Nomination of the Shannon Point Marine Center for PAESMEM

西华盛顿大学香农角海洋中心是一个研究海洋科学的常驻中心。 学生们在中心居住五个半月，同时为海洋学研究生学习做准备。该中心对少数民族学生发展的方法是全面的，包括密集的指导，与研究相结合的同步课程，互动的学生关系，以及立即获得研究设施和高级教师。广泛的实验室资源通过现场或附近的不同现场环境的周围环境得到增强。 该中心已经完成了少数民族学生的招聘，保留和学位完成的模范记录。辅导的强度和积极的价值及其对少数民族学生的坚持和成就的影响的性质反映在参与者关于这个方案的信件和实际进入研究生院的少数民族学生的数量令人印象深刻。

The Shannon Point Marine Center of Western Washington University is a resident center for the study of marine sciences. Students reside at the center for five and a half months while they are preparing for graduate studies in oceanography. The Center's approach to minority student development is comprehensive, and includes intensive mentoring, simultaneous coursework integrated with research, interactive student relationships, and immediate access to research facilities and senior faculty. The extensive laboratory resources are enhanced by the surrounding context of diverse field environments on site or within the immediate vicinity. The Center has accomplished an exemplary record of minority student recruitment, retention and degree completion. The intensity and positive value of mentoring and the nature of its impact on minority student persistence and achievement is reflected in the letters from participants regarding this program and by the impressive number of minority students actually entering graduate school.