AGEP: Iowa Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate

爱荷华州研究生教育和教授联盟是一个由科学、数学和工程技术（SMET）领域的教师以及来自爱荷华州所有三所州立大学的管理人员组成的团体，它要求美国国家科学基金会在研究生教育联盟和教授计划下提供五年的资金，以部分支持一系列旨在招募，在中小企业领域保留和毕业大量未被充分代表的美国少数民族研究生，并改变这三所大学的文化，以保证真正和永久地进入联盟大学和项目。要求在五个主要项目领域提供支持：o与少数民族服务机构建立伙伴关系；a联盟少数民族本科生暑期研究体验计划；a联盟研究生教学奖学金计划；a联盟研究生暑期研讨会；a联盟校园意识计划与少数民族服务机构的伙伴关系将通过在联盟大学活跃的三个地区中的每个地区举行一系列年度会议来建立和维持在招聘。来自少数民族院校的本科生将通过联盟暑期研究项目了解联盟大学的项目和文化。爱荷华州立大学和爱荷华大学将各提供5人的支持。在项目的每一年里。这些为期五年的教学奖学金将在资助期结束时成为永久性奖学金。北爱荷华大学将通过其助教计划为两名为期一年的联盟教学研究员提供支持。NSF将被要求提供为期一年的初始实习。UNI教学研究员将被鼓励转到其他联盟大学完成博士学位的工作。联盟学生发展协调员将在所有这一切中发挥关键作用，他将与三所联盟大学的学生发展支持人员一起，主要负责教职员工的培训；在课堂内外开展课程和活动，以提高学生的记忆力和对卓越的追求；并开发和管理一个系统来评估学生发展方面的计划的进展。主任将与教师导师和工作人员一起，为即将到来的教学研究员设计和实施为期两周的介绍性暑期研讨会，以及旨在提高校园意识、建立社区和确保访问的学年计划。将为即将完成博士学位的研究员提供职业咨询和安置协助。通过这些项目以及与其他联盟大学项目和其他AGEP联盟和AMP项目的合作，大量少数民族学生将在该项目第5年结束时在联盟大学完成中小企业领域的博士学位，并在随后的几年中继续学习。

Iowa Alliance for Graduate Education and the ProfessoriateProject SummaryThe Iowa Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate, a group consisting of faculty in Science, Mathematics and Engineering and Technology (SMET) fields and administrators from all three Iowa State Regents Universities, requests five years of NSF funding under the Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate program in partial support of a coordinated series of activities designed to recruit, retain and graduate a substantial number of underrepresented US minority graduate students in SME fields, as well as to change the culture at all three universities in order to guarantee real and permanent access to, through and from Alliance universities and programs.Support is requested for five major program areas:o Buildingpartnerships with minority-serving institutionso An Alliance Summer Research Experience Program for Minority Undergraduateso An Alliance Graduate Teaching Fellowship Programo An Alliance Graduate Student Summer Workshopo An Alliance Campus Awareness ProgramPartnerships with minority-serving institutions will be built and maintained by a series of yearly conferences in each of three regions in which Alliance universities have been active in recruiting. Undergraduate students from minority-serving institutions will be introduced to the programs and culture of the Alliance universities through anAlliance Summer Research program.Iowa State University and the University of Iowa will each provide support for five.41liance,Teaching Fellows during each year of the program. These five-year Teaching Fellowships will be made permanent at the end of the grant period. The University of Northern Iowa will provide support for two one-year Alliance Teaching Fellows through its teaching assistantship program. NSF will be asked to supplement these positions with an initial one-year traineeship. UNI Teaching Fellows will be encouraged to transfer to one of the other Alliance universities to complete work on the doctorate. A key role in all of this will be played by the Alliance Student Development Coordinator who, together with supporting student development staff at each of the three Alliance universities, will have primary responsibility for faculty and staff training; the development of programs and activities in and out of the classroom to enhance retention and the quest for excellence among students; and the development and administration of a system to assess the progress of the student development aspects of the program. The Director, together with faculty mentors and staff, will design and implement an introductory two-week Summer Workshop for incoming Teaching Fellows as well as academic-year programs designed to promote campus awareness, build community and ensure access. Career counseling and placement assistance will be provided for Fellows as they near the completion of the doctorate.Through these programs and in cooperation with other Alliance University programs and other AGEP Alliance and AMP programs, a substantial number of minority students will complete the doctorate in SME fields at Alliance universities beginning at the end of year five of this project and continuing in subsequent years.