AGEP: FACES: Facilitating Academic Careers in Engineering and Science

AGEP：FACES：促进工程和科学领域的学术职业

• 批准号: 0450303
• 负责人: Gary May
• 金额: $ 784.69万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-10-01 至 2013-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0450303&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: AGEP; FACES; Facilitating; Academic; Careers

Intellectual Merit: The FACES program is a significant ongoing commitment by the GeorgiaInstitute of Technology, Emory University, Morehouse College, and Spelman College toincrease the national representation of minorities (URMs) in the engineering and thesciences professoriate. The program is comprised of several components, and the aggregateprogram addresses each critical step along the path to an academic career. To provide amechanism for the early recruitment of students into research and academic careers, FACESwill establish a Research Careers Office at Morehouse College. Furthermore, undergraduateswho have completed their sophomore year are provided summer and academic year researchexperiences as a means of promoting their interest in research and graduate schoolattendance. These students are then encouraged to enroll in graduate programs using aseries of recruitment efforts at national events such as the NSBE Annual Convention orAnnual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS), campus visits andtours, and a lecture/workshop series on the merit of graduate school and careers inacademia. Admitted Georgia Tech and Emory graduate students are supported on doctoralfellowship supplements throughout their matriculation. Graduate student support isprovided by means of a stipend which increases in value as the student meets the criticalmilestones along the way toward the Ph.D. Another portion of these funds is used tosupport travel to technical meetings for research presentations. Finally, senior doctoralstudents compete for Career Initiation Grants, which they may use as start-up funds toassist in establishing their research programs in their initial academic appointments.Assessment of program outcomes will be performed annually.Broader Impact: This program is a blending of the resources of these universities to focusspecifically on increasing the production of URMs who earn engineering and sciencedoctoral degrees. This proposal has been initiated by African American faculty who arecommitted to this goal and recognize that success breeds success. Recruiting, mentoringand academic support programs initiated by Georgia Tech, Emory, Morehouse and Spelman havebeen quite successful in increasing retention, grades, and overall production of URMdegree candidates. Our partnership has created a pipeline of successful African Americanundergraduates and this proposal describes a doctoral-focused program that builds on thesuccessful undergraduate efforts. As one of the leading producers of minority engineersand scientists, this alliance is ideally positioned to increase the national production ofAfrican American students who earn doctorates and promote their representation in academiccareers. With the assistance of NSF funding to keep the program elements in place, FACESwill continue to provide a mechanism to "change the face" of the national engineering andscience professoriate, substantially improving the current dearth of underrepresentedengineering and science faculty.

智力优势：FACES 计划是佐治亚理工学院、埃默里大学、莫尔豪斯学院和斯佩尔曼学院持续做出的一项重大承诺，旨在提高少数族裔 (URM) 在工程和科学教授队伍中的全国代表性。该计划由多个组成部分组成，总体计划解决了学术职业道路上的每个关键步骤。为了提供一种机制，以便尽早招募学生进入研究和学术职业，FACES 将在莫尔豪斯学院设立一个研究职业办公室。此外，完成大二学业的本科生将获得暑期和学年的研究经验，以提高他们对研究和研究生入学的兴趣。然后，鼓励这些学生通过国家活动中的一系列招生工作入读研究生课程，例如 NSBE 年会或少数民族学生年度生物医学研究会议 (ABRCMS)、校园参观和参观以及关于研究生优点的系列讲座/研讨会学校和学术界的职业。被录取的佐治亚理工学院和埃默里大学的研究生在整个入学期间都可以获得博士奖学金补助。研究生支持通过津贴的方式提供，当学生达到攻读博士学位的道路上的关键里程碑时，津贴的价值就会增加。这些资金的另一部分用于支持参加技术会议进行研究演示的旅行。最后，高年级博士生竞争职业启动补助金，他们可以将其用作启动资金，以协助在最初的学术任命中建立他们的研究项目。项目成果的评估将每年进行一次。更广泛的影响：该项目融合了这些大学的资源专门用于增加获得工程和科学博士学位的URM的产量。该提案是由非裔美国教师发起的，他们致力于实现这一目标，并认识到成功孕育成功。由佐治亚理工学院、埃默里大学、莫尔豪斯大学和斯佩尔曼大学发起的招聘、指导和学术支持项目在提高 URM 学位候选人的保留率、成绩和整体产出方面非常成功。我们的合作伙伴关系创造了一批成功的非裔美国本科生，该提案描述了一个以博士为重点的项目，该项目建立在成功的本科生努力的基础上。作为少数族裔工程师和科学家的主要培养者之一，该联盟处于理想的位置，可以增加获得博士学位的非裔美国学生的全国产量并提高他们在学术生涯中的代表性。在 NSF 资金的帮助下，保持项目要素到位，FACES 将继续提供一种机制来“改变国家工程和科学教授的面貌”，从而大大改善目前工程和科学教员人数不足的状况。