Ralph Bunche Summer Institute

Ralph Bunche暑期学院旨在扩大有色人种学生的机会，为黑人、拉丁裔和美洲印第安人本科生准备博士课程，成为政治学学院和大学教授和/或该领域及相关领域的研究人员。RBSI让本科生在大三的夏天沉浸在一个为期五周的强化项目中，其中包括研究生水平的课程，以及原创研究论文的设计、分析、写作和展示。该课程模拟研究生院的经历，通过向学生介绍研究方法和统计，以及作为专业政治科学家生命线的研究企业，重点关注科学分析。结果显示，RBSI成功地增加了政治科学研究生项目的有色人种学生数量，以及政治科学和一些相关社会科学领域的黑人和拉丁裔博士人数。这些人中的大多数现在是全国各地大学的教员。Ralph Bunche暑期学院旨在扩大有色人种学生的机会，为黑人、拉丁裔和美洲印第安人本科生准备攻读博士课程，成为政治学学院和大学教授和/或该领域及相关领域的研究人员。RBSI让本科生在大三的夏天沉浸在一个为期五周的强化项目中，其中包括研究生水平的课程，以及原创研究论文的设计、分析、写作和展示。该课程模拟研究生院的经历，通过向学生介绍研究方法和统计，以及作为专业政治科学家生命线的研究企业，重点关注科学分析。那些实证论文被评为高质量的学生将被邀请在美国政治科学协会年会上以海报形式展示他们的论文。

General SummaryThe Ralph Bunche Summer Institute is designed to expand opportunities for students-of-color by preparing black, Latino, and American Indian undergraduates to enroll in doctoral programs and become political science college and university professors and/or researchers in the field and related fields. The RBSI immerses undergraduates in the summer of their junior year in a five-week intensive program that includes graduate level course work, and the design, analysis, writing, and presentation of original research papers. The program simulates the graduate school experience and focuses on scientific analysis by introducing the students to research methods and statistics, and the research enterprise that is the lifeline of professional political scientists. Results show that the RBSI is succeeding in increasing the numbers of students-of-color in political science graduate programs, and the numbers of blacks and Latinos with doctorates in political science, as well as several cognate social science fields. The majority of these individuals are now faculty at universities across the nation. Technical SummaryThe Ralph Bunche Summer Institute is designed to expand opportunities for students-of-color by preparing black, Latino, and American Indian undergraduates to enroll in doctoral programs and become political science college and university professors and/or researchers in the field and related fields. The RBSI immerses undergraduates in the summer of their junior year in a five-week intensive program that includes graduate level course work, and the design, analysis, writing, and presentation of original research papers. The program simulates the graduate school experience and focuses on scientific analysis by introducing the students to research methods and statistics, and the research enterprise that is the lifeline of professional political scientists. Those students whose empirical papers are judged to be of high quality are invited to present their papers in a poster session at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association.