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hospital. You will have to remove all jewellery or anyother metallic items, preferably before you come foryour investigation. The hospital is not responsible forloss of any valuables.Who will I see?You will be looked after by a small team including aradiologist and radiographer who will perform theexamination.If you have any questions you can ask them.What happens during the MRI scan?You will be taken into a special room and madecomfortable on the table. During an MRI of thebreast, you will be asked to lie on your stomach onthe scanning table.Breast MRI MachineThe breasts are placed into the specially designedhollows in the table, which contains coils that detectthe magnetic signal. The coils do not cause anydiscomfort to the breast.The table is then moved into the magnetic tube forthe scan to take place.5

AcknowledgmentsThe NCPR research team would like to first express our deep gratitude to theadministrators and faculty at each of the eight colleges that participated in this study: ElPaso Community College, Lone Star College–CyFair, Lone Star College–Kingwood, SouthTexas College, Texas A&M International University, Palo Alto College, San AntonioCollege, and St. Philip’s College. Each of these institutions welcomed our collaboration andcourageously subjected their innovative programs to rigorous evaluation.We would like to express special thanks to each of the site liaisons — IrmaCamacho, Christine Timmerman, Ruben Flores, Michael Chavez, Ruben Izaguirre,Luzelma Canales, Conchita Hickey, Michael Flores, and Abel Gonzales — who devotedcountless hours to the students, the bridge programs, and the research study. We alsoappreciate the assistance of our data liaisons at each of the colleges, who aided our datacollection efforts by sending us student data files — Art Gonzalez, Carol Kay, DougSchirmer, Troy Touchette, Kristina Lopez, Rhonda Johnson, Mecca Salahuddin, BrendaCole, Jinhao Wang, Wesley Jennings, Siobhan Fleming, Daniel Dean, Frank Segovia,Robert Aguinaga, and Catherine Chapa.We thank the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board for their partnership andsupport. In particular, we want to thank David Gardner, Lynette Heckman, Robin Zuniga,Linda Hargrove, Belinda Hernandez, and Judith Loredo for sharing information with us,providing us with student data, and helping us to coordinate meetings with the colleges.The Texas Developmental Summer Bridge Project is part of the National Center forPostsecondary Research (NCPR), which is generously supported by a grant (R305A060010)from the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. Katina Stapleton, ourprogram officer, has been a stalwart supporter of this project since its inception. We alsoreceived considerable financial support from Houston Endowment that enabled the summerbridge programs to recruit many more students than ever before. We thank George Graingerat Houston Endowment for his endorsement and support of this project.Additionally, we want to acknowledge the varied and important contributions ofmembers of NCPR who made this report possible. NCPR was designed to be acollaborative research center, and this research project has truly been a team effort. ThomasBailey, director of NCPR, was instrumental in recruiting institutions, designing the study,and weighing in with useful comments at every critical juncture. Thomas Brock, RobertIvry, and Mary Visher helped guide the design of the Texas Summer Bridge project andprovided detailed suggestions on drafts of this report. Marie-Andrée Somers and AlisonRebeck Black provided invaluable technical advice on the statistical analyses, and Nicholasvii