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的一项重要的持续承诺，旨在增加少数民族在工程和科学教授中的代表性。该计划由几个部分组成，综合计划解决了学术生涯道路上的每个关键步骤。为了尽早招募学生从事研究和学术工作，face将在莫尔豪斯学院建立一个研究职业办公室。此外，完成大二学业的本科生将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出勤率。然后，这些学生被鼓励参加一系列全国性活动的研究生课程，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价值的讲座/研讨会系列。被录取的乔治亚理工学院和埃默里大学的研究生在入学期间都有博士奖学金的支持。研究生支持是通过助学金的方式提供的，随着学生在攻读博士学位的过程中达到关键的里程碑，助学金的价值就会增加。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，高级博士生竞争职业启动基金，他们可以用它作为启动资金，以帮助建立他们的研究项目，在他们最初的学术任命。每年将对项目成果进行评估。更广泛的影响：该计划是这些大学资源的混合，特别侧重于增加获得工程和科学博士学位的urm的生产。这项提议是由致力于实现这一目标的非裔美国教师发起的，他们认识到成功孕育成功。由佐治亚理工学院、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大学管理硕士学位候选人的保留率、成绩和整体产出方面取得了相当大的成功。我们的伙伴关系为成功的非裔美国本科生创造了一条管道，这项提案描述了一个以博士为重点的项目，该项目建立在成功的本科生努力的基础上。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裔美国学生的全国生产，并促进他们在学术生涯中的代表性。在美国国家科学基金会的资助下，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，从而大大改善目前缺乏代表性的工程和科学教师的状况。

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.