Collaborative Research: The Pacific Northwest Alliance to Develop, Implement and Study a STEM Graduate Education Model for American Indians and Native Alaskans

华盛顿州立大学、蒙大拿大学、爱达荷大学和蒙大拿州立大学正在合作创建太平洋西北联盟：成功指导学生的合作机会(PNW-COSMOS)。这些联盟学校还与萨利什·库特奈学院、蒙大拿大学蒙大拿理工学院、西北印度学院和传统大学合作。该项目是为响应NSF研究生教育联盟和AGEP转化(AGEP-T)轨道的专家(AGEP)计划征集(NSF 14-505)而创建的。AGEP-T Track的目标是机构和组织的战略联盟，以开发、实施和研究STEM研究生教育、博士后培训和学术STEM职业准备的创新循证模式和标准，以消除或减轻负面因素并促进URM的积极实践。太平洋西北AGEP-T联盟的目标是通过开发、实施和研究文化契合的STEM研究生教育和学术STEM职业准备模式，增加完成STEM研究生课程并特别强调博士学位的美国印第安人/阿拉斯加原住民(AI/AN)学生的数量。该项目有助于为STEM的AI/AN研究生的招聘、保留和毕业提供基础知识。强调与文化相关和文化沉浸式活动是STEM研究生及其导师的独特干预方法。PNW-COSMOS有潜力提供可能改变该领域在农村环境和STEM中有人工智能/人工智能的地区与URM研究生接触和工作的方式的结果。随着这一项目的进展而吸取的经验教训以及工作的最终成果，将为教育工作者、行政人员、政策制定者以及普通公众提供有益的信息。

Washington State University, the University of Montana, the University of Idaho and Montana State University are collaborating to create the Pacific Northwest Alliance: Collaborative Opportunities for Success in Mentoring of Students (PNW-COSMOS). These alliance schools also partner with Salish Kootenai College, Montana Tech of the University of Montana, Northwest Indian College and Heritage University. This project was created in response to the NSF's Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) program solicitation (NSF 14-505) for the AGEP-Transformation (AGEP-T) track. The AGEP-T track targets strategic alliances of institutions and organizations to develop, implement, and study innovative evidence-based models and standards for STEM graduate education, postdoctoral training, and academic STEM career preparation that eliminate or mitigate negative factors and promote positive practices for URMs. The goal of the Pacific Northwest AGEP-T Alliance is to increase the number of American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) students who complete STEM graduate programs with specific emphasis on doctoral degrees, by developing, implementing and studying a model of culturally congruent STEM graduate education and academic STEM career preparation. This project is contributing to foundational knowledge about the recruitment, retention and graduation of AI/AN graduate students in STEM. The emphasis on culturally-relevant and culturally-immersive activities is a unique intervention approach for graduate students and their mentoring faculty in STEM. PNW-COSMOS has the potential to provide results that may transform the way the field engages and works with URM graduate students in rural environments and in regions of the country where there are AI/AN in STEM. The lessons learned as this project progresses, and the ultimate results from the work, will provide information that will be beneficial to educators, administrators and policymakers, as well as the general public.