Minority Bridges Program

描述(由申请人提供)：这是七所大学之间的竞争续订硕士到博士桥梁项目，七所大学，巴里，克拉克亚特兰大，FA&M，菲斯克，田纳西州立大学，塔斯基吉，波多黎各马亚圭兹和范德比尔特大学。这些机构加入了我们的一项倡议，以增加进入生物医学研究职业生涯的人数不足的少数族裔。我们的目标是提高少数民族的竞争力，并促进他们向生物医学研究的过渡。虽然有几所学校提供高度具体领域的博士学位，但没有一所学校拥有申请机构范德比尔特所提供的广泛平台。在为期三年的奖项中的两年里，我们推出了我们认为是独一无二的成功项目，取得了切实的成功。每个合作机构都有一名经验丰富的项目协调员，这七加四名范德比尔特教师组成了桥梁监督委员会(BOC)，该委员会作为一个小组为该项目挑选学生并做出所有政策决定。事实证明，共享治理是我们取得成就的关键因素。中国银行为整个项目挑选硕士学生，并选举那些将被范德比尔特录取的学生。因此，没有固定数量的机位/机构，选拔是根据所有伙伴充分参与的功绩和业绩进行的。新提案重新计算了我们取得的进展，并说明了我们为促进和加强范德比尔特与其合作伙伴之间的关系而建立的新的合作安排。我们已经实施的原始提案的创新特点是桥日、桥梁通讯和准备博士学位(PPhD)，这些已经开始显示出切实的成果。布里奇斯学院的学生在进入范德比尔特大学之前的那个暑假就可以获得PPhD学位，也可以向其他可能需要在第一年学习这种基于文学的说教入门的学生开放。今年，两名学生在范德比尔特大学完成了硕士论文工作，我们在范德比尔特大学与合作机构之间进行了丰富的教师交流。我们建议的预算包括管理和协调计划的费用，也包括计划主任、赠款管理人和计划协调员参加年度桥梁计划主任会议的资金。

DESCRIPTION (provided by the applicant): This is a competitive renewal for an MS to PhD Bridges Program between seven universities, Barry, Clark Atlanta, FA&M, Fisk, Tennessee State, Tuskegee, Puerto Rico at Mayaguez and Vanderbilt University. These institutions have joined us in an initiative to increase the number of underrepresented minorities entering careers in biomedical research. Our goal is to improve the competitiveness of minorities and to facilitate their transition into biomedical research. Whereas several offer the PhD in highly specific areas, none have the extensive platform that Vanderbilt, the applicant institution, offers. For two years of a three-year award, we have mounted what we believe to be a uniquely successful program that has had tangible success. Each partner institution has a seasoned Program Coordinator, and these seven plus four Vanderbilt faculty form the Bridges Oversight Committee (BOC) that as a group selects students for the Program and makes all policy decisions. Shared governance has proved to be a key element in our achievements. The BOC selects MS students for the entire Program and elects those who will matriculate at Vanderbilt. Thus no fixed number of slots/institution exists and selection is based on merit and performance with full participation of all partners. The new proposal re-counts the progress we have made and includes a description of the new collaborative arrangements we have established to promote and enhance the relationship between Vanderbilt and its partners. Innovative features of the original proposal that we have implemented are Bridges Day, Bridges Newsletter, and Preparing for the PhD (PPhD), which have already begun to show tangible results. PPhD is available to Bridges students the summer before they enter Vanderbilt as well as to other students who may need this didactic and literature-based introduction to their first year. This year, two students are doing their MS thesis work at Vanderbilt and we have had enrichment exchanges of faculty between Vanderbilt and partner institutions. The budget we propose includes the cost of administering and coordinating the Program, and it includes funds for the Program Director, the grant administrator, and the Program Coordinators to attend the annual Bridges Program Director meeting.