MGE: Strategies to Expand Participation and Enhance Retention in Minority Graduate Education

我们的目标是降低MGE的进入门槛，提高学位完成率，为MGE职业培养领导者，并创造一种欢迎多元化的文化。根据目前的GRE标准，符合入学资格的学生人数有限，而且没有采取足够的措施留住在校生。我们将制定替代策略来识别能够在研究生学习中取得成功的学生，并将生成结果数据来解决问题。面向少数族裔和多数族裔院校的学生，以及参加暑期项目的机会，旨在为本科生提供研究和研究生教育的机会，并为MGE创造一个有利的环境。以成功的“与科学家一起度过一个夏天”项目为蓝本的集群将扩展到莱斯大学的科学和工程领域，并在威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的工程领域建立起来，以提供全年的社区体验，鼓励入学，支持学位完成，并使学生接触严格的学术纪律。外部评价将决定影响该模型在不同环境下应用的因素。结合莱斯大学和威斯康星大学的强大机构承诺，该提案旨在改变机构的文化，以便在项目的生命周期后继续进行根本性的改变。

HRD-9817555David AustonOur goals are to reduce entry barriers for MGE, enhance degree completion, generate leaders forSME careers, and create a culture that welcomes diversity. MGE has been limited by the numbers of students qualified for admission under current GRE standards and by inadequate measures to retain enrolled students. We will develop alternate strategies to identify students who can succeed in graduate study and will generate outcome data to address concerns. Outreach to students in minority and majority institutions and opportunities for participation in summer programs are designed to provide undergraduate exposure to research and graduate education and to create an environment conducive for MGE. Clusters, modeled after the successful Spend a Summer with a Scientist program, will be expanded across science and engineering at Rice University and established in engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison to provide a year-round community experience that encourages enrollment, supports degree completion, and exposes students to rigorous academic discipline. Outside evaluation will determine factors that affect application of this model in different settings. Together with strong institutional commitments by Rice University and UW-M, this proposal is designed to alter the culture of the institutions so that the fundamental change continues past the life of the project.