MGE: MU-Minority Graduate Education Project

这份提案概述了密苏里-哥伦比亚大学（MU）招募和培训32名学生成为高等教育机构未来的教师的详细计划，并为40名学生提供两个为期8周的暑期准备课程，以鼓励他们为研究生院入学做准备。这个项目，被称为MU少数民族研究生教育项目（MU- mge），为我们提供了一个独特的机会，以巩固和协调正在进行的旨在招募和培训有才华的代表性不足的学生的项目，以及为MU学生提供独特的丰富或发展服务的几个项目。同样重要的是，它将使我们能够实施创新的项目活动，其中一些是之前讨论过的，另一些是专门为这个项目设计的，并使那些有效的活动制度化。该项目将为像MU这样的大型研究机构如何提供必要的组成部分来推进职业目标和少数族裔进入高等教育机构担任教授的机会提供一个模型。这里描述的MU-MGE项目的总预算为5,423,872美元，其中NSF要求2,401,784美元，密苏里-哥伦比亚大学分摊费用3,022,088美元。该计划包括在前两年向美国国家科学基金会申请资助，以支持未来的教师参与者，在此期间，MU提供补充资金，然后MU为他们提供剩余三年的支持，总共为每个人提供五年的支持。此外，美国国家科学基金会还要求提供行政费用——项目经理、招聘/保留/职业规划专家、秘书和17名研究生助理——以及一些用于支持为期8周的夏季准备计划的资金，以及其他杂项费用，如用品、电话、旅行和出版物，以便在招聘期间宣传该项目，并在国家科学基金会资助终止后传播有关该项目的信息。由于MU承诺在NSF资助的5年基础上再承担4年的项目资金，因此该项目将在NSF资助期之后继续进行。我们期望能找到更多的内部和外部资金，以扩大项目的范围，延长项目的期限，甚至超过MU的九年承诺。该项目包括对每个项目提供的持续评估系统和对学生进步的持续监测。通过对这些详细数据的收集和仔细评估，我们可以根据需要进行必要的调整，特别是每年改进课程内容。这将为MU提供一个机会，使MU- mge项目与校园内许多其他项目协调工作，并与其他项目官员合作开发新产品。通过访问教员发展部分，这些参与者和MU教员将与来自少数族裔服务机构的教员发展关系。这些变化，校园氛围和扩大的关系，将确保MU努力取得更大的成功，以促进弱势群体获得博士学位和成为未来教师的机会。

HRD-9817233Brady DeatonThis proposal outlines a detailed plan by the University of Missouri-Columbia (MU) to recruit, andtrain 32 students as future faculty in higher education institutions, and to provide two 8-weeksummer-readiness programs for 40 students, to encourage and prepare them for admission tograduate school. This program, entitled the MU Minority Graduate Education Project (MU-MGE)provides a unique opportunity for us to consolidate and coordinate on-going programs designed torecruit and train talented underrepresented students, and several programs that offer uniqueenrichment or development services to students at MU. Equally important, it will enable us toimplement innovative program activities, some previously-discussed and others designedspecifically for this project, and to institutionalize those that are effective. The program willprovide a model for how large research institutions, such as MU, can provide the necessarycomponents to advance the career goals and opportunities for underrepresented minorities to enterthe professorate in higher education institutions.The MU-MGE project described here will have a total budget of $5,423,872, with $2,401,784requested from NSF, and $3,022,088 in cost-sharing by the University of Missouri-Columbia. Theplan includes requesting funding from NSF to support the future faculty participants during the firsttwo years, with MU providing supplemental funding during this time, and then MU providingsupport to them for the remaining three years for a total of five years of support for each. Inaddition, funding for administrative costs--a Project Manager, Recruitment/Retention/CareerPlanning Specialist, Secretary and 17 Graduate Assistants--is requested from NSF plus somemodest funding to support the 8-week summer readiness program and miscellaneous other costssuch as supplies, telephone, travel, and publications to advertise the project during recruitment andto disseminate information about it once NSF funding terminates.Because MU is committed to continuing the project by assuming responsibility for financing theproject for four additional years beyond the five-years supported by NSF, this project will continuebeyond the NSF funding period. It is our expectation that additional internal and external fundingwill be found to expand the program offerings and the time period even beyond the total nine-yearcommitment of MU.This project includes an ongoing evaluation system of every program offering and continualmonitoring of student progress. With the collection and careful evaluation of such detailed data this will enable us to make necessary adjustments as needs arise, and especially for improving theprogram offerings from year to year. It will provide an opportunity for MU to coordinate the efforts for the MU-MGE project with those of many others on campus, and to collaborate in developing new offerings with other program officers. And through the Visiting Faculty Development component, relationships will be developed by these participants and MU faculty with faculty from minority-serving institutions. These changes, in campus climate and expanded relationships, will ensure even greater success with MU's efforts to advance the opportunities for underrepresented minorities to obtain doctoral degrees and to become future faculty.