RISE Option 2:Increasing URM Student Success in Science and Science Careers

描述（由申请人提供）：布鲁克林学院RISE计划旨在通过整合发展活动和研究经验的机会来扩大来自代表性不足的群体的学生的机会，以增加学生从本科状态进入生物医学和行为研究领域的研究生课程的知识，技能和动机。RISE计划已经实现了通过提供学术支持，提高大学科学课堂教学质量和影响力，教授进入研究生课程所需步骤的发展研讨会，以及在学年和夏季参与研究的充足机会来增加知识和技能的评估目标。包括研究方法的培训和参与教师指导的研究经验。在下一个周期中，RISE计划将继续所有这些成功的组件，扩展和制度化更多科学类的补充教学，为更多的新生和新生开发组件，直接参与有趣的小组研究项目，以提高他们的兴趣和技能，随着学生在大学的进步，他们将更深入地参与研究。该计划将与新课程的开发人员合作，使年轻学生能够进行研究，以便与我们的学生一起定制和测试课程。RISE计划还将继续作为教学创新的试点计划，包括基础科学课程中的SCALE-UP和POGIL等方法。此外，还将继续向学生介绍夏季实习项目的重要学术网络（该计划所要求的）和研究生院的成功与T- 32级研究机构在纽约市合作，让学生定期访问这些机构是什么样的，研究生如何在其中发挥作用，最重要的是，如何充分利用这些机构中能够帮助他们实现目标的个人。此外，在这个新的周期中，该计划将增加一个重要的创新组成部分：更直接，更个性化的方式与URM学生的动机和动机障碍的问题，以学术成功的那些具有高潜力，以实现进入研究生院，使用相关结构的心理评估信息。该方法采用早期的，学生主导的职业选择研究，将短期活动与长期职业和生活目标联系起来。与个别学生密切合作，项目工作人员将指导学生制定明确的目标，子目标和相关任务，每学期将导致成功的职业生涯。这些“成功公式”文件将指导个别学生和计划中的队列的学习和编程。通过直接解决动机问题，由健全的心理学理论框架，我们将提高学生的成果和程序收益率在NIH更多部门的目标服务，并增加URM的学生和教师在生物医学和行为研究的数量。 公共卫生相关性：发展更多代表性不足的少数民族生物医学和行为科学家将对美国的公共卫生产生有益的影响。该国有许多紧迫的健康问题，在少数民族社区中尤为严重。解决这些问题的进展将取决于培养最有才华和最多样化的科学研究队伍，他们将优先考虑帮助不同的社区取得积极成果。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Brooklyn College RISE program is designed to broaden the opportunities of students from under- represented groups through the integration of developmental activities and opportunities for research experiences to increase the knowledge, skills and motivation of students moving from undergraduate status into graduate programs in biomedical and behavioral research fields. The RISE program has achieved the evaluated goals of increasing knowledge and skills through provision of academic supports, improvements in the quality and impact of teaching in college science classrooms, developmental workshops that teach about the steps needed to enter graduate programs, and ample opportunities during the academic year and summers to be involved in research, including training in research methods and participation in faculty- mentored research experiences. In the next cycle, the RISE program will continue all these successful components, expanding and institutionalizing supplemental instruction for more science classes, developing components for more freshman and sophomores to become directly involved in interesting group research projects to increase their interest and skills for more intensive research involvement as students progress through college. The program will work with the developers of a new curriculum to equip younger students for research to customize and test the course with our students. The RISE program will also continue to serve as a pilot program for pedagogical innovation, including approaches such as SCALE-UP and POGIL in basic science classes. Also continuing will be components that introduce students to important academic networks for summer externship programs (required by the program) and graduate school success by partnering with T- 32 level research institutions in New York City to give students regular access to what such institutions are like, how graduate students function within them and most importantly, how to make good use of individuals in such institutions who can help them reach their goals. Also in this new cycle, the program will be adding a significant and innovative component: to work more directly and in a more individualized manner with issues of URM students' motivation and motivational barriers to academic success for those with high potential to achieve entry to graduate school, using information from psychological assessments of relevant constructs. The method employs early, student-directed research on career options to link short-term activities with longer-term career and life goals. Working intensively with individual students, program staff will coach students to develop explicit sets of goals, subgoals, and related tasks each semester that will lead to successful careers. These "Formula for Success" documents will guide advisement and programming for individual students and for cohorts in the program. By directly addressing motivational issues, framed by sound psychological theory, we will improve student outcomes and program yields in the service of NIH MORE Division goals and increase the numbers of URM students and faculty in biomedical and behavioral research. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The development of more under-represented minority biomedical and behavioral scientists will have a beneficial impact on public health in the United States. The country has many pressing health problems that are particularly acute among minority communities. Progress toward resolving these issues will depend on developing the most talented and diverse scientific research workforce, one who will place a priority on helping diverse communities achieve positive outcomes.