Kansas Bridges to the Future

描述（由申请人提供）：堪萨斯正在成为一个多元化的州，该州西南部的西班牙裔比例更高，东部的非洲裔美国人也在增加。许多社区学院是少数民族追求高等教育目标的首选，许多是第一代大学生。位于堪萨斯西南部的三所社区学院，堪萨斯州立大学（KSU）提出与之合作，有很高的西班牙裔入学率。堪萨斯地区堪萨斯城的两所社区大学有很高比例的非洲裔美国学生。KSU建议与这5所社区学院合作，以识别，指导和指导有潜力的少数民族学生进入生物医学职业。被确定参加桥梁项目的学生将获得KSU社区学院的双重录取，学费减免。我们建议从社区学院层面开始，开展基层工作，培养生物医学职业意识，提高选定桥梁学生的学术准备技能，寻求家长参与，并将资源投入社区学院，以使这些学生获得足够的学术成就。一个为期一周的暑期研究所将使桥学生意识到科学调查和机会后，他们的大一。第二年后，桥梁学生将有机会在KSU的科学调查员实验室工作8周。社区学院的教师也将有机会在KSU实验室工作8周的夏季，以帮助弥合研究培训和课程开发的差距。所有学生都将在科学，化学和数学的严格基础上做好准备，以帮助确保他们在4年制大学取得成功。学生将被授予工作津贴，使他们能够在KSU的发展学者计划下担任研究助理2年。总体目标是增加在生物医学领域攻读博士学位或医学博士学位的堪萨斯少数民族学生的数量。

DESCRIPTION (provided by the applicant): Kansas is becoming a diverse state with greater percentages of Hispanics in the southwest part of the state, and increasing African-Americans in the Eastern part. Many of the community colleges are the first choice of underrepresented minorities in pursuing their higher education goals, and many are first generation college bound students. Three of the community colleges located in southwest Kansas, with which Kansas State University (KSU) proposes to partner, have a high Hispanic enrollment. Two of the community colleges in the Kansas City, Kansas area have a high percentage of African-American students. KSU proposes to partner with these 5 community colleges to identify, mentor and guide minority students with potential into biomedical careers. Students identified for the Bridges program will receive dual admission to the community college land to KSU with tuition waivers. We propose a grassroots effort beginning at the community college level to develop biomedical career awareness, enhance the academic preparation skills of selected Bridges students, seek parental involvement, and devote resources to the community colleges to allow for sufficient academic advisement of these students. A short one-week summer institute will make Bridge students aware of scientific investigation and opportunities after their freshman year. After the second year, Bridges students will have the opportunity to work for 8 weeks at KSU in the laboratory of a scientific investigator. Community college instructors will also be given an opportunity to work at a KSU laboratory for an 8 week summer period to help bridge gaps in research training and curriculum development. All students will be prepared in a rigorous foundation of science, chemistry and math to help assure their later success at a 4 year institution. Students will be awarded a work stipend to enable them to work as research assistants for 2 years under KSU's Developing Scholars Program. The overall goal is to increase the number of Kansas minority students pursuing PhDs or MD-PhDs in the biomedical field.