Technical Assistance to Facilitate the Development of a State Action Plan to Increase the Participation of Minorities in MSE Research and Teaching Careers

9612216 McBay提议的项目建立在少数民族优质教育（QEM）网络技术援助项目（TAP）的基础上，该项目由美国国家科学基金会（NSF）资助。TAP的长期目标是显著提高数学、科学和工程（MSE）领域的参与度，这些领域的学生和教师在高等大学预科数学和科学课程以及大学和研究生阶段的MSE领域中一直被低估。非亚裔少数族裔在美国所需的高技能技术工人中只占5%左右，但在美国人口中所占的比例相当大（超过20%），而且还在不断增长。为了集中精力解决这一问题，NSF和QEM都为少数族裔MSE学士和博士学位获得者制定了2000年的数字目标。拟议的项目旨在加强选定州内少数民族和非少数民族院校的能力，以培养有充分准备的少数民族毕业生，这些毕业生进入MSE教学和研究职业，其数量与该州高等教育中少数民族学生的比例相称。一个主要成果将是一项州行动计划，该计划将在前一次奖励期间成立的州指导委员会的领导下制定，这将使该州能够为少数族裔MSE学位的数字目标做出相应的贡献。该计划将强调两年制和四年制大学之间的衔接协议、技术的使用以及加强教师教育计划。将向参与机构提供各种形式的技术援助，目的是提高机构能力和基础设施，并促进协调与合作以及信息共享。＊＊＊

9612216 McBay The proposed project builds upon the Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network's Technical Assistance Project (TAP) that was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). TAP's long-term goal is to significantly increase the participation in mathematics, science, and engineering (MSE) fields of groups historically underrepresented as students and teachers in higher level pre-college mathematics and science courses as well as in MSE fields at the college and graduate levels. Non-Asian minorities constitute only about five percent of the pool of highly skilled technical workers the country needs but represent a sizable (more than 20 percent) and growing percentage of the U.S. population. To focus efforts on this problem, both the NSF and QEM have established numerical goals for the year 2000 for minority MSE baccalaureate and doctoral degree recipients. The proposed project seeks to strengthen the capacity of minority and nonminority institutions within a selected state to produce well-prepared minority graduates who enter MSE teaching and research careers in numbers commensurate with the percentage of minority students in higher education enrolled in that state. A major outcome will be a state action plan, developed under the leadership of a state steering committee established during the prior award, that will enable the state to make its proportionate contribution to the minority MSE degree numerical goals. The plan will emphasize articulation agreements between two- and four-year institutions, the use of technology, and strengthening teacher education programs. Various forms of technical assistance will be provided to the participating institutions that will be designed to increase institutional capacity and infrastructure as well as to facilitate coordination and collaboration, and information sharing. ***