MGE: Strategies to Expand Participation and Enhance Retention in Minority Graduate Education

HRD-9817555 David Auston我们的目标是降低MGE的进入门槛，提高学位完成率，为中小企业培养职业领袖，并创造欢迎多元化的文化。MGE受到现行GRE标准下符合入学资格的学生数量的限制，以及留住在校学生的措施不足。我们将制定替代战略，以确定哪些学生能够成功完成研究生学习，并将生成结果数据来解决人们的担忧。面向少数族裔和多数族裔院校的学生，以及参加暑期项目的机会，旨在为本科生提供接触研究和研究生教育的机会，并为MGE创造有利的环境。以成功的与科学家共度暑假项目为蓝本的集群将扩展到莱斯大学的科学和工程领域，并在威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的工程领域建立，以提供全年的社区体验，鼓励入学，支持学位完成，并让学生接受严格的学术纪律。外部评估将确定影响该模型在不同环境中应用的因素。连同莱斯大学和密歇根大学的强有力的机构承诺，这项提案旨在改变机构的文化，以便在项目生命周期之后继续进行根本性的变化。

HRD-9817555David AustonOur goals are to reduce entry barriers for MGE, enhance degree completion, generate leaders forSME careers, and create a culture that welcomes diversity. MGE has been limited by the numbers of students qualified for admission under current GRE standards and by inadequate measures to retain enrolled students. We will develop alternate strategies to identify students who can succeed in graduate study and will generate outcome data to address concerns. Outreach to students in minority and majority institutions and opportunities for participation in summer programs are designed to provide undergraduate exposure to research and graduate education and to create an environment conducive for MGE. Clusters, modeled after the successful Spend a Summer with a Scientist program, will be expanded across science and engineering at Rice University and established in engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison to provide a year-round community experience that encourages enrollment, supports degree completion, and exposes students to rigorous academic discipline. Outside evaluation will determine factors that affect application of this model in different settings. Together with strong institutional commitments by Rice University and UW-M, this proposal is designed to alter the culture of the institutions so that the fundamental change continues past the life of the project.