Collaborative Research:IGE: Scaling Faculty Development to Broaden Participation in Graduate Education

合作研究：IGE：扩大教师发展以扩大研究生教育的参与

基本信息

批准号：
1806705
负责人：
Casey Miller
金额：
$ 8.95万
依托单位：
Rochester Institute of Tech
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2018
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2018-08-15 至 2022-07-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1806705&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Collaborative Research IGE Scaling Faculty

项目摘要

This National Science Foundation Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) award to the University of Southern California and Rochester Institute of Technology will pilot a network of faculty and administrators across six major California universities that aims to improve how universities choose the scientists of the future. Currently, the demographic composition of the student body in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) doctoral programs and the scientific workforce is not only different from the composition of U.S. demographics, but it is also changing more slowly than the demographic shifts in the US. It is important to address these inequities in order to create a robust domestic scientific workforce, which may contribute to a healthy economy and promote U.S. scientific superiority. Inherited practices for recruiting, admitting, and mentoring graduate students contribute to these inequities, as does the lack of opportunity for faculty to reflect upon their practices in these areas. This award creates innovative systems by which faculty can improve those practices, and therefore holds significant promise as a strategy for broadening participation in graduate education and the scientific workforce. The project will form a network that provides faculty and graduate school administrators within and across the University of Southern California and University of California campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, and Santa Barbara with opportunity and incentives to critically reflect upon and change longstanding practices. Participating STEM PhD programs will receive professional development from project leaders in the form of workshops and continuous learning activities on recruiting, admitting, and mentoring graduate students from diverse backgrounds. Leaders that emerge from each program in years 1 and 2 will be selected to establish campus-level teams who will deliver similar faculty-to-faculty learning opportunities on their own campuses. The research and evaluation activities of the project involve a sequential multi-method study, including the first-ever clustered randomized experiment to test the impact of faculty development around three outcomes: the admissions practices that PhD programs use, the diversity of their admitted cohorts, and the programs' selectivity. The structure of the network allows for sustainable gains, and it works with, rather than against, the decentralized nature of graduate education and its varied institutional and disciplinary contexts. The Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) program is focused on research in graduate education. The goals of IGE are to pilot, test and validate innovative approaches to graduate education and to generate the knowledge required to move these approaches into the broader community.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这项国家科学基金会研究生教育创新（IGE）颁发了南加州大学和罗切斯特理工学院的奖项，将在六所加利福尼亚大学的六个主要大学中试用一个由教职员工和管理人员网络，旨在改善大学如何选择未来的科学家。目前，科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）博士课程和科学劳动力的人口组成不仅与美国人口统计学的组成不同，而且它的变化也比美国的人口统计学更慢。解决这些不平等的问题很重要，以创造强大的国内科学劳动力，这可能有助于健康的经济并促进美国的科学优势。继承的招聘，承认和指导研究生的实践为这些不平等做出了贡献，教师缺乏机会反思他们在这些领域的实践的机会也是如此。该奖项创造了创新的系统，教师可以改善这些实践，因此具有巨大的希望，作为扩大参与研究生教育和科学劳动力的策略。该项目将形成一个网络，为南加州大学和整个加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校，戴维斯，欧文，洛杉矶和圣塔芭芭拉的加利福尼亚大学校园内和整个校园内提供教师和研究生管理人员的机会和激励措施，并有机会反思和改变长期的实践。参与的STEM博士学位课程将以讲习班的形式获得项目负责人的专业发展，并在招聘，录取和指导来自不同背景的研究生方面的持续学习活动。从1年和第2年中出现的每个计划中出现的领导者将被选为建立校园级别的团队，他们将在自己的校园内提供类似的教师学习机会。该项目的研究和评估活动涉及一项连续的多方法研究，包括有史以来第一个聚类的随机实验，以测试教师发展围绕三个结果的影响：博士学位计划使用的录取实践，其录取群体的多样性以及计划的选择性。网络的结构允许可持续的收益，并且与研究生教育及其多样化的机构和纪律背景的分散性质合作。研究生教育（IGE）计划的创新侧重于研究生教育研究。 IGE的目标是试点，测试和验证创新方法来研究生教育，并产生将这些方法转移到更广泛社区所需的知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准通过评估来进行评估的。