Ralph Bunche Summer Institute

拉尔夫·邦奇暑期研究所旨在通过准备黑人，拉丁裔和美洲印第安人本科生参加博士课程并成为政治学学院和大学教授来扩大有色人种学生的机会。Ralph Bunche暑期研究所在大三的夏天让本科生沉浸在为期五周的强化课程中，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，写作和演示。该计划模拟研究生院的经验，并通过向学生介绍研究方法，统计数据和政治学研究过程，侧重于科学分析。那些经验论文被评为高质量的学生被邀请在美国政治学协会年会的海报会议上展示他们的工作。RBSI的最终目标是增加美国学院和大学中黑人，拉丁裔和美洲印第安人政治学教师的数量。拉尔夫·邦奇研究所为有色人种（黑人，拉丁裔和美洲印第安人）的本科生提供了为期五周的强化课程，为他们攻读政治学博士学位做好准备，目的是为他们在学术界作为教授和研究人员扩大机会。该计划包括研究生水平的课程，在统计/定量方法的培训，并完成一个原始的研究项目。前几年的结果表明，拉尔夫·邦奇暑期研究所成功地增加了政治学研究生课程中有色人种学生的数量，以及拥有政治学博士学位的黑人和拉丁美洲人的数量（以及几个同源的社会科学领域）。该计划还成功地大幅增加了这些代表性不足的群体中获得政治学和公共政策硕士学位的学生人数，其中许多人进入了政府服务。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The 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. The Ralph Bunche Summer Institute immerses undergraduates in the summer of their junior year in a five-week intensive program that includes graduate level coursework, as well as 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, statistics, and the research process in political science. Those students whose empirical papers are judged to be of high quality are invited to present their work in a poster session at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. The ultimate goal of the RBSI is to increase the number of black, Latino, and American Indian political science faculty in U.S. colleges and universities. The Ralph Bunche Institute provides a five-week intensive program for undergraduate students-of-color (black, Latino, and American Indian) that prepares them pursue a Ph.D in political science, with the goal of expanding opportunities for them in academia as professors and researchers. The program includes graduate level coursework, training in statistical/quantitative methods, and completion of an original research project. Outcomes from previous years suggest that the Ralph Bunche Summer Institute 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 program has also been successful in increasing substantially the number of students from these underrepresented groups with masters' degrees in political science and public policy, many of whom have gone into government service.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.