Collaborative Research: AGEP - T: PROMISE AGEP Maryland Transformation

合作研究：AGEP - T：PROMISE AGEP 马里兰转型

基本信息

批准号：
1309290
负责人：
Philip Rous
金额：
$ 67.45万
依托单位：
University of Maryland Baltimore County
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：
2013-10-01 至 2019-03-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1309290&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Collaborative Research AGEP PROMISE Maryland

项目摘要

The University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) is the lead institution for PROMISE AGEP, a university system-wide effort for the state of Maryland to facilitate underrepresented STEM graduate student and postdoctoral professional development and pathways to careers. UMBC leads the alliance that consists of all 14 colleges, universities, and regional education centers in the University System of Maryland, four community colleges, and a former NSF Model Institution of Excellence Hispanic Serving Institution in Puerto Rico. PROMISE has been a critical catalyst for increasing enrollment, retention, and graduation rates of underrepresented minorities. The program also will contribute to the higher education literature on retention and professional development for graduate students and postdocs. The Rotating Postdoctoral Fellowship and the Professors-in-Training program for Maryland's institutions (including Master's serving institutions, HBCUs, community colleges, and an HSI) are among the innovations that respond to AGEP's call to support the national goal of increasing the number of underrepresented minorities who will enter academic STEM careers. PROMISE AGEP: Maryland Transformation will focus on four sets of alliance activities: 1) Graduate student recruitment, retention, and success: to cultivate new students by creating a pipeline (pathway) for students to be prepared for and admitted to graduate school, participate in workshops that promote retention, and develop community to facilitate persistence; 2) Ph.D. completion and career preparation: to develop activities that will focus on both degree completion and transition to careers;3) Programs for postdoctoral scholars: to facilitate coordinated policies and programs for mentoring underrepresented minority postdocs across the university system; and 4) Programs to enhance faculty understanding of diversity issues in graduate and postdoctoral education: to open dialog among the faculty to develop promising practices for underrepresented minority recruitment, retention, mentoring, and transitions to careers. The new project will engage the University System of Maryland in a system-wide focus on diversity in STEM graduate education, and will share resources and facilities to provide professional development for participants that might otherwise be limited or non-existent at some of the institutions without the alliance. This state-wide alliance eliminates the "silo-effect" or independent STEM diversity efforts, and it promotes as a core mission the collaboration to expand and connect a community of scholars through the state. The state-wide alliance allows the institutions to provide pipelines and pathways between institutions for doctoral study, postdoctoral placements, and faculty appointments. The project includes a research component to explore three research questions: Does experience of micro-affirmations/micro-aggressions, a sense of belonging, professional networks, and mentoring experiences influence graduate student outcomes such as time to degree, persistence, job placement, and a sense of agency in career advancement? How do these outcomes and experiences differ by student demographics, discipline, or institutional type? What role does participation in the PROMISE AGEP play in these experiences and outcomes? The goals of the proposed research are first to determine whether students in the second group are more likely to experience a sense of agency in career advancement, persist in their degree programs and STEM, have shorter time to degree, and find academic appointments post-graduation. Second, the research will explore how the PROMISE program facilitates access to these experiences, promoting educational outcomes for underrepresented minority students in STEM.

马里兰州巴尔的摩县（UMBC）是Promise Agep的主要机构，这是马里兰州的全系统努力，旨在促进代表性不足的STEM研究生和博士后专业的专业发展以及职业途径。 UMBC领导该联盟，该联盟由马里兰州大学体系的所有14所大学，大学和地区教育中心，四所社区学院以及前NSF卓越模型机构在波多黎各的西班牙裔西班牙裔服务机构。承诺一直是增加代表性不足的少数群体的入学率，保留率和毕业率的关键催化剂。该计划还将为研究生和博士后的保留和专业发展的高等教育文献做出贡献。在马里兰州机构（包括硕士的服务机构，HBCUS，社区学院和HSI）的旋转博士后奖学金和培训教授计划是响应Agep呼吁的创新之一，以支持增加代表性不足的少数民族数量的国家目标，这些人数将进入学术茎护理人员。 Promise Agep：马里兰州的转型将重点关注四组联盟活动：1）研究生招聘，保留和成功：通过创建一条管道（Pathway）来培养新学生（途径），供学生为学生做好准备并承认研究生院，参加促进保留的研讨会，并促进保留和发展社区以促进持久性； 2）博士完成和职业准备：制定将重点侧重于学位完成和过渡到职业的活动； 3）博士后学者的计划：促进整个大学系统中代表性不足的少数群体的协调政策和计划； 4）计划在研究生和博士后教育中加强教师理解多样性问题的计划：在教师之间开放对话，以开发有前途的少数群体招募，保留，指导，指导和过渡到职业的实践。这个新项目将吸引马里兰州大学系统范围内的系统范围内，重点是STEM研究生教育的多样性，并将共享资源和设施，为参与者提供专业发展，这些参与者在没有联盟的某些机构中可能有限或不存在。这个在全州范围内的联盟消除了“孤岛效应”或独立的STEM多样性努力，并促进了作为核心使命，以扩大和连接整个州的学者社区的合作。全州范围的联盟允许机构在机构之间提供管道和途径，以进行博士研究，博士后安置和教师任命。该项目包括一个研究组成部分，以探索三个研究问题：是否有微观肯定/微观攻击，归属感，专业网络和指导经验的感觉会影响研究生成果，例如时间，毅力，持久，工作机会，以及在职业发展中的代理意识？这些结果和经验因学生的人口统计学，纪律或机构类型有何不同？在这些经验和成果中，参与PromiseP扮演的角色是什么？拟议的研究的目标首先是确定第二组中的学生是否更有可能在职业发展中体验一种代理意识，坚持其学位课程，STEM，较短的学位时间，并在毕业后找到学术约会。其次，该研究将探讨承诺计划如何促进这些经验的机会，从而促进STEM中代表性不足的少数群体学生的教育成果。