RCMS: Research Careers for Minority Scholars Program at City College

9450353 Parker RCMS在纽约城市大学城市学院的第二阶段在RCMS资助的第二阶段，纽约城市大学城市学院提出了一项持续的全面努力，旨在鼓励少数族裔学生进入工程和科学领域的研究生涯，首先从城市学院本科生中招募潜在的RCMS学者，最后将他们安排在适当的博士课程中。在第二阶段，培养下一代少数族裔研究人员的计划将继续是一个为期四年的多方面方法，基于对充实计划、研究经验、学术咨询、专业咨询、沟通发展、社区意识、暑期实习和研究生咨询的仔细平衡。当然，RCMS将继续利用学院为优秀学生提供的许多现有特别计划的资源，但RCMS学者将继续有许多额外的机会来丰富学术。通过与教师导师的接触，RCMS学者继续获得科学研究的第一手经验。此外，RCMS将继续提供一个环境，使学者能够成为来自几个学科的学者和学生紧密联系的社区的积极成员。RCM学者之间以及来自类似项目的学者将参加一些活动，将他们聚集在一起，相互教授和学习，以及从教职员工那里，每个学者在广泛的经验指导和支持下，包括他或她作为未来研究人员的学徒生涯。此外，该计划不仅将使预期的RCMS学者群体受益，增加他们作为研究人员从事职业生涯的可能性，还将丰富学院所有学生和教职员工的学术经验。这一招募研究人员的有效措施被设想为立即成为校园各种特殊活动的中心，并作为一种手段，使人们更加清楚地关注许多关键问题，努力增加科学和工程领域少数族裔研究人员的数量。农村合作机制还应继续利用其他资源，继续与学院、大学、研究实验室和社区组织建立合作关系。RCMS已经与美国各地的几所大学实施了非常成功的暑期实习计划，已经做好了大幅扩大暑期实习计划的准备。在第二阶段，RCMS将保持60名RCMS本科生和15名“AMP附属机构”的稳定状态--纽约联盟本科生从社区大学转到RCMS。该项目在四年内的总成本为2,514,845美元，其中NSF提供1,669,663美元，城市学院提供545,212美元，CUNY-AMP为“AMP附属机构”提供300,000美元，以及30,000美元的用品。RCM将反过来为城市学院的所有AMP学生提供辅助支持，包括充实活动、咨询、辅导、沟通工作坊、每月学者会议等。RCM还将寻求额外的资金。将进行一项评估，以了解该计划在多大程度上成功地确定和促进了继续作为研究科学家和工程学职业的学生的发展。这项评估将直接衡量该项目对学生的影响，并从导师和其他相关教师那里了解他们对该项目成果的看法。为此，将设计、应用和分析方案前和方案后的评估工具。

9450353 Parker RCMS at the City College of the City University of New York, Phase II In the second phase of RCMS funding, City College of the City University of New York proposes an ongoing comprehensive effort aimed at encouraging minority students to enter research careers in engineering and science, beginning with the recruitment of potential RCMS Scholars from City College undergraduates and culminating in their placement in appropriate doctoral programs. The hear of the program to shaping the next generation of minority researchers in Phase II will continue to be a four-year multifaceted approach based on a careful balancing of enrichment programs, research experience, academic counseling, professional counseling, communications development, community awareness, summer internships, and graduate school counseling. RCMS shall of course continue to draw on the resources of the many existing special programs for outstanding students at the College, but the RCMS Scholars will continue to have many additional opportunities for academic enrichment. Through their involvement with faculty mentors, RCMS scholars continue to be given first-hand experience with scientific research. In addition, RCMS will continue to provide an environment where Scholars can become actively involved members of a close-knit community of scholars and students from several disciplines. RCMS Scholars, both among themselves and along with scholars from similar program, will participate in a number of activities that draw them together as a group, teaching and learning from one another, as well as from the faculty, each Scholar guided and supported in a wide range of experiences that comprise his or her apprenticeship as a prospective researcher. Moreover, the program not only will benefit the intended group of RCMS Scholars and increase the probability that they will pursue careers as researchers, but will also enrich the academic experience of all students and faculty at the College. This eff ort to recruit researchers is envisioned as at once the hub of various special activities on campus and as a means of bringing into clearer focus a great many key issues in the effort to increase the numbers of minority researchers in science and engineering. RCMS shall also continue to draw on other resources by continuing to forge collaborative relationships with colleges, universities, research laboratories and community-based organizations. With a highly successful summer internship program already in place with several universities across the United States, RCMS is already well positioned to significantly expand on the summer internship program. RCMS, in Phase II, will maintain a steady state of 60 RCMS undergraduate scholars as well as 15 "AMP Affiliates" -- New York Alliance undergraduate students transferring from community colleges to the RCMS. The total cost of the project over a four year period will be $2,514,845, with NSF providing $1,669,663, City College contributing $545,212, and CUNY-AMP providing $300,000 for "AMP Affiliates," with $30,000 for supplies. RCMS will in turn provide ancillary support to all AMP students at City College consisting of enrichment activities, counseling, mentoring, communications workshops, monthly scholars' meetings and the like. RCMS will also seek out additional funding. An evaluation will be conducted to learn the extend to which the program has been successful in identifying and fostering the development of students who go on to careers as research scientists and engineering. This assessment will involve direct measurement of the impact of the program upon students and learning from mentors and other associated faculty how they view the program's accomplishments. To these ends, pre- and post-program evaluation instruments will be designed, applied, and analyzed.