Technical Assistance to Facilitate the Development of a State Action Plan to Increase the Participation of Minorities in MSE Research and Teaching Careers

小行星9612216 拟议的项目以国家科学基金会资助的少数群体优质教育网络技术援助项目为基础。TAP的长期目标是显着增加参与数学，科学和工程（MSE）领域的群体历史上代表性不足的学生和教师在更高水平的大学预科数学和科学课程，以及在MSE领域在大学和研究生水平。 非亚裔少数族裔仅占美国所需高技能技术工人总数的5%左右，但在美国人口中所占比例相当大（超过20%），而且还在不断增长。为了集中力量解决这一问题，国家科学基金会和质量管理委员会都为2000年获得中等教育学士学位和博士学位的少数民族制定了数字目标。 拟议的项目旨在加强一个选定州内的少数民族和非少数民族机构的能力，以培养准备充分的少数民族毕业生，这些毕业生进入中等教育教学和研究职业，其人数与该州高等教育中少数民族学生的比例相称。 一个主要成果将是一个国家行动计划，在先前授予期间成立的国家指导委员会的领导下制定，这将使国家能够对少数民族MSE学位的数字目标作出相应的贡献。该计划将强调两年制和四年制院校之间的衔接协议，技术的使用，以及加强教师教育计划。 将向参与机构提供各种形式的技术援助，以提高机构能力和基础设施，并促进协调与合作及信息共享。 ***

9612216 McBay The proposed project builds upon the Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network's Technical Assistance Project (TAP) that was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). TAP's long-term goal is to significantly increase the participation in mathematics, science, and engineering (MSE) fields of groups historically underrepresented as students and teachers in higher level pre-college mathematics and science courses as well as in MSE fields at the college and graduate levels. Non-Asian minorities constitute only about five percent of the pool of highly skilled technical workers the country needs but represent a sizable (more than 20 percent) and growing percentage of the U.S. population. To focus efforts on this problem, both the NSF and QEM have established numerical goals for the year 2000 for minority MSE baccalaureate and doctoral degree recipients. The proposed project seeks to strengthen the capacity of minority and nonminority institutions within a selected state to produce well-prepared minority graduates who enter MSE teaching and research careers in numbers commensurate with the percentage of minority students in higher education enrolled in that state. A major outcome will be a state action plan, developed under the leadership of a state steering committee established during the prior award, that will enable the state to make its proportionate contribution to the minority MSE degree numerical goals. The plan will emphasize articulation agreements between two- and four-year institutions, the use of technology, and strengthening teacher education programs. Various forms of technical assistance will be provided to the participating institutions that will be designed to increase institutional capacity and infrastructure as well as to facilitate coordination and collaboration, and information sharing. ***