Student Development at Chicago State University

描述(由申请者提供)：芝加哥州立大学(CSU)位于芝加哥南部，是一所以非裔美国学生为主的文科公立院校。在伊利诺伊州-印第安纳州-爱荷华州-威斯康星州毗邻的四个州地区，CSU为所有公立大学的黑人学生提供最高比例的服务，在那里它向这些人口授予最多的学士学位。作为一所城市综合性大学，CSU既面临着培养学生的机遇，也面临着挑战。这些学生大多是在校园半径十英里范围内长大和接受教育的，他们既有经济困难的背景，又有高中教育背景，可能没有为大学水平的工作做好准备。密歇根州立大学的本科生大多是第一代大学生。CSU MBRS Rise计划是对NIH倡议的回应，该倡议旨在显著提高少数族裔和少数族裔服务机构的研究培训能力，以满足增加生物医学研究队伍多样性的需要。作为对这一倡议的回应，CSU-RISE计划的核心目标是增加生物科学系、化学和物理系继续接受生物医学研究生课程教育的学生数量，并确保其准备工作的质量。该计划包括分层次的本科生培训活动，为他们的博士水平学习和生物医学研究职业生涯做准备。到项目完成时，学生将完成：(I)完成严格的暑期培训讲习班，在其中他们学习什么是研究科学家的基础，(Ii)有几个真实的研究经验，(Iii)编写、辩护和执行假设驱动的研究计划，(Iv)在每个地区和国家研究会议上至少准备和发表一次演讲，(V)参加拨款申请同行审查小组，(Vi)完成至少一个学期的本学科入门课程助教服务，这将为他们在研究生院担任助教的未来角色提供培训和前景，以及(Vii)开发几个研究生课程的竞争性申请。该计划的最终目标是实现至少50%的计划校友进入生物医学研究生计划。CSU Rise计划与其他外部资助的研究计划一起设计，旨在通过发展学生机会和CSU Rise部门的生物医学研究能力，为少数族裔提供更多资源，为他们的生物医学研究职业生涯提供培训。RISE计划的持续资金将加速实现机构愿景，即成为芝加哥大都会区代表不足的少数族裔在生物医学培训中的主要机会焦点，从而为实现中西部和全国科学劳动力多样化的目标做出实质性贡献。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Located on the south-side of Chicago, Chicago State University (CSU) is a liberal arts, public institution with a predominantly African-American student body. CSU serves the highest proportion of black students of all public universities in the Illinois-Indiana-Iowa-Wisconsin contiguous four-state region where it awards the largest number of baccalaureate degree to this population. As an urban comprehensive university, CSU faces both the opportunity and the challenge of educating students who are mostly raised and educated within a ten-mile radius of the campus and are products of both an economically-disadvantaged background and a high- school education which may not have prepared them well for college-level work. The majority of CSU undergraduates are first-generation of college goers. The CSU MBRS RISE Program is a response to the NIH initiative to improve significantly the research training capabilities of minority and minority-serving institutions as a means to address the need to increase diversity in the biomedical research workforce. In response to this initiative the core goals of the CSU-RISE Program are to increase the number of students served by the Biological Sciences and Chemistry and Physics Departments to continue their education on to biomedical graduate programs, and also to ensure the quality of their preparation. The Program consists of hierarchical undergraduate training activities that will prepare them for PhD-level studies and biomedical research careers. By the completion of the program students will have: (i) completed a rigorous summer training workshop in which they learn the basics of what it is to be a research scientist, (ii) had several real research experiences, (iii) written, defended and executed a hypothesis-driven research plan, (iv) prepared and delivered at least one presentation at each of a regional and national research conference, (v) participated in a grant application peer review panel, (vi) completed at least a semester of service as a teaching assistant for entry-level courses in their discipline which will provide training and perspective for their future role as TAs in graduate school, and (vii) developed competitive applications to several graduate programs. The ultimate goal of the program is to achieve a minimum of 50% of program alumni entering biomedical graduate programs. The CSU RISE Program along with other externally- funded research programs are designed, in concert, to provide expanded resources for minorities to train for biomedical research careers by development of student opportunities and biomedical research capabilities of the CSU RISE Departments. The continued funding of the RISE Program will accelerate the realization of the institutional vision of becoming a major focal point of opportunities for under-represented minorities in biomedical training in the Chicago metropolitan area and thereby contributing materially to the goals of achieving diversity in the scientific workforce in the Midwest and the nation.