Minority Access/Graduate Networking in the Sciences, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (MAGNET-STEM II

1999年启动了纽约市立大学的AGEP方案，即MAGNET-STEM，目的是培养大量在科学和工程领域任职人数不足的少数民族博士生，并为他们的学术生涯做好准备。该项目（MAGNET-STEM II）的主要目标是在以往成果的基础上，通过加强联盟从本科生到研究生的基础设施，将有效做法制度化。这一目标与NSF的优先事项雅阁，即“促进机构、部门和组织文化和做法的变化，这将导致少数民族学生的招聘、保留、学位授予和STEM职业（特别是学术）入学人数的显著增加。“活动将包括：（1）本科生/研究生暑期研究和实习;（2）辅导和指导培训;（3）会议演讲;（4）座谈会和研讨会 教学、科学和数学教育以及通信技术。MAGNET-STEM II将由来自不同民族，种族和地理背景的STEM教师和学生以及残疾人组成的包容性学术社区。学生将由他们的科学领域的专家指导，从事研究活动，使他们能够掌握他们所选择的专业领域的知识和调查方法。该项目除了提供财政支助外，还将促进AGEP所有学生在社会和学术上融入各系，改善学业。 教师和学生之间的非正式和正式互动，使AGEP学者与学术界交往，增加了他们毕业并进入博士后和教师职位的可能性。MAGNET-STEM II的智力价值来自AGEP学者广泛的知识背景，使他们能够将科学，数学和技术教育中的问题相互联系起来，并专注于其中一个领域。为了增加知识基础并进一步发展其研究兴趣，AGEP学者将有机会访问附属机构，如贝尔实验室、布鲁克海文国家实验室、发育障碍基础研究所、阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦医学院和空间信息分析和研究中心，一个大型的最先进的地理信息系统和遥感实验室被认为是东海岸最好的实验室之一。 纽约城市大学研究生中心为AGEP学者提供指导培训，并参加大学教学座谈会和教育研讨会中的科学，数学和技术（SMT），重点关注大学教学和K-12的STEM教育。 SMT研讨会解决数学，科学和技术教育领域的当代研究问题。 这包括教育学生了解社会中的技术及其与科学和数学的关系。纽约市立大学研究生中心作为牵头机构，开展了先前的AGEP研究项目MAGNET-STEM I（1999-2004年），导致少数族裔申请人、入学人数和学位授予人数增加。 MAGNET-STEM II的更广泛影响将通过培养更多来自代表性不足的人口的博士生来实现，这些博士生在我国的实验室和教室里接受过学术专业培训，并积累了指导经验。 此外，由于参加了纽约市立大学研究生中心的博士学位提供的科学，数学和技术教育研讨会。在城市教育计划，AGEP毕业生将有课程衔接和合作伙伴关系的有效形式在干教育的知识，延伸到大学，学校，社区和企业的合作伙伴关系，并沿着沿着城市教育K-16连续体移动。 在这方面，AGEP学者将努力培养STEM教育教师，从而提高文化多样性城市人口中STEM教育的学生成绩，从而进行系统的改革。

The CUNY AGEP Program, MAGNET-STEM, was launched in 1999 to produce a significant number of underrepresented minority doctoral students in science and engineering fields and to prepare them for academic careers. The major goal of this project, MAGNET-STEM II, is to build on previous gains and institutionalize effective practices by strengthening the alliance's undergraduate-to-graduate- to- post graduate infrastructure. This goal is in accord with the NSF priority to "catalyze changes in institutional, departmental and organizational culture and practices that will result in significant increases in the recruitment, retention, degree conferral and STEM career (especially academic) entry of minority students." Activities will include: (1) undergraduate /graduate summer research and internships; (2) mentoring and mentoring training; (3) conference presentations; (4) colloquia and seminars on teaching, science and mathematics education, and on communication technologies. MAGNET-STEM II will comprise an inclusive scholarly community of STEM faculty and students from diverse ethnic, racial, and geographic backgrounds, as well as persons with disabilities. Students will be guided by experts in their scientific field to engage in research activities that enable them to master the knowledge and investigative approaches in their chosen areas of specialization. The project will promote the social as well as academic integration of all AGEP students within departments and the improvement of advisement, in addition to offering financial support. Informal and formal interaction between faculty and students to socialize AGEP scholars to the academic profession increases the likelihood that they will graduate and move into postdoctoral and faculty positions. The intellectual merit of MAGNET-STEM II derives from the acquisition by AGEP scholars of a broad background of knowledge that enables them to relate issues in science, mathematics, and technology education to one another and to specialize in one of these areas. To increase the knowledge base and to develop further their research interests, AGEP scholars will have access to affiliated institutions such as Bell Laboratories, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and the Center for the Analysis and Research of Spatial Information (CARSI), a large state-of-the-art GIS and Remote Sensing Laboratory considered to be one of the finest on the East Coast. The City University of New York Graduate Center offers to AGEP scholars training in mentoring, and enrollment in the Colloquium on College Teaching and in the Science, Mathematics, and Technology (SMT) in Education Seminars, which focus on college teaching and STEM education from K-12. SMT seminars address contemporary research issues in the fields of mathematics, science and technology in education. This includes the education of students about technology in society and its relations to science and mathematics. The CUNY Graduate Center, as lead institution, conducted the prior AGEP research project, MAGNET-STEM I (1999-2004), which resulted in increases in the number of minority applicants, enrollments and degree conferrals. The broader impacts of MAGNET-STEM II will occur through the production of an increased number of doctoral students from underrepresented populations trained in their academic specialties working in our nation's laboratories and classrooms and who have developed mentoring experience. Moreover, as a result of participation in the Science, Mathematics, and Technology in Education Seminars offered by the CUNY Graduate Center's Ph.D. Program in Urban Education, AGEP graduates will have knowledge of effective forms of curriculum articulation and partnerships in STEM education that extend to university, school, community, and corporate partnerships, and that move along the urban-education K-16 continuum. In this connection, AGEP scholars will work to prepare teachers of STEM education, leading to an improvement of student achievement in STEM education within culturally diverse urban populations and, hence, to systemic reform.