EAGER: Doubling Minority PhDs in Physics

渴望：少数族裔物理学博士人数增加一倍

• 批准号: 0958333
• 负责人: Theodore Hodapp
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: American Physical Society
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-10-01 至 2011-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0958333&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Doubling; Minority; PhDs; Physics

Physics as a community ranks at the bottom of science disciplines in educating the growing US population of African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, and Native-Americans. Not only do these ethnic groups remain significantly under-represented at all levels in physics, but there has been essentially no improvement in their relative numbers over the past decade. PhD awards to Black, Hispanic, and Native American citizens are at 1/7th the rate of awards to white and Asian citizens relative to the size of their underlying population. There are 180 PhD programs in physics in American Universities. If 10% of these programs were able to increase their citizen Black and Hispanic graduates by two per year this would double the annual production of minority PhDs in physics. The American Physical Society, working together with the larger physics community, is taking a leadership role and in activating programs to double the number of PhDs awarded to under-represented minorities (URMs) within the next decade by establishing effective and sustainable bridge programs between top research universities and institutions where undergraduate URMs are educated. There is a substantial body of knowledge that has resulted from several decades of efforts to increase the effective participation of under-represented groups (and all groups) in higher education in STEM fields. In physics there are a growing number of physics education research groups producing important gains in understanding about undergraduates' conceptual difficulties in learning basic physics. Because most of these groups are at major research universities, they are in a position to directly influence physics TA training, which will positively impact the instructional effectiveness in undergraduate physics courses in these institutions. The focus on doctoral students will have a multiplier effect on attraction and retention of under-represented minority students at the undergraduate, masters, and PhD levels. Successful doctoral students will form a cadre of leaders who can catalyze change throughout the country. Doubling the number of PhD graduates from these groups will create a greater corps of individuals who can take on important leadership roles. To begin this process APS is reaching out to the students and faculty at minority-serving institutions to establish effective, personal links. It is gathering detailed data directly from these individuals to inform the larger process. Following data collection, APS will bring together leaders from top research universities committed to establishing effective bridge programs. Existing programs and leaders within the physics community are guiding this process. Throughout this process guidance is being provided by a steering committee of knowledgeable individuals committed to improving the attraction and retention of under-represented groups in physics higher education, who have the wherewithal to move the project forward thoughtfully and deliberately. The outcome of this effort will be a set of concrete plans to establish such programs.

物理学作为一个社区，在教育不断增长的非裔美国人，西班牙裔美国人和原住民的美国人口的科学学科底部。 这些族裔不仅在物理学上的各个层面上的代表性不足，而且在过去十年中，其相对人数基本上没有改善。黑人，西班牙裔和美国原住民公民的博士学位奖项是白人和亚洲公民相对于其潜在人口规模的奖励率的1/7。美国大学的物理学有180个博士学位课程。 如果这些计划中有10％能够每年将其公民黑人和西班牙裔毕业生提高两名，这将使物理学中少数族裔博士学位的生产增加一倍。 美国物理社会与较大的物理社区合作，正在扮演领导角色，并通过在未来十年内通过建立高层研究所大学和学院之间的有效且可持续的桥梁计划来激活计划，以使代表不足的少数民族（URMS）的博士学位增加一倍。数十年来，努力增加了代表性不足的群体（和所有群体）在STEM领域的高等教育中的有效参与。 在物理学中，越来越多的物理教育研究小组在理解本科生在学习基本物理学方面的概念困难方面产生重要的收益。 由于这些小组中的大多数都在主要的研究型大学中，因此他们可以直接影响物理学培训，这将对这些机构的本科物理学课程的教学有效性产生积极影响。对博士学生的关注将对本科，硕士和博士学位水平的吸引不足的少数族裔学生的吸引力和保留率产生乘数影响。成功的博士生将组建一群领导者，他们可以在全国范围内催化变革。 将这些小组的博士学位毕业生人数增加一倍，这将创建一个可以扮演重要领导角色的个人团队。首先，APS正在与少数派服务机构的学生和教职员工联系，以建立有效的个人联系。它直接从这些人那里收集详细数据，以告知更大的过程。随着数据收集，AP将汇集来自致力于建立有效桥梁计划的顶级研究所的领导者。 物理社区中的现有计划和领导者正在指导这一过程。在整个过程中，由知识渊博的人提供的指导委员会提供了指导委员会，该委员会致力于改善体育高等教育中代表性不足的群体的吸引力和保留，他们拥有竭尽全力将项目仔细，刻意地推动。这项工作的结果将是建立此类计划的一组具体计划。