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、西北印第安学院和传统大学合作。这个项目是为了响应美国国家科学基金会研究生教育和教授联盟（AGEP）项目的征求（NSF 14-505）而创建的，用于AGEP-转换（AGEP- t）轨道。AGEP-T的目标是机构和组织的战略联盟，以开发、实施和研究创新的基于证据的模型和标准，用于STEM研究生教育、博士后培训和学术STEM职业准备，消除或减轻负面因素，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、实施和研究一种文化一致的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（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。该项目有助于了解STEM领域AI/AN研究生的招聘、保留和毕业的基础知识。强调文化相关和文化沉浸式活动是研究生及其STEM指导教师的独特干预方法。PNW-COSMOS有可能提供结果，可能会改变该领域与URM研究生在农村环境和在STEM中存在AI/AN的国家地区的合作方式。在项目进展过程中吸取的经验教训以及工作的最终结果将为教育工作者、行政人员和政策制定者以及一般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.