North San Diego County Bridges to the Future Program

描述(由申请者提供)：北圣地亚哥县通向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准备。合作机构是加州州立大学圣马科斯分校(CSUSM)、帕洛玛学院和米拉科斯塔学院。Bridges计划将专注于将伙伴社区、大学、种族和少数民族学生无缝地转移到CSUSM，并将尽一切努力将他们整合到目前正在实施的其他几项计划中的一项。这些举措都是为了帮助布里奇斯奖学金获得者完成学士学位，并最终被全国各地的研究生项目录取。Bridges计划每年将有24名合作社区学院的一年级和二年级学生参加一项综合的学术和职业发展计划，该计划包括：(1)参加严格的课程；(2)对选定的历史困难课程进行补充指导；(3)暑期课程工作，并参加一系列学术、领导力和职业发展研讨会；(4)参加系列研讨会；(5)参与研究活动；(6)全面的学术和职业建议；以及(7)参加旨在确保转到四年制院校的跟踪计划。布里奇斯计划的具体目标是：(1)增加有资格成为布里奇斯学者的人数不足的少数族裔学生；(2)提高布里奇斯学者的学术表现；(3)让布里奇斯学者参与研究；(4)加强三个合作机构的科学/数学教员之间的合作；(5)在布里奇斯学者中建立社区意识并培养领导力；以及(6)发展伙伴关系，支持和促进布里奇斯学者在教育管道中的关键点的转移。每个主要计划目标都有一套可衡量的目标，这些目标将用于监测项目的整体成功。目前的桥梁项目非常成功，在其运作的头两年里，平均有98%的四年机构转移或保留了桥梁学者。合作机构对多元化和多元文化的承诺，大量财政资源的承诺，北县高等教育联盟(NCHEA)的积极支持，配备了现代科学仪器和强大教学资源的新的科学和学术建筑，合作伙伴社区学院的重要桥梁奖学金学生池，现有桥梁计划的成功，拟议计划主任的经验和承诺，以及CSUSM目前运营的MBRS分数、MARC U*STAR和MBRS Rise计划，使合作机构处于成功运营通往未来的桥梁计划的理想位置。

DESCRIPTION (provided by 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 transfer of partner community college racial and ethnic minority students to CSUSM and every effort will be made to integrate them 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 24 first and second year students each year at the partner community colleges in an integrated academic and career development program that includes: (1) participation in a rigorous curriculum; (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) participation in research activities; (6) comprehensive academic and career advising; and (7) participation in a tracking program designed to insure transfer to a four-year institution. The specific goals of the Bridges Program are to: (1) Increase the pool of underrepresented minority student eligible to become Bridges Scholars; (2) Enhance the academic performance of Bridges Scholars; (3) Engage Bridges Scholars in research; (4) Increase collaboration among science/math faculty at the three partner institutions; (5) Build a sense of community and cultivate leadership among Bridges Scholars; and (6) Develop partnerships that support and facilitate transfer of Bridges Scholars at key points in the educational pipeline. Each major program goal has a set of measurable objectives that will be used to monitor overall project success. The current Bridges Program is very successful averaging 98% four-year institution transfer or retention of Bridges Scholars over its first two years of operation. The partner institutions' commitment to diversity and multiculturalism, the pledge of significant financial resources, the active support of the North County High Education Alliance (NCHEA), new science and academic buildings equipped with modem scientific instruments and powerful instructional resources, the significant Bridges Scholar student pool at the partner community colleges, the success of the existing Bridges Program, the experience and commitment of the proposed program director, and the currently operating MBRS SCORE, MARC U*STAR and MBRS RISE Programs at CSUSM make the partner institutions ideally situated to operate a successful Bridges to the Future program.