MGE: Minority Graduate Education Program

路易斯·戴尔：阿拉巴马大学伯明翰分校（UAB）是一所授予博士学位的研究型大学，将与阿拉巴马州和密西西比州的七所历史上的黑人学院和大学（HBCU）组成一个联盟，旨在显著增加未被充分代表的少数民族在科学、数学和工程（SME）领域获得博士学位并成为教授的人数。所有提议的联盟成员也是阿拉巴马州少数民族参与联盟（AAMP）计划的成员，这是一个由美国国家科学基金会赞助的联盟，其目标是增加在SUE学科中获得学士学位的少数民族人数。阿拉巴马大学AMP项目培养了大批少数族裔学生，他们有可能成为研究生。HBCU联盟成员和AW计划将作为阿拉巴马州少数民族研究生教育（AMGE）计划的“支线机构”。更准确地说，AMGE计划将做以下工作：在HBCU各校区开展研究生院宣传活动。这些活动将包括研讨会、演讲嘉宾和SNE年度研究生教育日。在每个联盟校区建立研究生院准备计划。该计划将包括GRE预备短期课程、研究生院援助活动、鼓励新南电本科生参加与教师的专业会议的旅行援助计划，以及研究生桥梁计划。3 .为MGE录取的学生提供保证入学的招生和录取活动。在新任命的MGE学生支持服务主任的协助下，建立协调的指导和建议计划。通过积极的挽留努力和利用UAB黑人研究生协会，提供一个支持性的环境。利用国家科学基金会的资金和MGE的努力与UAB资助的综合少数民族教师和学生发展计划。到2003年，将参加UAB中小企业博士课程的少数族裔人数从目前的41人增加到至少100人。为中小企业毕业生提供创新支持，确保每个中小企业毕业生在合理的时间内获得中小企业领域的博士学位。阿拉巴马大学伯明翰分校在支持少数族裔学生方面有着记录在案的记录。该大学每年将向mgen招收的学生提供最多4个1.5万美元的奖学金，作为费用分摊。奖学金将每年更新，为期四年。阿拉巴马州MGE计划将有入学目标和博士学位授予目标。在第一年，预计至少有16名学生将在中小企业部门的研究生院注册。第一年之后，该项目将完全建立，预计研究生入学人数将每年至少增加20-25人。保留努力是学位授予的关键。因此，项目期望每个入学的MGE学生将在合理的时间内获得博士学位。MGE计划将帮助毕业生在学院和大学找到合适的教师职位。

HRD-9817296Louis DaleThe University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), a doctoral degree granting Research IUniversity, will join in a consortium with seven Historically Black Colleges and Universities(HBCU) in Alabama and Mississippi for the purpose of significantly increasing the number ofunderrepresented minorities receiving doctoral degrees in the science, mathematics, and engineering (SME) fields and entering the professorate. All proposed consortium members are also members of the Alabama Alliance for Minority Participation (AAMP) Program, an NSF sponsored alliance with the goal of increasing the number of underrepresented minorities receiving Bachelors degrees in SUE disciplines. The Alabama AMP program has produced a large pool of minority students who are potential graduate students. The HBCU consortium members and the AW program will serve as "feeder institutions" for the Alabama Minority Graduate Education (AMGE) Program. More precisely, the AMGE Program will do the following:1. Provide graduate school awareness activities on each HBCU campus. These activities will include seminars, guest speakers, and a SNE Annual Graduate Education Day.2. Establish a Graduate School Preparation Program on each consortium campus. This program will include a GRE Preparation Short Course, graduate school assistance activities, a travel assistance program to encourage SNE undergraduates to attend professional meetings with faculty, and a Graduate Bridge Program.3. Provide recruitment and admission activities that will lead to guaranteed admission for MGE recruited students.4. Establish a coordinated mentoring and advising program with assistance from the newly appointed Director of MGE Student Support Services.5. Provide a supportive environment by means of a vigorous retention effort and use of the UAB Black Graduate Students Association.6. Leverage NSF funds and MGE efforts with the UAB funded Comprehensive Minority Faculty and Student Development Program.7. Increase the number of underrepresented minorities enrolled in SME Ph.D. programs at UAB from the current 41 to a minimum of 100 by the year 2003.8. Provide innovative support to MGE participants to insure that each MGE participant receives the Ph.D. degree in SME fields within a reasonable period of time.The University of Alabama at Birmingham has a documented track record of supporting minoritystudents. The university will provide up to four $15,000 Fellowships each year to MGErecruited students as cost sharing. The fellowships will be renewable each year for four years,The Alabama MGE Program will have enrollment goals and doctoral degree conferral goals.During the first year it is expected that at least 16 students will enroll in graduate school in SMEdepartments. After the first year the program will be fully established and it is expected thatgraduate enrollment numbers will increase by at least 20-25 per year. Retention efforts are the keyto degree conferral. Consequently, program expectations are that each MGE student enrolled willreceive a Ph.D. degree within a reasonable period of time. The MGE Program will assist graduateswith finding suitable faculty positions at colleges and universities.