Model Institutions of Excellence Dissemination Activities

摘要卓越模范机构（MIE）计划于1992年在美国国家科学基金会（NSF）主任沃尔特·梅西（Walter Massey）的倡导下提出。当时，几个联邦机构表示有兴趣成为合作伙伴，但最终只有NASA选择参与MIE。一个跨部门的特别工作组设计了这个项目。该征集活动描述了MIE的目标如下：提供一个机会来定义改善少数民族机构在SEM教育和本科研究方面的方法；瞄准少数少数族裔机构，这些机构准备为增加获得SEM学士学位的少数族裔人数做出重大贡献，然后参加研究生SEM项目或进入SEM职业；建立少数族裔院校，成为成功招聘、教育和培养高素质的SEM学士学位获得者的典范；允许基金会更有效地行使其法定权力“承担或支持一个综合的科学和工程项目，以增加少数民族在科学和工程领域的参与”。该项目分为三个阶段：第一阶段：开发模型（5年）；第二阶段：实施模型（3年）；第三阶段：模式的制度化和传播（3年）。传播阶段始于2004财年；每个NSF资助的站点都收到了其剩余和最后三年传播阶段的拨款承诺，有些站点已经开始传播数据和最佳实践。然而，这整个过程往好里说是不平衡的，往坏里说是基本的和脱节的。新项目（2004年2月）项目主任David Temple确定需要开展一项全面和联合协调的MIE传播工作，这项工作将肯定和揭示这项长达十年的示范计划的发现和产品的价值，以及它的挑战和对未来的推论。高等教育公平联盟（AEHE或联盟）是一个位于哥伦比亚特区的联盟，由美国印第安人高等教育联盟（AIHEC）、西班牙裔高校协会（HACU）和全国高等教育机会平等协会（NAFEO）组成。该联盟已向美国国家科学基金会提交了一份未经请求的提案（与美国国家科学基金会协商，并代表美国国家科学基金会）。（美国国家航空和航天局），以传播卓越示范机构（MIE）计划下的模型。该提案是由美国高等教育协会的上级机构高等教育政策研究所提交的。

ABSTRACTThe Model Institutions for Excellence (MIE) program was conceived in 1992 at the instigation of NSF Director Walter Massey. At the time, several federal agencies expressed interest in being partners, but only NASA eventually chose to participate in MIE. An across-directorate task force designed the program. The solicitation described the goals of MIE as follows:Provide an opportunity to define methods for improving minority institutions in SEM education and undergraduate research; Target a small number of minority institutions poised to make a substantial contribution to the goal of increasing the number of minorities who earn SEM baccalaureate degrees and then enroll in graduate SEM programs or enter SEM careers; produce minority institutions that will serve as models for the successful recruitment, education and production of quality-trained SEM baccalaureate degree recipients; and,Allow the Foundation to more effectively exercise its statutory authority "to undertake or support a comprehensive science and engineering program to increase the participation of minorities in science and engineering " The program was organized into three phases: Phase I: Develop the Models (5 years); Phase II: Implement the Models (3 years); Phase III: Institutionalization and Dissemination of Models (3 years). The Dissemination phase began during FY04; each NSF funded site has received its remaining and final three-year dissemination phase grant commitments, and some have begun to disseminate data and best practices. However, this overall process was seen to be uneven at best, and elemental and disjointed at worst. New (February 2004) Program Director David Temple determined that a comprehensive and jointly coordinated MIE dissemination effort was needed, one that would affirm and reveal the worth and value of the findings and products of this decade-long demonstration initiative, as well as its challenges, and inferences for the future.The Alliance for Equity in Higher Education (AEHE or the Alliance)-a District of Columbia based coalition comprised of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC), the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU), and the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO)-has submitted an unsolicited proposal to the National Science Foundation (in concurrence and coordination with, and on behalf of, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration) for the dissemination of models under the Model Institutions of Excellence (MIE) program. The proposal has been submitted by AEHE's parent organization, the Institute for Higher Education Policy.