AGEP: FACES: Facilitating Academic Careers in Engineering and Science

智力优势：FACES计划是佐治亚理工学院，埃默里大学，莫尔豪斯学院和斯佩尔曼学院正在进行的一项重要承诺，旨在增加少数民族（URM）在工程和科学专业的国家代表性。该计划是由几个组成部分，和aggregateprogram地址的每一个关键步骤沿着的道路，以学术生涯。为了提供一个机制，为学生进入研究和学术生涯的早期招聘，FACES将建立一个研究职业办公室在莫尔豪斯学院。此外，完成大二学业的本科生还可以获得暑期和学年的研究经验，以提高他们对研究的兴趣和研究生入学率。然后，鼓励这些学生参加研究生课程，在全国性活动中进行一系列的招聘工作，如NSBE年度大会或少数民族学生年度生物医学研究会议（ABRCMS），校园参观和参观，以及关于研究生院和学术界职业的讲座/研讨会系列。被录取的格鲁吉亚理工学院和埃默里大学的研究生在整个入学过程中都得到博士奖学金的支持。研究生的支持是通过助学金的方式提供的，助学金的价值随着学生在攻读博士学位的道路上达到沿着的重要里程碑而增加。这些资金的另一部分用于资助参加研究报告的技术会议的旅费。最后，高年级博士生竞争职业启动赠款，他们可以用它作为启动资金，以帮助建立他们的研究计划在他们最初的学术任命。评估程序的成果将每年进行。更广泛的影响：该计划是一个混合的资源，这些大学的重点，特别是增加生产的URM谁获得工程和科学博士学位。这项提议是由致力于实现这一目标并认识到成功孕育成功的非裔美国教师发起的。由格鲁吉亚理工学院、埃默里大学、莫尔豪斯大学和斯佩尔曼大学发起的招聘、指导和学术支持项目在提高URM学位候选人的保留率、成绩和整体产量方面取得了相当成功。我们的合作伙伴关系已经创造了一个成功的非裔美国本科生的管道，这个建议描述了一个以博士为重点的计划，建立在这些成功的本科生的努力。作为少数族裔工程师和科学家的主要生产者之一，该联盟的理想定位是增加获得博士学位的非洲裔美国学生的全国产量，并促进他们在学术生涯中的代表性。在NSF资金的帮助下，FACES将继续提供一种机制来“改变国家工程和科学教授的面貌”，大大改善目前缺乏代表性的工程和科学教师。

Intellectual Merit: The FACES program is a significant ongoing commitment by the GeorgiaInstitute of Technology, Emory University, Morehouse College, and Spelman College toincrease the national representation of minorities (URMs) in the engineering and thesciences professoriate. The program is comprised of several components, and the aggregateprogram addresses each critical step along the path to an academic career. To provide amechanism for the early recruitment of students into research and academic careers, FACESwill establish a Research Careers Office at Morehouse College. Furthermore, undergraduateswho have completed their sophomore year are provided summer and academic year researchexperiences as a means of promoting their interest in research and graduate schoolattendance. These students are then encouraged to enroll in graduate programs using aseries of recruitment efforts at national events such as the NSBE Annual Convention orAnnual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS), campus visits andtours, and a lecture/workshop series on the merit of graduate school and careers inacademia. Admitted Georgia Tech and Emory graduate students are supported on doctoralfellowship supplements throughout their matriculation. Graduate student support isprovided by means of a stipend which increases in value as the student meets the criticalmilestones along the way toward the Ph.D. Another portion of these funds is used tosupport travel to technical meetings for research presentations. Finally, senior doctoralstudents compete for Career Initiation Grants, which they may use as start-up funds toassist in establishing their research programs in their initial academic appointments.Assessment of program outcomes will be performed annually.Broader Impact: This program is a blending of the resources of these universities to focusspecifically on increasing the production of URMs who earn engineering and sciencedoctoral degrees. This proposal has been initiated by African American faculty who arecommitted to this goal and recognize that success breeds success. Recruiting, mentoringand academic support programs initiated by Georgia Tech, Emory, Morehouse and Spelman havebeen quite successful in increasing retention, grades, and overall production of URMdegree candidates. Our partnership has created a pipeline of successful African Americanundergraduates and this proposal describes a doctoral-focused program that builds on thesuccessful undergraduate efforts. As one of the leading producers of minority engineersand scientists, this alliance is ideally positioned to increase the national production ofAfrican American students who earn doctorates and promote their representation in academiccareers. With the assistance of NSF funding to keep the program elements in place, FACESwill continue to provide a mechanism to "change the face" of the national engineering andscience professoriate, substantially improving the current dearth of underrepresentedengineering and science faculty.