Jackson Heart Study Undergraduate Training and Education Center at Tougaloo College.
Ethn Dis. 2020 Jan 16;30(1):25-32. doi: 10.18865/ed.30.1.25. eCollection 2020 Winter.
In 1999, Tougaloo College (TC), located in Jackson, Mississippi, was charged, as a part of its role in the Jackson Heart Study (JHS), with creating a pool of well-trained high school students who, upon entering college, could successfully complete undergraduate and graduate or professional degrees in the health professions, biomedical research, and public health. TC identified the following educational challenges experienced by Mississippi high school students: inadequate exposure to reading, writing, logic, and quantitative skills; inadequate course work in science and mathematics; lack of mentors and role models in science-related fields as well as for exploration and identification of career options in the health professions and biomedical research. To this end, the JHS Undergraduate Training and Education Center (JHS UTEC) developed three four-week summer workshops in Science, Language Arts, and Mathematics (SLAM) for high school students in grades 9 through 11. Since SLAM's inception, more than 900 students have completed the program, and more than 90% have enrolled in college. In addition, according to National Student Clearinghouse and participant-reported data, many of the SLAM participants have earned not only undergraduate degrees in science, but also graduate degrees in a health-related and STEM fields. This article details the SLAM curricula and strategies for recruiting, selecting, training, and retaining high school students; we also present data to illustrate the success of the SLAM program.
1999 年，位于密西西比州杰克逊市的图格拉卢学院（TC）承担了杰克逊心脏研究（JHS）的一部分任务，负责培养一批训练有素的高中生，这些学生进入大学后能够成功完成健康专业、生物医学研究和公共卫生领域的本科和研究生或专业学位。TC 确定了密西西比州高中生面临的以下教育挑战：阅读、写作、逻辑和定量技能接触不足；科学和数学课程不足；缺乏科学相关领域的导师和榜样，以及探索和确定健康专业和生物医学研究职业选择的机会。为此，JHS 本科培训和教育中心 (JHS UTEC) 为 9 至 11 年级的高中生开发了三个为期四周的科学、语言艺术和数学 (SLAM) 暑期研讨会。自 SLAM 成立以来，已有 900 多名学生完成了该计划，其中 90%以上的学生已入读大学。此外，根据全国学生信息交换所和参与者报告的数据，许多 SLAM 参与者不仅获得了科学领域的本科学位，还获得了健康相关和 STEM 领域的研究生学位。本文详细介绍了 SLAM 的课程以及招募、选拔、培训和留住高中生的策略；我们还提供了数据来说明 SLAM 计划的成功。
