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: 0450122
• 负责人: Sanjiv Sarin
• 金额: $ 174.91万
• 依托单位: North Carolina Agricultural & Technical 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 2012-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0450122&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.

北卡罗来纳州联盟的目的是通过教育创造机会（OPT-ED）AGEP是大大加强努力，在北卡罗来纳州，以增加代表性不足的少数民族（URM）学生获得博士学位，并最终进入科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）领域的教授人数。拟议的AGEP项目结合了位于查佩尔山的北卡罗来纳州大学现有的两个少数民族研究生教育项目，以及北卡罗来纳州州立大学和北卡罗来纳州AT州立大学联合开展的两个项目。在授予MGE赠款后，三所学校立即形成了联盟;一年后，形成了一个正式的网络，其中包括所有NSF-HRD支持URM倡议项目在北卡罗来纳州：路易斯·斯托克斯联盟少数民族参与计划，历史上的黑人学院和大学，以及科学和技术卓越研究中心，除了北卡罗来纳州数学科学教育网络，一个K-12项目，在全州的大学校园里都有站点。因此，OPT-ED是一个计划下的三个机构的正式联盟，并建立和加强国家科学基金会支持的URM倡议项目之间的合作网络或联盟。OPT-ED的优势和独特之处在于它将北卡罗来纳州的NSF URM倡议计划纳入了一个更广泛的联盟，以形成学生获得博士学位和教授学位的途径。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，而是从初中和高中的智力构建模块中形成的。OPT-ED发展背后的逻辑源于这样一种概念化，即将项目与共同目标联系起来，以促进URM学生在STEM领域的参与，这将以更广泛的方式加强这一努力。关键是从中学到博士课程的教育范围内的项目的参与。这本身就是一个独特的发展。这个框架允许一个明确的途径是显而易见的，在中学课程的学生可以得到指导和支持，一直到博士学位的完成。这些联系将提高学生继续获得鼓励，强化和扩大研究经验的可能性，这将增加他们成功攻读STEM研究生学位的可能性。通过整合该州所有NSF-HRD（以及最终其他）多样性计划的资源，OPT-ED将在几个教育级别、北卡罗来纳州、东南部以及最终产生的博士生中产生广泛的影响。因此，OPTED将作为一个全面的项目，用于招聘，指导和毕业URM学生在STEM博士课程，并开展战略，以确定和广泛支持URM学生谁想要追求研究生学习和职业生涯。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助结束后继续存在。鉴于其目标和宗旨，该联盟和网络计划的预期扩展将继续合作，为URM学生提供攻读博士学位的机会，并为未来的教授做好准备。