EMSW21-MCTP: The Carleton College Summer Mathematics Program for Women

该奖项提供资金，以继续并提高卡尔顿大学女性暑期数学计划(SMP)的有效性。这个面向年轻女性数学家的垂直整合的指导和支持网络是围绕该项目(1995-2005)的校友社区和未来三年将参加的另外50多名本科生女性建立的。Brbr关于女性在科学和数学领域的坚持性的研究文献中有广泛的共识，即有效的指导、同伴支持和榜样的存在都是提高坚持性的因素。SMP活动恰恰提供了这些支持。该奖项资助的计划活动包括：在卡尔顿学院继续为期四周的SMP；每年1月在联席会议上无组织地登记；以及每年夏天为SMP的博士校友举行的为期三天的会议。目标是提高参与者坚持攻读博士学位的可能性，并增加他们在数学领域取得成功并获得回报的可能性。实现这些目标的手段是：卡尔顿暑期数学项目的鼓舞人心的经历；从大学二年级开始，到博士和职业生涯初期，积极和支持性的个人指导；以及每年夏天在联席会议和卡尔顿学院定期举行的社区聚会。这些活动为这些年轻女性提供了培养、支持和建议，帮助她们从最初的本科阶段迈向成熟的专业数学家。brbr预计该奖项直接资助的本科生中约有45%将获得数学科学博士学位。他们将加入这里支持的年轻博士的行列，在数学界担任职位，充分意识到并致力于指导、榜样和同伴支持的变革性影响。该计划本身应该成为数学以及物理、计算机科学和工程学中有效变革的典范。评估活动将产生关于指导、角色建模和同伴支持的影响的纵向和横向信息和数据。

This award provides funding to continue and to increase the effectiveness of the Carleton College Summer Mathematics Program for Women (SMP). This vertically-integrated mentoring and support network for young female mathematicians is built around the community of alumnae of the program (1995-2005) and the over fifty additional undergraduate women who will participate over the next three years. brbrThere is widespread agreement in the research literature on female persistence in science and mathematics that effective mentoring, peer support, and the existence of role models are all factors that increase persistence. The SMP activities provide exactly these supports. The programmatic activities funded by this award are: a continuation of the four-week SMP at Carleton College; an unstructured check-in at the Joint Meetings each January; and a three-day conference each summer for Ph.D. alumnae of the SMP. The objectives are to improve participants' likelihood of persistence to Ph.D. and to increase the likelihood of their attaining successful and rewarding careers in mathematics. The means to achieve these ends are: the inspirational experience of the Carleton Summer Mathematics Program; active and supportive personal mentoring from sophomore year in college through and beyond the Ph.D. and early professional career years; and regular community gatherings at the Joint Meetings and at Carleton College each summer. These activities nurture, support, and advise these young women as they negotiate the path from early undergraduate years to established professional mathematician.brbrIt is expected that approximately 45% of the undergraduate students supported directly by this award will receive Ph.D.s in a mathematical science. They will join the young Ph.D.s supported here in assuming positions in the mathematical community, fully aware of and committed to the transformative effects of mentoring, role modeling, and peer support. The program itself should serve as a model for effective change in mathematics as well as in physics, computer science, and engineering. The assessment activities will yield both longitudinal and cross-sectional information and data about the effects of mentoring, role modeling, and peer support.