Minority Access to Research Careers An Evaluation of the Honors Undergraduate Research Training Program (1985) / Chapter Skim
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Program Activities and Accomplishments: Site Visit Perspectives
Program Activities and Accomplishments: Site Visit Perspectives
Pages 15-28
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Discussions with current trainees revealed great enthusiasm for the research component of the MARC Honors program. In many cases, the exposure to research resulted in decisions to pursue careers in biomedical research.
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In addition to site visits, conversations were held with MARC Honors program directors at the Fourth MARC Scholars Conference and Program Directors Meeting. Many of the issues raised during the site visits were discussed at that time and information obtained during these interviews is presented below along with the data collected during site visits.
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Curriculum MARC Honors programs enrich the curricula of grant recipient universities in several ways: guest lecturers, trainee seminars, new courses, and new course requirements. MARC Honors activities are almost always open to the entire university community.
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Some program directors feel that more emphasis should be placed on attending major scientific meetings. They believe that MARC Honors students could and should participate in the mainstream of their chosen disciplines rather than in sheltered MARC environments.
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This independence is outside the lab, too. Once you learn to make choices for yourself, it's hard to stop." While all MARC Honors programs have a summer research component, not all of the schools send their students to other institutions.
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For me, this has been very fruitful as a teacher and as a researcher. Administrative Processes Program Directors and MARC Faculty Members One important feature of MARC Honors programs is the enormous effort put forth by the program directors.
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Some programs receive additional funds from the university. At one school, the university pays for the teaching of noncredit review courses established specially for MARC Honors students while other schools indirectly support the MARC Honors program by maintaining equipment purchased with MARC or MBRS funds.
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. One program director suggested that the students served by MARC Honors programs at historically minority schools receive more exposure
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The exclusion of students with career goals in the health professions requires MARC Honors programs to sometimes pass over bright and promising science students. Program directors report that trainee positions sometimes went unfilled because the best candidates for them seemed likely to pursue a medical degree.
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Equipment purchased under MBRS grants and faculty research supported by MBRS grants provides a base that is essential for the MARC Honors programs. This is particularly true for the least developed institutions.
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One faculty member reported that two of her MARC Honors undergraduate students will be presenting their work at a national meeting of a scientific society, the first undergraduates in the history of the society to do so. Awareness of Research and Research Careers MARC Honors programs, by virtue of their visibility and prestige, have increased the awareness of research careers on campus and have
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The impact has spread beyond the MARC Honors trainees and at several schools, faculty members report a greater interest in research among nonMARC students. Scientific honor societies on two campuses received new energy as a result of the enthusiasm for science scholarship generated by the MARC Honors program.
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An organization of MARC Honors program directors has evolved from these meetings, and a newsletter has been established to exchange information about training activities. Valuable personal and professional contacts are also made during the summer research programs.
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This had not been the case at these institutions before the initiation of the MARC Honors program. The demand for MARC Honors students (who are sought out by summer program directors and graduate school recruiters)
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