AGEP: Alliance for Graduate Education in Mississippi

密西西比州研究生教育联盟(AGEM)建议继续并扩大其全面的、全州范围的联盟计划，以促进少数族裔学生进入并成功完成STEM1研究生课程。AGEM将继续由密西西比大学(UM)领导，并将涉及其他三个授予博士学位的州内大学2以及与几个地区学院(包括几个HBCU3)的非正式伙伴关系。该计划将建立在第一轮融资的坚实成果和机构之间的合作记录的基础上。由于密西西比州37%的人口是非裔美国人，而且该地区有几所HBCU，AGEM的主要重点是培养非裔美国研究生，重点是为这些学生在STEM领域的学术生涯做准备。UM已经做出了重大承诺，将增加其研究生项目对少数族裔学生的准入。UM与其合作机构合作，统一了资源，并协调了当前的合作伙伴关系，以创建一种全面的方法来招收、指导、留住和完成少数族裔学生的学位，并提供旨在鼓励学术生涯的咨询。因此，整个计划解决了NSF AGEP计划的更广泛影响的必要性。第一个五年期补助金的具体目标是使该州四个授予博士学位的机构中获得STEM博士学位的少数民族学生人数增加两倍(是上一个五年期基线的三倍)。从1993-1997年培养的13名少数民族STEM博士的基线来看，AGEM项目从1998-2003年培养的48名少数民族STEM博士毕业生增加到了48名。AGEM计划的另一个目标是使教职员工、管理人员和学生对少数族裔管道问题的态度发生系统性的变化。为这种系统性的变化提供了证据。目前的五年计划在提高少数族裔学生在STEM研究生教育中的成功方面迈出了重要的一步。继续执行这项任务是当务之急。对方案方面的成功进行了透彻的分析，并对可以做更多工作的学术学科进行了分析。将提出新的战略，以解决目标领域。NSF的智力价值标准是通过学生在攻读学位时所做的研究，这些博士在进入教授或其他研究职位后所做的未来研究，以及我们对导致少数族裔成功的因素的研究来满足的。

The Alliance for Graduate Education in Mississippi (AGEM) proposes to continue and expand its comprehensive, state-wide consortial program for enhancing the entry into and successful completion of minority students in STEM1 graduate programs. AGEM will continue to be led by the University of Mississippi (UM) and will involve the three other Ph.D. granting universities in the state2 and informal partnerships with several regional colleges (including several HBCUs3). The program will build upon the solid accomplishments of the first round of funding and on the record of collaboration between institutions. Because the population of Mississippi is 37% African-American and because there are several HBCUs in this region, a primary focus of AGEM is the training of African-American graduate students, with an emphasis on preparing these students for academic careers in STEM areas. UM has made a major commitment to increasing the access of its graduate programs to minority students. UM, working with its partnering institutions, has aligned resources and has coordinated the current partnership to create a comprehensive approach to the recruitment, mentoring, retention, and degree completion of minority students, with counseling aimed at encouraging academic careers. Thus the entire program addresses the broader impacts imperative of the NSF AGEP program. The specific goal of the first five-year grant was to triple the number of minority students who received STEM doctoral degrees (triple, as compared to the previous five-year baseline) from the four doctoral-degree granting institutions in the state. From our baseline of 13 minority STEM PhDs produced from 1993-1997, the AGEM program has seen an increase to 48 minority STEM doctoral graduates produced from 1998-2003. Another goal of the AGEM program was to bring about a systemic change in attitudes of faculty, administrators, and students with regard to minority pipeline issues. Evidence is presented for such systemic changes. The current five-year program has made a significant start toward enhancing minority student success in STEM graduate education. Continuation of the mission is imperative. A thorough analysis of programmatic successes, as well as an analysis of those academic disciplines where more can be done, has been conducted. New strategies will be presented to address targeted areas. The intellectual merit criterion of NSF is met via the research produced by the students as they pursue their degrees, by the future research produced by these doctorates when they enter the professoriate or other research positions, and by our studies of the factors that lead to success for underrepresented minorities.