Recruiting and Retaining URM Students

招募和留住 URM 学生

基本信息

批准号：
8309031
负责人：
Nicquet M.J. Blake
金额：
$ 29.77万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCIENCE CENTER
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2011
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2011-08-01 至 2016-07-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8309031
关键词：
Achievement Address African African American Award Biological Sciences Biomedical Research Charge Communities Complement Country Data Development Diabetes Mellitus Doctor of Philosophy Doctor&apos s Degree Economics Educational workshop Enrollment Evaluation Fellowship Funding Future Glare Goals Grant Health Professional Health Sciences Healthcare Hispanic Americans Hispanics Institution Leadership Left Measurable Measures Mentors Minority Minority Groups Mission Obesity Occupations Outcome Physicians Population Preparation Publications Records Recruitment Activity Research Resources Role Rosa Schools Science Scientist Series Societies South Texas Stream Stroke Students System Texas Time Training Underrepresented Minority United States National Institutes of Health Universities Vision design doctoral student graduate student improved innovation knowledge base next generation programs remediation success

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Charged with the responsibility of educating future health professionals and scientists, the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA) has enthusiastically embraced this mission, training the second highest percentage of Hispanic physicians in the country and providing a steady stream of scientists and health professionals to South Texas and the nation. Historically however, less than 15% of doctoral students in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS) are from underrepresented minority (URM) groups. In a recent review of the Graduate School's achievements, the leadership recognized a disparity between the school's role in the institutional mission of educating a diverse student body and its measurable outcomes. It became evident that if the GSBS hoped to realize its vision of training the next generation of talented and diverse scientific innovators and accomplish its mission coincident with being a Hispanic serving institution, significant changes were warranted. To pursue this commitment, the GSBS conducted an extensive evaluation of its programs and then designed the series of programs and activities articulated in this proposal to proactively address the problems of recruiting and retaining URM students. Programmatic evaluations uncovered three glaring problems: 1.) the numbers of URM students entering the GSBS was inconsistent with UTHSCSA's institutional designation as a Hispanic serving Institution, 2.) 25% of URM students entering the program leave (dismissed or withdraw) within the first year, and 3.) for those that survive the first year, URM students graduate at a much slower rate than their non URM colleagues. The programmatic changes to be implemented include enrichment courses for first year URM students, individualized mentoring plans to keep students focused, and professional development workshops to prepare students for independent research. Through these initiatives, IMSD students will complete their degrees in a manner consistent within predominant institutional norms for non-URM students. IMSD students will graduate with outstanding publication and research records and as such will be highly recruited by prestigious institutions with T32 support. These initiates will serve the common goal of increasing the number of URM students who enter the professorate and begin to address the significant disparity of URM in the STEM.

描述（由申请人提供）：负责教育未来的卫生专业人员和科学家，得克萨斯大学圣安东尼奥大学健康科学中心（UTHSCSA）热情地接受了这一任务，培训了该国第二高的西班牙裔医师，并提供了稳定的科学家和卫生专业人员，以至于南部德克萨斯州和国家。但是，从历史上看，生物医学研究生院（GSB）中只有不到15％的博士生来自代表性不足的少数群体（URM）。在最近对研究生院的成就的评论中，领导层认识到学校在教育多元化的学生团体及其可衡量结果的机构使命中的作用之间存在差异。显然，如果GSB希望意识到其培训下一代才华横溢，多元化的科学创新者的愿景，并完成其任务与是西班牙裔服务机构的一致性，则有必要进行重大变化。为了履行这一承诺，GSB对其计划进行了广泛的评估，然后设计了本提案中阐明的一系列计划和活动，以主动解决招募和留住URM学生的问题。 Programmatic evaluations uncovered three glaring problems: 1.) the numbers of URM students entering the GSBS was inconsistent with UTHSCSA's institutional designation as a Hispanic serving Institution, 2.) 25% of URM students entering the program leave (dismissed or withdraw) within the first year, and 3.) for those that survive the first year, URM students graduate at a much slower rate than their non URM colleagues.要实施的程序化更改包括一年级URM学生的丰富课程，保持专注于学生的个性化指导计划以及专业发展研讨会，以准备学生进行独立研究。通过这些举措，IMSD学生将以一致的方式完成学位，以对非ARM学生的主要制度规范。 IMSD的学生将毕业于出色的出版和研究记录，因此，享有著名的机构将受到T32支持的高度招募。这些发起者将达到增加进入教授的URM学生人数并开始解决茎中URM的巨大差异的共同目标。