Graduate Alliance for Education in Louisiana

路易斯安那州研究生教育联盟项目概述我们建议建立一个联盟，以增加路易斯安那州研究生教育和教授的多样性。联盟的合作伙伴将包括杜兰大学和路易斯安那州立大学（该州的两所卡内基研究大学和1994-2001年间负责该州94%少数民族博士学位生产的机构），路易斯安那的泽维尔大学，迪拉德大学和巴吞鲁日和新奥尔良的南方大学。路易斯安那州教育研究生联盟（GAELA）将在这些机构现有的中小企业少数民族研究培训项目的基础上，开发新的项目，鼓励更多的少数民族学生攻读中小企业研究生教育和学术生涯。GAELA项目的目标之一是在本科阶段早期发现和培养有前途的学生。将共同努力从LS-LAMP，大学基金- Xavier AMP和该州其他研究生预科培训项目的参与者中招募博士研究员。我们希望学生在这些项目中得到培养，并且他们与杜兰大学和路易斯安那州立大学的教师工作中获得的熟悉度将增加他们成功完成博士培训的机会。GAELA计划的第二个主要目标将是影响路易斯安那州顶尖研究型大学研究生教育文化的重大变化，以显著增加少数民族中小企业的博士学位产量。到2006年每年培养45名博士，比2001年培养少数民族博士人数增加三倍以上。该项目有一个很强的组成部分，即招聘和早期接触学生的学术就业机会，重点是参与HBCU的研究，以及各种留用活动，重点是两个研究生研究机构。招生部分包括让HBCU的学生接触路易斯安那州立大学和杜兰大学的学习和学术就业机会，通过路易斯安那州立大学和杜兰大学教师的招聘访问，杜兰大学和路易斯安那州立大学校园的年度招聘博览会，以及让HBCU的学生参与杜兰大学/路易斯安那州立大学教师指导的研究。我们将在泽维尔、迪拉德、SUBR和SUNO建立GAELA校园项目来协调这些活动。保留部分将包括杜兰大学和路易斯安那州立大学教师的指导研讨会，向在完成学位方面取得令人满意进展的博士生提供研究基金和专业旅行资助，中小企业学术职业培训课程，以及帮助少数民族学生应对多数研究生教育环境的“第一生存课程”。

Graduate Alliance for Education in LouisianaPROJECT SUMMARYWe propose to establish an alliance for increasing diversity in graduate education and the professoriate in Louisiana. Alliance partners will include Tulane and Louisiana State University (the two Carnegie Research I universities in the state and the institutions responsible for 94% of the minority doctoral degree production in the state between 1994-2001), Xavier University of Louisiana, Dillard University, and Southern University Baton Rouge and New Orleans. The Graduate Alliance for Education in Louisiana (GAELA) will build upon existing minority SME research training programs at these institutions, and develop new programs to encourage more minority students to pursue SME graduate education and academic careers. One of the goals of the GAELA project will be the early identification and nurturing of promising students during their undergraduate years. A concerted effort will be made to recruit doctoral fellows from participants in LS-LAMP, the College Fund - Xavier AMP, and other pre-graduate training programs in the state. We expect that the nurturing students receive in these programs, and the familiarity they gain working with faculty at Tulane and LSU will increase their chances of successfully completing their doctoral training.The second major goal of the GAELA Program will be to affect significant change in the culture of graduate education at the State of Louisiana's top research universities in order to significantly increase minority SME doctoral degree production. We have set a numerical goal of 45 Ph.D. per year by 2006, more than triple the 2001 annual output on minority doctoral degrees. The project has a strong component of recruitment and early exposure of students to academic career opportunities focused on participating HBCU's, and a variety of retention activities focused on the two graduate research institutions.The recruitment component consists of exposing students at HBCU's to study and academic career opportunities at LSU and Tulane through recruiting visits by LSU and Tulane faculty, annual recruitment fairs on Tulane and LSU campuses, and involving HBCU students in Tulane/LSU faculty-mentored research. We will establish GAELA campus programs at Xavier, Dillard, SUBR and SUNO to coordinate these activities. The retention component will consist of mentoring workshops for Tulane and LSU faculty, awarding research funds and professional travel grants to doctoral students that are making satisfactory progress toward completing their degrees, SME academic career training sessions, and #I survival sessions" for helping minority students cope with the majority graduate educational environment.