Collaborative Research: AGEP Transformation Alliance: Bridging the PhD to Postdoc to Faculty Transitions for Women of Color in STEM

合作研究：AGEP 转型联盟：为 STEM 领域的有色人种女性从博士到博士后再到教师过渡搭建桥梁

基本信息

批准号：
1647196
负责人：
Keivan Stassun
金额：
$ 127.2万
依托单位：
Vanderbilt University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Continuing Grant
财政年份：
2016
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2016-10-01 至 2022-09-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1647196&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Collaborative Research AGEP Transformation Alliance

项目摘要

Vanderbilt University, Fisk University, and Wake Forest University will collaborate to develop, study and refine a model to recruit, retain and advance historically underrepresented minority (URM) women from doctoral degree attainment to postdoctoral fellowship to tenured track positions in STEM. This alliance was created in response to the NSF's Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) program solicitation (NSF 16-552) The AGEP program seeks to advance knowledge about models to improve pathways to the professoriate and success of URM graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty in specific STEM disciplines and/or STEM education research fields. AGEP Transformation Alliances develop, replicate or reproduce; implement and study, via integrated educational and social science research, models to transform the dissertator phase of doctoral education, postdoctoral training and/or faculty advancement, and the transitions within and across the pathway levels, of URMs in STEM and/or STEM education research careers.As our nation is confronted with a STEM achievement gap between URM and non-URM undergraduate and graduate students, our universities and colleges struggle to recruit, retain and promote URM STEM faculty who serve as role models and academic leaders for URM students to learn from, to work with and to emulate. Recent NSF reports indicate that URM STEM associate and full professors occupy 8% of these senior faculty positions at all 4-year colleges and universities and about 6% of these positions at the nation's most research-intensive institutions. URM women hold smaller shares of these academic STEM positions and an increase in their representation is essential since female URM undergraduate students, enrolled in STEM majors, outnumber their male peers. The current AGEP project has potential to advance a model to improve the representation of URM women in STEM faculty positions, eventually providing URM STEM role models to a STEM undergraduate and graduate students at postsecondary academic institutions.The project includes activities to transition postdoctoral fellows into faculty positions, or a postdoc-to-faculty bridge program, to provide junior faculty with mentoring and to assist junior faculty in developing strong scholarly identities. The integrated research will include cross-sectional surveys, three-year longitudinal surveys and small-group interviews to gain a better understanding of the processes facilitating the choices women and URMs make in their STEM careers. Variables to study include gender and race differences, social relationship influences, the academic-professional culture and the institutional context. Vanderbilt and Fisk Universities will institutionalize the key model interventions, stage the model components for implementation at Wake Forest University, and disseminate the model to the network of 40 institutions represented in the Collaborative to Advance Equity through Research. The National Academy of Science's Ford Foundation Diversity Fellows program will work with the alliance to identify and recruit promising postdoctoral associates for project participation. The Anna Julia Cooper Center at Wake Forest will conduct scale up and dissemination activities for the alliance. Formative and summative evaluation work will be performed by an external evaluation team, via a subaward from Vanderbilt to the Institute for Broadening Participation. An external advisory board will provide advice to the project team through annual consultation.

范德比尔特大学、菲斯克大学和维克森林大学将合作开发、研究和完善一个模型，以招募、保留和提升历史上代表性不足的少数族裔 (URM) 女性，从获得博士学位到博士后研究员，再到 STEM 领域的终身职位。该联盟是为了响应 NSF 研究生教育和教授联盟 (AGEP) 计划征集 (NSF 16-552) 而创建。AGEP 计划旨在增进有关模型的知识，以改善 URM 研究生、博士后的教授职位和成功之路特定 STEM 学科和/或 STEM 教育研究领域的研究员和教师。 AGEP 转型联盟开发、复制或复制；通过综合教育和社会科学研究，实施和研究模型，以转变博士教育的论文阶段、博士后培训和/或教师晋升，以及STEM和/或STEM教育研究中的URM内部和跨途径水平的转变由于我们国家面临着 URM 和非 URM 本科生和研究生之间的 STEM 成绩差距，我们的大学和学院努力招募、留住和提拔 URM STEM 教师，他们是 URM 学生的榜样和学术领袖学习、合作和效仿。最近的 NSF 报告表明，在所有四年制学院和大学中，URM STEM 副教授和正教授占据了高级教职职位的 8%，在全国研究最密集的机构中，约占这些职位的 6%。 URM 女性在这些学术 STEM 职位中所占比例较小，因此增加她们的代表性至关重要，因为就读 STEM 专业的 URM 本科生女学生数量超过了男性同龄人。当前的 GEP 项目有潜力推进一种模型，以提高 URM 女性在 STEM 教职职位中的代表性，最终为高等教育机构的 STEM 本科生和研究生提供 URM STEM 榜样。该项目包括将博士后研究员转变为教员的活动职位或博士后到教师的桥梁计划，为初级教师提供指导并协助初级教师发展强大的学术身份。综合研究将包括横断面调查、三年纵向调查和小组访谈，以更好地了解促进女性和 URM 在 STEM 职业中做出选择的过程。要研究的变量包括性别和种族差异、社会关系影响、学术专业文化和制度背景。范德比尔特大学和菲斯克大学将把关键模型干预措施制度化，将模型组成部分分阶段在维克森林大学实施，并将该模型传播到参与“通过研究促进公平合作”的 40 个机构网络。美国国家科学院的福特基金会多样性研究员计划将与该联盟合作，寻找和招募有前途的博士后研究员参与项目。维克森林大学的安娜·朱莉娅·库珀中心将为该联盟开展扩大规模和传播活动。形成性和总结性评估工作将由外部评估团队通过范德比尔特大学向扩大参与研究所提供的子资助进行。外部顾问委员会将通过年度咨询向项目团队提供建议。