Miami Dade College - University of Miami Bridge Program

描述(由申请人提供)：我们请求继续支持迈阿密大学(UM)和迈阿密戴德学院(MDC)的合作伙伴关系，该伙伴关系自1993年以来一直由四个连续获得文凭的桥梁资助。我们伙伴关系的一个首要目标是增加进入生物医学研究博士项目的少数族裔学生的数量。我们通过关注学生发展、课程补充和MDC教师能力建设来追求这一目标。在这项提案中，我们改进了我们的活动，以积极地从迈阿密-戴德县招收有需要的高中生；提供补充课程和工作坊，以提高桥梁学者的学术竞争力；并通过合作学习、以探究为基础的实验室课程、为密歇根大学的导师提供暑期研究的小时工资、校外研究经验、支持学生出席和在全国会议上发表演讲以及向家长进行宣传以提高对孩子研究事业的欣赏来鼓励对研究的兴趣。但有了这项建议，我们就有了一个新的、由NIH授权的、机构加强的第二个首要目标：增加所有获得副学士学位并转到四年制院校的MDC理科学生的数量。我们将通过桥梁大使计划激励MDC学生来实现这一目标，在该计划中，桥梁学者是同行模范，通过在MDC为UM研究人员提供职业研讨会，以及通过在MDC校园实施同行主导的团队学习，提高MDC学生在其普通化学课程中的学术竞争力。我们将加强MDC的生物和化学课程以及MDC教员将量化方法注入该课程的能力，方法是支持MDC教员参加关于创新教学的研讨会和会议，为MDC和UM教员举办夏季研讨会以交流和协调课程，并建立MDC/UM教师伙伴计划。在该项目中，MDC和UM的教职员工将在彼此的教室和实验室一起授课。迈阿密大学和迈阿密戴德学院之间拟议的桥梁计划将有助于实现NIH的目标，即增加在生物医学科学领域拥有博士学位的少数族裔人数。社区大学的学生通常是一个尚未开发的人才库，如果为他们提供通往生物医学研究的职业道路，这些人才可能会产生真正的不同。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We request continuing support for a University of Miami (UM) and Miami Dade College (MDC) partnership which has been funded since 1993 by four successive Bridges to the Baccalaureate awards. An overarching goal of our partnership is to increase the number of underrepresented, underserved minority students entering Ph.D. programs in biomedical research. We have pursued that goal by focusing on student development, curriculum supplementation, and MDC faculty capacity building. In this proposal, we refine our activities for actively recruiting needy high-school students from Miami-Dade County; for providing supplementary courses and workshops to increase bridge scholars' academic competitiveness; and for encouraging interest in research through a collaborative-learning, inquiry-based laboratory course, provision of hourly wages for summer research with mentors at UM, extramural research experiences, support for student attendance and presentations at national meetings, and outreach to parents to raise appreciation of research careers for their children. But with this proposal we take on a new, NIH-mandated, second overarching goal of institutional enhancement: to increase the number of all MDC science students receiving their associate degrees and transferring to a four-year institution. We will accomplish this by motivating MDC students through a Bridge Ambassador Program in which bridge scholars are peer models, through offering UM research faculty career seminars at MDC, and though increasing the academic competitiveness of MDC students in their gateway General Chemistry course by implementing Peer-Led Team Learning on the MDC campuses. We will enhance the MDC curriculum in biology and chemistry and the capacity of MDC faculty to infuse a quantitative approach into that curriculum by providing support for MDC faculty to attend workshops and meetings on innovative teaching, by convening a summer workshop for MDC and UM faculty to exchange and coordinate curricula, and by establishing an MDC/UM Faculty Partnership Program. In that program, MDC and UM faculty will teach together in one another's classrooms and laboratories. The proposed Bridge Program between the University of Miami and Miami Dade College will contribute towards NIH's goal of increasing the number of underrepresented minorities with Ph.D.s in the biomedical sciences. Students at community colleges generally are an untapped pool of talent that could make a real difference if provided with career paths to biomedical research.