Rochester Bridges to the Doctorate for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students

描述(由申请人提供)：聋人和重听人(D/HH)是语言和文化上的少数群体，在美国具有博士学位的生物医学和行为科学家中的代表性明显不足。该项目的长期目标是增加在行为和生物医学科学领域继续研究事业的D/HH学生的数量。这个项目的目标是开发、实施和评估一个整合了个人和机构活动的示范项目，以提高D/HH学生在学术上朝着完成生物医学和行为科学博士学位的方向发展的准备和技能。这是美国最重要的聋人高等教育机构--国家聋人技术学院(NTID)(A)之间的合作伙伴关系 罗切斯特理工学院(RIT)、罗彻斯特理工学院其他学院以及罗切斯特大学(UR)及其国家聋人健康研究中心(NCDHR)的各种硕士课程。该项目将罗切斯特大学医学中心的教职员工、学生和博士生与罗切斯特大学医学中心提供生物医学和行为科学博士学位的研究密集型学术健康中心的D/HH学生配对，提供广泛的RIT硕士课程。这项计划有四个具体目标。首先，NTID将为桥上的D/HH学生开发一个课程，以丰富正式和非正式课程，包括UR教员参与相关博士课程。其中包括特别研讨会系列和技能建设讲习班(例如，科学写作、拨款撰写、负责任的研究行为等)、学术咨询、辅导和指导、咨询服务、研究生助学金和暑期住校计划。其次，该计划每年将确定和招收三名计划继续攻读博士学位的学生，这些学生将进入NTID/RIT的硕士课程。该计划将向NTID/RIT的聋人学生以及在全国范围内招收大量D/HH本科生的其他机构进行宣传，以鼓励他们申请NTID/RIT硕士项目。第三，将制定一项计划，支持布里奇斯大学的学生进入UR博士生项目，包括使用同行和专门的指导服务。第四，该计划将通过对获得的核心能力进行评估，对NTID/RIT的Bridges和Non-Bridges学生进行跟踪，以确定转移到UR(或其他提供博士学位的机构)的人数，并通过跟踪Bridges和Non-Bridges学生的博士完成情况和其他职业发展成果来评估该计划。在这一资助阶段结束时，一个示范项目将到位，以便NTID/RIT硕士学生将越来越多地决定继续攻读并完成生物医学科学的博士学位，以开始解决生物医学和行为科学中严重短缺的聋人教师问题。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (D/HH) persons constitute a linguistic and cultural minority group strikingly underrepresented among doctorally prepared biomedical and behavioral scientists in the U.S. The long-term goals of this project are to increase the number of D/HH students who go on to research careers in the behavioral and biomedical sciences. The objective of this project is to develop, implement, and evaluate a model program which integrates individual and institutional activities to improve D/HH students' preparation and skills as they advance academically toward completion of doctoral degrees in biomedical and behavioral sciences. This constitutes a partnership between the foremost Deaf higher educational institution in the U.S., the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) (a college within the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)), a variety of Masters level programs throughout other colleges of RIT, and the University of Rochester (UR) and its National Center for Deaf Health Research (NCDHR). This pairs D/HH students in a broad offering of Master's programs throughout RIT with faculty, students, and doctoral programs of the University of Rochester Medical Center, a research-intensive academic health center offering PhD programs in the biomedical and behavioral sciences. This program has four specific aims. First, a program for Bridges Students who are D/HH will be developed at NTID to enrich the formal and informal curricula to include involvement of UR faculty from relevant doctoral programs. These include special seminar series and skill- building workshops (e.g. scientific writing, grant writing, responsible conduct of research, etc.), academic advisory, tutoring and mentoring, counseling services, graduate assistantships and a summer in-residence program. Second, the program will identify and recruit three students per year who are matriculating into Master's Degree programs at the NTID/RIT who are planning to continue on to Doctoral programs. The program will be advertised to Deaf students at NTID/RIT and nationally at other institutions with large enrollments of D/HH undergraduate students, in order to encourage them to apply for the NTID/RIT Master's programs. Third, a program to support Bridges students matriculating into UR Doctoral programs will be developed, including the use of peer and specialized mentoring services. Fourth, the program will be evaluated by assessment of core competencies acquired, by follow-up of Bridges and non-Bridges students at NTID/RIT to identify the number transferring to UR (or other institutions offering the Doctorate Degrees), and by tracking PhD completion and other career development outcomes in Bridges and non-Bridges students. At the completion of this period of funding, a model program will be in place so that NTID/RIT Master's students will increasingly decide to continue with and complete Doctoral degrees in the biomedical sciences, to begin to address the critical shortage of faculty in the biomedical and behavioral sciences who are deaf.