The University of Arizona's Initiatives to Maximize Student Diversity

亚利桑那大学最大限度地提高学生多样性的举措

• 批准号: 7895130
• 负责人: Maria Teresa Velez
• 金额: $ 9.59万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-11 至 2011-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7895130
• 关键词: Admission activity; Advisory Committees; American Indians; Arizona; Biological Sciences; Biomedical Research; CCL7 gene; Cognitive; Collaborations; Commit; Communities; Country; Doctor of Philosophy; Educational workshop; Enrollment; Ensure; Ethics; Evaluation; Faculty; Fellowship; Funding; Grant; Growth; Hand; Health; Health Insurance; Hispanics; Historically Black Colleges and Universities; Immunobiology; Institutes; Institution; Knowledge; Laboratories; Learning; Letters; Link; Mentors; Minority; Motivation; NCI Scholars Program; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; Native Americans; Participant; Preparation; Program Evaluation; Psychology; Regulation; Reporting; Research; Research Training; Resources; Risk-Taking; Schedule; Schools; Science; Scientist; Source; Students; Time; Training; Training Programs; Training Support; Transcript; Travel; Underrepresented Minority; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Work; Writing; career; college; cost; experience; falls; follow-up; graduate student; health disparity; interest; meetings; minority health; peer; programs; public health relevance; relating to nervous system; skills; success; symposium; tribal college

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Arizona (UA) seeks to continue and expand the effective implementation of a comprehensive training program to increase the number of underrepresented minority students (URMs) who enter and successfully complete doctoral degrees in the biomedical sciences. It has two components: (1) an IMSD Scholars Program providing fellowships, tuition, health insurance, a "survival skills" seminar, travel to a national conference, and ongoing special mentoring and follow-up to 10 URMs per year admitted to one of 16 biomedical graduate programs at UA; and (2) a Minority Health Disparities Summer Research Opportunities Program (MHD/SROP) matching 8 UA undergraduates with experienced UA faculty to conduct full-time biomedical research for 10 weeks and learn how to prepare for graduate school and how to put together a strong graduate application. MHD/SROP also offers a weekly seminar on Minority Health Disparities because this theme has been shown by the earlier grants to greatly motivate URM students to pursue biomedical careers. Since many of our IMSD Scholars are now engaged in dissertation research related to health disparities, in this new grant we also propose to investigate how this motivates graduate URMs to finish a Ph.D. Participating students will be selected by an Advisory Committee and the Project Director and Coordinator will ensure that all NIH regulations and program requirements are met. Comprehensive program evaluations will be completed yearly by an independent evaluator. First funded in 2001, our IMSD program has helped increase by five-fold the number of URMs pursuing biomedical Ph.D.s at UA, from 16 in the year 2000 (prior to the IMSD grant) to 81 students in Fall 2007. 61 students have participated in the IMSD Scholars program during their first year of the Ph.D. and the other 20 have been supported by other training sources. Ten additional students are currently being considered for graduate admission and IMSD participation in Fall 2008. Three have already received a Ph.D. and 53 others are making satisfactory progress. Several of the Scholars would not have been admitted to the Ph.D. without IMSD support, yet they show an 87% retention rate, a much higher rate than that reported of students in the life sciences nationwide (62% according to CGS, 2005). All the Scholars who are not pursuing the Ph.D. have completed or are presently completing terminal degrees. The MHD/SROP has trained 205 undergraduates since 2001, including 54 UA MARC students, 50 of whom are already enrolled in biomedical Ph.D. or MD/Ph.D. programs. Public health relevance: The University of Arizona has the institutional commitment and a strong track record of enrolling and graduating URM students. Evidence of our success is the increase of minority enrollment, from 9.59% in 1983 to 27.6% in 2007. Our campus has been committed to diversity for many years and has instituted support programs that have made possible a steady increase in minority enrollment. The UA is currently ranked as one of two top Research Extensive (Research I) universities in the country in the enrollment of URM students. The Graduate College has taken a very proactive approach to the recruitment and retention of minority students. Graduate minority enrollment has increased steadily in the last ten years, from 897 in Fall 1997 to 1,328 in Fall 2007, a 52% growth in spite of a significant decline in overall graduate student enrollment in the last few years. In Fall 2007, minorities composed 22% of graduate enrollment at UA. A comparison with our ABOR Peer Institutions shows that the UA leads the other 15 universities in the number of Hispanic and Native American graduate students enrolled. The IMSD grant has been central to the transformation of graduate enrollment in biomedical sciences at UA, being responsible for a five-fold increase in URM graduate students pursuing Ph.D.s. The availability of IMSD first year support has clearly encouraged participating graduate programs to take risks in accepting some of our students. Our two previous IMSD grants have supported 61 Ph.D. students, with 10 additional students being considered for admission and IMSD funding for Fall 2008. Three (3) IMSD Scholars have already obtained a Ph.D and all 3 are gainfully employed as research scientists. Fourteen (14) others are scheduled to finish their Ph.D.s in 2008. In addition, the extensive recruitment provided by the Graduate College with institutional funds in support of the IMSD, has allowed the admission of 20 additional URMs in biomedical Ph.D. programs, supported by other grants. None of the participating Ph.D.- granting programs, on their own, would have had the resources or the staff to undertake such active recruitment. The IMSD grant has also helped support a Minority Health Disparities Summer Research Opportunity Program, providing intensive summer research experiences both to UA undergraduates and to undergraduates from other colleges and universities throughout the country. The program has greatly increased the number, preparation and confidence of many URM students who may not have perceived themselves as able to earn a doctorate prior to their participation in the program. MHD/SROP has also allowed faculty to observe first-hand the ability of some of these students prior to making a graduate admission decision. In several cases, personal knowledge of the student and his/her abilities, work ethic, and mature demeanor has compensated for less than stellar transcripts or low GREs, tipping the scales in favor of admission. Eighteen (18) former MHD/SROP participants are currently pursuing Ph.D.s or MD/Ph.D.s a UA. Extensive recruitment conducted by the Graduate College, the synergy created by the MHD/SROP program with other pipeline programs, and the excellent integration of the IMSD with T-35 grants and other sources of graduate training support, have been crucial to UAs' success in training URMs. Currently, of the 15 Research I universities designated as our "Peer Institutions," the UA holds first place in the number of Hispanics and Native Americans enrolled in graduate programs.

描述（由申请人提供）：亚利桑那大学 (UA) 寻求继续并扩大综合培训计划的有效实施，以增加进入并成功完成生物医学博士学位的少数族裔学生 (URM) 的数量。它由两个部分组成：(1) IMSD 学者计划，提供奖学金、学费、健康保险、“生存技能”研讨会、参加全国会议的旅行以及每年对 10 名被其中一所大学录取的 URM 进行持续的特别指导和跟踪。 UA 拥有 16 个生物医学研究生课程； (2) 少数族裔健康差异暑期研究机会计划 (MHD/SROP)，将 8 名 UA 本科生与经验丰富的 UA 教师相匹配，进行为期 10 周的全职生物医学研究，学习如何为研究生院做准备以及如何组建强大的团队研究生申请。 MHD/SROP 还提供每周一次的关于少数族裔健康差异的研讨会，因为早期的赠款已表明这一主题极大地激励 URM 学生追求生物医学职业。由于我们的许多 IMSD 学者现在正在从事与健康差异相关的论文研究，在这项新拨款中，我们还建议调查这如何激励研究生 URM 完成博士学位。参与的学生将由咨询委员会选出，项目总监和协调员将确保满足 NIH 的所有法规和项目要求。综合计划评估将由独立评估员每年完成。我们的 IMSD 计划于 2001 年首次获得资助，帮助在 UA 攻读生物医学博士学位的 URM 人数增加了五倍，从 2000 年（IMSD 资助之前）的 16 名学生增加到 2007 年秋季的 81 名学生。61 名学生获得了在攻读博士学位的第一年期间参加了IMSD学者计划。另外 20 个项目得到了其他培训来源的支持。目前正在考虑另外 10 名学生在 2008 年秋季入学并参加 IMSD。其中三名学生已获得博士学位。另有 53 人正在取得令人满意的进展。一些学者不会被录取为博士学位。虽然没有 IMSD 支持，但他们的保留率高达 87%，远高于全国生命科学专业学生的保留率（根据 CGS，2005 年的数据为 62%）。所有不攻读博士学位的学者。已经完成或正在完成终端学位。自2001年以来，MHD/SROP已培养了205名本科生，其中包括54名UA MARC学生，其中50人已经在攻读生物医学博士学位。或医学博士/博士程序。 公共卫生相关性：亚利桑那大学在 URM 学生的招收和毕业方面拥有机构承诺和良好的记录。我们成功的证据是少数族裔入学率的增加，从 1983 年的 9.59% 增加到 2007 年的 27.6%。我们的校园多年来一直致力于多元化，并制定了支持计划，使少数族裔入学率稳步增长。 UA 目前在 URM 学生入学方面被评为全国两所顶尖的研究型广泛（研究 I）大学之一。研究生院在招收和保留少数族裔学生方面采取了非常积极主动的方法。过去十年中，少数族裔研究生的入学人数稳步增长，从 1997 年秋季的 897 人增加到 2007 年秋季的 1,328 人，尽管过去几年研究生总体入学人数大幅下降，但仍增长了 52%。 2007 年秋季，少数族裔占 UA 研究生入学人数的 22%。与我们的 ABOR 同行机构的比较表明，UA 在招收西班牙裔和美国原住民研究生的人数方面领先于其他 15 所大学。 IMSD 赠款对于 UA 生物医学科学研究生招生的转变至关重要，使得 URM 攻读博士学位的研究生数量增加了五倍。 IMSD 第一年的支持显然鼓励参与的研究生项目冒险接受我们的一些学生。我们之前的两笔 IMSD 资助已资助了 61 名博士。学生，另有 10 名学生正在考虑申请 2008 年秋季入学和 IMSD 资助。三 (3) 名 IMSD 学者已获得博士学位，并且所有 3 人都作为研究科学家受雇有酬。另外十四 (14) 名计划于 2008 年完成博士学位。此外，研究生院利用机构资金支持 IMSD 提供的广泛招聘，已允许额外录取 20 名生物医学博士 URM。计划，并得到其他赠款的支持。没有一个参与的博士学位授予项目本身拥有资源或人员来进行如此积极的招聘。 IMSD 赠款还帮助支持了少数民族健康差异夏季研究机会计划，为 UA 本科生和全国其他学院和大学的本科生提供密集的夏季研究经验。该项目极大地增加了许多 URM 学生的数量、准备和信心，他们在参与该项目之前可能认为自己没有能力获得博士学位。 MHD/SROP 还允许教师在做出研究生录取决定之前直接观察其中一些学生的能力。在某些情况下，学生的个人知识及其能力、职业道德和成熟的举止弥补了成绩单不佳或 GRE 成绩偏低的影响，从而使录取的天平发生了倾斜。十八 (18) 名前 MHD/SROP 参与者目前正在攻读 UA 博士学位或医学博士/博士学位。研究生院进行的广泛招聘、MHD/SROP 计划与其他管道计划产生的协同作用，以及 IMSD 与 T-35 补助金和其他研究生培训支持来源的完美整合，对于 UA 的成功至关重要。培训 URM。目前，在 15 所被指定为我们的“同行机构”的研究型大学中，UA 在就读研究生课程的西班牙裔和美洲原住民人数方面名列第一。