Kansas Bridges to the Future

描述（由申请人提供）：随着西班牙裔的涌入和增加，堪萨斯继续变得更加多样化。超过25%的西南堪萨斯是西班牙裔和学校系统在三个最大的西南城市超过70%的西班牙裔。在堪萨斯州立大学，我们观察到拉美裔和非洲裔美国人的人数稳步增加，因为占多数的大学适龄学生的比例下降，而来自代表性不足的少数民族的比例增加。我们以前的桥梁计划已经非常成功地将西班牙裔和非洲裔美国人社区大学的学生带到K州完成他们的学士学位。自成立以来，已有10名学生在5年内获得了学士学位，另有8名学生计划今年毕业，其中44名学生已转学到K州。合作的社区学院和堪萨斯州立大学为每一位布里奇斯学生提供全额学费和费用支持，以通过布里奇斯完成他们的学士学位。一种变革和欢迎的文化已经将K州社区从行政部门转变为教师和工作人员。在之前的奖项中，我们有5所社区学院，两所来自堪萨斯城，3所来自堪萨斯西南部。我们建议继续与3所西南社区学院合作，以遵守新的计划公告，并在这3所社区学院的基础上取得更大的成功。我们将继续并加强我们以往成功的一些基石：1）潜在的桥梁学生和他们的家人将在每年4月的桥梁开放日期间访问K州，会见K州教授和顾问，已经转学到K州的桥梁学生，2）在社区学院的第一年后，桥梁学生将来到K州，并参加一个为期一周的闭会期间课程的信用，他们将了解在研究，科学方法，在K州进行的研究负责任的行为，并住在宿舍了解校园生活; 3）允许桥梁学生完成8周的研究实习在一个K-状态教授的实验室后2年，在K-状态录取之前。在这项申请中，我们提出了两个新的元素在社区学院：1）允许潜在的桥梁学生是本科生助理，以帮助在实验室的准备，以提高他们的实验室技能和2）参与社区研究使用合作学习为基础的模式。所有学生都将在科学，化学和数学的严格基础上做好准备，以帮助确保他们在4年制机构中取得成功。当他们转移到K-状态，我们将继续通过为他们提供津贴，使他们能够作为研究助理工作2年下K-状态的发展学者计划，并为他们提供持续的学术支持，以促进他们的研究经验。总体目标是增加拥有生物医学、生物行为科学学士学位的堪萨斯少数民族学生的人数，并长期增加攻读生物医学、生物行为科学博士学位或MD-PhD的人数。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Kansas continues to become more diverse with the influx and increase of Hispanics. Over 25% of Southwest Kansas is Hispanic and the school systems in three of the largest southwest cities are over 70% Hispanic. At Kansas State University we have observed a steady increase in both Hispanics and African-Americans as the percent of college age students who are majority declines and those from under-represented minorities increases. Our previous Bridges program has been very successful in bring Hispanic and African-American community college students to K-State to complete their BS degree. Ten students have receive their BS degrees in 5 years since inception, 8 more are scheduled to graduate this year, and 44 of the students total have transferred to K-State. The partnering community colleges and Kansas State University offers each Bridges student full tuition and fee support to complete their BS degree through Bridges. A culture of change and welcoming has transformed the K-State community from administration to faculty to staff. In the previous awards, we have had 5 community colleges, two from Kansas City and 3 from southwest Kansas. We propose to continue to work with the 3 southwest community colleges to comply with the new program announcement and to build on our greater success with these 3 community colleges. We will continue and enhance some of the building blocks of our previous success: 1) potential Bridges students and their families will visit K-State during the Bridges Open House in April of each year to meet with K-State professor and advisers, Bridges students who have already transferred to K-State, 2) After their first year at the community college, Bridges students will come to K-State and attend a one week intersession class for credit where they will learn about responsible conduct in research, the scientific method, research conducted at K-State, and live in the dormitory to learn about campus life; 3) allowing Bridges students to complete an 8 week research internship in the laboratory of a K-State professor after year 2 and prior to matriculating at K-State. In this application we propose two new elements at the community colleges: 1) allow potential Bridges students to be under-graduate assistants to help in the preparation of laboratories to sharpen their lab skills and 2) participate in community research using a cooperative learning based model. All students will be prepared in a rigorous foundation of science, chemistry, and math to help assure their later success at a 4 year institution. When they transfer to K-State, we will continue to facilitate their research experiences by providing them with a stipend to enable them to work as research assistants for 2 years under K-States' Developing Scholars Program and provide them with ongoing academic support. The overall goal is to increase the pool size of Kansas minority students with a BS degree in the biomedical, biobehavioral sciences and long-term to increase the numbers pursuing PhDs or MD-PhDs in the biomedical, biobehavioral sciences.