Alliance for Success Science and Engineering Planning

成功联盟是由13个主要研究机构和6所历史上的黑人学院和大学组成的学术联盟。该联盟成立于1989年2月，是一项全面的合作努力，旨在增加全国少数民族教师的数量。它的项目和倡议旨在影响少数民族学生从大一到博士后研究活动的几个关键阶段。本科阶段的重点是准备，激励和支持荣誉学生追求研究生学习和学术生涯。联盟机构拥有显著增加科学和工程领域少数族裔代表性所需的经验和资源。非常成功的暑期研究机会项目（SROP）极大地提高了少数族裔学生的毕业率和留校率。SROP成立于1986年，其1514名少数族裔参与者中有99%仍在入学或已经毕业，66%的毕业生进入了学士学位后课程（是全国所有学士学位平均水平的三倍），超过50%的人表示有兴趣成为教授。联盟中的主要研究机构每年从事价值超过20亿美元的外部资助研究，每年授予美国超过17%的标准普尔E博士学位。有能力确保所有被其研究生院录取的联盟项目毕业生获得高质量的研究生教育。利用SROP项目五年的宝贵经验作为坚实的基础，我们打算迈出一大步，真正改变美国科学和工程的面貌。该联盟提出计划活动，专门针对本科s&e教育。规划过程将侧重于扩大和加强联盟的夏季研究机会项目，为S&amp；E少数民族学生提供研究机会，制定夏季S&amp；E研究所的标准，确定S&amp；E学科的教学和课程丰富活动机制，制定招聘策略，旨在提高少数民族学生在S&amp；E中的参与度，并协调数据收集、测量和评估，以确定联盟项目的成功率。这些计划努力的结果都旨在显著改善少数民族s&p学生的本科教育经历，并准备和激励他们继续研究生学习，从而走向富有成效的教师职业。因为它们是一套综合的纵向计划的一部分，而且因为一个计划的成果将积极影响服务中下一个计划的参与水平和成功率，我们相信，整体的效果将大大超过单个组成部分的总和。我们谨代表“成功联盟”的首席学术官，请求提供4万美元的资金，用于上述规划，并据此制定强有力的实施方案。联盟成员机构已承诺为本年度提供8万美元，用于规划过程的基础设施。与美国国家科学基金会少数民族参与联盟计划的伙伴关系将有可能刺激少数民族参与科学和工程的积极变化。

The Alliance for Success in the academic consortium of 13 major research institutions and six historically Black colleges and universities. The Alliance was established in February of 1989 as a comprehensive and cooperative effort to increase the numbers of minority faculty members nationally. Its programs and initiatives are intended to affect the pipeline of minority students at several critical stages from the freshman year through post- doctoral research activities. Emphasis during the undergraduate phase is focused on the preparation, motivation and support of honors students in their pursuit of graduate study and academic careers. Alliance institutions have the experience and resources required to significantly increase minority representation in the sciences and engineering (S&E). The highly successful Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP) has dramatically increased the graduation and retention rates among minority students. Science inception of the SROP in 1986, 99% of its 1,514 minority participants are still enrolled or have graduated, 66% of its graduates have entered post-baccalaureate programs (three times the national average for all baccalaureates), and over 50% have indicated an interest in becoming professors. The major research institutions in the Alliance, who engage in over $2 billion worth of externally funded research annually and confer over 17% of the S&E PhD degrees awarded annually in the United States, have the capacity to ensure high quality graduate education for all graduates of Alliance programs who are admitted to their graduate schools. Utilizing the invaluable experience of five year of the SROP program as a firm foundation, we intend to take a giant step that could literally change the face of American science and engineering. The Alliance proposes planning activities to address specifically undergraduate S&E education. The planning process will focus on expansion and enhancement of the Alliance Summer Research Opportunities Program for S&E minority students, development of criteria for a Summer S&E Institute, identification of mechanisms for instructional and curricular enrichment activities in S&E disciplines, development of recruiting strategies directed at increasing minority student participation in S&E, and coordination of data collection, measurement and evaluation for determining the success rate of Alliance programs. The outcome from each of these planning efforts is intended to significantly improve the undergraduate educational experience of minority S&E students, and to prepare and motivate them to pursue graduate studies leading toward productive faculty careers. Because they are part of an integrated and longitudinal set of initiative, and because the product of one program will positively influence the level of participation and success rate of the next program in the serves, we believe the effect of the whole will greatly exceed the sum of the individual components. On behalf of the chief academic officers of the Alliance for Success, we request funding in the among of $40,000 to undertake the planning outlined above, and to develop from it a strong implementation proposal. Alliance member institutions have already committed $80,000 for the current year to provide the infrastructures for the planning process. A partnership with NSF Alliances for Minority Participation Program will make possible the stimulation of positive change in the participation of minorities in science and engineering.