The AGEP Data Engineering and Science Alliance Model: Training and Resources to Advance Minority Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Researchers into Faculty Careers

AGEP 数据工程和科学联盟模型：促进少数族裔研究生和博士后研究人员进入教师职业的培训和资源

• 批准号: 1915995
• 负责人: Wei Li
• 金额: $ 37.7万
• 依托单位: Texas Southern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1915995&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: AGEP; Data; Engineering; Science; Alliance

This collaborative research project brings together Rice University, Texas Southern University and the University of Houston, with the goal to develop, implement, study, evaluate, disseminate, sustain and potentially reproduce an AGEP Alliance Model to support and advance historically underrepresented minority (URM) STEM doctoral candidates and postdoctoral researchers into faculty positions in data engineering and science (DES) fields. The project employs a three-pronged approach: Professional development opportunities for faculty advisors and mentors; activities to address equity issues in institutional policies and procedures; and training for URM graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in key knowledge and skill areas that are essential to DES faculty member success: research, teaching, entrepreneurship, leadership and administration. The targeted outcomes of this AGEP DES Alliance Model project include the career advancement of URM doctoral candidates and postdoctoral scholars into faculty positions in DES fields; institutional changes to improve the retention of URM doctoral students, improve the equity of faculty hiring practices and remove systemic barriers to URM faculty and postdoctoral scholar success; and interest by other universities and colleges to reproduce the AGEP DES Alliance Model or specific interventions.The AGEP DES Alliance Model 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 Alliances develop, replicate or reproduce, implement, and study, via integrated educational and social science research, AGEP Alliance Models to transform the dissertation phase of doctoral education, postdoctoral training and/or faculty advancement, and transitions within and across the pathway levels, of URMs in STEM and/or STEM education research careers. This Alliance is also funded by the NSF's Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP).As the nation addresses 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, work with and emulate. Recent NSF reports indicate that URM STEM associate and full professors occupy only 8% of these senior faculty positions at all four-year colleges and universities, and only about 6% of these positions at the nation's most research-intensive institutions. The AGEP DES Alliance Model has the potential to advance a model to improve the success of URM graduate students and postdoctoral researchers as they enter faculty careers. Advancing the careers of URM faculty ultimately leads to improved academic mentorship for URM undergraduate students in DES research fields.The integrated education research being conducted by the AGEP DES Alliance Model team investigates factors that help or hinder URM STEM doctoral degree candidates' persistence to degree completion and success in securing postdoctoral or faculty appointments upon graduation. The research team is also investigating ways that hiring procedures might contain bias that hinders the hiring of URM candidates. This research will provide valuable insights to advance knowledge about the higher education contexts in which URM STEM doctoral degree recipients and postdoctoral researchers compete for faculty positions.The AGEP DES Alliance Model institutions are working with a team of external evaluators who are conducting formative and summative evaluations. This AGEP Alliance also engages four boards - an AGEP DES Alliance Model Advisory Board, an institutional Executive Leadership Board, a Research Advisory Board, and an Evaluation Advisory Board - that provide feedback to the institutions and the project team, and that suggest adjustments to the project management, to the integrated research project and to the model development, implementation, testing, evaluation, dissemination, sustainability and reproduction potential. The project team is disseminating findings from research, and from their work on the AGEP DES Alliance Model's development, implementation, self-study, evaluation, dissemination, sustainability and reproduction potential, by presenting at national conferences and publishing peer-reviewed articles in professional journals. Additionally, the Alliance is creating video and on-line materials about the AGEP DES Alliance Model and about the curricula used as part of the interventions.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.

该合作研究项目汇集了莱斯大学、德克萨斯南方大学和休斯顿大学，目标是开发、实施、研究、评估、传播、维持和潜在复制 AGEP 联盟模型，以支持和推进历史上代表性不足的少数群体 (URM) STEM 博士生和博士后研究人员担任数据工程和科学 (DES) 领域的教职。 该项目采用三管齐下的方法：为教师顾问和导师提供专业发展机会；解决机构政策和程序中公平问题的活动；为URM研究生和博士后研究人员提供对DES教员成功至关重要的关键知识和技能领域的培训：研究、教学、创业、领导力和管理。 该AGEP DES联盟模型项目的目标成果包括URM博士生和博士后学者的职业晋升到DES领域的教职职位；进行制度变革，以提高 URM 博士生的保留率，提高教师聘用实践的公平性，并消除 URM 教师和博士后学者成功的系统性障碍；其他大学和学院有兴趣复制 AGEP DES 联盟模型或具体干预措施。AGEP DES 联盟模型是为了响应 NSF 研究生教育和教授联盟 (AGEP) 计划征集 (NSF 16-552) 而创建的。 GEP 项目旨在增进有关模型的知识，以改善特定 STEM 学科和/或 STEM 教育研究领域的 URM 研究生、博士后研究员和教师的教授职位和成功之路。 AGEP 联盟通过综合教育和社会科学研究开发、复制或重现、实施和研究 AGEP 联盟模型，以改变博士教育的论文阶段、博士后培训和/或教师晋升，以及途径级别内和之间的过渡， STEM 和/或 STEM 教育研究职业中的 URM 的数量。该联盟还得到了 NSF 历史上黑人学院和大学 - 本科生计划 (HBCU-UP) 的资助。随着国家解决 URM 和非 URM 本科生和研究生之间的 STEM 成绩差距，我们的大学和学院正在努力招募、留住学生促进 URM STEM 教师成为 URM 学生学习、合作和效仿的榜样和学术领袖。最近的 NSF 报告表明，在所有四年制学院和大学中，URM STEM 副教授和正教授仅占这些高级教职职位的 8%，而在全国研究最密集的机构中，仅占这些职位的 6% 左右。 AGEP DES 联盟模型有潜力推进一种模型，以提高 URM 研究生和博士后研究人员在进入教师职业生涯时的成功率。 推进 URM 教师的职业生涯最终会改善对 DES 研究领域 URM 本科生的学术指导。AGEP DES 联盟模型团队正在进行的综合教育研究调查了帮助或阻碍 URM STEM 博士学位候选人坚持完成学位的因素并在毕业后成功获得博士后或教师职位。 研究团队还在调查招聘程序中可能包含阻碍招聘 URM 候选人的偏见的方式。 这项研究将为加深对 URM STEM 博士学位获得者和博士后研究人员争夺教职职位的高等教育环境的了解提供宝贵的见解。AGEP DES 联盟模式机构正在与外部评估人员团队合作，进行形成性和总结性评估。 该 AGEP 联盟还聘请了四个委员会 - AGEP DES 联盟模型咨询委员会、机构执行领导委员会、研究咨询委员会和评估咨询委员会 - 向机构和项目团队提供反馈，并提出调整建议项目管理，到综合研究项目以及模型开发、实施、测试、评估、传播、可持续性和复制潜力。项目团队通过在全国会议上发表演讲并在专业期刊上发表同行评审的文章，传播研究成果以及他们在 AGEP DES 联盟模型的开发、实施、自学、评估、传播、可持续性和复制潜力方面的工作成果。 此外，联盟正在制作有关 AGEP DES 联盟模型以及作为干预措施一部分的课程的视频和在线材料。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优点和知识进行评估，被认为值得支持。更广泛的影响审查标准。