Kansas Bridges to the Future

描述（由申请人提供）：堪萨斯州正在成为一个多元化的州，该州西南部的西班牙裔美国人比例较高，东部的非洲裔美国人比例也在增加。许多社区大学是少数族裔追求高等教育目标的首选，其中许多是第一代大学生。堪萨斯州立大学（KSU）提议与三所位于堪萨斯州西南部的社区学院合作，其中西班牙裔的入学率很高。堪萨斯城的两所社区学院的非裔美国学生比例很高。KSU建议与这5所社区学院合作，识别、指导和引导有潜力的少数民族学生进入生物医学职业。被确定为桥梁计划的学生将获得双重入学资格，进入KSU的社区大学，并免除学费。我们建议从社区大学开始，培养生物医学职业意识，提高选定的桥梁学生的学术准备技能，寻求父母的参与，并向社区大学投入资源，为这些学生提供充分的学术指导。为期一周的暑期研修会让桥桥学生在大一毕业后意识到科学调查和机会。第二年之后，Bridges的学生将有机会在KSU的科学研究者的实验室工作8周。社区大学讲师也将有机会在KSU实验室工作8周，以帮助弥合研究培训和课程开发方面的差距。所有学生都将在科学，化学和数学的严格基础上做好准备，以确保他们在四年制大学的成功。学生将获得工作津贴，以协助研究工作2年。总体目标是增加堪萨斯少数民族学生在生物医学领域攻读博士或医学博士学位的人数。

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.