Workshop of the American Physical Society Committee on Minorities

在过去的11年里，APS与APS物理学少数民族委员会合作，为物理学专业的少数民族本科生提供了APS公司赞助的奖学金。奖学金计划提供财政支持，这是一个由执业专业物理学家和企业赞助组成的导师计划。超过100名本科生参加了这个始于1980年的项目。因此，在奖学金获得者中，有不同水平的学生，以及不同的职业道路和成就。APS每年都会更新学生的记录，因此可以很好地分析结果并提出改进建议。尽管做出了许多努力，但选择专业物理学家和其他科学家作为职业的少数族裔学生的数量远远低于他们在人口中的比例。APS奖学金计划通过跟踪少数族裔学生从高中到本科、研究生、博士后职位再到就业，获得了关于少数族裔管道问题相当大一部分的有用信息。因此，可以开发重要的数据，这些数据可以解决管道中不同阶段的不同决策点。我们建议举办一个研讨会，由过去和现在的APS企业奖学金获得者、他们的导师、企业赞助商以及专业协会和政府的适当成员组成。研讨会的重点是：1.确定和分析学生奖学金获得者在决定继续从事物理或相关科学事业时采取的关键步骤，2.确定和分析导致一些奖学金获得者决定不主修理科而选择其他领域的关键决策点，3.确定和分析导致奖学金获得者未完成大学教育的变量，4.分析导师计划的作用及其对职业选择的影响，5.确定如何让奖学金获得者和专业物理学家(许多来自少数群体)参与访问现有网络的战略，并在专业协会和其他与少数群体有关的项目的帮助下开发自己的网络系统。预计从这次以APS计划为重点的讲习班获得的信息和结果将适用于旨在增加所有科学领域的少数族裔学生数量的其他努力。

For the past eleven years, the APS in collaboration with the APS Committee for Minority in Physic has operated the APS Corporate Sponsored Scholarships for Minority Undergraduate Students who major in Physics. The scholarship program provide financial support, a mentorship program consisting of practicing professional physicists and corporate sponsorship. Over 100 undergraduate students have participated in the program which started in 1980. As a result, among the scholarship recipients there is a wide spectrum of students at different levels as well as varied career paths and achievements. The APS has annually updated the records of the student and thus is in excellent position to analyze the results and make suggestions for improvements. In spite of many efforts, the number of minority students who chose careers as professional physicist and other scientists is well below their percentage in the population. The APS scholarships program has obtained useful information on a rather significant portion of the minority pipeline problem by following minority students from highschool, to undergraduate school, to graduate school, to postdoctoral position and then on to employment. Thus, significant data can be developed, which can address the various decision making points at different stages in the pipeline. We proposed to hold a workshop consisting of past and present APS Corporate Scholarship winners, their mentors, corporate sponsors and appropriate members of the professional societies and government. The workshop will focus on the: 1. Identification and analysis of the crucial steps made be the student scholarship winners in deciding to go on to careers in physics or a related science, 2. Identification and analysis of the crucial decision points which resulted in some scholarship winners deciding not to major in science but in another field, 3. Identification and analysis of the variables leading to a scholarship recipient not completing his or her college education, 4. Analysis of the role of the mentor program and how it effects career choices, 5. Determination of strategies on how to involve the scholarship winners and professional physicists (many from minority groups) in accessing existing networks, and developing their own networking system with assistance from the professional societies and other programs concerned with minorities. It is expected that information and results garnered form this workshop, focused on the APS program, will be applicable to other efforts aimed at increasing the number of minority students in all the sciences.