FACES(Facilitating Academic Careers in Engneering and Scien ce): Changing the Faces of the Engineering and Science Pro fessoriate

HRD-9817632G。韦恩·克劳夫所附提案描述了促进工程和科学学术生涯(FACES)计划，该计划是佐治亚理工学院工程和科学学院、莫尔豪斯学院和斯佩尔曼学院的合作努力，旨在显著增加获得工程和科学领域博士学位的非裔美国学生的数量，并最终增加这些人进入教授职位的人数。在稳定状态下，我们预计FACES项目每年将产生更多的非裔美国博士获得者，从而使佐治亚理工学院目前的产量翻一番。FACES的一大优势将是乔治亚理工学院的非裔美国教师密切参与该项目的各个方面。FACES项目由几个相互关联的组成部分组成，每个组成部分都是通往学术生涯道路上的关键步骤。首先，完成三年级的本科生将获得暑期和学年的研究经验，以此来提高他们对研究和研究生院的兴趣。然后，这些学生以及其他有价值的候选人将被鼓励通过一系列全国性活动招收研究生项目，如全国黑人工程师协会年会、校园访问和参观，以及关于研究生院和学术界职业价值的讲座/研讨会系列。然后，被录取的研究生将作为博士研究生在整个预科阶段得到支持。这些资金的一部分将用于支持参加技术会议进行研究陈述的旅费。最后，资深博士生将竞争教员优惠券，他们可以用来帮助他们在最初的学术任命中建立他们的研究计划。Face计划的制度化将通过在每个参与机构设立捐赠的教员主席职位来促进。这些主席将轮流担任，任期五年，将担任FACES管理团队的董事，最终负责监督FACES活动、规划新举措、项目评估和学生跟踪。佐治亚理工学院少数民族教育发展办公室(OMED)办公室的工作人员将协助教席开展方案管理活动。担任主席的职位将提供在NSF资金结束后继续监督FACES所需的长期领导。作为对FACES项目成功的机构承诺的证明，佐治亚理工学院将在NSF奖励的五年期间提供38万美元，使FACES博士生能够完成他们的学位要求。佐治亚理工学院、莫尔豪斯和斯佩尔曼也将通过执行必要的任务来分担成本，以筹集足够的资金设立四个主席职位(每把椅子约150万美元)。因此，整个方案期间的机构费用分摊总额约为6,380,000美元。

HRD-9817632G. Wayne Clough The attached proposal describes the Facilitating Academic Careers in Engineering andScience (FACES) program, a collaborative effort between the Colleges of Engineering andScience at the Georgia Institute of Technology, -Morehouse College, and Spelman Collegedesigned to significantly increase the number of African American students receiving doctoraldegrees in engineering and science fields and ultimately increase the number of these individualsentering the professorate. At steady state, we expect the FACES program to produceten additional African American doctoral recipients per year, thereby doubling Georgia Tech'scurrent output. A major advantage of FACES will be the intimate involvement of GeorgiaTech's African American faculty in all aspects of the program.The FACES program is comprised of several inter-related components, each of whichaddresses critical steps along the path to an academic career. First, undergraduate studentswho have completed their junior year will be provided summer and academic year researchexperiences as a means of promoting their interest in research and graduate school attendance.These students, as well as other worthy candidates, will then be encouraged to enroll in graduateprograms using a series of recruitment efforts at national events such as the NationalSociety of Black Engineers Annual Convention, campus visits and tours, and alecture/workshop series on the merits of graduate school and careers in academia. Admittedgraduate students will then be supported as FACES Doctoral Fellows throughout their matriculation through graduate school. A portion of these funds will be used to support travel totechnical meetings for research presentations. Finally, senior doctoral students will competefor faculty coupons which they may use to assist them in establishing their research programsin their initial academic appointments.Institutionalization of the FACES program will be facilitated by the establishment ofendowed faculty chair positions at each of the participating institutions. These chairs, whichwill be filled on a rotating basis with a five-year term, will serve as directors of the FACESmanagement team and eventually be responsible for supervision of FACES activities, planningnew initiatives, program evaluation, and student tracking. The chairs will be assisted in programmanagement activities by the staff of the Office of Minority Educational Development(OMED) office at Georgia Tech. The chaired positions will provide the long-term leadershipnecessary to continue oversight of FACES after NSF funding ends.As demonstration of institutional commitment to the success of the FACES program,Georgia Tech will provide $380,000 over the five-year period of the NSF award to enable theFACES Doctoral Fellows to complete their degree requirements. Georgia Tech, Morehouse,and Spelman will also cost-share by performing the tasks necessary to solicit sufficient fundsfor the establishment of four chair positions (approximately $1.5M per chair). Thus, the totallevel of institutional cost-sharing over the life of the program will be approximately$6,380,000.