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、爱达荷州大学和蒙大拿州立大学正在合作创建太平洋西北联盟：成功辅导学生的合作机会。这些联盟学校还与Salish Kootenai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。该项目是为了响应NSF的研究生教育联盟和教授（AGEP）计划征集（NSF 14-505）的AGEP转换（AGEP-T）轨道而创建的。AGEP-T轨道的目标是机构和组织的战略联盟，以开发，实施和研究创新的循证模型和标准，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，实施和研究文化一致的STEM研究生教育和学术STEM职业准备的模型，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。 该项目有助于对STEM中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指导教师在STEM中的独特干预方法。 PNW-COSMOS有可能提供的结果，可能会改变该领域的方式从事和与农村环境中的URM研究生和在该国的地区，那里有AI/AN在干。随着该项目的进展而吸取的经验教训以及工作的最终结果将提供有益于教育工作者、行政人员和决策者以及公众的信息。

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.