持并在地区和国家重要的STEM领域脱颖而出。除了奖学金，学生们还通过研讨会和专业发展研讨会、教师建议、同伴指导、研究和会议机会以及父母/家庭外展得到全面支持。这个项目的智力价值在于精心策划的活动和伙伴机构之间强有力的合作关系。更广泛的影响在于促进高能力、经济困难的学生获得STEM学位，他们中的许多人是家庭中第一个上大学的人和/或来自代表性不足的少数民族。该项目也为其他机构提供了一个实现转型的模式，不仅是为了学生个人，而且是为了将尚未开发的人才库整合到更广泛的科学和经济企业中。

This project provides scholarships to 30 students to obtain baccalaureate degrees in biology at the University of Miami following transfer from Miami Dade College. It builds on an established and successful transfer program between a community college and a research university and ensures that academically talented scholars have financial and other support to persist and excel in regionally and nationally important STEM fields. In addition to scholarships, students are being supported comprehensively through seminars and professional-development workshops, faculty advising, peer mentoring, research and conference opportunities, and parental/family outreach. The intellectual merit of this project lies in the well-planned activities and strong collaborative relationship between the partnering institutions. The broader impact lies in promoting STEM degree attainment by high-ability, financially needy students, many first in family to attend college and/or from underrepresented minorities. The project is also serving as a model for other institutions in achieving transformation, not only for the individual students, but in integrating an undertapped pool of talent into the broader scientific and economic enterprise.