Student to Academic Professoriate for American Indians - SAPAI

蒙大拿大学Penny Kukuk为了保持美国科学的卓越，有必要增加来自代表性不足群体的学生获得的科学和工程研究生学位的数量。Sci，2000）。美国印第安人和阿拉斯加原住民（AIAN），特别是那些在科学和工程领域，在学术界，政府和工业界的教师严重不足。迫切需要专门针对不同和独特的部落民族成员的有效方案。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（TCU）以及阿尔弗雷德·斯隆基金会合作，提出“美国印第安人学生到学术专业人士”（SAPAI）倡议。该联盟建议与AIAN研究生合作，提高研究生学位完成率，并促进他们过渡到教授职位，特别是在TCU。具体而言，该联盟旨在提高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系的代表性。该联盟建议通过进行为期8周的密集写作务虚会来实现这些目标，并通过一项计划将TCU的科学教师需求与适当的SAPAI学者相匹配，并为TCU的第一年学者提供支持。该联盟还建议准备学者进入TCU教授在8周，密集的TCU培训计划。智力优势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体STEM研究议程。这样做的过程，其中包括一个实质性的写作研讨会，以帮助确保论文完成和精心制作的培训和匹配过程，旨在增加在部落学院的干教师是令人印象深刻的。斯隆基金会的支持和对ANLSAMP的参与也使这成为一个非常引人注目的项目。 该方案将解决部落学院和大学中AIAN科学教育工作者的不足。由于SAPAI学者将接受培训（TCU培训），成为优秀的资助作家，他们将外部支持研究和科学教育带入TCU社区的潜力很高，并可能对这些社区产生重要的经济影响。

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.