Purchase College MARC U-STAR Honors Program: Building the Academic, Social and Economic Capital of Underrepresented STEM Scholars

 描述(由申请者提供)：Purchase College MARC U-STAR荣誉计划：为代表不足的STEM学者建立学术、社会和经济资本符合Purchase College的使命和承诺，即建立支持代表不足(UR)学生在STEM取得成功的课程。该计划旨在实现有助于提高UR专业人员在生物医学或行为研究职业生涯中的深度和质量的核心目标：增加Purchase College STEM专业的UR学生数量；支持25名UR学员在STEM获得学士学位和博士或博士/医学博士学位。该计划还将建设Purchase College的能力，以有效地将不同的学生招收到STEM项目中，并为他们提供成功所需的支持。我们已经进行了机构自我评估(如背景所述)，以评估需求。我们最终的计划利用循证实践来改善UR STEM学生的招生，改善STEM专业和非专业课程的教学方法，并在大三和大四连续24个月支持学员。我们的意图是，通过获得学术、社会和经济资本，学员将成为并逐渐将自己视为完全有能力的学术“内部人士”。该计划将确保学员在严格的STEM课程、四个学期的校园研究和十周的研究密集型大学的研究中受到挑战和支持时积累资本。学员将有机会从事生物学、生物化学、生物统计学、化学、认知科学、计算机科学、人类发展、环境健康、流行病学、数学、神经科学、药理学和社会医学等领域的研究。严谨的学术和研究经验，加上辅导、学习小组，以及与积极进取的同龄人社区的定期接触，将有助于学员获得学术资本。学费支持，暑期津贴，以及如何获得奖学金、奖学金和助学金的指导，将使学员能够建立经济资本。学员将通过与教员的定期互动、服务学习以及在其他机构和科学会议上与研究生和教员的互动来建立社会资本。该计划最大限度地扩大了师生互动，最大限度地减少了对科学的非个人化和竞争性的展示，并为学生为生物医学和行为科学的研究生学习和职业生涯做好必要的准备提供了必要的严格要求。我们将在会议、发表的论文和项目网站上发布调查结果和项目材料。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Purchase College MARC U-STAR Honors Program: Building the Academic, Social and Economic Capital of Underrepresented STEM Scholars aligns with the mission and commitment of Purchase College to build programming to support underrepresented (UR) students' success in STEM. The program is designed to meet central goals that will help to improve the depth and quality of UR professionals in biomedical or behavioral research careers: Increase the number of UR students majoring in STEM at Purchase College; Support 25 UR trainees' progress through a bachelor's degree and PhD or PhD/MD in STEM. The program will also build Purchase College's capacity to effectively recruit diverse students into STEM programs and provide the support they need for success. We have conducted an institutional self-assessment (as described in the background) to assess need. Our resulting program utilizes evidence-based practices to improve recruitment of UR STEM students, improve STEM pedagogy in courses for majors and non-majors, and support trainees for 24 consecutive months during the junior and senior year. Our intent is that through the acquisition of academic, social, and economic capital, trainees will become, and come to see themselves as, fully capable academic "insiders." The program will ensure that trainees build capital as they are challenged and supported in rigorous STEM courses, four semesters of research on campus and ten weeks of research at a research-intensive university. Trainees will have opportunities to conduct research in biology, biochemistry, biostatistics, chemistry, cognitive science, computer science, human development, environmental health, epidemiology, mathematics, neuroscience, pharmacology, and socio-medical science. Rigorous academic and research experience coupled with access to tutoring, study groups, and regular engagement with a community of motivated peers will help trainees acquire academic capital. Tuition support, a summer stipend, and instruction on how to obtain scholarships, fellowships, and grants will enable trainees to build economic capital. Trainees will build social capital through regular interaction with faculty, service learning, and interactions with graduate students and faculty at other institutions and scientific conferences. The program maximizes student-faculty interaction, minimizes the presentation of science as impersonal and competitive, and provides the rigor necessary to prepare students for graduate study and careers in biomedical and behavioral science. We will disseminate findings and program materials at conferences, in published papers and on a program website.