AGEP: Alliance for Graduate Education in Mississippi

密西西比州研究生教育联盟（AGEM）提议继续并扩大其全面的、全州范围的合作项目，以提高少数民族学生进入和成功完成STEM1研究生项目的机会。AGEM将继续由密西西比大学（University of Mississippi）领导，并将包括该州其他三所授予博士学位的大学，以及与几所地区学院（包括几所HBCUs3）的非正式合作关系。该计划将以第一轮资助的坚实成果和各机构之间的合作记录为基础。由于密西西比州的人口中有37%是非裔美国人，而且该地区有几所hbcu，因此AGEM的主要重点是培养非裔美国研究生，重点是为这些学生在STEM领域的学术生涯做好准备。澳大已作出重大承诺，增加少数族裔学生获得研究生课程的机会。澳大与其合作院校合作，整合资源，协调目前的合作伙伴关系，为少数民族学生的招聘、指导、留用和学位完成创造一种全面的方法，并提供旨在鼓励学术事业的咨询。因此，整个计划解决了NSF AGEP计划的更广泛的影响。第一个五年拨款的具体目标是将该州四个博士学位授予机构获得STEM博士学位的少数民族学生人数增加两倍（与前五年基线相比，增加了两倍）。从1993年至1997年的13名少数族裔STEM博士的基线开始，AGEM项目从1998年至2003年增加到48名少数族裔STEM博士毕业生。AGEM项目的另一个目标是使教师、管理人员和学生对少数族裔管道问题的态度发生系统性变化。有证据表明这种系统性的变化。目前的五年项目在提高少数族裔学生在STEM研究生教育中的成功方面迈出了重要的一步。任务的继续是必要的。已经对方案成功进行了彻底的分析，并对那些可以做更多工作的学科进行了分析。将提出针对目标领域的新战略。美国国家科学基金会的智力标准是通过学生在攻读学位时所做的研究，通过这些博士在进入教授或其他研究职位时所做的未来研究，以及通过我们对导致代表性不足的少数群体成功的因素的研究来满足的。

The Alliance for Graduate Education in Mississippi (AGEM) proposes to continue and expand its comprehensive, state-wide consortial program for enhancing the entry into and successful completion of minority students in STEM1 graduate programs. AGEM will continue to be led by the University of Mississippi (UM) and will involve the three other Ph.D. granting universities in the state2 and informal partnerships with several regional colleges (including several HBCUs3). The program will build upon the solid accomplishments of the first round of funding and on the record of collaboration between institutions. Because the population of Mississippi is 37% African-American and because there are several HBCUs in this region, a primary focus of AGEM is the training of African-American graduate students, with an emphasis on preparing these students for academic careers in STEM areas. UM has made a major commitment to increasing the access of its graduate programs to minority students. UM, working with its partnering institutions, has aligned resources and has coordinated the current partnership to create a comprehensive approach to the recruitment, mentoring, retention, and degree completion of minority students, with counseling aimed at encouraging academic careers. Thus the entire program addresses the broader impacts imperative of the NSF AGEP program. The specific goal of the first five-year grant was to triple the number of minority students who received STEM doctoral degrees (triple, as compared to the previous five-year baseline) from the four doctoral-degree granting institutions in the state. From our baseline of 13 minority STEM PhDs produced from 1993-1997, the AGEM program has seen an increase to 48 minority STEM doctoral graduates produced from 1998-2003. Another goal of the AGEM program was to bring about a systemic change in attitudes of faculty, administrators, and students with regard to minority pipeline issues. Evidence is presented for such systemic changes. The current five-year program has made a significant start toward enhancing minority student success in STEM graduate education. Continuation of the mission is imperative. A thorough analysis of programmatic successes, as well as an analysis of those academic disciplines where more can be done, has been conducted. New strategies will be presented to address targeted areas. The intellectual merit criterion of NSF is met via the research produced by the students as they pursue their degrees, by the future research produced by these doctorates when they enter the professoriate or other research positions, and by our studies of the factors that lead to success for underrepresented minorities.