Wisconsin Alliance for Minority Participation

项目概述拟议活动的智力价值是什么？威斯康辛州（WI）是一个民族和种族人口迅速变化的州。在过去的十年里，拉美裔人口的数量翻了一番，达到了20多万人，美国印第安部落的土地面积超过了40万英亩，密尔沃基周围大城市地区近100万居民中有25%是非裔美国人。虽然这项提案没有将苗族人口统计在内，但威斯康星州也是美国苗族人口第三多的州，苗族在高等教育中的代表性也不足。该提案将通过国家科学基金会路易斯·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未被充分代表的少数民族学生（URMS）的数量增加一倍。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）将是牵头机构。很少有大学能像威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校那样招收大量学生，或者在科学和工程领域的前沿研究项目的广度和深度上与之匹敌。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好的利用：1)通过扩展和改进已经存在的成功模式来解决威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校科学或工程专业URMS的保留和持久性问题；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升的几个方面，特别是在守门人课程方面，不仅努力指导那些挣扎的人，而且还努力指导那些可以走向卓越的人，同时加强夏季研究经验，鼓励本科生与同龄人分享个人经验和科学探究，并培养研究生成为本科生的更有效的导师。联盟建设包括多项努力，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，并鼓励个别合作伙伴根据当地环境定制倡议。Wisc-AMP将由多元化事务办公室和威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校工程学院的女性科学与工程领导力研究所共同管理。管理委员会由来自威斯康星大学amp合作伙伴的教务长/副校长/校长、学生、行业代表以及选定的教育和研究领域的学术和社区领袖组成。为了改变大学的办学模式，增加招收和保留理科和工程学系的管理人员，涉及到许多部门和单位的参与。因此，在威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校，教务长是首席调查员，两位备受尊敬的教员是联合首席调查员，身居要职的教员是内部咨询委员会的成员，一直在第一线处理问题的工作人员，以及招生办公室和注册办公室的管理人员，他们是关键的学生入门点，他们作为联合调查员或顾问参与其中。Wisc-AMP的正式评估将使用定量和定性方法来确定是否以及如何实现计划的目标，以及Wisc-AMP的哪些方面起作用。建议的活动有何更广泛的影响？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。美国国家科学基金会公开宣布，它致力于扩大机会并使所有公民能够参与，这对科学和工程的健康和活力至关重要。通过投资努力增加拥有科学或工程学士学位的URMS毕业生的数量，该提案直接符合NSF的目标。项目创新将通过会议、讨论和介绍在当地传播；区域性通过联盟结构；在全国范围内，通过在科学期刊上发表文章、科学会议论文集和参加LSAMP年度会议。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中的联盟提供建议。

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.