Predoctoral Summer Institute

Predoctoral Summer Institute（PSI）在乔治城大学举行。大约有20名在华盛顿、特拉华州、马里兰州、弗吉尼亚州和西弗吉尼亚州就读学院/大学的大三和大四学生，其中许多人是代表性不足的少数民族，参加了该研究所。PSI有四个首要的实际目标：提供政治学学科的子领域和方法的可访问和参与概述;鼓励参与者进行研究，并设想自己作为研究人员;揭开神秘的申请研究生课程和攻读研究生学位的过程;并阐明开放给政治学博士课程毕业生的职业道路。在追求这些实际目标时，PSI旨在实现两个更广泛的目标：使研究无数紧迫政治主题的不同参与者群体能够在新地点推进创新研究，使用新方法，发展新理论，并产生可操作的结果;以及加强政治学研究生教育学生群体的背景和观点的多样性，从而有助于创造一个更加多样化，具有全球竞争力的STEM劳动力。PSI支持学生参与者成功申请研究生院，并为他们提供在研究生课程中脱颖而出的工具。因此，该研究所有助于扩大，深化和加强申请研究生课程的学生人数，提高代表性不足的学生的录取率，并增加历史上代表性不足的群体在STEM中的参与-从而促进智力进步。此外，该计划的系统评估允许对历史上代表性不足的背景的学生的研究生教育的主要障碍的知识进步;和战略和最佳实践的发展，以支持来自这些背景的学生，并设计和扩展跨机构，地区和学科的此类举措。这些知识，反过来，将形成一个强大的基础，为证据为导向的干预措施，旨在提高多样性，公平，并在academy.This奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响力审查标准进行评估的支持。

The Predoctoral Summer Institute (PSI) is held at Georgetown University. Approximately 20 rising juniors and seniors attending college/university in Washington, DC, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia, many of whom are under-represented minorities, attend the Institute. The PSI has four overarching practical objectives: providing accessible and engaging overviews of the subfields and methods of the political science discipline; encouraging participants to conduct research and envision themselves as researchers; demystifying the processes of applying to graduate programs and pursuing a graduate degree; and elucidating the career paths open to graduates of doctoral programs in political science. In pursuing these practical objectives, PSI aims to accomplish two broader goals: empowering diverse cohorts of participants studying myriad pressing political topics to advance innovative research in new sites, using new methods, developing new theories, and generating actionable findings; and enhancing the diversity of the backgrounds and perspectives of the student population in political science graduate education, thereby contributing to creating a more diverse, globally competitive STEM workforce. PSI supports student participants to successfully apply to graduate school and provides them with the tools to excel in their graduate programs. The Institute thus contributes to broadening, deepening, and strengthening the pool of students applying to graduate programs, to boosting the acceptance rate of underrepresented students, and to augmenting the participation of historically underrepresented groups in STEM – thereby fostering intellectual progress. Moreover, the systematic evaluation of the program allows advances in knowledge about key barriers to graduate education for students from historically underrepresented backgrounds; and the development of strategies and best practices for supporting students from these backgrounds, and for designing and scaling such initiatives across institutions, regions, and disciplines. This knowledge, in turn, will form a robust foundation for the development of evidence-led interventions aimed at enhancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in the academy.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.