The TU-CCP Academic Community: Expanding Opportunities

描述（由申请人提供）：我们的TU-CCP（天普大学-费城社区学院）联盟成立于2000年，支持学生在整个学术生涯中的主要过渡点。我们集中了招生工作，以便让更好、准备更充分的学生进入中共科学项目。我们为CCP大一的预科生提供支持，以提高他们的科学和数学技能，我们为大一的预科生提供研究方向，为他们在大一的实验室实习做准备。我们已经建立了辅导课和补充指导来帮助学生完成他们的科学课程。我们的数据显示，通往学士学位、B2B队列的桥梁在成就方面取得了显著的进步。虽然在天普大学开始学习的学术准备不足，但CCP Bridges的学生完成学业时与天普大学的同类学生没有什么区别。在资助期间，社区学院少数族裔、B2B学生和非少数族裔学生之间的成绩差距得到了逆转。我们希望通过增加活动和群体规模来扩大机会。我们将继续我们的最佳实践，包括我们的暑期科学学院，新生研讨会，研究技术课程，研究实习计划，补充指导和指导。我们还希望让学生有机会在CCP为生命科学专业专门设计的课程中获得坦普尔学位的学分；科学家信息学与药物设计和药物作用。新生也将有机会参加一门非学分课程，介绍他们在生命科学领域的职业和机会。我们将包括多达150名学生参加在线/监控的数学和化学教程。这些辅导课为TU的微积分预科课程、微积分课程和普通化学课程提供了模型。在这项倡议中，我们为CCP教师提供了研究机会，作为教师发展的一部分。中国共产党的教师将有机会在研究项目中轮换，并在夏季参加课程。在这一年中，他们将管理一个研究研讨会项目和校园小组会议。这些会议将包括所有的中共学生，那些在研究实习和那些在补充指导和辅导项目。这样做，更多的学生将了解研究过程。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Our TU-CCP (Temple University- Community College of Philadelphia) alliance established in 2000 has supported students through the major transition points throughout their academic career. We have focused recruiting efforts such that better, more prepared students enter CCP science programs. We have provided support to CCP pre-freshman to enhance science and math skills, we have provided a research orientation to pre-freshman to prepare students for internships in research labs in their freshman year. We have established tutorials and supplemental instruction to assist students through their science courses. Our data shows significant gains in achievement for the Bridges to the Baccalaureate, B2B cohort. Though academically under prepared to start their studies at Temple University, CCP Bridges students complete their studies indistinguishable from the analogous Temple cohort. During the course of the funded period, the achievement gap between minority, B2B students and non-minority students at the community college has been inverted. We want to expand opportunities by increasing the activities and the cohort size. We will continue our best practices that include our Summer Science Academy, Freshman seminar, research techniques course, research internship program, supplemental instruction and mentoring. We also want to give students the opportunity to earn credits toward a Temple degree while at CCP in courses specifically designed for life science majors; Informatics for Scientists and Drug Design and Drug Action. Freshmen will also have the opportunity to take a non-credit course introducing them to careers and opportunities in the life sciences. We will include up to 150 students in on-line/monitored tutorials in mathematics and chemistry. These tutorials model the curriculum of pre-calculus and calculus courses and general chemistry at TU. In this initiative we have included research opportunities for CCP faculty as part of faculty development. CCP faculty will have the opportunity to rotate through research projects and attend the courses in the summers. During year, they will manage a research seminar program and group meetings on their campus. These meetings will include all of the CCP students, those in research internships and those in the supplemental instruction and tutorial programs. In doing this, more students will come to understand the research process.