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

北卡罗莱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莱纳州的努力，以增加获得博士学位并最终进入科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）领域教授的少数族裔（URM）学生的数量。拟议的AGEP项目结合了北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校（UNCCH）和北卡罗来纳州立大学（NCSU）和北卡罗来纳农工州立大学（NC A&amp；T）现有的两个少数民族研究生教育（MGE）项目。MGE助学金发放后，三所学校立即结成联盟；一年后，形成了一个正式的网络，包括所有NSF-HRD支持的北卡罗来纳州URM倡议项目：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，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办事处的K-12项目。因此，OPT-ED是三个机构在一个项目下的正式联盟，也是nsf支持的URM倡议项目之间的合作网络或联盟的建立和加强。知识价值。选择采取。它的优势和独特之处在于它将北卡罗莱纳州的NSF URM倡议项目纳入了一个更广泛的联盟，为学生提供了通往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个概念：将具有共同目标的项目联系起来，以促进URM学生在STEM领域的参与，将在更广泛的范围内加强这一努力。关键在于从中学到博士课程的各个教育领域的项目参与。这本身就是一个独特的发展。这个框架提供了一个清晰的途径，让中学项目的学生可以得到指导和支持，一直到完成博士学位。这些联系将增加学生继续获得鼓励、强化和扩展研究经验的可能性，这将增加他们成功攻读STEM研究生学位的可能性。更广泛的影响。通过整合该州所有NSF-HRD（以及最终其他）多元化项目的资源，OPT-ED将在几个教育水平上产生广泛的影响，包括北卡罗来纳州、东南部，并最终产生博士学位获得者，乃至全国。因此，opt将作为一个全面的项目，用于招聘、指导和毕业攻读STEM博士课程的乌拉尔大学学生，并执行策略，以确定和广泛支持想要攻读研究生和职业的乌拉尔大学学生。AGEP各机构的包容性准则以及在第一阶段形成并将在第二阶段得到加强的关系将在赠款支持终止后继续保持下去。鉴于其目标和宗旨，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，并为未来的教授生涯做好准备。

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.