Bridges to the Baccalaureate at Purchase College

纽约州立大学的购买学院正在与达奇斯社区学院合作， 罗克兰社区学院和沙利文县社区学院将增加 来自代表性不足群体的学生(主要是非洲裔美国人和西班牙裔美国人，还有少数 美洲印第安人和太平洋岛民)，他们在#年成功完成了学士学位 生物医学和行为科学。这一新的卓越桥梁合作伙伴计划建立了 在目前的项目成功后，达到了96%的转化率和71%的学士学位 完成生物医学和行为科学的学业。这一新的合作伙伴关系计划具有重要的意义 将注意力和资源集中在两年制合作学校以提高竞争力的变化 他们的理科毕业生。它将在两年制院校复制一个完整的系统 发展活动(技能评估、学术咨询、预警系统、新生 研讨会和辅导)，成功地提高了学生在购买时的参与度。(每两名- 年合作伙伴承诺在第4年和第5年开始为这些活动提供部分资金并接管 在赠款期间结束时提供全额资金。)该计划还将提供技能培养活动，以 将提高学生的能力，使其在科学方面的内容越来越严谨(五- 每周住宿暑期研究计划、研究方法研讨会和基于网络的培训 负责任的研究行为)。两个计划组成部分将增强以下方面的连续性 学生：教员合作将为所有入门科学课程创建综合教学大纲 四所合作院校和联合招生。为了确保领导支持一体化的 在每个为期两年的机构的发展活动系统中，这一伙伴关系将实施 与所有伙伴机构的校长和首席学术官员举行了一系列创新的会议，以 建立学术领导层和教职员工之间围绕以下问题进行沟通的基础设施 学生成绩和项目挑战。这将确保对该计划的支持和可持续性 超过授权期。外部评估者将进行形成性评估和终结性评估 活动旨在通知有关“什么是有效的”的程序性决策，并提供 项目计划对参与者技能和能力的影响的证据。合作伙伴关系将 将达奇斯的整体转会费从20.3%提高到30.5%，罗克兰从11.5%提高到 17.3%，沙利文从18.9%降至28.4%。它将确保96%的布里奇斯学者将转移 生物医学或行为科学的学士学位课程。它将确保80%的 那些转到四年制院校的布里奇斯奖学金获得者成功完成了他们的 生物医学或行为科学学士学位。

Purchase College, State University of New York is partnering with Dutchess Community College, Rockland Community College and Sullivan County Community College to increase the number of students from underrepresented groups (primarily African Americans and Hispanics, with a few American Indians and Pacific Islanders) who successfully complete baccalaureate degrees in biomedical and behavioral sciences. This new Partnership for Excellence Bridges Program builds upon the success of the current program that has achieved 96% transfer rate and 71% bachelor degree completion in biomedical and behavioral sciences. This new Partnership program has significant changes that focus attention and resources on the two-year partner schools to improve competitiveness of their science graduates. It will replicate at the two-year institutions an integrated system of developmental activities (skills assessment, academic advising, early warning system, freshman seminars, and tutoring) that has successfully enhanced student engagement at Purchase. (Each two- year partner has committed to begin partial funding of these activities in years 4 and 5 and to take over full funding at the end of the grant period.) The program will also provide skills-building activities that will increase the capacity of students to advance to increasingly rigorous content in the sciences (five- week residential Summer Research Program, Research Methods Workshop, and web-based training in responsible conduct of research). Two program components will enhance the level of continuity for students: faculty collaboration will create integrated syllabi for all introductory science courses at the four partner institutions and Joint Admissions. In order to ensure leadership support for the integrated system of developmental activities at each two-year institution, this Partnership will implement an innovative series of meetings with Presidents and Chief Academic Officers of all partner institutions to build an infrastructure of communication between academic leadership and faculty around issues of student outcomes and program challenges. This will ensure support for the program and sustainability beyond the grant period. The external evaluator will conduct both formative and summative evaluation activities that are designed to inform programmatic decisions about "what's working" and provide evidence about the impact of program initiatives on participants' skills and abilities. The Partnership will increase by 50% the overall transfer rate of Dutchess from 20.3% to 30.5%, Rockland from 11.5% to 17.3%, and Sullivan from 18.9% to 28.4%. It will ensure that 96% of the Bridges Scholars will transfer to baccalaureate degree programs in biomedical or behavioral sciences. It will ensure that 80% of those Bridges Scholars who transferred to a four-year institution successfully complete their baccalaureate degrees in biomedical or behavioral sciences.