BUILD Coordination & Evaluation Center, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.
BUILD BLaST, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK.
Ethn Dis. 2020 Sep 24;30(4):681-692. doi: 10.18865/ed.30.4.681. eCollection 2020 Fall.
The biomedical/behavioral sciences lag in the recruitment and advancement of students from historically underrepresented backgrounds. In 2014 the NIH created the Diversity Program Consortium (DPC), a prospective, multi-site study comprising 10 Building Infrastructure Leading to Diversity (BUILD) institutional grantees, the National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN) and a Coordination and Evaluation Center (CEC). This article describes baseline characteristics of four incoming, first-year student cohorts at the primary BUILD institutions who completed the Higher Education Research Institute, The Freshmen Survey between 2015-2019. These freshmen are the primary student cohorts for longitudinal analyses comparing outcomes of BUILD program participants and non-participants.
Baseline description of first-year students entering college at BUILD institutions during 2015-2019.
Ten colleges/universities that each received <$7.5mil/yr in NIH Research Project Grants and have high proportions of low-income students.
First-year undergraduate students who participated in BUILD-sponsored activities and a sample of non-BUILD students at the same BUILD institutions. A total of 32,963 first-year students were enrolled in the project; 64% were female, 18% Hispanic/Latinx, 19% African American/Black, 2% American Indian/Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, 17% Asian, and 29% White. Twenty-seven percent were from families with an income <$30,000/yr and 25% were their family's first generation in college.
Primary student outcomes to be evaluated over time include undergraduate biomedical degree completion, entry into/completion of a graduate biomedical degree program, and evidence of excelling in biomedical research and scholarship.
The DPC national evaluation has identified a large, longitudinal cohort of students with many from groups historically underrepresented in the biomedical sciences that will inform institutional/national policy level initiatives to help diversify the biomedical workforce.
生物医学/行为科学在招募和提升历史上代表性不足背景的学生方面落后。2014 年，NIH 创建了多元化计划联盟（DPC），这是一项前瞻性的、多站点研究，包括 10 个建立多元化基础设施的机构（BUILD）受赠者、国家研究指导网络（NRMN）和一个协调与评估中心（CEC）。本文描述了 2015-2019 年间在主要 BUILD 机构就读的四批新入学的一年级学生的基线特征，他们完成了高等教育研究所的新生调查。这些新生是进行纵向分析的主要学生群体，比较 BUILD 项目参与者和非参与者的结果。
描述 2015-2019 年间在 BUILD 机构入读的一年级学生的基线情况。
十所大学/学院，每家机构每年获得的 NIH 研究项目资助均低于 750 万美元，且低收入学生比例较高。
参加 BUILD 主办活动的一年级本科生和同一 BUILD 机构的非 BUILD 学生的样本。共有 32963 名一年级学生参加了该项目；64%为女性，18%为西班牙裔/拉丁裔，19%为非裔/黑人，2%为美洲印第安人/阿拉斯加原住民和夏威夷原住民/太平洋岛民，17%为亚洲人，29%为白人。27%的学生来自收入低于 30000 美元/年的家庭，25%的学生是家庭中第一代上大学的人。
随着时间的推移，将对主要学生结果进行评估，包括本科生物医学学位完成情况、进入/完成研究生生物医学学位课程情况以及在生物医学研究和奖学金方面表现出色的证据。
DPC 国家评估确定了一个具有代表性的、纵向的学生群体，其中许多人来自生物医学科学领域历史上代表性不足的群体，这将为机构/国家政策层面的举措提供信息，以帮助使生物医学劳动力多样化。
