A Planning Grant to Enrich and Enlarge the Michigan AGEP Alliance

丰富和扩大密歇根 AGEP 联盟的规划拨款

• 批准号: 1110556
• 负责人: Janet Weiss
• 金额: $ 14.96万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-06-01 至 2013-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1110556&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; Grant; Enrich; Enlarge; Michigan

The Michigan AGEP Alliance (MAA) is a partnership of University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Wayne State University, and Western Michigan University. Over the past six years, the MAA has created a sustainable community that supports the academic success of students from underrepresented minority (URM) groups who are earning doctoral degrees in engineering, physical science, life science, mathematics, social and behavioral sciences, and encourages and prepares them to pursue careers in academia. Based on their experience thus far, and informed by research on factors that promote degree completion and transition to faculty careers, they have identified promising strategies to leverage the value of the investments that NSF and our universities have made in the MAA. They request support to enrich the intellectual and programmatic foundations of their alliance. Intellectual Merit: The new directions they will explore include: 1) Adding a fifth partner institution: Michigan Technological University?a small, rural STEM-dominant institution closely located to a large Native American population; 2) Expanding their focus on the postdoctoral experience by engaging URM postdoctoral fellows in programming designed to meet their professional needs, and linking them with URM Ph.D. students so that both groups may benefit from a realistic appraisal of the opportunities available to them in postdoctoral training and the pathways to faculty positions; 3) Finding the synergy that comes from integrating students and faculty from NSF-supported social, behavioral and economic sciences (SBE) with faculty and students who participate in AGEP programming in STEM; and 4) Adapting technology to increase opportunities for interaction and collaboration across the MAA partner and with other AGEP institutions, and for delivery of selected professional development programs. This grant will underwrite planning to accelerate the capacity of the alliance to carry forward the mission of increased diversity in our STEM community. Broader Impact: By strengthening the ability of the alliance to support the academic success of URM graduate students, and by creating mechanisms to support the success of URM postdoctoral scholars, they will increase the representation of minority scientists in the professoriate.

密歇根州时代联盟（MAA）是密歇根大学，密歇根州立大学，韦恩州立大学和西密歇根大学的合作伙伴关系。在过去的六年中，MAA创建了一个可持续的社区，该社区支持来自代表性不足的少数群体（URM）团体的学术成就，他们在工程，物理科学，生命科学，数学，社会和行为科学领域获得博士学位，并鼓励和准备他们从事学术界的职业。根据他们到目前为止的经验，并通过对促进学位完成和过渡到教师职业的因素的研究得知，他们已经确定了有希望的策略，以利用NSF及我们的大学在MAA中所做的投资的价值。他们要求支持以丰富其联盟的智力和程序基础。知识分子的优点：他们将探索的新方向包括：1）添加第五伙伴机构：密歇根州技术大学？一个属于美国大型美国原住民人口的小型农村茎干式机构； 2）通过让URM博士后研究员参与旨在满足其专业需求的编程，并将其与URM博士联系起来，从而扩大了对博士后体验的关注。学生，以便两组都可以从对博士后培训和教师职位的途径中的机会进行现实的评估。 3）找到来自NSF支持的社会，行为和经济科学（SBE）的学生和教职员工带来的协同作用，并与参加STEM的AGEP编程的教职员工和学生； 4）调整技术以增加MAA合作伙伴和其他AgeP机构的互动和协作机会，并提供选定的专业发展计划。这项赠款将承保计划，以加快联盟在STEM社区中增加多样性的使命的能力。更广泛的影响：通过增强联盟支持URM研究生学术成就的能力，并创建支持URM博士后学者成功的机制，它们将增加教授中少数族裔科学家的代表。