Nomination of the Shannon Point Marine Center for PAESMEM

西华盛顿大学的香农角海洋中心是海洋科学研究的常驻中心。在准备海洋学研究生学习期间，学生们将在该中心居住五个半月。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，以及直接访问研究设施和高级教师。广泛的实验室资源通过现场或附近不同的现场环境的周围环境得到加强。该中心在少数民族学生的招生、保留和学位完成方面取得了堪称典范的成绩。指导的强度和积极价值，以及它对少数民族学生坚持和成就的影响的本质，反映在参与者关于这个项目的信中，也反映在少数民族学生实际进入研究生院的令人印象深刻的数量上。

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.