AMP: SUNY Alliance for Minority Participation: Developing,Testing and Disseminating Effective Educational Models

纽约州立大学(纽约州立大学)是一个非常大的公立学院/大学系统，它建议发展一个少数族裔参与的纽约州立大学联盟。提供工程课程的四所纽约州立大学正在牵头实施这一提议。这四个机构是布法罗、宾厄姆顿、新帕尔茨和石溪。虽然这些机构在纽约州立大学系统中提供工程课程，但拟议倡议涉及的学科还将包括应用科学、数学、物理科学和生物科学。在整个纽约州立大学系统中，已经存在着各种成功的少数族裔方案。拟议的SUNY-AMP计划建议在这些计划之间建立联盟，并建立新的计划，以满足该计划的具体目标。特别是，预计到2000年，获得学士学位的少数族裔人数将增加两倍，从241名代表不足的少数族裔MMET毕业生增加到480名。同样，硕士学位预计将从27个增加到60个；博士学位将从4个增加到24个。这项提议的核心是四个明确的目标：(1)增加被纽约州立大学学校联盟录取的少数族裔学生的数量；(2)帮助少数族裔学生出类拔萃，而不仅仅是避免失败；(3)扩大少数族裔学生的研究机会；(4)将未被充分代表的少数族裔学生授予的SMET学士学位数量增加一倍。在某种程度上，该联盟可以被视为由四个不同的地区联盟组成的联盟，每个联盟都以上述四个机构为中心。

The State University of New York (SUNY) is a very large public college/university system which proposes to develop a SUNY alliance for minority participation. The four SUNY institutions that offer engineering programs are taking the lead on the proposed initiative. The four institutions are Buffalo, Binghamton, New Paltz, and Stony Brook. While these institutions offer the engineering programs in the SUNY system, the disciplines involved in the proposed initiative will also include applied science, mathematics, physical sciences, and biological sciences. A variety of successful minority programs already exist throughout the SUNY system. The proposed SUNY-AMP proposes to provide alliances among these programs and establish new programs to meet the specified goals of the proposal. In particular, it is expected that the number of minorities receiving bachelor degrees will increase twofold from 241 underrepresented minority SMET graduates to 480 by the year 2000. Likewise, the expected increase in the master's degrees will be from 27 to 60; in the case of Ph.Ds the number of degrees will increase from 4 to 24. Central to this proposal are four stated goals: (1) Increase the number of minority students that are accepted into the coalition of SUNY schools; (2) Help minority students excel rather than merely avoid failure; (3) Expand research opportunities for minority students; and (4) Double the number of SMET bachelor degrees awarded by underrepresented minority students. In part, the alliance can be seen as a coalition of four different regional alliances each centered around the four institutions mentioned above.