Miami Dade College - University of Miami Bridge Program

描述（由申请人提供）：我们要求继续支持迈阿密大学（UM）和迈阿密戴德学院（MDC）的合作伙伴关系，该伙伴关系自1993年以来一直由四个连续的学士学位奖桥梁资助。我们合作的一个首要目标是增加代表性不足、服务不足的少数族裔学生进入生物医学研究博士课程的人数。我们通过关注学生发展、课程补充和MDC教师能力建设来实现这一目标。在这个提案中，我们改进了我们的活动，积极招募来自迈阿密戴德县的贫困高中生；提供辅修课程及工作坊，以提升桥梁学者的学术竞争力；通过合作学习、探究式实验课程、为与澳大导师一起进行暑期研究提供时薪、提供校外研究经验、支持学生出席全国会议并在会议上发表演讲，以及帮助家长提高孩子对研究事业的欣赏，鼓励他们对研究的兴趣。但是有了这个提议，我们承担了一个新的，由nih授权的，关于机构加强的第二个总体目标：增加所有MDC理科生获得副学士学位并转入四年制大学的人数。为了实现这一目标，我们将通过一个桥梁大使计划来激励MDC的学生，在这个计划中，桥梁学者是同龄人的榜样，通过在MDC提供UM研究教师职业研讨会，通过在MDC校园实施同伴领导的团队学习来提高MDC学生在入门普通化学课程中的学术竞争力。我们将加强争取民主变革运动在生物和化学方面的课程，提高争取民主变革运动教员在这些课程中引入定量方法的能力，为此，我们将支持争取民主变革运动教员参加有关创新教学的研讨会和会议，为争取民主变革运动和澳大教员召开夏季研讨会，以交流和协调课程，并建立争取民主变革运动/澳大教员合作计划。在这个项目中，MDC和UM的教员将在彼此的教室和实验室里共同授课。迈阿密大学和迈阿密戴德学院之间拟议的桥梁项目将有助于实现NIH的目标，即增加拥有生物医学科学博士学位的少数族裔人数。社区大学的学生通常是一个尚未开发的人才库，如果为他们提供生物医学研究的职业道路，他们可能会做出真正的改变。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We request continuing support for a University of Miami (UM) and Miami Dade College (MDC) partnership which has been funded since 1993 by four successive Bridges to the Baccalaureate awards. An overarching goal of our partnership is to increase the number of underrepresented, underserved minority students entering Ph.D. programs in biomedical research. We have pursued that goal by focusing on student development, curriculum supplementation, and MDC faculty capacity building. In this proposal, we refine our activities for actively recruiting needy high-school students from Miami-Dade County; for providing supplementary courses and workshops to increase bridge scholars' academic competitiveness; and for encouraging interest in research through a collaborative-learning, inquiry-based laboratory course, provision of hourly wages for summer research with mentors at UM, extramural research experiences, support for student attendance and presentations at national meetings, and outreach to parents to raise appreciation of research careers for their children. But with this proposal we take on a new, NIH-mandated, second overarching goal of institutional enhancement: to increase the number of all MDC science students receiving their associate degrees and transferring to a four-year institution. We will accomplish this by motivating MDC students through a Bridge Ambassador Program in which bridge scholars are peer models, through offering UM research faculty career seminars at MDC, and though increasing the academic competitiveness of MDC students in their gateway General Chemistry course by implementing Peer-Led Team Learning on the MDC campuses. We will enhance the MDC curriculum in biology and chemistry and the capacity of MDC faculty to infuse a quantitative approach into that curriculum by providing support for MDC faculty to attend workshops and meetings on innovative teaching, by convening a summer workshop for MDC and UM faculty to exchange and coordinate curricula, and by establishing an MDC/UM Faculty Partnership Program. In that program, MDC and UM faculty will teach together in one another's classrooms and laboratories. The proposed Bridge Program between the University of Miami and Miami Dade College will contribute towards NIH's goal of increasing the number of underrepresented minorities with Ph.D.s in the biomedical sciences. Students at community colleges generally are an untapped pool of talent that could make a real difference if provided with career paths to biomedical research.