Workshop of the American Physical Society Committee on Minorities

在过去的11年里，美国物理学会与美国物理学会少数族裔委员会合作，为物理学专业的少数族裔本科生提供了美国物理学会企业赞助奖学金。该奖学金项目提供财政支持、由执业专业物理学家和企业赞助组成的指导计划。从1980年开始，已有100多名本科生参加了这个项目。因此，在获得奖学金的学生中，有不同层次的学生，有不同的职业道路和成就。APS每年更新学生的记录，因此在分析结果和提出改进建议方面处于有利地位。尽管做出了许多努力，少数民族学生选择成为专业物理学家和其他科学家的人数远远低于他们在总人口中的比例。APS奖学金项目通过跟踪少数民族学生从高中到本科，到研究生院，到博士后，再到就业，获得了关于少数民族管道问题相当大一部分的有用信息。因此，可以开发重要的数据，这些数据可以解决管道中不同阶段的各种决策点。我们建议举办一个研讨会，由过去和现在的APS企业奖学金获得者、他们的导师、企业赞助商以及专业协会和政府的适当成员组成。本次研讨会将重点讨论：1。1 .确定和分析学生奖学金获得者在决定继续从事物理学或相关科学事业时所采取的关键步骤。2 .确定和分析导致一些奖学金获得者不选择理科专业而选择其他专业的关键决策点；3 .导致奖学金获得者未能完成大学教育的变量的识别和分析。分析导师计划的作用及其对职业选择的影响；确定如何让奖学金获得者和专业物理学家（许多来自少数群体）进入现有网络的策略，并在专业协会和其他与少数群体有关的项目的帮助下发展他们自己的网络系统。预计从这次研讨会中获得的信息和结果将适用于旨在增加所有科学领域少数民族学生数量的其他努力。

For the past eleven years, the APS in collaboration with the APS Committee for Minority in Physic has operated the APS Corporate Sponsored Scholarships for Minority Undergraduate Students who major in Physics. The scholarship program provide financial support, a mentorship program consisting of practicing professional physicists and corporate sponsorship. Over 100 undergraduate students have participated in the program which started in 1980. As a result, among the scholarship recipients there is a wide spectrum of students at different levels as well as varied career paths and achievements. The APS has annually updated the records of the student and thus is in excellent position to analyze the results and make suggestions for improvements. In spite of many efforts, the number of minority students who chose careers as professional physicist and other scientists is well below their percentage in the population. The APS scholarships program has obtained useful information on a rather significant portion of the minority pipeline problem by following minority students from highschool, to undergraduate school, to graduate school, to postdoctoral position and then on to employment. Thus, significant data can be developed, which can address the various decision making points at different stages in the pipeline. We proposed to hold a workshop consisting of past and present APS Corporate Scholarship winners, their mentors, corporate sponsors and appropriate members of the professional societies and government. The workshop will focus on the: 1. Identification and analysis of the crucial steps made be the student scholarship winners in deciding to go on to careers in physics or a related science, 2. Identification and analysis of the crucial decision points which resulted in some scholarship winners deciding not to major in science but in another field, 3. Identification and analysis of the variables leading to a scholarship recipient not completing his or her college education, 4. Analysis of the role of the mentor program and how it effects career choices, 5. Determination of strategies on how to involve the scholarship winners and professional physicists (many from minority groups) in accessing existing networks, and developing their own networking system with assistance from the professional societies and other programs concerned with minorities. It is expected that information and results garnered form this workshop, focused on the APS program, will be applicable to other efforts aimed at increasing the number of minority students in all the sciences.