Minority Access/Graduate Networking in the Sciences, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (MAGNET-STEM II

纽约市立大学AGEP计划，即MAGNET-STEM，于1999年启动，旨在培养大量在科学和工程领域未被充分代表的少数民族博士生，并为他们的学术生涯做好准备。MAGNET-STEM II项目的主要目标是在以往成果的基础上，通过加强联盟从本科到研究生再到研究生的基础设施，使有效实践制度化。这一目标符合美国国家科学基金会的优先事项，即“促进机构、部门和组织文化和实践的变革，从而显著增加少数民族学生的招聘、保留、学位授予和STEM职业（特别是学术）进入。”活动将包括：(1)本科生/研究生暑期研究和实习；(2)辅导与辅导培训；(3)会议报告；(4)关于教学、科学和数学教育以及通信技术的座谈会和研讨会。MAGNET-STEM II将包括一个包容性的学术社区，由来自不同民族、种族和地理背景的STEM教师和学生以及残疾人组成。学生将在其科学领域的专家的指导下进行研究活动，使他们能够掌握所选专业领域的知识和调查方法。该项目除了提供资金支持外，还将促进所有AGEP学生在院系内的社会和学术融合，并改善指导。教师和学生之间非正式和正式的互动，使AGEP学者与学术专业交往，增加了他们毕业并进入博士后和教职岗位的可能性。MAGNET-STEM II的智力优势源于AGEP学者广泛的知识背景，使他们能够将科学、数学和技术教育中的问题相互联系起来，并专门研究这些领域中的一个。为了增加知识基础和进一步发展他们的研究兴趣，AGEP学者将有机会访问附属机构，如贝尔实验室，布鲁克海文国家实验室，发育障碍基础研究所，阿尔伯特爱因斯坦医学院和空间信息分析和研究中心（CARSI），这是一个大型的最先进的GIS和遥感实验室，被认为是东海岸最好的实验室之一。纽约城市大学研究生中心为AGEP学者提供指导培训，并参加大学教学研讨会和科学，数学和技术（SMT）教育研讨会，重点关注大学教学和从K-12开始的STEM教育。SMT研讨会讨论数学、科学和教育技术领域的当代研究问题。这包括教育学生关于社会中的技术及其与科学和数学的关系。作为领导机构，纽约市立大学研究生中心进行了先前的AGEP研究项目，MAGNET-STEM I(1999-2004)，这导致了少数民族申请人、入学人数和学位授予数量的增加。MAGNET-STEM II的更广泛影响将通过培养越来越多的博士研究生来实现，这些博士生来自代表性不足的人群，他们接受过学术专业的培训，在我们国家的实验室和教室工作，并积累了指导经验。此外，由于参加了由纽约市大研究生中心城市教育博士课程提供的科学、数学和技术教育研讨会，AGEP毕业生将掌握有效形式的课程衔接和STEM教育伙伴关系的知识，这些知识延伸到大学、学校、社区和企业伙伴关系，并沿着城市教育的K-16连续体发展。在这方面，AGEP学者将致力于培养STEM教育的教师，从而提高文化多样化的城市人口中STEM教育的学生成绩，从而进行系统性改革。

The CUNY AGEP Program, MAGNET-STEM, was launched in 1999 to produce a significant number of underrepresented minority doctoral students in science and engineering fields and to prepare them for academic careers. The major goal of this project, MAGNET-STEM II, is to build on previous gains and institutionalize effective practices by strengthening the alliance's undergraduate-to-graduate- to- post graduate infrastructure. This goal is in accord with the NSF priority to "catalyze changes in institutional, departmental and organizational culture and practices that will result in significant increases in the recruitment, retention, degree conferral and STEM career (especially academic) entry of minority students." Activities will include: (1) undergraduate /graduate summer research and internships; (2) mentoring and mentoring training; (3) conference presentations; (4) colloquia and seminars on teaching, science and mathematics education, and on communication technologies. MAGNET-STEM II will comprise an inclusive scholarly community of STEM faculty and students from diverse ethnic, racial, and geographic backgrounds, as well as persons with disabilities. Students will be guided by experts in their scientific field to engage in research activities that enable them to master the knowledge and investigative approaches in their chosen areas of specialization. The project will promote the social as well as academic integration of all AGEP students within departments and the improvement of advisement, in addition to offering financial support. Informal and formal interaction between faculty and students to socialize AGEP scholars to the academic profession increases the likelihood that they will graduate and move into postdoctoral and faculty positions. The intellectual merit of MAGNET-STEM II derives from the acquisition by AGEP scholars of a broad background of knowledge that enables them to relate issues in science, mathematics, and technology education to one another and to specialize in one of these areas. To increase the knowledge base and to develop further their research interests, AGEP scholars will have access to affiliated institutions such as Bell Laboratories, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and the Center for the Analysis and Research of Spatial Information (CARSI), a large state-of-the-art GIS and Remote Sensing Laboratory considered to be one of the finest on the East Coast. The City University of New York Graduate Center offers to AGEP scholars training in mentoring, and enrollment in the Colloquium on College Teaching and in the Science, Mathematics, and Technology (SMT) in Education Seminars, which focus on college teaching and STEM education from K-12. SMT seminars address contemporary research issues in the fields of mathematics, science and technology in education. This includes the education of students about technology in society and its relations to science and mathematics. The CUNY Graduate Center, as lead institution, conducted the prior AGEP research project, MAGNET-STEM I (1999-2004), which resulted in increases in the number of minority applicants, enrollments and degree conferrals. The broader impacts of MAGNET-STEM II will occur through the production of an increased number of doctoral students from underrepresented populations trained in their academic specialties working in our nation's laboratories and classrooms and who have developed mentoring experience. Moreover, as a result of participation in the Science, Mathematics, and Technology in Education Seminars offered by the CUNY Graduate Center's Ph.D. Program in Urban Education, AGEP graduates will have knowledge of effective forms of curriculum articulation and partnerships in STEM education that extend to university, school, community, and corporate partnerships, and that move along the urban-education K-16 continuum. In this connection, AGEP scholars will work to prepare teachers of STEM education, leading to an improvement of student achievement in STEM education within culturally diverse urban populations and, hence, to systemic reform.