SACRAMENTO COLLEGE COALITION FOR FUTURE SCIENTISTS

该项目的总体目标是增加从加州州立大学，萨克拉门托（CSUS）毕业的学生人数，这些学生来自代表性不足的群体，获得学士学位，主修生物医学和行为科学。目标群体包括非洲裔美国人、拉丁美洲人、美洲原住民和太平洋岛民。由于加州公立高等教育的三个部分的独特和互补的使命，大多数学生开始他们的大学教育在两年制社区学院。非洲裔美国人和拉丁裔学生的情况尤其如此，他们在符合加州州立大学或加州大学入学新生资格要求的高中学生中所占比例严重不足。对于CSUS，主要的支线学院是Los Rios社区学院区的三个校区。该项目将Los Rios社区学院区和CSUS的校园联合起来，成为萨克拉门托未来科学家学院联盟，目标如下：（1）在合作机构之间实现科学课程内容的更大一致性，（2）减少社区学院目标学生的流失，提高课程完成率，（3）加强学生在低年级科学课程的准备和成绩，（4）增加转入生物、化学、数学、心理学和物理学专业的学生人数，并促进这些学生的转移和过渡到CSUS。实现这些目标所采用的方法是：（1）让合作机构的教师参与合作活动，（2）为学生提供早期学术培训，（3）提供学术支持活动，包括促进学习小组，（4）让社区学院的学生参与CSUS学生的课外活动，（5）提供为期四周的夏桥课程予转学学生。该项目加强了现有的机构间转移项目，并扩大和联系参与校园的方案，为目标人口服务。

The overall goal of this project is to increase the number of students from underrepresented groups graduating from California State University, Sacramento (CSUS) with baccalaureate degrees in majors leading to careers in the biomedical and behavioral sciences. The target groups include African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, and Pacific Islanders. Because of the distinctive and complementary missions of the three segments of public higher education in California, most students begin their college education at a two-year community college. This is particularly the case for African American and Latino students who are gravely underrepresented in the pool of high school students who meet freshman eligibility requirements for admission to a campus of the California State University or the University of California. For CSUS, the primary feeder colleges are the three campuses of the Los Rios Community College District. This project unites the campuses of the Los Rios Community College District and CSUS as the Sacramento College Coalition for Future Scientists with the following objectives: (1) achieving greater consistency in science courses content across partner institutions, (2) reducing attrition of target students at the community colleges and increasing course completion rates, (3) enhancing student preparation and grade performance in lower division science courses, (4) increasing the number of students transferring to majors in Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, Psychology and Physics, and facilitating the transfer and transition of these students to CSUS. The methodology used to accomplish these objectives are: (1) engaging faculty at the partner institutions in collaborative activities, (2) providing early academic advisement of students, (3) providing academic support activities, including facilitated study groups), (4) engaging community college students in extracurricular activities with CSUS students, and (5) providing a four-week summer bridge program for students in the process of transfer. The project enhances existing interagency transfer projects, and expands and links programs on participating campuses that serve the target population.