Initiative for Maximizing Student Development

描述（由申请人提供）：自1993年以来，迈阿密大学（UM）和迈阿密戴德学院（MDC）有一个桥梁学士学位计划。我们激发了学生对生物医学研究的兴趣，并帮助学生过渡到UM的生物医学科学。我们为社区学院教师提供本科研究经验、提高学术竞争力的特殊课程以及专业发展。但是，一旦学生来到UM，他们就需要可靠的经济支持。 IMSD计划将弥补这一点。它将帮助转型的学生继续研究。特殊课程将使他们在学术上更具竞争力。我们还将通过特殊课程和指导来支持生物医学研究项目的研究生。指导这些学生的教师将通过IMSD支持的课程提高他们的技能。我们的目标是一个不间断的跨代指导-本科IMSD学者指导MDC桥梁学生，博士前IMSD研究员指导IMSD学者，教师指导本科生和博士前研究员，专家导师和教师帮助教师和研究员。 我们的应用程序有六个目标和18个可衡量的目标。总体目标是增加桥梁学生寻求博士学位的数量。并帮助IMSD研究员在博士后和教师职位上更具竞争力。每年，9名桥梁学生谁来UM将IMSD学者为18个稳定状态。此外，将支助两名博士前IMSD研究员进行头两年的研究生工作;将有四名研究员的稳定状态。他们的论文顾问的赠款将为他们完成提供支持。我们将从IMSD学者和历史上少数民族服务机构中招募IMSD研究员。信息管理和可持续发展研究员将由一名研究顾问和一名获奖教育工作者提供双重指导。形成性和总结性评估将衡量项目的成功。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Since 1993, the University of Miami (UM) and Miami Dade College (MDC) have had a Bridges to the Baccalaureate program. We have stimulated student interest in biomedical research and have helped students transition into the biomedical sciences at UM. We have provided undergraduate research experiences, special courses to improve academic competitiveness, and professional development for community college faculty. But reliable financial support for the students once they come to UM has been wanting. The IMSD program will remedy this. It will help transitioned students to continue research. Special courses will make them more academically competitive. We also will support graduate students in biomedical research programs with special courses and mentoring. Faculty who mentor these students will improve their skills with IMSD-supported programs. An unbroken skein of intergenerational mentoring is our goal--with undergraduate IMSD Scholars guiding MDC bridge students, predoctoral IMSD Fellows guiding IMSD Scholars, faculty guiding undergraduates and predoctoral fellows, and expert mentors and teachers helping both faculty and fellows. Our application has six goals and 18 measurable objectives. The overall aim is to increase the number of Bridges students seeking the Ph.D. and to help IMSD fellows become more competitive for postdoctoral and faculty positions. Each year, nine Bridges students who come to UM will be IMSD Scholars for a steady-state of 18. As well, two predoctoral IMSD fellows will be supported for the first two years of graduate work; there will be a steady-state of four fellows. Their dissertation advisers' grants will provide support for them to finish. We will recruit IMSD fellows from among IMSD Scholars and from historically minority serving institutions. IMSD Fellows will be dually mentored by a research adviser and an award-winning educator. Formative and summative evaluation will measure program success.