Career Access/Spec. Proj.: Strengthening Underrepresented Minority Mathematics Achievement Through a Consortium of Middle School and High School Intervention Programs (SUMMAC)

美国数学协会将通过其加强未被充分代表的少数民族数学成就（SUMMA）计划，开发其国家SUMMA联盟（SUMMAC）基于数学的大学前干预项目的第二阶段，以加强数学家指导的已知项目，这些项目每年涉及15,000多名少数民族学生。这个为期三年的项目将使这157个项目到1998年至少增加75个。这个数学家网络（大学教师、学校教师和其他）将开展以少数民族学生为重点的项目，包括研讨会、会议、出版物、访问彼此的项目、技术援助、分享课程和指导。用于发展SUMMAC的机制与拥有30,000名成员的MAA的结构错综复杂地联系在一起：区域讲习班；来自MAA学生分会的少数民族研究生担任辅导员；在联合数学会议上的演讲。利用在第一阶段（1992-1995年）在SUMMA发展起来的领导能力，由SUMMA资助的区域协调员将在其所在地区领导讲习班，并在接受SUMMA工作人员的培训后对新项目进行实地考察。第一阶段开始出版的出版物将继续出版：《项目主任手册》；年度《基于数学的干预项目目录》；以及每季的SUMMAC论坛通讯。每年将举办两次邀请会议：一次是为经验丰富的导演和新手导演举办的。第二，通过成本分担的方式支持，将帮助新手导演设计项目和学习提案写作技巧。＊＊＊

HRD-9552987 Hawkins, William The Mathematical Association of America, through its Strengthening Underrepresented Minority Mathematics Achievement (SUMMA) Program, will develop a second phase of its national SUMMA Consortium (SUMMAC) of mathematics-based pre-college intervention projects in order to strengthen the known projects directed by mathematicians which reach more than 15,000 minority students each year. This three-year project will increase these 157 projects by at least 75 by 1998. This network of mathematicians (collegiate faculty, school teachers, and others) who conduct projects which focus on minority students will engage in activities which include workshops, conferences, publications, visits to each others' projects, technical assistance, sharing curricula and mentoring. The mechanisms used to develop SUMMAC are intricately connected to the structure of the 30,000-member MAA: regional workshops; minority graduate students from MAA student chapters as counselors; presentations at the Joint Mathematics Meetings. Utilizing the leadership that developed in SUMMAC during the first phase (1992-1995), regional coordinators who SUMMA grantees will lead the workshops in their area of the country and make site visits to new projects after receiving training from the SUMMA staff. The publications that were begun during the first phase will continue: the Project Director's Handbook; an annual Directory of Mathematics-based Intervention Projects; and a quarterly SUMMAC Forum newsletter. Two invitational conferences will be held each year: one is for both experienced and novice directors. The second, supported through cost-sharing, will help novice directors design projects and learn proposal writing techniques. ***