North San Diego County Bridges to the Future Program at*

描述（由申请人提供）：北圣地亚哥县通往未来的桥梁项目将为种族和少数民族学生在生物医学科学领域的专业研究生涯做好准备。合作机构是加州州立大学圣马科斯分校（CSUSM）、帕洛马学院和米拉科斯塔学院。“桥梁项目”将重点关注合作社区大学种族和少数民族学生向CSUSM的无缝过渡，在那里他们将被纳入目前正在运作的几个“更多项目”倡议之一。这些举措都是为了帮助桥梁学者完成他们的学士学位，并最终进入全国各地的研究生课程。桥梁项目每年将有28名合作社区大学的一年级和二年级学生参加，他们将在一个综合的学术和职业发展环境中学习，其中包括：(1)参加合作社区大学的严格课程，(2)选择历史上困难的课程的补充指导，(3)暑期课程和参加一系列学术、领导力和职业发展研讨会，(4)参加一系列研讨会；(5)有机会在中南医科大学进行研究；(6)全面的学术和职业咨询；(7)参加旨在确保转学到四年制大学的跟踪项目。该计划的目的是在合作机构中创造一种文化，在这种文化中，种族和少数民族学生认为生物医学科学的职业生涯是可以实现的。桥梁计划的具体目标是：(1)增加在生物医学科学领域从事研究工作的少数族裔学生的数量；(2)改善Palomar and Mira Costa学院对代表性不足的生物医学专业学生的培训；(3)发展伙伴关系，支持和促进代表性不足的少数民族学生在教育渠道的关键环节转学；(4)在桥梁学者中建立社区意识，培养领导能力。每个主要的规划目标都有一组具体的目标，这些目标具有可量化测量的结果，这些结果将用于监控整个项目的成功。合作院校对多样性和多元文化的承诺，他们承诺提供大量的财政资源，北县高等教育联盟的积极支持，配备了现代科学仪器和强大教学资源的新科学和学术大楼，合作社区学院的重要桥梁学者学生群体，拟议项目主任的丰富经验，以及目前正在运行的MBRS SCORE，MARC U*STAR和CSUSM计划的MBRS IUSE计划使合作机构处于理想的位置，可以启动成功的北圣地亚哥县通往未来的桥梁计划。

DESCRIPTION (provided by the applicant): The North San Diego County Bridges to the Future program will prepare racial and ethnic minority students for professional research careers in the biomedical sciences. The Partner Institutions are California State University San Marcos (CSUSM), Palomar College, and MiraCosta College. The Bridges Program will focus on the seamless transition of partner community college racial and ethnic minority students to CSUSM where they will be integrated into one of several MORE Program initiatives currently in operation. These initiatives are all designed to assist Bridges Scholars in completing their B.S. degrees and eventual admission to graduate programs around the country. The Bridges Program will involve 28 first and second year students each year at the partner community colleges in an integrated academic and career development environment that will include: (1) participation in a rigorous curriculum at one of the partner community colleges, (2) Supplemental Instruction in selected historically difficult courses, (3) summer course work and participation in a range of academic, leadership and career development workshops, (4) participation in a seminar series; (5) an opportunity to conduct research at CSUSM; (6) comprehensive academic and career advising; and (7) participation in a tracking program designed to insure transfer to a four-year institution. The Program is designed to create a culture at the Partnership Institutions where racial and ethnic minority students view a career in the biomedical sciences as achievable. The specific goals of the Bridges Program are to: (1) Increase the Number of Underrepresented Minority Students Pursuing Research Careers in the Biomedical Sciences; (2) Improve the Training of Underrepresented Biomedical Science Students at Palomar and Mira Costa College; (3) Develop Partnerships that Support and Facilitate Underrepresented Minority Student Transfers at Key Points in the Educational Pipeline; and (4) Build a Sense of Community and Cultivate Leadership Among Bridges Scholars. Each major program goal has a set of specific objectives with quantitatively measurable outcomes that will be used to monitor overall project success. The Partner Institutions' commitment to diversity and multiculturalism, their pledge of significant financial resources, the active support of the North County High Education Alliance, new science and academic buildings equipped with modern scientific instruments and powerful instructional resources, the significant Bridges Scholar student pool at the partner community colleges, the extensive experience of the proposed program director, and the currently operating MBRS SCORE, MARC U*STAR and planned MBRS IUSE Programs at CSUSM make the Partner Institutions ideally situated to initiate a successful North San Diego County Bridges to the Future program.