North San Diego County Bridges to the Future Program at*

描述（由申请人提供）：北圣地亚哥县桥梁未来计划将准备种族和少数民族学生在生物医学科学的专业研究生涯。合作机构是加州州立大学圣马科斯（CSUSM），帕洛玛学院和米拉科斯塔学院。桥梁计划将侧重于合作伙伴社区学院种族和少数民族学生的无缝过渡到CSUSM，他们将被纳入目前正在运作的几个更多计划举措之一。这些举措都是为了帮助桥梁学者完成他们的学士学位。学位，并最终进入全国各地的研究生课程。桥梁计划将涉及28名一年级和二年级的学生，每年在合作伙伴社区学院在一个综合的学术和职业发展环境，其中包括：（1）在合作伙伴社区学院之一参加严格的课程，（2）在选定的历史上困难的课程补充教学，（3）夏季课程工作和参加一系列学术，领导力和职业发展讲习班，（4）参加系列研讨会;（5）有机会在CSUSM进行研究;（6）全面的学术和职业咨询;以及（7）参加旨在确保转移到四年制机构的跟踪计划。该计划旨在创造一种文化的伙伴关系机构，其中种族和少数民族学生认为在生物医学科学的职业生涯是可以实现的。桥梁方案的具体目标是：（1）增加在生物医学领域从事研究工作的人数不足的少数民族学生的人数;（2）改善在帕洛玛和米拉科斯塔学院对人数不足的生物医学学生的培训;（3）发展伙伴关系，支持和促进在教育管道关键点的人数不足的少数民族学生转学;（4）培养桥梁学者的群体意识和领导能力。每个主要计划目标都有一组具体目标，这些目标具有可量化的结果，这些结果将用于监控整个项目的成功。合作机构对多样性和多元文化的承诺，他们对重要财政资源的承诺，北县高等教育联盟的积极支持，配备现代科学仪器和强大教学资源的新科学和学术建筑，合作伙伴社区学院的重要桥梁学者学生库，拟议项目主任的丰富经验，目前正在运作的MBRS SCORE、MARC U* 星星和CSUSM计划中的MBRS IUSE计划使合作机构成为成功启动北圣地亚哥县未来桥梁计划的理想场所。

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.