Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education (EDGE): A Transition Program for Women in the Mathematical Sciences

该奖项支持EDGE计划第二阶段“增强研究生教育的多样性”的几个方面。1998年至2001年，该计划第一阶段的核心资金由国家科学基金会提供，安德鲁·W·梅隆基金会和国家安全局也提供了额外的支持。该计划的目标是增加成功完成数学科学研究生课程的女性和少数民族学生的数量，加强目标学生群体成功谈判从本科生到研究生教育的能力，并成功完成各自的研究生课程。EDGE计划有两个基本组成部分：研究生院入学前的强化暑期计划和后续指导计划。在该项目的第一阶段，暑期课程在布林·莫尔学院和斯佩尔曼学院之间轮换。EDGE计划的第二阶段将由三个主要部分组成：[1]中央管理计划，核心工作人员包括Bryn Mawr学院的Rhonda Hughes联席主任和Spelman学院的Sylvia Bozeman，以及一名行政助理。核心员工将维护所有EDGE参与者的数据，管理广告和参与者的选择，为夏季计划选择主办地点，并协调后续指导计划；[2]EDGE夏季计划的便携设计。通过让一组精选的机构作为EDGE地点，该计划将变得更加引人注目，它将接触到更广泛的学生受众，意识到该计划目标的本科生和研究生项目的数量必然会增加。这一活动将包括过去参与者的一次EDGE聚会，以及一个促进提高妇女，特别是少数群体妇女地位的论坛，有更广泛的数学界参与。第一次研讨会将于2003年由斯佩尔曼学院主办。这项奖励将具体支持拟议活动的几个方面：未来地方协调员的旅费，她们将参与将该计划扩展到其他地点；支持EDGE研讨会，以及为强烈表示有必要在参与后一年重返该计划的过去参与者提供较小规模的团聚；为两名因各种原因中断学术生涯并希望参加数学研究生课程的“归来”女性提供参与者支助费用；以及为改进和扩大网站提供顾问支持。

This award supports several aspects of the second phase of the EDGE Program, "Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education." Core funding for the first phase of the program was provided by the National Science Foundation from 1998 to 2001, with additional support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Security Agency. The goal of the program is to increase the number of women and minority students who successfully complete graduate programs in the mathematical sciences, by strengthening the ability of the targeted student population to successfully negotiate the transition from undergraduate to graduate education in mathematics, and to succeed in their respective graduate programs. The EDGE Program has two basic components: an intensive summer program prior to graduate school enrollment, and a follow-up mentoring program. In the first phase of the program, the summer component alternated between Bryn Mawr and Spelman Colleges. The second phase of the EDGE Program willconsist of three major components:[1] a centrally administered program with a core staff consisting of the Co-Directors Rhonda Hughes of Bryn Mawr College and Sylvia Bozeman of Spelman College, as well as an Administrative Assistant. The core staff would maintain data on all EDGE participants, manage advertising and selection of participants, select host sites for the summer program, and coordinate the follow-up mentoring program;[2] a portable design for the EDGE Summer Program. By involving a core group of select institutions as EDGE sites, the program will be made more visible, it will reach a wider audience of students, and the number of undergraduate and graduate programs aware of the goals of the program would necessarily expand.[3] a biennial EDGE Symposium. This event would include an EDGE Reunion of past participants, as well as a forum to promote the advancement of women, and in particular minority women, involving a broader segment of the mathematics community. The first symposium will be hosted by Spelman College in 2003. This award will specifically support several aspects of the proposed activities: travel funds for prospective Local Coordinators, who will participate in the expansion of the program to other sites; support of the EDGE Symposium, as well as smaller reunions for past participants who have strongly expressed the need to return to the program in the year following their participation; participant support costs for two "returning" women who have interrupted their academic careers for a variety of reasons and wish to attend a graduate program in mathematics; and consultant support for an improved and expanded web site.