Wisconsin Alliance for Minority Participation

项目总结拟议活动的智力价值是什么？威斯康星州(威斯康星州)是一个种族和种族人口结构迅速变化的州。拉美裔美国人的数量在过去十年中翻了一番多，达到20多万人，美国印第安人部落土地超过40万英亩，密尔沃基周围大城市地区近100万居民中有25%是非裔美国人。虽然没有计入这项提案中代表人数不足的少数民族的人数，但威斯康星州的苗族人口在美国也是第三大，在高等教育中也是一个代表人数不足的群体。这项提案将通过NSF路易斯·斯托克斯少数族裔参与联盟(LSAMP)计划建立威斯康星州少数族裔参与联盟(WISC-AMP)。WISC-AMP汇集了威斯康星州的21所公立和私立高等教育机构，致力于将未被充分代表的少数族裔学生(URM)获得理工科专业学士学位的人数共同翻一番。WISC-AMP合作伙伴还致力于更根本的目标，即转变我们机构的文化，以支持和维持各级机构的多样性。威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校(UW-Madison)将是牵头机构。很少有大学能够与威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校招收大量学生的能力相提并论，也没有几所大学能与其在科学和工程领域的尖端研究项目的广度和深度相媲美。通过个人访谈、数据收集和文件分析，确定通过LSAMP提供的支持将以两种方式得到最好的利用：1)通过扩展和改进已有的成功模式，解决威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校理工科专业URMS的保留和持久性问题；2)建立联盟。威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的计划侧重于学术提升的几个方面，特别是在看门人课程方面，新的努力不仅指导那些苦苦挣扎的人，也指导那些可以被推向卓越的人，以及增强夏季研究经验，鼓励本科生与同龄人网络分享个人经验和科学调查，并培训研究生成为本科生城市管理学院更有效的导师。联盟建设涉及多项努力，目的是在参与地点发展一个冠军网络，以及一个小额赠款计划，以促进合作并鼓励个别合作伙伴根据当地环境定制计划。WISC-AMP将由多样性事务办公室和威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校工程学院的妇女科学和工程领导研究所联合管理。理事会由来自WISC-AMP合作伙伴的检察官/副校长/校长、学生、一名行业代表以及选定的教育和研究领域的学术和社区领袖组成。增加理工科城市管理人员的招聘和留用，以实现机构转型的目标，涉及多个部门和单位的参与。因此，在威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校，教务长是首席调查员，两名备受尊敬的教职员工是联合首席调查员，担任重要职位的教职员工是内部咨询委员会的成员，一直在战壕中研究这些问题的工作人员，以及来自招生办公室和注册处的管理人员，在关键的学生入口点作为联合调查员或顾问参与进来。WISC-AMP的正式评估将使用定量和定性方法来确定WISC-AMP是否以及如何很好地实现了计划的目标，以及WISC-AMP工作的哪些方面。拟议活动的更广泛影响是什么？随着美国成为一个日益多样化的社会，高等教育机构培训同样多样化的劳动力是当务之急。美国国家科学基金会公开宣布，它致力于扩大机会，使所有公民能够参与，这对科学和工程的健康和活力至关重要。通过投资于增加城市管理学院理工科学士学位毕业生的数量，这一建议直接与NSF的目标保持一致。项目创新将通过会议、讨论和演讲在当地传播；在区域范围内通过联盟结构传播；在全国范围内通过在科学期刊上发表文章、科学会议记录和参加LSAMP年度会议来传播。WISC-AMP的正式评估结果可用于继续或重新指导拟议的努力，并就每项倡议的成功和不成功因素向发展中的联盟提供建议。

PROJECT SUMMARYWhat is the intellectual merit of the proposed activity? Wisconsin (WI) is a state with a rapidly changing ethnic and racial demography. The number of Hispanics has more than doubled in the last decade to over 200,000, there are over 400,000 acres of American Indian tribal lands, and 25% of the nearly one million residents in the large urban area around Milwaukee are African American. While not counted in tallies of underrepresented minorities for this proposal, WI also has the third largest population of Hmong in the United States, a group also underrepresented in higher education. This proposal would establish the Wisconsin Alliance for Minority Participation (Wisc-AMP)through the NSF Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) Program. Wisc-AMP brings together 21 public and private institutions of higher education in Wisconsin committed to collectively doubling the number of underrepresented minority students (URMS) receiving baccalaureate degrees in science and engineering majors. Wisc-AMP partners are also committed to the more fundamental goal of transforming the culture of our institutions to support and sustain diversity at all levels. The University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) will be the lead institution. Few universities can equal UW-Madison's capacity to enroll large numbers of students or match the breadth and depth of its cutting-edge research rograms in science and engineering. Through individual interviews, data gathering, and document analysis, it was determined that the support provided through LSAMP would be best leveraged in two ways: 1) address retention and persistence of URMS in science or engineering majors at UW-Madison by expanding and improving on successful models already in place and 2) build the alliance. The initiatives at UW-Madison focus on several aspects of academic enhancement especially in the gatekeeping courses with new efforts to tutor not only those struggling but those who can be pushed to excellence as well as an enhanced summer research experience that encourages undergraduate students to share personal experiences and scientific inquiries with a network of peers and trains graduate students to be more effective mentors to undergraduate URMS. Alliance building involves several efforts aimed at developing a Network of Champions at participating sites as well as a Small Grants Program to facilitate collaboration and encourage individual partners to customize initiatives to their local environments. Wisc-AMP will be administered jointly by the Diversity Affairs Office and the Women in Science and Engineering Leadership Institute in the College of Engineering at UW-Madison. A Governing Board consists of Provosts/Vice Chancellors/Presidents from Wisc-AMP partners, students, an industry representative, and selected academic and community leaders in education and research. Increasing the recruitment and retention of URMS in science and engineering with the goal of transforming the institution involves buy-in from many departments and units. Therefore, at UW-Madison, the Provost is the principal investigator and two well-respected faculty members are co-principal investigators, faculty in prestigious positions are members of an internal Advisory Committee, staff who have been in the trenches working on the issues and administrators from the Admissions Office and the Registrars Office who are at key student entry points are involved as co-investigators or advisors. Formal evaluation of Wisc-AMP will use quantitative and qualitative methods to identify if and how well the goal of the program is met and which aspects of Wisc-AMP work.What are the broader impacts of the proposed activity?As the United States becomes an increasingly diverse society, it is imperative that institutions of higher education train a similarly diverse workforce. NSF has publicly proclaimed its commitment to broadening opportunities and enabling participation of all citizens as essential to the health and vitality of science and engineering. By investing in efforts to increase the number of URMS graduating with baccalaureate degrees in science or engineering, this proposal directly aligns with NSF's goal. Project innovations will be disseminated locally through meetings, discussions, and presentations; regionally through the alliance structure; and nationally through publications in scientific journals, proceedings of scientific meetings, and participation in annual LSAMP meetings. The results of Wisc-AMP's formal evaluation can be used to continue or re-direct proposed efforts and to advise developing alliances on successful and unsuccessful elements of each initiative.