TY - JOUR
T1 - Baseline characteristics of the 2015-2019 first year student cohorts of the nih building infrastructure leading to diversity (Build) program
AU - Norris, Keith C.
AU - McCreath, Heather E.
AU - Hueffer, Karsten
AU - Aley, Stephen B.
AU - Chavira, Gabriela
AU - Christie, Christina A.
AU - Crespi, Catherine M.
AU - Crespo, Carlos
AU - D’Amour, Gene
AU - Eagan, Kevin
AU - Echegoyen, Lourdes E.
AU - Feig, Andrew
AU - Foroozesh, Maryam
AU - Guerrero, Lourdes R.
AU - Johanson, Kelly
AU - Kamangar, Farin
AU - Kingsford, Laura
AU - LaCourse, William
AU - Maccalla, Nicole Marie Gerardi
AU - Márquez-Magaña, Leticia
AU - Mathur, Ambika
AU - Maton, Kenneth
AU - Mehravaran, Shiva
AU - Morales, Danielle X.
AU - Nakazono, Terry
AU - Ofili, Elizabeth
AU - Okuyemi, Kolawole
AU - Ott, Laura
AU - Parangan-Smith, Audrey
AU - Pfund, Christine
AU - Purnell, Dawn
AU - Reynolds, Arleigh
AU - Rous, Phillip J.
AU - Saetermoe, Carrie
AU - Snyder, Katherine
AU - Vishwanatha, Jamboor K.
AU - Wagler, Amy
AU - Wallace, Steven P.
AU - Seeman, Teresa
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Objective: 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. Design: Baseline description of first-year students entering college at BUILD institutions during 2015-2019. Setting: Ten colleges/universities that each received <$7.5mil/yr in NIH Research Project Grants and have high proportions of low-income students. Participants: 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. Planned Outcomes: 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. Conclusions: 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. Ethn Dis. 2020;30(4):681-692; doi:10.18865/ ed.30.4.681
AB - Objective: 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. Design: Baseline description of first-year students entering college at BUILD institutions during 2015-2019. Setting: Ten colleges/universities that each received <$7.5mil/yr in NIH Research Project Grants and have high proportions of low-income students. Participants: 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. Planned Outcomes: 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. Conclusions: 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. Ethn Dis. 2020;30(4):681-692; doi:10.18865/ ed.30.4.681
KW - Biomedical Research
KW - Diversity
KW - Underrepresented Students
KW - Workforce Training
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85092122306
U2 - 10.18865/ED.30.4.681
DO - 10.18865/ED.30.4.681
M3 - Article
C2 - 32989368
AN - SCOPUS:85092122306
SN - 1049-510X
VL - 30
SP - 681
EP - 692
JO - Ethnicity and Disease
JF - Ethnicity and Disease
IS - 4
ER -