AGEP: FACES: Facilitating Academic Careers in Engineering and Science

智力优势：FACES项目是乔治亚理工学院、埃默里大学、莫尔豪斯学院和斯佩尔曼学院为增加少数族裔在工程和科学教授中的全国代表性而持续做出的重大承诺。该计划由几个组成部分组成，而Aggregate计划解决了通往学术生涯道路上的每一个关键步骤。为了提供机制，为早期招募学生从事研究和学术事业，FACES将在莫尔豪斯学院建立一个研究职业办公室。此外，为完成大二学业的本科生提供暑期和学年研究经验，以此作为提高他们对研究的兴趣和研究生出勤率的一种手段。然后，这些学生被鼓励通过一系列全国性活动招收研究生，如NSBE年度大会或少数民族学生年度生物医学研究会议(ABRCMS)，校园访问和参观，以及关于研究生院和学术界职业价值的系列讲座/研讨会。被录取的佐治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了博士研究生奖学金的支持。研究生资助是通过津贴的方式提供的，随着学生在攻读博士学位的过程中达到关键里程碑，津贴的价值会增加。这些资金的另一部分用于支持参加技术会议进行研究报告的旅费。最后，高级博士学生竞争职业启动补助金，他们可以用这笔钱作为启动资金，帮助他们在最初的学术任命中建立研究项目。项目结果将每年进行评估。广泛影响：该项目是这些大学的资源的混合，专门专注于增加获得工程学和理科博士学位的URM的产量。这项提议是由非裔美国教师发起的，他们致力于实现这一目标，并认识到成功孕育着成功。由佐治亚理工学院、埃默里学院、莫尔豪斯学院和斯佩尔曼学院发起的招聘、指导和学术支持计划在提高URM学位候选人的留存率、成绩和总体产量方面取得了相当成功的成就。我们的伙伴关系创造了一条成功的非裔美国本科生的管道，这项提议描述了一个以成功的本科生努力为基础的以博士为重点的项目。作为少数族裔工程师和科学家的领先生产商之一，这个联盟处于理想的地位，可以增加获得博士学位的非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，以“改变”国家工程和科学教授的面貌，大幅改善目前缺乏代表的工程和科学教师的情况。

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.