AGEP Research Universities Alliance Model: Advancing Minority Math, Physical Science, Environmental Science, and Engineering PhD Candidates and Postdoctoral Scholars to Faculty

AGEP 研究型大学联盟模式：促进少数族裔数学、物理科学、环境科学和工程博士生和博士后学者进入教师队伍

• 批准号: 2014200
• 负责人: David Sept
• 金额: $ 51.18万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-10-01 至 2024-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2014200&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: AGEP; Research; Universities; Alliance; Model

This collaborative research project brings together nine very high research (R1) universities with the goal of developing, implementing, self-studying, externally evaluating, and disseminating an AGEP Alliance Model about faculty career pathways that increases the number of historically underrepresented minority (URM) Mathematical, Physical Science, Environmental Science, and Engineering (MPESE) faculty. The partnership involves the University of California Berkeley (Berkeley), the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Stanford University (Stanford), the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), the University of Washington, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Michigan, Harvard University and the Georgia Institute of Technology. The Alliance team is expanding and improving activities that have previously been piloted by a Berkeley, UCLA, Stanford and Caltech partnership; and the nine-institution team will study, operationalize, adapt and implement the activities across all collaborating universities. The project employs multiple participant-focused interventions to facilitate the advancement of URM doctoral candidates, postdoctoral scholars and early-career faculty in MPESE disciplines: A doctoral candidate and postdoctoral scholar research exchange across partnering institutions; an on-line portal to facilitate placement and hiring management of postdoctoral scholars; a faculty advancement initiative for postdoctoral scholars transitioning into early-career faculty positions; and a suite of academic community-building activities to enhance faculty career pathways, such as targeted professional development, cohort building and network development. The primary outcomes of this AGEP Alliance Model project are increased rates of doctoral candidates transitioning into postdoctoral scholar positions and postdoctoral scholars transitioning into early-career faculty employment, as well as the scaling of the research exchange and postdoctoral on-line portal beyond the nine partnering institutions.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 4-year colleges and universities, and only about 6% of these positions at the nation's most research-intensive institutions. This AGEP Alliance Model has the potential to improve the success of URM doctoral candidates and postdoctoral scholars transitioning into early-career MPESE faculty positions. Advancing the careers of URM faculty ultimately leads to improved academic mentorship for URM undergraduate and graduate students, and postdoctoral scholars, in STEM disciplines.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九所非常高的研究（R1）大学，其目标是开发、实施、自学、外部评估和传播关于教师职业道路的 AGEP 联盟模型，以增加历史上代表性不足的少数族裔（URM）的数量数学、物理科学、环境科学和工程 (MPESE) 教师。 此次合作伙伴包括加州大学伯克利分校（Berkeley）、加州大学洛杉矶分校（UCLA）、斯坦福大学（Stanford）、加州理工学院（Caltech）、华盛顿大学、德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校、密歇根大学、哈佛大学和佐治亚理工学院。 联盟团队正在扩展和改进之前由伯克利分校、加州大学洛杉矶分校、斯坦福大学和加州理工学院合作伙伴试点的活动；由九个机构组成的团队将在所有合作大学中研究、实施、调整和实施这些活动。 该项目采用多种以参与者为中心的干预措施，以促进 MPESE 学科的 URM 博士生、博士后学者和早期职业教师的进步： 合作机构之间的博士生和博士后学者研究交流；一个方便博士后学者安置和聘用管理的在线门户；针对博士后学者过渡到早期职业教职职位的教师晋升计划；以及一系列学术社区建设活动，以改善教师的职业道路，例如有针对性的专业发展、群体建设和网络发展。 该AGEP联盟模型项目的主要成果是博士生转变为博士后学者职位和博士后学者转变为早期职业教师就业的比例提高，以及研究交流和博士后在线门户的规模扩大到九个合作伙伴之外随着国家解决 URM 与非 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 学生学习的榜样和学术领袖，工作与并效仿。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。这种 AGEP 联盟模式有可能提高 URM 博士生和博士后学者过渡到早期职业 MPESE 教职职位的成功率。 推动 URM 教师的职业发展最终会改善对 URM 本科生、研究生以及博士后学者在 STEM 学科领域的学术指导。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响进行评估，被认为值得支持审查标准。