Initiative for Maximizing Student Development Program at Wayne State University

描述（由申请人提供）：韦恩州立大学（WSU） IMSD计划正在寻求支持，以保持其成功的研究生培训计划。该项目将继续每年培养10名研究生，这些学生将在研究生学习的第一年和第二年被选中。毕业生部分将继续关注提高毕业率和毕业时间。我们将继续有一个职业发展部分和一个新的部分，以提高教学技能。教师和以前支持的IMSD研究生将作为一个团队开发内容，并将内容呈现给与本科部分开发的第一年科学课程和实验室相关的学习社区。参与的研究生可以学到有效的课程开发和教学技巧。此外，我们还请求支持建立一个基于有效的本科科学研究需要个性化方法的前提下的本科科学研究项目。这种个性化的方法对于来自不同背景的学生，尤其是少数民族学生来说尤为重要。在社会支持的环境中，结构化的动手互动学习是将少数民族学生的文化轨迹转向科学研究的学术生涯的关键。我们已经构建了一个项目，使我们能够“个性化”研究生和本科生的学术和研究经历，以实现我们项目的目标。IMSD本科课程将有三个基本组成部分：(1)学术提升；(2)本科生研究；(3)职业发展。学术增强部分旨在通过专注于数学能力和个性化核心科学讲座和使用专门学习社区的实验室，使大一理科学生有一个良好的学术开端。通过同侪辅导，你的大学经历将会更加丰富。本科生指导的研究项目将被整合到整个本科经历中。我们设计了一个分阶段的方法，第一学年为学生介绍研究以及学习基本的实验室技能。从第一年的第二学期开始，他们将进入一个研究实验室，并参与在整个大学生涯中持续进行的指导研究经历。教师研究导师是从众多有活跃研究项目的教师中挑选出来的。这些学术和研究经历以及专业发展应该导致学术和科学研究的职业生涯。预计每年将有8名新的本科生参加该项目，并一直持续到毕业。更多的学生将受到“光环”效应的影响。该项目将由项目主任在项目管理员和咨询委员会的协助下进行管理。一个广泛的评估计划和跟踪组件被集成到程序中。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Wayne State University (WSU) IMSD program is requesting support to maintain its successful graduate training program. The program will continue to train 10 graduate students per year and these students will be selected in their first and second year of graduate study. The graduate component will continue to focus on increasing graduation rates and time to graduation. We will continue to have a career development component and a new component to augment teaching skills. Faculty along with previously supported IMSD graduate students will work as a team to develop the content, and present the content to the learning communities that are associated with the first year science courses and laboratories developed for the undergraduate component. The engaged graduate students can learn effective curriculum development as well as teaching skills. Also we are requesting support to establish an undergraduate science research program based on the premise that effective science at the undergraduate level requires an individualized approach. This personalized approach is especially important for students from a diverse background, especially minority students. A structured hands-on interactive learning in a socially supportive environment is key to bending the cultural trajectory of minority students toward an academic career in scientific research. We have structured a program that will allow us to "personalize" both the academic and research experience of both our graduate and undergraduate students to achieve the goals of our program. The IMSD undergraduate program will have three basic integrated components: (1) academic enhancement; (2) undergraduate student research; and (3) career development. The academic enhancement component is designed to enable freshman science students to have an excellent academic beginning by focusing on mathematics competency and by personalizing the core science lectures and laboratories using specialized learning communities. The college experience will be further enhanced by peer mentoring. The undergraduate mentored research program will be integrated into the entire undergraduate experience. We have designed a phased approach where the first academic year gives students an introduction to research as well as learning basic laboratory skills. Starting the second semester of the first year they will enter a research laboratory and participate in a mentored research experience continuing throughout their college career. The faculty research mentors are selected from a wide array of faculty that have active research programs. These academic and research experiences along with professional development should lead to careers in academic and scientific research. It is anticipated that 8 new undergraduate students will participate in the program each year and continue until graduation. A larger number of students will be impacted by the "halo" effect. The program will be administered by the program director with the assistance of a program administrator and an Advisory Committee. An extensive evaluation plan and tracking component is integrated into the program.