The Berkeley Edge: A Model for Advancing Underrepresented Minority Students through the Ph.D. and Beyond

加州大学伯克利分校科学、工程和数学研究生教育卓越与多样性联盟(The Berkeley Edge)要求国家科学基金会每年提供50万美元的赠款，为期五年。伯克利分校的目标是将获得科学、工程和数学博士学位的少数族裔学生的数量增加一倍，并为少数族裔代表不足的少数族裔做好准备，以进入科学专业的最高级别，包括教授。伯克利边缘包括工程、化学、物理科学和生物科学方面的研究生少数族裔支持计划，并与伯克利大学本科生层面的SEM少数族裔支持计划密切协调。伯克利分校将在工程管理学专业设立新的课程，在工程管理学系和学院中持续传播最佳实践和方法，将以学科为基础的少数族裔毕业生支持计划正规化和制度化，并将研究生和本科生层面的努力联系起来。MGE奖将使伯克利分校能够启动与HBCU和其他少数族裔服务机构的有意义的合作，这些机构是SEM中少数族裔BA/BS获得者的最大生产者。伯克利是SEM中最大的博士获得者生产商。

The UC Berkeley Excellence and Diversity in Graduate Education in Science, Engineering and Mathematics Coalition (The Berkeley Edge) requests a grant of $500,000 per year for five years from the National Science Foundation. The Berkeley Edge's goal is to double the numbers of minority students who earn doctoral degrees in science, engineering, and mathematics (SEM) and to prepare underrepresented minorities to advance into the highest ranks of the scientific profession, including the professoriate. The Berkeley Edge includes the graduate minority support programs in Engineering, Chemistry, the Physical Sciences, and the Biological Sciences, with close coordination with Berkeley's SEM minority support programs at the undergraduate level. Berkeley will institute new programs in the SEM disciplines, disseminate best practices and approaches consistently across the SEM departments and colleges, formalize and institutionalize discipline-based graduate minority support programs, and link efforts at the graduate and undergraduate levels. The MGE award will enable Berkeley, the largest producer of Ph.D. recipients in SEM, to initiate a meaningful collaboration with HBCUs and other minority-serving institutions that are the largest producers of minority BA/BS recipients in SEM.