BRIDGES TO THE BACCALAUREATE DEGREE

描述（改编自申请人摘要）：本竞争性 继续申请学士学位衔接课程 计划赠款将建立在非常强大的机构和 埃塞克斯郡学院和纽瓦克学院之间的课程关系 罗格斯大学，新泽西的州立大学的校园，并将发展 与其他两所县学院建立了新的关系， 少数民族学生的入学人数历来偏低， 科学联盟县学院和帕塞克县学院-建立 北方新泽西的一个高等教育桥梁网络。这个网络 将努力大幅增加任职人数不足的人数， 少数民族学生谁选择进入，谁成功地追求， 从事生物医学研究。北方新泽西桥梁网络 有可能接触到超过12,600名非洲裔美国人，拉丁美洲人， 美国人和美国原住民学生就读于三个县 大学，这是位于30分钟内彼此和罗格斯- 纽瓦克。 这一扩大的桥梁方案的具体特点将包括： 实践夏季实验室研究经验，在实验室 罗格斯大学的教职员工，三个迷你课程，与实践的组成部分， 每年从三个学校中选出的学生和教师 参与县学院;邀请县学院学生 (and教师）参加定期安排在罗格斯大学的研讨会 专门为有潜力的理科专业学生设计的;（d）特别讲座 罗格斯大学的研究人员和其他大学的研究人员， （一）被告人的姓名;（二）被告人姓名; 辅导/咨询系统，县大学生现在在 罗格斯-纽瓦克大学为来自县的新转学生提供了过渡 （g）郡学院与罗格斯大学之间的合作 课程发展及综合方面的教员;及（h） 严格的评估和跟踪系统， 与罗格斯大学的教学卓越中心合作， 评估方案的有效性。这种多方面的方法旨在 提高对少数民族学生的认识--无论是理科专业的学生， 未申报的专业-在参与的县学院的各种 在生物医学科学的职业机会。

DESCRIPTION (Adapted from applicant's abstract): This competing continuation application for a Bridges to the Baccalaureate Degree Program grant will build upon exceptionally strong institutional and programmatic relationships between Essex County College and the Newark Campus of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and will develop new relationships with two other county colleges with significant enrollments of minority students traditionally underrepresented in the sciences Union County College and Passaic County College--to establish a higher education Bridges network in northern New Jersey. This network will work to increase significantly the number of underrepresented minority students who choose to enter, and who succeed in pursuing, careers in biomedical research. The northern New Jersey Bridges network has the potential to reach over 12,600 African-Americans, Latino- Americans, and Native American students enrolled at the three county colleges, which are located within 30 minutes of one another and Rutgers- Newark. Specific features of this expanded Bridges program will include: (a) hands-on summer laboratory research experiences, in laboratories of Rutgers faculty members, three mini-courses, with hands-on components, given each year for selected students and faculty from the three participating county colleges; invitations to county college students (and faculty) to attend regularly scheduled seminars at Rutgers specifically designed for potential science majors; (d) special lectures by Rutgers research faculty and researchers from other universities, medical schools, and industry at the county colleges; (f) a peer mentoring/counseling system in which county college students now at Rutgers-Newark ease the transition for new transfer students from county colleges to Rutgers; (g) collaboration between county college and Rutgers faculty members in curriculum development and integration; and (h) a rigorous evaluation and tracking system, designed and set up in collaboration with Rutgers University's Teaching Excellence Center, to assess program effectiveness. This multi-faceted approach is designed to increase awareness of minority students--both science majors and undeclared majors--at the participating county colleges of the varied career opportunities in the biomedical sciences.