GEMSTONES: Graduate Education in the Mathematical Sciences To Nurture Every Student

该项目的主要目标是增加美国妇女和代表性不足的少数民族（非洲裔美国人，拉丁美洲人和墨西哥裔美国人，以及美洲原住民）完成博士学位的人数。在数学科学中。要做到这一点，我们将收集和发展有关政策和实践的专业知识，这些政策和实践有效地使研究生教育多样化，然后将这些专业知识传播给更广泛的数学界，以实际的方式为研究生教育的进一步变革提供催化剂。 该项目有四个组成部分，由一个由数学科学家组成的咨询委员会指导，该委员会在招募和支持数学科学领域的不同研究生方面有着非凡的记录。 首先，代表24个博士课程的教师将参加为期一周的研讨会，结构类似于研讨会？寻找和留住数学科学研究生？2006年12月在美国数学研究所提供的，在此期间，他们将制定和实施具体的计划，以改善招聘，保留，指导和研究生的职业发展。 这些计划将参照其他部门已证明成功的做法和政策。 这24个部门以及参加最初AIM研讨会的8个部门将有机会接触我们的专家委员会，以帮助他们在研讨会后进一步制定和实施计划。 其次，我们将开发一个网站，为正在努力实现这种变化的数学系提供资源，包括对成功实践的描述和分析，以适应他们的特定背景。 第三，我们将提供？咨询服务？数学系让他们接触到专家，与他们的教师一起修改他们的研究生课程的相关方面。 第四，我们将举行一次会议，在为大量少数民族人口服务的本科院校和数学科学研究生课程之间建立桥梁，以加强从本科到研究生院的流动。 所有这些努力将有助于发展更广泛的成功实践，并建立一个不断壮大的数学科学家网络，这些科学家具有与不同人群的研究生合作的专业知识和经验。 这些努力将被记录和评估，以确定成功的做法，分析成功（或失败）的原因，并提供有形的，实用的指导其他数学科学家关于他们可以做的事情在自己的计划，以建立一个更多样化的人口博士数学科学家。 这些想法也将在数学之外传播，因为通过该项目开发的许多实践将与其他STEM学科相关。 这项工作将有助于提高研究生，特别是代表性不足群体的学生的持久性高等教育的奖学金。

The major goal of this project is to increase the number of U.S. women and underrepresented minorities (African Americans, Latino and Chicano Americans, and Native Americans) who complete PhD?s in the mathematical sciences. To do this, we will gather and develop expertise about policies and practices that have been effective in diversifying graduate education, and then disseminate this expertise to the broader mathematical community in practical terms that can provide a catalyst for further change in graduate education. The project has four components, guided by an Advisory Board comprised of mathematical scientists with extraordinary track records in recruiting and supporting diverse graduate students in the mathematical sciences. First, faculty representing 24 doctoral programs will participate in week-long workshops, structured similarly to the workshop ?Finding and Keeping Graduate Students in the Mathematical Sciences? offered at the American Institute of Mathematics in December 2006, during which they will develop and implement concrete plans to improve the recruiting, retention, mentoring, and career development of graduate students. These plans will be modeled after practices and policies that have already proven successful in other departments. These 24 departments, and the 8 that participated in the original AIM workshop, will have access to our expert board to help them further develop and implement their plans after the workshops. Second, we will develop a website with resources for mathematics departments that are working toward such changes, including descriptions and analysis of successful practices for them adapt to their particular contexts. Third, we will provide a ?consulting service? for mathematics departments to give them access to experts to work with their faculty to revise relevant aspects of their graduate programs. Fourth, we will conduct a conference to build bridges between undergraduate institutions that serve large minority populations and graduate programs in the mathematical sciences, to enhance the flow in the pipeline from undergraduate to graduate schools. All of these efforts will contribute to the development of a broader set of successful practices and a growing network of mathematical scientists with expertise and experience working with diverse populations of graduate students. These efforts will be documented and evaluated in order to identify successful practices, analyze reasons for success (or failure), and provide tangible, practical guidance to other mathematical scientists about things they can do within their own programs to build a more diverse population of PhD mathematical scientists. These ideas will be disseminated outside of mathematics as well, as many of the practices developed through this project will be relevant to other STEM disciplines. This work will contribute to scholarship in Higher Education about enhancing the persistence of graduate students, particularly students of underrepresented groups.