RCMS: Research Careers for Minority Scholars Program at City College

纽约城市大学城市学院RCMS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，旨在鼓励少数民族学生进入工程和科学领域的研究事业，从从城市学院本科生中招募潜在的RCMS学者开始，最终将他们安置在适当的博士项目中。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的方法，其基础是仔细平衡丰富项目、研究经验、学术咨询、专业咨询、沟通发展、社区意识、暑期实习和研究生院咨询。当然，RCMS将继续利用学院现有的许多针对优秀学生的特殊项目的资源，但RCMS学者将继续有许多额外的学术丰富机会。通过他们与教师导师的参与，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，让学者们可以积极参与到一个由来自多个学科的学者和学生组成的紧密社区中。RCMS学者之间以及来自类似项目的学者将参加一系列活动，这些活动将他们聚集在一起，相互教学和学习，以及从教师那里学习，每个学者在广泛的经验中得到指导和支持，这些经验包括他或她作为未来研究人员的学徒生涯。此外，该项目不仅将使RCMS学者受益，增加他们从事研究工作的可能性，而且还将丰富学院所有学生和教师的学术经验。这项招募研究人员的努力被设想为校园内各种特殊活动的中心，并作为一种手段，使人们更清楚地关注在努力增加科学和工程领域少数民族研究人员数量方面的许多关键问题。RCMS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已经与美国几所大学建立了一个非常成功的暑期实习项目，已经做好了充分的准备，可以大大扩展暑期实习项目。在第二阶段，RCMS将保持60名RCMS本科生学者和15名“AMP附属机构”（从社区学院转到RCMS的纽约联盟本科生）的稳定状态。该项目为期四年的总成本将为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，其中30,000美元用于供应。RCMS将依次为城市学院的所有AMP学生提供辅助支持，包括丰富活动，咨询，指导，交流研讨会，每月学者会议等。RCMS也将寻求额外的资金。将进行评估，以了解该计划在识别和培养从事研究科学家和工程师职业的学生方面取得的成功程度。该评估将包括直接衡量项目对学生的影响，并从导师和其他相关教师那里了解他们如何看待项目的成就。为了达到这些目的，将设计、应用和分析项目前和项目后的评估工具。

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.