EMSW21-MCTP: Alliance for the Production of African American Ph.D.s in the Mathematical Sciences

培养非裔美国人数学科学博士联盟的成员机构。（APAAPMS）将开展几个项目，这些项目将导致非洲裔美国人参加数学科学博士课程的人数增加，以及这些学生获得博士学位的人数增加。该联盟由四所传统黑人学院和大学（HBCUs）的数学系和三所爱荷华州摄政大学的数学系组成。将扩大它们目前在这一领域开展的活动。其中第一个项目是联盟学者计划，在每个参与联盟HBCU的学生中确定8名学生，并由HBCU和爱荷华大学的数学教师组成的团队为这些学生提供密切的指导。第二个项目是联盟暑期研究体验，为联盟学者以及其他院校的数学专业本科生提供为期八周的密集研究体验。第三个项目是联盟课程项目（Alliance Curriculum project），该项目对参与院校的本科数学课程的异同进行了仔细分析，着眼于在联盟HBCUs的本科数学课程和大多数院校的博士课程之间建立无缝过渡。第四个项目是联盟高中数学圈，让联盟学者在他们学校所在的社区开展外展活动。历史上的黑人学院和大学（HBCUs）招收了大约20%的四年制本科院校的非洲裔美国人；他们约占从这些机构毕业的所有非裔美国人的30%。然而，除了三到四所拥有卓越传统的精英HBCUs外，HBCUs的毕业生很少参加数学科学的博士课程，或者实际上，参加任何能够获得教授职位的博士课程。其原因不难确定：事实上，直到最近，除了少数例外，非裔美国人在教授队伍中根本不受欢迎。因此，hbcu倾向于专注于培养专业人士——医生、律师、教师和宗教领袖，他们历来为一个因种族隔离和公然歧视而处于危险中的社区提供关键的基础设施。在美国大学每年授予的所有数学博士学位中，只有不到2%授予了非裔美国人，这一比例在过去25年里或多或少保持稳定。这个项目的目标是让就读HBCUs的学生更容易过渡到数学研究生课程，并着眼于提高这些数字。

Member institutions of the Alliance for the Production of African American Ph.D.s in the Mathematical Sciences. (APAAPMS) will carry out several projects which will lead to an increase in the number of African Americans who enroll in doctoral programs in the mathematical sciences as well as an increase in the number of these students who obtain the Ph.D. The Alliance, which consists of mathematics departments at four Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) together with departments in the mathematical sciences at the three Iowa Regents universities, will expand activities that they are presently undertaking in this area. The first of these projects, the Alliance Scholar's Program, identifies eight students at each participating Alliance HBCU and provides these students with close mentoring by teams consisting of HBCU and Iowa Regents mathematics faculty. A second project, the Alliance Summer Research Experience, provides an eight week intensive research experience for Alliance Scholars as well as for selected undergraduate mathematics majors from other institutions. A third project, the Alliance Curriculum Project, provides for a careful analysis of the similarities and differences of undergraduate mathematics courses taught at participating institutions with an eye toward building seamless transitions between undergraduate mathematics programs at Alliance HBCUs and doctoral programs at majority institutions. A fourth project, the Alliance High School Math Circle, involves Alliance Scholars in outreach activities in the communities in which their schools are located.Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) enroll approximately 20% of all African Americans who attend four year undergraduate institutions; they account for approximately 30% of all African Americans who graduate from these institutions. Yet, with the exception of three or four elite HBCUs with an established tradition of excellence, it is extremely rare for graduates of HBCUs to enroll in doctoral programs in the mathematical sciences or, indeed, in any doctoral program which leads to a position in the professoriate. The reason for this is not hard to ascertain: in fact, with few exceptions, African Americans were simply not welcome among the ranks of the professoriate until quite recently. As a result, HBCUs have tended to focus on producing professionals - doctors, lawyers, teachers and religious leaders who have historically provided critical infrastructure to a community at risk due to segregation and overt discrimination. Less than 2% of all Ph.D. in mathematics awarded at US universities each year are awarded to African Americans, a percentage that has remained more or less stable over the last twenty five years. It is the goal of this project to ease the transition to graduate programs in mathematics for students attending HBCUs with an eye toward improving these numbers.