AGEP-T: Collaborative Research: Advancing Interdisciplinary STEM Graduate Education in Energy and Sustainability Disciplines

AGEP-T：合作研究：推进能源和可持续发展学科的跨学科 STEM 研究生教育

• 批准号: 1308080
• 负责人: Richard Coffin
• 金额: $ 14.6万
• 依托单位: Texas A&M University Corpus Christi
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-15 至 2019-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1308080&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: AGEP; Collaborative; Research; Advancing; Interdisciplinary

The Texas A&M University System (TAMU) Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate was created in response to the NSF's Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) program solicitation (NSF 12-554) for the AGEP-Transformation (AGEP-T) track. The AGEP-T track targets strategic alliances of institutions and organizations to develop, implement, and study innovative evidence-based models and standards for STEM graduate education, postdoctoral training, and academic STEM career preparation that eliminate or mitigate negative factors and promote positive practices for URMs.The TAMU Alliance is a collaboration between five doctoral degree granting institutions who are members of the Texas A&M University System, to advance URMs around the unifying theme of Energy and Sustainability. The collaborating institutions include: Texas A&M University Main Campus (TAMUMC), Texas A&M University-Kingsville (TAMU-K), Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU), West Texas A&M University (WTAMU), and Texas A&M University Corpus Christi (TAMUCC). These institutions are engaging the following non-doctoral degree institutions who are also members of the Texas A&M University System: Texas A&M International University (TAMUI), Texas A&M-San Antonio (TAMUSA), Texas A&M-Texarkana (TAMUT), Tarleton State University (TSU), and Texas A&M-Commerce (TAMUC). The vision of the collaboration is to develop an AGEP Alliance that opens multiple paths to the doctorate and professoriate for underrepresented minority (URM) populations by successfully developing and sustaining large-scale, distributed, yet interconnected STEM communities among the diverse Alliance institutions that increase participation, reduce barriers, and promote success of URM doctoral students preparing for careers in the professoriate.The long-term goal of the TAMU AGEP Alliance is to increase the number of successful URM STEM faculty by measurably increasing the number of STEM doctoral degrees awarded to URM students each year and increasing the number of underrepresented minorities (URMs) transitioning to STEM faculty positions (or to competitive postdocs that lead to faculty positions).The short-term operational goal of the TAMU AGEP Alliance is to develop, implement and assess a set of transportable strategies to ultimately increase the number of successful URM STEM faculty by increasing the number of URMs who enter participating doctoral programs, the percentage of URMs completing STEM doctoral degrees, and the number who transition to faculty positions (or to competitive postdoctoral positions), and by reducing their time to doctoral degree.There are four defined objectives for the TAMU AGEP Alliance participants, who are all U.S. citizens, who are URMs in STEM. The Alliance defines a student participant as an URM U.S. citizen, with a demonstrated interest in energy and sustainability, who is classified as a doctoral or master degree student. Objectives follow:Objective 1. Increase the number of URMs entering STEM doctoral degree programs at the five collaborating TAMU AGEP institutions.Objective 2. Reduce the average time to degree for the TAMU AGEP Alliance URM STEM doctoral students, and increase the percentage of students across the Alliance completing their doctoral degree in five years.Objective 3. Provide the TAMU AGEP Alliance students with the preparation necessary to compete for faculty positions and increase the number of URMs transitioning from STEM Ph.D. programs to faculty or competitive postdoctoral positions.Objective 4. Foster TAMU research collaborations to support Alliance-wide collaboration with undergraduate, master's and PhD student researchers that will result in an increase in the number of URM STEM doctoral research dissertations co-advised by faculty from at least 2 partner institutions.The interventions that form the model for the TAMU AGEP Alliance include: joint institutional recruitment of URM doctoral STEM students; participation of institutions and prospective students in an annual alliance conference; use of regional travel, a virtual social network, and webinars to provide community building and joint mentoring opportunities for AGEP doctoral students; student retention stipends based on level of project participation and timely progress toward degree; student participation in research and professional development training conferences, a mini-grant competition for research seed funding, a learning community, and transitioning activities for post-doctoral fellowship placement and/or faculty positions; and engage faculty in cross-institutional collaborations and partnerships with the NSF-funded Research Coordination Network (RCN-SEES): Climate, Energy, Environment and Engagement in Semiarid Regions (CE3SAR).The TAMU AGEP Alliance social science research study focuses on two questions related to feelings of inclusion of URM STEM graduate students at each of the Alliance institutions in both experimental and applied settings: 1) What effect does experiencing isolation or ostracism have on the productivity and progress of URM STEM graduate students and their intentions to continue to the professoriate? 2) What factors (e.g., institutional, interpersonal, individual) promote or mediate against URM STEM students' experiencing feelings of isolation or ostracism?

德克萨斯A＆M大学系统（TAMU）研究生教育联盟和教授是为了响应NSF的研究生教育联盟和教授（AGEP）计划的招标（NSF 12-554），以实现AgeP-Transansformation（EGEP-T）曲目。 The AGEP-T track targets strategic alliances of institutions and organizations to develop, implement, and study innovative evidence-based models and standards for STEM graduate education, postdoctoral training, and academic STEM career preparation that eliminate or mitigate negative factors and promote positive practices for URMs.The TAMU Alliance is a collaboration between five doctoral degree granting institutions who are members of the Texas A&M University System, to advance URMs around the unifying theme of Energy and可持续性。 合作机构包括：德克萨斯A＆M大学主校园（Tamumc），德克萨斯州A＆M大学 - 金斯维尔（Tamu-K），Prairie View A＆M University（PVAMU），西德克萨斯州A＆M University（WTAMU）和德克萨斯州A＆M University Corpus Corpus Corpus（TAMUCC）。 这些机构正在吸引以下非专业学位机构，这些机构也是德克萨斯A＆M大学系统的成员：德克萨斯州A＆M国际大学（Tamui），德克萨斯州A＆M-San Antonio（Tamusa），德克萨斯州A＆M-Sexasakana（Tamut）（TAMUT）（TAMUT），TAMUT） 协作的愿景是建立一个年龄联盟，该联盟通过成功地发展和维持大型，分布式，分布，却相互联系但相互联系的STEM社区的多元化联盟机构中的多元化联盟机构，以增加参与的障碍，降低障碍，并促进Orderm formm for the Ornalliand form for of Careers of Careers of Careers of Careers of Careers of Careers of Careers of Careers of Careers of Careers of Careers，form forme form for the Ornalia是为您提供服务的新教学，从而为您提供的障碍，以促进您的教授的教授，以供您使用的障碍，并维持多大不同的STEM社区。通过可衡量地增加授予URM学生的茎博士学位的数量，增加每年授予URM学生的STEM博士学位的数量，并增加过渡到STEM教师职位的过渡（或竞争性后的竞争后的竞争后，导致教师职位的策略）的策略，从而提高了TAMU年龄段的策略，该策略是发展TAMU Allianciance的策略成功的URM STEM教师通过增加了进入参与博士学位课程的URM数量，完成STEM博士学位的URM的百分比以及过渡到教师职位（或竞争性的博士后职位）的人数，以及将其时间缩短到TAMU ALLINCES COMENICANT的四个定义目标，这些人是美国公民，他们是公民，他们是他们的四个定义目标。 该联盟将学生参与者定义为URM美国公民，对能源和可持续性表现出兴趣，他们被归类为博士或硕士学位学生。 Objectives follow:Objective 1. Increase the number of URMs entering STEM doctoral degree programs at the five collaborating TAMU AGEP institutions.Objective 2. Reduce the average time to degree for the TAMU AGEP Alliance URM STEM doctoral students, and increase the percentage of students across the Alliance completing their doctoral degree in five years.Objective 3. Provide the TAMU AGEP Alliance students with the preparation necessary to compete for faculty positions and increase the number of URMS从STEM Ph.D.目标4。福斯特塔穆研究合作，以支持与本科，硕士和博士生研究人员与联盟范围的合作，这将导致URM STEM STEM博士研究的数量增加，从而增加了由两家培训机构组成的班级招聘的组合。博士茎的学生；机构和准学生参加年度联盟会议；使用区域旅行，虚拟社交网络和网络研讨会为AGEP博士生提供社区建设和共同指导机会；学生保留基于项目参与水平并及时取得学位的津贴；学生参与研究和专业发展培训会议，一项小型研究种子资助的竞争，学习社区以及过渡活动的活动后奖学金和/或教职员工职位； and engage faculty in cross-institutional collaborations and partnerships with the NSF-funded Research Coordination Network (RCN-SEES): Climate, Energy, Environment and Engagement in Semiarid Regions (CE3SAR).The TAMU AGEP Alliance social science research study focuses on two questions related to feelings of inclusion of URM STEM graduate students at each of the Alliance institutions in both experimental and applied settings: 1) What effect does经历隔离或排斥对URM STEM研究生的生产力和进步的影响以及他们继续教授教授的意图？ 2）哪些因素（例如，机构，人际，个人）促进或调解针对URM STEM学生经历孤立或排斥的感觉？