North San Diego County Bridges to the Future Program at*

描述（由申请人提供）：北圣地亚哥县通往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好准备。合作机构是加州州立大学圣马科斯分校（CSUSM）、帕洛马学院和米拉科斯塔学院。“桥梁计划”的重点是将合作社区学院的少数族裔学生无缝转移到CSUSM，并将尽一切努力将他们纳入目前正在实施的几个“更多计划”倡议之一。这些举措都是为了帮助桥梁学者完成他们的学士学位，并最终进入全国各地的研究生课程。桥梁项目每年将有24名合作社区大学的一年级和二年级学生参加一个综合的学术和职业发展项目，其中包括：(1)参加严格的课程；(2)对选定的历史上较难的课程进行补充指导；(3)参加暑期课程，参加一系列学术、领导力和职业发展研讨会；（四）参加系列研讨会；（五）参加科研活动；(6)全面的学术和职业咨询；(7)参加旨在确保转学到四年制大学的跟踪项目。桥梁计划的具体目标是：(1)增加有资格成为桥梁学者的少数族裔学生人数；(2)提高桥梁学者的学业成绩；(3)聘请桥梁学者参与研究；(4)加强三个合作院校的科学/数学教师之间的合作；(5)建立社区意识，培养桥梁学者的领导能力；(6)发展合作伙伴关系，支持和促进桥梁学者在教育管道关键节点的转移。每个主要的规划目标都有一组可测量的目标，这些目标将用于监视整个项目的成功。目前的桥梁项目非常成功，在最初的两年里，平均98%的桥梁学者在四年制大学转学或留校。合作院校对多样性和多元文化的承诺，大量财政资源的承诺，北县高等教育联盟（NCHEA）的积极支持，配备现代科学仪器和强大教学资源的新科学和学术大楼，合作社区学院的重要桥梁学者学生群体，现有桥梁项目的成功，拟议项目主任的经验和承诺，目前在CSUSM运行的MBRS SCORE， MARC U*STAR和MBRS RISE项目使合作机构处于理想的位置，可以成功地运营通往未来的桥梁项目。

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.