Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education (EDGE): A Transition Program for Women in the Mathematical Sciences

该奖项支持EDGE计划第二阶段的几个方面，“加强研究生教育的多样性”。该计划第一阶段的核心资金由美国国家科学基金会在1998年至2001年提供，另外还得到了安德鲁·W·梅隆基金会和国家安全局 该方案的目标是增加成功完成数学科学研究生课程的妇女和少数民族学生的人数，加强目标学生群体的能力，使他们能够成功地从数学本科过渡到研究生教育，并在各自的研究生课程中取得成功。 EDGE计划有两个基本组成部分：研究生入学前的密集夏季计划和后续辅导计划。 在该计划的第一阶段，夏季部分在布林莫尔学院和斯佩尔曼学院之间交替进行。 EDGE计划的第二阶段将包括三个主要部分：[1]一个集中管理的计划，核心工作人员包括布林莫尔学院的联合主任朗达休斯和斯佩尔曼学院的西尔维亚波兹曼，以及一名行政助理。 核心工作人员将维护所有EDGE参与者的数据，管理广告和参与者的选择，选择夏季计划的主办地点，并协调后续的指导计划;[2] EDGE夏季计划的便携式设计。 通过让一批核心的选定机构作为EDGE网站，该计划将更加引人注目，它将接触到更广泛的学生群体，了解该计划目标的本科生和研究生课程的数量必然会增加。[3]两年一度的EDGE研讨会。 这一活动将包括一个EDGE过去参与者的聚会，以及一个促进提高妇女地位，特别是少数民族妇女地位的论坛，涉及更广泛的数学界。 第一次研讨会将于2003年由Spelman学院主办。该奖项将专门支持拟议活动的几个方面：为未来的当地协调员提供差旅费，他们将参与将该计划扩展到其他地点;支持EDGE研讨会，以及为强烈表示需要在参与后一年返回该计划的过去参与者举办小型聚会;为两名因各种原因中断学术生涯并希望参加数学研究生课程的“返回”妇女提供参与者支助费用;为改进和扩大网站提供顾问支助。

This award supports several aspects of the second phase of the EDGE Program, "Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education." Core funding for the first phase of the program was provided by the National Science Foundation from 1998 to 2001, with additional support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Security Agency. The goal of the program is to increase the number of women and minority students who successfully complete graduate programs in the mathematical sciences, by strengthening the ability of the targeted student population to successfully negotiate the transition from undergraduate to graduate education in mathematics, and to succeed in their respective graduate programs. The EDGE Program has two basic components: an intensive summer program prior to graduate school enrollment, and a follow-up mentoring program. In the first phase of the program, the summer component alternated between Bryn Mawr and Spelman Colleges. The second phase of the EDGE Program willconsist of three major components:[1] a centrally administered program with a core staff consisting of the Co-Directors Rhonda Hughes of Bryn Mawr College and Sylvia Bozeman of Spelman College, as well as an Administrative Assistant. The core staff would maintain data on all EDGE participants, manage advertising and selection of participants, select host sites for the summer program, and coordinate the follow-up mentoring program;[2] a portable design for the EDGE Summer Program. By involving a core group of select institutions as EDGE sites, the program will be made more visible, it will reach a wider audience of students, and the number of undergraduate and graduate programs aware of the goals of the program would necessarily expand.[3] a biennial EDGE Symposium. This event would include an EDGE Reunion of past participants, as well as a forum to promote the advancement of women, and in particular minority women, involving a broader segment of the mathematics community. The first symposium will be hosted by Spelman College in 2003. This award will specifically support several aspects of the proposed activities: travel funds for prospective Local Coordinators, who will participate in the expansion of the program to other sites; support of the EDGE Symposium, as well as smaller reunions for past participants who have strongly expressed the need to return to the program in the year following their participation; participant support costs for two "returning" women who have interrupted their academic careers for a variety of reasons and wish to attend a graduate program in mathematics; and consultant support for an improved and expanded web site.