AMP: SUNY Alliance for Minority Participation: Developing,Testing and Disseminating Effective Educational Models

纽约州立大学（SUNY）是一个非常大的公立学院/大学系统，它建议为少数民族的参与建立一个SUNY联盟。纽约州立大学提供工程课程的四所学院正在带头实施这项提议。这四所大学分别是布法罗、宾汉姆顿、新帕尔茨和石溪。虽然这些机构在纽约州立大学系统中提供工程项目，但拟议计划涉及的学科还包括应用科学、数学、物理科学和生物科学。在纽约州立大学系统中已经存在着各种成功的少数族裔项目。拟议中的SUNY-AMP建议在这些项目之间建立联盟，并建立新的项目来满足提案的特定目标。特别是，预计到2000年，获得学士学位的少数民族人数将从241人增加到480人，增加两倍。同样，硕士学位预计将从27个增加到60个；就博士而言，学位的数量将从4个增加到24个。该提案的核心是四个既定目标：(1)增加被纽约州立大学联盟学校接受的少数民族学生的数量；(2)帮助少数民族学生超越，而不仅仅是避免失败；(3)扩大少数民族学生的研究机会；(4)将未被充分代表的少数民族学生获得的SMET学士学位增加一倍。在某种程度上，该联盟可以被视为四个不同地区联盟的联盟，每个联盟都以上述四个机构为中心。

The State University of New York (SUNY) is a very large public college/university system which proposes to develop a SUNY alliance for minority participation. The four SUNY institutions that offer engineering programs are taking the lead on the proposed initiative. The four institutions are Buffalo, Binghamton, New Paltz, and Stony Brook. While these institutions offer the engineering programs in the SUNY system, the disciplines involved in the proposed initiative will also include applied science, mathematics, physical sciences, and biological sciences. A variety of successful minority programs already exist throughout the SUNY system. The proposed SUNY-AMP proposes to provide alliances among these programs and establish new programs to meet the specified goals of the proposal. In particular, it is expected that the number of minorities receiving bachelor degrees will increase twofold from 241 underrepresented minority SMET graduates to 480 by the year 2000. Likewise, the expected increase in the master's degrees will be from 27 to 60; in the case of Ph.Ds the number of degrees will increase from 4 to 24. Central to this proposal are four stated goals: (1) Increase the number of minority students that are accepted into the coalition of SUNY schools; (2) Help minority students excel rather than merely avoid failure; (3) Expand research opportunities for minority students; and (4) Double the number of SMET bachelor degrees awarded by underrepresented minority students. In part, the alliance can be seen as a coalition of four different regional alliances each centered around the four institutions mentioned above.