Student to Academic Professoriate for American Indians - SAPAI

美洲印第安人学术教授的学生 - SAPAI

• 批准号: 0639735
• 负责人: Penelope Kukuk
• 金额: $ 180万
• 依托单位: University of Montana
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-01 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0639735&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Student; Academic; Professoriate; American; Indians

ABSTRACTHRD-0639735University of MontanaPenny KukukThere is a need to increase the numbers of graduate degrees in science and engineering obtained by students from underrepresented groups in order to maintain science excellence in the United States (Nat. Acad. Sci, 2000). American Indian and Alaska Natives (AIAN), especially those in science and engineering fields, are severely underrepresented among faculty in academia, government and industry. Effective programs specifically focused on the members of the varied and unique tribal nations are desperately needed. Therefore, The University of Montana (UM) and The University of Arizona (UA) are collaborating with the All Nations Lewis Stokes Alliance for Minority Progress (ANLSAMP), Tribal colleges and universities (TCUs) in Arizona and New Mexico, plus the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to propose the "Student to Academic Professional for American Indians" (SAPAI) initiative. This consortium proposes to work with AIAN graduate students to increase graduate degree completion and facilitate their transition into the professoriate, particularly at TCUs. Specifically, the consortium aims to increase rates of degree completion for AIAN students in STEM fields who have completed all requirements for their graduate degrees with the exception of their dissertation or thesis and increase AIAN representation in STEM faculties at TCUs. The consortium proposes to accomplish these goals by conducting 8 week intensive Writing Retreats and through a program that matches the science faculty needs of TCUs with appropriate SAPAI Scholars and providing support for the scholars for their first year at the TCU. The consortium also proposes to prepare scholars to enter the TCU professoriate during an 8 week, intensive TCU Training Program. Intellectual Merit... This award has the potential to significantly impact science higher education for Native American students and to bring this cultural perspective more effectively to the overall STEM research agenda. The process for doing this, which includes a substantive writing workshop to help ensure dissertation completion and a carefully crafted training and matching process designed to increase STEM faculty at tribal colleges is impressive. The endorsement of the Sloan Foundation and the involvement on ANLSAMP also make this a very compelling project.Broader Impact... This program will address the deficiency of AIAN science educators in tribal colleges and universities. Because SAPAI scholars will be trained (TCU Training) to become excellent grant writers the potential for them to bring external support for research and science education into the TCU communities is high and could have important economic impacts on these communities.

蒙大拿大学彭妮·库库克为了保持美国的科学卓越，有必要增加来自代表性不足群体的学生获得科学和工程研究生学位的数量（Nat. Acad. Sci, 2000）。美国印第安人和阿拉斯加原住民（AIAN），尤其是那些在科学和工程领域的人，在学术界、政府和工业界的教职员工中代表性严重不足。迫切需要有效的方案，专门针对不同的和独特的部落国家的成员。因此，蒙大拿大学（UM）和亚利桑那大学（UA）正在与所有国家刘易斯·斯托克斯少数民族进步联盟（ANLSAMP）、亚利桑那州和新墨西哥州的部落学院和大学（TCUs）以及阿尔弗雷德·p·斯隆基金会合作，提出“美国印第安人学生到学术专业人员”（SAPAI）倡议。该联盟建议与AIAN研究生合作，以提高研究生学位的完成率，并促进他们向教授的过渡，特别是在tcu。具体来说，该联盟的目标是提高AIAN学生在STEM领域的学位完成率，这些学生已经完成了除论文或论文之外的所有研究生学位要求，并增加AIAN在tcu STEM学院的代表性。为了实现这些目标，该联盟建议开展为期8周的密集写作静修，并通过一个与TCU的科学教师需求相匹配的项目，为TCU的学者提供合适的SAPAI学者，并为他们在TCU的第一年提供支持。该联盟还建议在为期8周的TCU密集培训计划中为进入TCU教授做准备。知识价值……该奖项有可能对美国原住民学生的科学高等教育产生重大影响，并将这种文化视角更有效地纳入整个STEM研究议程。这一过程令人印象深刻，其中包括一个实质性的写作研讨会，以帮助确保论文的完成，以及一个精心设计的培训和匹配过程，旨在增加部落学院的STEM教师。斯隆基金会的支持和对ANLSAMP的参与也使它成为一个非常引人注目的项目。更广泛的影响……该项目将解决部落高校中AIAN科学教育工作者的不足。由于SAPAI学者将接受培训（TCU培训），成为优秀的基金撰写人，因此他们为TCU社区带来外部研究和科学教育支持的潜力很大，并可能对这些社区产生重要的经济影响。