Howard/UTEP Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate Project

霍华德大学和得克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校（UTEP）正在获得资助，共同开发一个研究生教育和教授联盟（AGEP）项目，以解决少数民族博士生人数不足的问题。准备成为教授的未来成员的收件人。霍华德-UTEP联盟的目标是：1）通过“STEM研究生学习入门”研讨会，增加进入霍华德和UTEP博士教育的代表性不足的学生人数; 2）减少获得学位的时间，并通过夏季博士前研究计划为进入STEM博士生做好准备; 3）通过PFF计划为未来的教师职业做好代表性不足的博士生准备; 4）通过系统和结构化的保留和指导服务，增加代表性不足的博士生完成学位的可能性; 5）通过年度“博士后入门”讲习班，增加代表性不足的学生获得研究型大学教师职位的机会，并使他们熟悉博士后奖学金; 6）通过跨学科活动，远程学习和STEM荣誉社会，增强博士生对整个机构STEM社区的参与感; 7）通过“科学家沟通技巧”研讨会提高STEM博士生的口头和书面沟通技巧;以及8）通过AGEP教师咨询理事会鼓励STEM部门和教师的参与。智力优势：这些活动通过以创新和创造性的方式解决博士生的准备和教育过程，并通过将参与该项目的教师和管理人员的专业知识，来解决NSF的知识价值标准。更广泛的影响：该计划以多种方式解决了NSF的更广泛影响标准，最常见的是关注博士教育和教授的代表性不足，以及对该问题的预期影响。

AbstractHoward University and the University of Texas-El Paso (UTEP) are being funded to jointly develop an Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) project to address the issues of producing underrepresented minority Ph.D. recipients who are prepared to become future members of the professoriate. The objectives of the Howard-UTEP Alliance are to: 1) increase the numbers of underrepresented students entering doctoral education at Howard and UTEP through "Introduction to STEM Graduate Study" workshops; 2) decrease time-to-degree and prepare entering STEM doctoral students through a Summer Pre-Doctoral Research program; 3) prepare underrepresented doctoral students for future faculty careers through the PFF program; 4) increase the likelihood that underrepresented doctoral students will complete their degrees through systematic and structured retention and mentoring services; 5)increase opportunities for underrepresented students to obtain research university faculty positions and their familiarity with post-doctoral fellowships through annual "Introduction to the Post-Doctorate" workshops;6) enhance a sense of institution-wide STEM community engagement among doctoral students through interdisciplinary activities, distance learning, and a STEM honor society; 7) improve the oral and written communications skills of STEM doctoral students through "Communications Skills for Scientists" workshops; and 8) encourage participation among STEM departments and faculty through the AGEP Faculty Advisory Council. Intellectual Merit: These activities address NSF's Intellectual Merit criteria by addressing the preparation of doctoral students and the educational process in an innovative and creative manner, and through the expertise of the faculty and administrators who will be engaged in the project. Broader Impact: The program addresses NSF's Broader Impact criteria in any number of ways, most generally in its attention to underrepresentation in doctoral education and the professoriate, and its intended impact on that issue.