AGEP Collaborative Research Training: North Carolina Alliance to Create Opportunity Through Education

AGEP 合作研究培训：北卡罗来纳州联盟通过教育创造机会

• 批准号: 0450102
• 负责人: David Shafer
• 金额: $ 333.88万
• 依托单位: North Carolina State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-03-01 至 2013-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0450102&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: AGEP; Collaborative; Research; Training; North

The purpose of the North Carolina Alliance to Create Opportunity through Education (OPT-ED) AGEP is to substantially enhance efforts in North Carolina to increase the number of underrepresented minority (URM) students receiving PhD degrees and ultimately entering the professoriate in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. The proposed AGEP project combines two existing Minority Graduate Education (MGE) projects at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNCCH) and jointly at North Carolina State University (NCSU) and North Carolina A&T State University (NC A&T). Immediately after the MGE grants were awarded, the three schools formed an alliance; one year later, formed a formal network that included all NSF-HRD supported URM initiative projects in North Carolina: the Louis Stokes Alliance Minority Participation Program, the Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and Centers for Research Excellence in Science and Technology, in addition to the North Carolina Math Science Education Network, a K-12 program with sites at college campuses across the state. Thus, OPT-ED is the formal alliance of the three institutions under one program and the building and strengthening of the collaborative network or alliance among NSF-supported URM initiative projects in the state.Intellectual Merit. OPT-ED.s strength and uniqueness is its incorporation of NSF URM initiativeprograms in North Carolina into a broader alliance to form student pathways to the PhD degree and the professoriate. OPT-ED and its network partners recognize that STEM PhDs are not the result of graduate programs alone, but are fashioned from the intellectual building blocks that occur in middle and high school. The logic behind the development of OPT-ED stems from the conceptualization that the connecting of programs with common goals, to advance the participation of URM students in STEM fields would strengthen this effort in a much broader fashion. The key is the participation of programs from the education spectrum ranging from middle school to PhD programs. This in itself is a unique development. This framework allows a clear pathway to be evident in that students in the middle school program can receive guidance and support all the way through to the completion of the PhD. These connections will enhance the possibility of students continuing to receive encouragement, reinforcement, and expanded research experiences that will increase their successfully pursuing STEM graduate degrees.Broader Impacts. Through integrating the resources of all NSF-HRD (and ultimately other) diversityprograms in the state, OPT-ED will have a broad impact across several educational levels, the state of North Carolina, the Southeast and, with the eventual production of PhD recipients, the nation. Thus, OPTED will serve as a comprehensive project for recruiting, mentoring, and graduating URM students in STEM PhD programs, and to carry out strategies to identify and broadly support URM students who want to pursue graduate studies and careers. The norms of inclusiveness at the AGEP institutions and the relationships that have been forged in Phase I and will be strengthened in Phase II will endure well past the termination of grant support. Given its goals and objectives, this alliance and the expected expansion of network programs will continue to work in partnership to provide URM students with opportunities to pursue PhD degrees and prepare for the professoriate well into the future.

北卡罗来纳州通过教育创造机会联盟 (OPT-ED) AGEP 的目的是大幅加强北卡罗来纳州的努力，增加获得博士学位并最终进入科学、技术、工程和数学 (STEM) 领域教授职位的少数族裔 (URM) 学生的数量。拟议的 GEP 项目结合了北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校 (UNCCH) 以及北卡罗来纳州立大学 (NCSU) 和北卡罗来纳 A&T 州立大学 (NC A&T) 的两个现有少数族裔研究生教育 (MGE) 项目。在获得 MGE 资助后，三所学校立即结成联盟；一年后，形成了一个正式网络，其中包括北卡罗来纳州所有 NSF-HRD 支持的 URM 倡议项目：路易斯斯托克斯联盟少数族裔参与计划、历史黑人学院和大学、科学技术卓越研究中心，以及北卡罗来纳州数学科学教育网络（一个在全州大学校园设有站点的 K-12 项目）。因此，OPT-ED 是三个机构在一个计划下的正式联盟，并建立和加强 NSF 支持的州内 URM 倡议项目之间的协作网络或联盟。智力优势。 OPT-ED. 的优势和独特之处在于它将北卡罗来纳州的 NSF URM 倡议项目纳入了更广泛的联盟，以形成学生获得博士学位和教授职位的途径。 OPT-ED 及其网络合作伙伴认识到，STEM 博士学位不仅仅是研究生课程的结果，而是由初中和高中的智力构建模块形成的。 OPT-ED 发展背后的逻辑源于这样的概念：将项目与共同目标联系起来，促进 URM 学生参与 STEM 领域，将以更广泛的方式加强这一努力。关键是从初中到博士课程的教育范围的参与。这本身就是一个独特的发展。该框架提供了一条清晰的途径，让中学课程的学生可以一直得到指导和支持，直到完成博士学位。这些联系将提高学生继续获得鼓励、强化和扩展研究经验的可能性，从而增加他们成功攻读 STEM 研究生学位的机会。更广泛的影响。通过整合该州所有 NSF-HRD（以及最终其他）多元化计划的资源，OPT-ED 将在北卡罗来纳州、东南部以及最终培养博士生的整个国家的多个教育层次产生广泛的影响。因此，OPTED 将作为一个综合项目，用于招募、指导和毕业 URM 学生的 STEM 博士课程，并实施战略来识别和广泛支持想要攻读研究生和职业的 URM 学生。 AGEP 机构的包容性规范以及在第一阶段建立并将在第二阶段加强的关系将在赠款支持终止后继续存在。鉴于其目的和目标，该联盟和预期的网络项目扩展将继续合作，为 URM 学生提供攻读博士学位的机会，并为未来的教授职做好准备。