Wisconsin Alliance for Minority Participation

威斯康星州少数族裔参与联盟

• 批准号: 0402549
• 负责人: Patrick Farrell
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-11-01 至 2010-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0402549&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Wisconsin; Alliance; Minority; Participation

PROJECT SUMMARYWhat is the intellectual merit of the proposed activity? Wisconsin (WI) is a state with a rapidly changing ethnic and racial demography. The number of Hispanics has more than doubled in the last decade to over 200,000, there are over 400,000 acres of American Indian tribal lands, and 25% of the nearly one million residents in the large urban area around Milwaukee are African American. While not counted in tallies of underrepresented minorities for this proposal, WI also has the third largest population of Hmong in the United States, a group also underrepresented in higher education. This proposal would establish the Wisconsin Alliance for Minority Participation (Wisc-AMP)through the NSF Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) Program. Wisc-AMP brings together 21 public and private institutions of higher education in Wisconsin committed to collectively doubling the number of underrepresented minority students (URMS) receiving baccalaureate degrees in science and engineering majors. Wisc-AMP partners are also committed to the more fundamental goal of transforming the culture of our institutions to support and sustain diversity at all levels. The University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) will be the lead institution. Few universities can equal UW-Madison's capacity to enroll large numbers of students or match the breadth and depth of its cutting-edge research rograms in science and engineering. Through individual interviews, data gathering, and document analysis, it was determined that the support provided through LSAMP would be best leveraged in two ways: 1) address retention and persistence of URMS in science or engineering majors at UW-Madison by expanding and improving on successful models already in place and 2) build the alliance. The initiatives at UW-Madison focus on several aspects of academic enhancement especially in the gatekeeping courses with new efforts to tutor not only those struggling but those who can be pushed to excellence as well as an enhanced summer research experience that encourages undergraduate students to share personal experiences and scientific inquiries with a network of peers and trains graduate students to be more effective mentors to undergraduate URMS. Alliance building involves several efforts aimed at developing a Network of Champions at participating sites as well as a Small Grants Program to facilitate collaboration and encourage individual partners to customize initiatives to their local environments. Wisc-AMP will be administered jointly by the Diversity Affairs Office and the Women in Science and Engineering Leadership Institute in the College of Engineering at UW-Madison. A Governing Board consists of Provosts/Vice Chancellors/Presidents from Wisc-AMP partners, students, an industry representative, and selected academic and community leaders in education and research. Increasing the recruitment and retention of URMS in science and engineering with the goal of transforming the institution involves buy-in from many departments and units. Therefore, at UW-Madison, the Provost is the principal investigator and two well-respected faculty members are co-principal investigators, faculty in prestigious positions are members of an internal Advisory Committee, staff who have been in the trenches working on the issues and administrators from the Admissions Office and the Registrars Office who are at key student entry points are involved as co-investigators or advisors. Formal evaluation of Wisc-AMP will use quantitative and qualitative methods to identify if and how well the goal of the program is met and which aspects of Wisc-AMP work.What are the broader impacts of the proposed activity?As the United States becomes an increasingly diverse society, it is imperative that institutions of higher education train a similarly diverse workforce. NSF has publicly proclaimed its commitment to broadening opportunities and enabling participation of all citizens as essential to the health and vitality of science and engineering. By investing in efforts to increase the number of URMS graduating with baccalaureate degrees in science or engineering, this proposal directly aligns with NSF's goal. Project innovations will be disseminated locally through meetings, discussions, and presentations; regionally through the alliance structure; and nationally through publications in scientific journals, proceedings of scientific meetings, and participation in annual LSAMP meetings. The results of Wisc-AMP's formal evaluation can be used to continue or re-direct proposed efforts and to advise developing alliances on successful and unsuccessful elements of each initiative.

项目总结拟议活动的智力价值是什么？ 威斯康星州（WI）是一个种族和民族人口结构迅速变化的州。在过去的十年里，西班牙裔美国人的数量增加了一倍多，达到20多万人，美国印第安人部落的土地超过40万英亩，密尔沃基周围的大城市地区近100万居民中有25%是非洲裔美国人。虽然没有计入代表性不足的少数民族的这一建议，威斯康星州也有苗族在美国第三大人口，一组也代表性不足的高等教育。该提案将通过NSF路易斯斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（LSAMP）计划建立威斯康星州少数民族参与联盟（Wisc-AMP）。Wisc-AMP汇集了威斯康星州的21所公立和私立高等教育机构，致力于将获得科学和工程专业学士学位的少数民族学生（URMS）的人数增加一倍。Wisc-AMP合作伙伴还致力于实现更根本的目标，即改变我们机构的文化，以支持和维持各级的多样性。威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校（UW-Madison）将成为牵头机构。很少有大学能与威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校招收大量学生的能力相媲美，或与其科学和工程前沿研究计划的广度和深度相匹配。通过个人访谈，数据收集和文件分析，确定通过LSAMP提供的支持将以两种方式得到最佳利用：1）通过扩展和改进已经到位的成功模式，解决UW-Madison科学或工程专业URMS的保留和持久性，2）建立联盟。威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的举措侧重于学术提高的几个方面，特别是在守门课程中，不仅要努力辅导那些苦苦挣扎的人，还要努力辅导那些可以被推向卓越的人，以及增强的夏季研究体验，鼓励本科生分享个人经验和科学探究与同龄人网络，并培养研究生成为本科URMS更有效的导师。联盟建设涉及多项努力，旨在在参与地点建立一个冠军网络，以及一个小额赠款计划，以促进合作，并鼓励各个合作伙伴根据当地环境定制倡议。Wisc-AMP将由多样性事务办公室和威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校工程学院科学与工程领导研究所的妇女联合管理。管理委员会由来自Wisc-AMP合作伙伴的教务长/副校长/总裁，学生，行业代表以及选定的教育和研究学术和社区领导人组成。增加URMS在科学和工程领域的招聘和保留，以实现机构转型的目标，涉及到许多部门和单位的支持。因此，在威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校，教务长是首席调查员，两名备受尊敬的教职员工是共同首席调查员，享有盛誉的教职员工是内部咨询委员会的成员，工作人员一直在解决问题，招生办公室和注册办公室的管理人员是在关键的学生入学点参与共同调查员或顾问。Wisc-AMP的正式评估将使用定量和定性的方法来确定该计划的目标是否达到以及如何达到，以及Wisc-AMP的哪些方面发挥作用。拟议活动的更广泛影响是什么？随着美国成为一个日益多样化的社会，高等教育机构必须培养同样多样化的劳动力。NSF公开宣布致力于扩大机会并使所有公民参与，这对科学和工程的健康和活力至关重要。通过投资努力，以增加在科学或工程学士学位毕业的URMS的数量，这一建议直接符合NSF的目标。项目创新将通过会议、讨论和介绍在当地传播;通过联盟结构在区域传播;通过在科学期刊上发表文章、科学会议记录和参加地方行政管理方案年度会议在全国传播。Wisc-AMP的正式评估结果可用于继续或重新指导拟议的努力，并就每项倡议的成功和不成功因素向发展联盟提供建议。